Stress affects your business building more than you think

  Written by Ylva Jansson on Sep 10, 2008 10:53 am

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Stress affects more than just your physical health. Living a life out of balance almost guarantees business building failure. Here’s why…

With over 16 million people involved in network marketing, research shows that the main reasons for starting a business, while highly individual, are very similar. At the root, people pursue network marketing because they have some pain in their lives that they are trying to reduce.

No matter how big or small the pain, it can be solved with a certain amount of money.

Replacing income from a job, for example, is a larger goal and may stem from dissatisfaction, poor treatment, pressure, etc. Even smaller goals such as providing a second family income without having an outside job (and the pain points associated with it) usually stems from a pain associated with not having enough time for family or the pressure of today’s economy.

Network marketing can solve these pain points – however the pain itself can often prevent people from building a business effectively.

It’s not easy coming home from a full time job or juggling all the family’s responsibilities and still have enough energy and motivation left to build a network marketing business. That’s a basic fact of life. No matter how much we want things to work on their own, without much of our involvement, building any business takes skill and effort.

Stress affects attitude and attitude in turn affects your energy and motivation. Without energy and motivation you cannot learn new skills as quickly nor will you be able to put in the amount of effort required to move your business to the next level. This also affects your ability to lead – because in the end people are drawn to leaders that possess vision and have the personal energy to get things done.

Those who are not prepared to deal with the reality of part-time networking – usually because they fell for the marketing hype so common in this industry – wake up to find themselves even more frustrated than when they started.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

The solution isn’t more coffee!

It’s focusing on personal balance.

Network marketing is intended as a part-time business that can deliver a full-time income. To do this you not only need to manage your time effectively. You also need to manage your stress levels so be sure to take care of yourself during the business building process. Even if you have all the time and money in the world, if your health is failing you, most people would agree that you could not enjoy that time and money to your fullest extent. 

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