Is Network Marketing Difficult?
What's difficult is when you must produce a report on a Sunday afternoon and cannot attend your son's football game.
What's difficult is hearing the mobile phone ring on Christmas morning and you cannot see the excitement on your daughter's face as she feverishly tears into another box.
What's difficult is knowing the rust bucket you call a car is eating you alive in maintenance but you cannot afford a new one.
What's difficult is to go to your annual performance review, and even though you have worked hard for another year, you come away empty handed.
What's difficult is knowing that you shop by sticker rather than whether the garment looks good on you.
What's difficult is knowing that the house you are in is because prices just went up and your budget is to the bare bones.
What's difficult is knowing that you married a wonderful person, and promised them the world, and for the next 30 years you look at balancing the budget and figuring out what sacrifices must be made.
What's difficult is reciting "If we get this we cannot have that".
What's difficult is always lowering your dreams to meet your means.
What's difficult is knowing that you have spent 40 years of your life working for someone else only to realize that you will be retiring on 1/3 of what you cannot live on today.
What's difficult is when your children move out and you cannot visit them because traveling costs too much.
What's difficult is knowing that the fish are biting this week and you cannot drop what you are doing and take your Dad fishing.
What's difficult is watching the spark in your partner's eyes fade because both of you realize the house you have been wanting is just a dream because someone else is controlling your finances.
What's difficult is waking up one morning and realizing that your children, the most precious thing imaginable, no longer need bottles, diapers, have tea parties, eat things found under the sofa, are shorter than the baseball bat they are trying to swing, but are grown and starting their own families and you missed all of that because you agreed to be locked in an office for twenty years by a boss who watched his children grow up.
What's difficult is dropping your one year old at the nursery because you have to be at work by 9am to stand by the Xerox machine or handle irate phone calls and realize someone else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son say "dada" to the playground teacher.
What's difficult is knowing that you have diligently worked only to be given an early retirement.
I will tell you what is difficult. It is real difficlut realizing it is too late and that time frittered away can never be retrieved. It slips through our fingers one second at a time.
What are we doing with it? We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastinating and skirting important things rather than facing the issues.
Too often we allow others who do not pay our bills, who do not share our dreams, to direct our future.
We have absolutely no freedom as a child, We rebel in our teen years and scream for freedom. We die for the right to be free. We fight vicious wars to have the seemingly innocent ability to choose. We reach adulthood and we relinquish freedom because we think it is too difficult.
We do not want to take responsibility. We do not want to make a wrong decision so we obligingly give that awesome power to someone else. We feel it will take too much time. Then, we have the audacity to complain when the decisions made were not what we wanted.
We wake up too late. Phrases like "I wished I had only", "If I could only have that time back" etc.
I believe a majority of people want to sing, but die with the music still inside. Face the music and shoulder some responsibility. You cannot have that time back. You have chosen your direction. If you have not spent your time wisely, too bad.
You have no one but yourself to blame. You had the chance. Perhaps the opportunity was presented many times and each time you elevated the trivial to a higher priority than yourself.
Is network marketing really difficult? Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting product or idea? Is it so difficult to understand that if you work this marketing idea for a couple of years you might not have to confront some nasty options?
Would you work real hard for a year or two so you could put your family in the home of their dreams? Would you work real hard for a year or two so you could send your children to college chosen by excellence rather than one chosen by price? The same criteria you used for clothes shopping.
Would you turn off the idiot box, the soaps, the talk shows, sporting events, reality TV shows for a year so you could take dream vacations several times a year?
Would you apply yourself for a year or two so you would have the freedom of being able to roll over, yank the covers over your head and wake at the crack of noon because you wanted to?
Would you work really hard for a couple of years to mould a lifestyle of your choosing so your family could live a lifestyle of their dreams, rather than trying to live how someone else thinks you should live?
We really think we are important in our jobs. The company we work for cannot survive without us. We are the cog that keeps things moving. Everything would grind to a halt without our presence. Think again. Corporations are not structured like that.
