Network Marketing Success – Motivating Factors, Part 2
We will now discuss the positive motivating factors, and I am going to assume that you have read my previous article, which discusses the negative motivating factors. The positive factors 'attract', while the negative factors 'repel'. If we can get them to act in unison, it's an ideal situation!
Lou Tice, founder of the Pacific Institute, once related the story of how he had to help a world-class African athlete overcome a physical problem. Although this guy was a candidate for the Olympic Games, he often developed a pain in his side so severe that he had to stop running. After listening to the athlete's story, Tice's advice was to quit running altogether. You see, he found that the athlete's main motivation was that he could support his family with the proceeds from his wins. And that, according to Tice, was simply not a good enough motivation to make it to the Games.
Nobody, but nobody on this planet has ever become good at something overnight. I think the media are guilty of creating misconceptions here. They present an incorrect timeline by (inadvertently) showing the transition from failure to success, from obscurity to stardom, in a few episodes on TV or in less than two hours in a movie.
In the real world the 'overnight success' is usually preceded by years, even decades, of practice, hardships and disappointments. This applies equally well to marketers, musicians, artists and sports stars. So, on your way to becoming that marketing 'superhero', you are going to meet with countless distractions and disappointments. You will often ask yourself if this was a good idea in the first place, and you will consider throwing in the towel.
So it is only logical that your reasons for pursuing a specific course of action should be so good that they outweigh any opposing forces. To be really good at anything, be that sports, art, singing, or network marketing, you have to be passionate about it. And you require an exceptionally high level of motivation, preferably of the positive kind! So how do you get this?
The pieces of the puzzle will come together if you can get yourself to a position of 'must have'. There simply must be no alternative to obtaining that goal. And you create this situation by having enough magnificent 'why's. The more 'why's you have, and the more they pull you in the same direction, the better. What I mean by magnificence is that the end result must really resonate within you at a gut level. It must evoke an intense emotional response. Sweaty skin. Increased pulse rate. Pupils dilated.
Now I cannot tell you what your motivators are; you will have to do a fair amount of introspection. Take a piece of paper, write down your motivators, and order them in descending order of importance. Then look at the ones at the top. If they evoke a 10/10 feeling, if you must realize them at all cost, come hell or high water, despite all odds, you are on the right track. If they only get a nine-out-of-ten rating, you might have to re-consider.
Just a word of advice here. This series of articles deals mostly with money. Money is VERY important. So is life, health, love, family and friends: to name a few. The bottom lines is this: you cannot have anything if it is not important to you. So if someone tries to tell you money is not important, don't believe her - she's broke.
Network marketing success and the money associated with it is, however, not the ultimate goal. It is some of the magificent things you can do with that money. So when (not 'if') you become that marketing superstar, and you do break through the million-dollar-a-year ceiling - what will your life look like? Your physical surroundings? Your associates? Your 'toys'? Your appearance? The hospital in Uganda you will be sponsoring?
This is the time to get super-creative! Join me in my next article where I'll show you you can re-program your mind to pursue my goals. And no, it's not the re-hashed old 'goal setting and affirmation' story.
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Deon H Reynders is the CEO of Visionary Marketers and lives, with his wife Marijana and an assortment of four-legged and feathered friends, near Toodyay in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Deon is a marketer, electronics engineer, private pilot, prospective around-the-world yachtsman, international traveler, published author, granddad, educator, and coach. He believes that we should all work hard at creating extraordinary lives.
