The Toughest Work We Will Ever Do

Written by Paul Klaszus on Apr 13, 2010 2:25 am

Well now, I fully expect my company won’t let me conduct presentations or trainings if they ever read what I have to say here.

This whole home-based business business is tough stuff.

I mean, honestly. Success in this industry involves some of the most difficult tasks on earth.
For instance:

Learning all the stuff you don’t learn in school.

- think about it. When was the last time you heard of a school that taught principles of wealth? How to build a network? How to become a leader? How to influence people? How to connect with people?

I know there are a few schools that touch base on these things, but there’s no degree, major, minor, or even so much as a course.

Work without pay.

- You’re going to work like you’ve never worked before, then on top of that, you’re not going to get paid. Think of it like a farmer’s field. He tills, plows, seeds, fertilizes, nurtures, prays constantly that the hail doesn’t destroy the crop, cut, shaft, bale, store, haul, all without getting paid. On top of that… after the deal is done, he still waits up to 90 days before payment is finally put into his account.

Way easier to be the hired hand, isn’t it?

There are even more reasons I could get into, but this next one is by far the most difficult task we face.

Faith, regardless of circumstance.

- Last month’s check wasn’t relative to the hours you put in, so how are you going to proceed this month? You’ve done 44 presentations in a row (my record) and all of them gave you a flat out ‘NO’ – why even bother going on the 45th?!?

-Your gas tank is empty.. again.

-You didn’t make money back on your last leads. Your last signup quit after his 2 of those 44 presentations.

-Your family still doesn’t approve of your decision, your friends think you’re crazy, and your last boss calls you once every 60 days or so saying he can’t wait for your upline to get arrested so he can gloat as you come back with your tail between your legs begging for your old job back.

And yet, you can’t seem to shake the belief that you’re on the right track.

All around you, there is clear evidence that it’d be a whole lot easier just to admit you made a mistake this time and it’s OK – even justifiable to throw in the towel. You can hold your head up high. You’ve done more than what the average person would do.

And yet, you continue onward with the audacity that you can still win.

The gall to defy your surroundings and succeed.

In the words of Wallace Wattles from his book, The Science of Getting Rich,

To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform.

All the courses we take, books we read, punches we roll with, stones that are thrown at us are insignificant to us keeping the faith.