Suffering From MLM "Burn-Out?" Try Being REALLY Authentic For A Change.
Company: Vitamark International
Posted by Robert Fobes on Jul 5, 2010 6:53 pm
Read More: consciousness | mlm business | MLM success | nihilism | Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter | Truth | Zig ZiglarIn 1981, James Caan and Tuesday Weld, made a movie entitled “Thief.” For my money, “Thief” is a brilliant picture - authentic, lucid and poignant, like good MLM marketing.
In his role as a self-sufficient bank robber, James Caan asks only for respect for what he is - expert in his craft, flawless in his performance, independent of outside interference, and deserving of a generous monetary reward derived from his labors.
But, he has grown weary. He wants to settle down financially secure with his wife and baby son. He needs one last “big score.” Then, he needs out!
For those two things to happen our hero realizes that his last job has to be something really special, something that, because of its fantastic complexity and payoff, he and his crew for the first time in their career are unable to organize and fund all by themselves.
Enter the one man with the organizational infrastructure and capital resources to get the job done, the overlord of the local underworld,
To make a long story short, an all too familiar scenario soon transpires.
The overlord confiscates our hero’s $750,000 share of the take. When our hero objects, the boss has him beaten to a bloody pulp. Then he learns that he cannot quit, that there never was any “agreement,” and that the overlord “owns” him and his labor at whatever reward he (the overlord) deems appropriate.
What a great metaphor for so much of the established global order which still takes its lead from the now obsolete 300 + year-old Cartesian-Newtonian worldview known as Material Realism. (Note: there is no “matter,” as such!)
The problem with Material Realism is that once you take its nihilistic opportunism as a given something very self-destructive happens. It becomes quite impossible to acknowledge the life-affirming truth of our world, as it really exists -- namely that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being.
Fortunately, ordinary people the world over are beginning to grasp the fact that the operational truth of the world is not anything strictly materialistic, hence opportunistically nihilistic, at all.
What is becoming more and more apparent is that the truth of our world works intentionally (consciously) exactly the same way for everything and never changes the rules. Moreover, it does so as a kind of a natural Holographic stipulation which says that where the (created) part is the (creator) whole must always be as its selfless and unconditional love for the life-affirming well-being of others in the here and now.
Therefore, here is a little secret. The opportunistic pursuit of material gain is NOT the reason for our natural being.
On the contrary, as conscious beings selfless and unconditional love for the life-affirming well-being of others from the source of our being within is our natural hardwiring.
Obviously, taking all practical steps to be and do what comes naturally can only be a very, very good thing for us all in our MLM businesses.
As Tom “Big Al” Schreiter teaches, speak to them in their own emotional language and they will follow you anywhere!
In other words, as Network Marketers our careers are really all about our natural love, and that of others, so by itself our greed, and that of others, is NOT good! It is self-defeating.
The way I see it, if that does not speak to the heart of Network Marketing done right, and most successfully, then nothing does. But that’s me.
In that spirit, which takes its lead from the love of the source of our being within, perhaps the words of the great Zig Ziglar say it best:
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
Hallelujah!
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Comments: 5
Wow great read!
I enjoyed the article Robert, but I have a different perspective.
I do not think people are hard wired to help others, in fact I think quite the opposite, that most people are self centered and mostly concerned with their own needs.
And I do no think that is a bad thing :)
In Network Marketing they teach that if you help others you will be successful, ie help them to be successful and you will be successful.
They do not teach that Network Marketing is about helping others at your own expense, ie they will be successful but you will not.
So people are helping others with an expectation of meeting their needs.
I help you because it makes me feel good, or I donate to a hospital to have my name put on a wing.
Like I said, nothing wrong with that.
Great Comments, Peter. Thanks.
I agree with most of what you say. I’m all for personal selfishness…but only if it’s authentic – i.e. from within, not outer-directed for being focused on “things.” (Note: “things” as such do not exist!)
This may better clarify why I wrote what I did.