A corporation does not rely on people to remain viable. A corporation needs many properly arranged little squares, functioning in a preset order to survive. After many years as a manager in the corporate environment, here is an excellent visualization of your importance. Find a bucket and fill it about 3/4 full of warm water. Make a fist and push your left arm in the bucket up to your elbow. Now, quickly remove your arm. The resulting hole is your impact. Sobering, isn't it?
Can you identify the words "next time"? How many "next times" will you have? What will it take to get you off dead center?
Will it be knowing that people are physically deteriorating when you have a product that will help them but are afraid of someone thinking you are taking advantage of that person and are just out for the money?
Gosh, I hope not.
Will it be knowing that people are agonizing through bankruptcy, realizing they only needed a couple more hundred dollars per month, not $50,000 per month, but you procrastinated once again?
I hope not.
Realize the awesome power you have in your hands with network marketing. The business you have chosen has the ability to change lives. IT cannot do anything. But YOU can change lives with IT. YOU are the one with the life changing ability. What are you waiting for? What will it take?
You will pay a price for your actions. Which one do you choose to pay?
In five years, will you say, "I wish I had!" or "I'm glad I did!"
More Precious Then A Gem.
"A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.
But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. "I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
Everything is a miracle.
It has always fascinated me how people can believe that the earth "just happened". That there was no creation behind it. Just a "big bang" and everything all fell into place. Anyone thinking rationally knows that this could not possibly happen. Everything is a miracle. You are a miracle. Life is a miracle. There is a creative force behind each and every living thing.
When you understand how complex each one of our cells is and how extraordinarily complex our genetic code is in our DNA you know that this couldn't happen by chance. In fact there is no person who understands everything that goes on in even one of our cells.
There are so many conditions necessary for a planet to be able to support life. If the earth were slightly larger than it is it would have more gravity. Then methane and ammonia would remain closer to the ground which are toxic and no one could live. If the earth were a little bit smaller with less gravity, then water vapor would not stay on earth. Without water we could not exist.
If the earth rotated slightly slower than it does the temperature swings between night and day would be inescapably deadly. If the earth rotated a bit more quickly it would produce impossibly high winds. Winds on Jupiter are routinely one thousand miles per hour. Jupiter is a much larger planet than the earth is.
If the moon were slightly bigger it would cause our tides to be much more extreme, such as one-hundred-foot tides which would wash away our coastlines. If the moon were slightly smaller the tides would be insufficient to cleanse coastal seawater and replenish nutrients. If the moon were any size other than it is life as we know it wouldn't exist. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with one moon that is as large as our moon is.
When all the calculations are done, with everything being as it should be, the odds of a planet supporting life are less than one in ten to the seventy-third power. That's a one followed by seventy three zeroes!
A proton has about 1,836 times the mass of an electron. If that ratio were slightly larger or smaller the universe would not exist.
The average distance between stars in our part of the Milky Way galaxy is roughly thirty trillion miles. If it were much more or much less our solar system could not exist.
Our existence seems a virtually impossible miracle yet the most outrageous miracle anyone could conceive of. More and more scientists are coming to agree that nothing has happened by chance. The odds are simply too astounding. Everything is due to intelligent design by God.
On the third day of creation God gave us essential oils. I believe that each and every drop of essential oils have God's love and wisdom in them. They are "God's medicine" and the very best tools for us to use so that our body can do it's job effectively and efficiently. They were created by design and man can not come close in trying to create something that will do what pure essential oils can do for us in all areas of our life.
When you understand this you will realize what a blessing it is to be involved with the world leader in essential oils, Young Living. A company that never compromises on quality. The only company in the world with the seed to seal guarantee and what I feel is the best thing that we will see in our lifetime. Just like there is no person who understands everything that goes on in even one of our cells, there is no essential oil that has been completely broken down where any person understands all of the components.
