Think & Grow BROKE in MLM!

  Written by Aaron Rashkin on Nov 22, 2007 6:57 am

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Yes, I’ve read the book. At least 10 times over the past 10 years.

Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is a classic book on success.

However, I’ve found that although thoughts are things and that thoughts certainly determine your outcome in life, when all you do is think, and not act, you can grow broke very slowly in MLM.

In other words, as one of my mentors once taught me, there are only two types of soldiers on the battlefield. The quick and the dead.

What I’ve experienced over the years is that those who act quick in MLM, are the most successful.

They create what I call a Fast Start Story, by cramming as much action into a small space of time as possible. Usually, this action comes within their first 30 days of getting started.

This creates momentum, which in MLM is something that everybody should want to experience in their business; that moment just before lift off that a plane experiences while screaming down the runway; the feeling of being unstoppable, of excitement, enthusiasm and results!

While others are evaluating the ingredients in a product, exactly how compression works in the comp plan, the actuality of the numbers 37 levels deep if 3 get 3 get 3 and so on, the top leaders and income producers are out there exposing the right people to the right information, collecting decisions and building a team of leaders, becoming contagious.

Those who do nothing but think about the idea of being successful, lack “speed of implementation”. Typically, this is done by a negative perfectionist who instead of not being afraid to fail, fails because they are afraid.

Afraid of not looking good. Afraid of not doing the right thing or saying the right things. Afraid of what others think of them, and even, what they will think of themselves if they don't succeed.

They wait for the perfect conditions, the perfect script, the perfect moment to begin making calls to their leads, contacts or prospects.  Typically, this moment never comes and they wind up in the end, blaming everyone but themselves for their lack of performance. Many even go on to become part of the "it doesn't work" crowd and give the industry a black eye by bashing it and then stealing someone else's dream who tells them that they just got started in a new home based business.

The positive perfectionist is a fire, aim, ready type of person and although they are often criticized for not getting it right at first, but simply getting it going…they get it going and build momentum so quickly, that those around them wonder what magic dust was sprinkled on them and why others are so quick to join them.

The saying goes that when you are on fire, people will drive literally thousands of miles, just to be around you and watch you burn.

In other words, you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.

By the time you figure out your company’s compensation plan, product or why this industry works, you can be earning solid, steady checks and be growing rich before you know it.

Remember, if all the lights had to be green before you left your house, you’d never get out the door!

ACT and grow rich in MLM.  There is no other way to produce.

Aaron Rashkin

For more of my Personal Success Principle, HOT Leadership Tips & Best of the Best Prospecting Training, be sure to visit my Personal Website at http://www.AaronRashkin.com

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