…on a theme courtesy of my http://thislearningcansetyoufree.com affiliate site:
"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is (his authenticity), not upon what he does, or how much he has (Material Realism). The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being (authentic), not in doing, not in having." (my parentheses)
-- Alice Mary Hilton
Like everything else, we are spirit manifested in form, so we are innately worthy. However, we may not PERCEIVE ourselves as being worthy.
If you doubt your self-worth (authenticity from within), consciously or unconsciously, you will limit the good things you will allow into your life.
"Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.” (my authentic being from within) -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller (my parentheses)
…also for more information on how I approach the subject listen here: 1-877-944-2111, option # 1
Thanks again. I love talking about this stuff. Let’s stay in touch
Robert
Just had this conversation with someone
I believe we are hard wired for relationships but not necessarily hard wired to help others. The self interest is evident when a change happens in our lives and the first thing we think of is how is this going to affect me. Usually that's how we respond - self first. Doubt me? Ask yourself how you felt when you spouse came to you and said "I'm pregnant". You thought about you first didn't you?
The discussion I had recently said we always do everything out of our own wants. We give money to the guy who's hungry because we want to feel good. We give our time to others because we want to be considered a nice person or the hero or for the recognition. All self interest motivations. I'm still thinking about that conversation and it has made me very aware of my "doings" and how they are affecting me. Did I do that so I would be needed or when someone cracks the MLM barrier, they will give me the credit?
It's one of those situations where you seriously have to look in the mirror and not dismiss the notion out of hand. Major self analysis there and most won't do it.
I agree with Peter: If you are doing something in this industry without the financial compensation then you are not in business. You are in the volunteer realm and living in a fantasy world where you will never become "lifestyle free".
Congratulations Robert on being open minded enough not to jump all over Peter when he disagreed with you. Shows me you are confident of yourself.
Hi, Joyce, Welcome To The Conversation - You Guys Energize Me
First, let me be clear about one thing – I am all for my own self-interest (my own ego-self) - and yours, and anybody’s. The more resourceful I can be in manifesting it and enjoying its rewards the better I like it - just not at the life-affirming expense of others or the truth!
As for my “open-mindedness,” it is no big deal really. I tend to take nothing personally so I am not easily offended. That does not mean I cannot be moved or be grateful. It just means that ordinarily I do not really have what you would call an “agenda.”
Mostly, I am just interested in ideas that get me closer to the truth. As Einstein said, “I want to know the mind of God” (the ultimate truth). Actually, I think we all want that.
You and Pete are right on target as far as you go, but let us take it a couple of steps further.
The “selfishness” you and he believe in comes from our awareness of pleasure and pain, be it real or imagined. That, I believe, is our ego at work. Ordinarily, we humans call our ego our “self.” But that “self” (ego) did not create us – did not create itself - so fundamentally it cannot be what we really are as human beings.
Like everything else in space and time, we humans are the spirit of our creator manifested in physical form. In other words, our creator’s spirit is our fundamental hardwiring, which precedes our physical form, hence our ego with its sense of separation, hence its perceptions of pleasure and pain, real or imagined.
Moreover, as I see it, the way in which our creator works is according to its own selfless and unconditional love for the life-affirming well-being of others, with “others” meaning a physical form, which our creator is not because it has no ego, no “self” as such, hence no awareness of separation, hence no perceptions of pleasure or pain.
Indeed, everywhere and all the time our creator must be perpetually dying to any sense of itself as a separate being “thing,” or (ego) “self,” any physical form, in particular in order to be the truth inherent of ALL diverse things and being everywhere all of the time.
To sum up: in our Holographic existence where the part (physical form) is the whole (the spirit of the creator) must always be, and vice-versa. This means that no matter how hard our egos try to make it otherwise, no part of creation, including ourselves, can ever be other than the reality of its creator, which is its selfless and unconditional love for the life-affirming well-being of others.
Hence, the reality of that love, not the ego-self, is our fundamental hardwiring as human beings.
What do you think now?
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