Keeping Motivated

The 49th day into a challenge to post a blog a day…..my posts are getting further and further apart, the business enthusiasm is waning, the vision is fading…..Been there?  So you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon of success and felt the thrill of success like you had envisioned or were promised?  Instead you are allowing  the deafing roar to fade away…and you become stagnant.

Well trust me, we all go through those periods – the periods when you are asking yourself what next?  Why am I doing this?  How do I get back on track?  Well – get yourself back on track by proclaiming to the world that you have slide….that you have fallen but you are pushing yourself back up and are ready to get back at it.  Make yourself accountable to your public acknowledgement! Oh easy for me to say?  Maybe it is – but just as hard for me to enact as it is for you, so let me share some of my strategies for getting over this hump and working on moving towards my goals:

1)  Review your goals - renew your commitment to yourself and your future.  Feel the passion that you first felt when you wrote your goals.  Is that passion and excitement still there?  Do you honestly believe that your goals are attainable?  Do they need to be fine tuned?  Why are you doing all of this?  What is your why?  As someone told me once – Does your why make you cry?  I love that – are you passionate enough to move mountains for your why?  If not…..figure out what why will give you that focus.

2) Get back to basics – remember the enthusiasm you felt when you first got involved with your business?  The hours you put in learning all the things you had to learn?  The dreaming, the frustrations, the support from your enroller, and the giddy feelings you had when you accomplished your first enrollment or your first ad campaign resulted in your first enrollment?  Remember all the time and energy you were dedicating to this business?  Remember that nothing could stop you?  Revisit that commitment, get that feeling back – and if you can’t – remember that old saying “Fake it till ya make it”  and if all else fails create a schedule and stick to it.  This is the time when there is no one here but you….no one that can dig deep down and find the internal fortitude to be successful.  Your enroller will hand you the shovel to dig, your mentors and support system may soften the soil….but the work of digging is up to you.

3) Figure out that this doesn’t happen overnight – yes there are promised out there that you can be successful with in the month, and possibly you might be the 1 in a million who can make it big in less than 30 days – but don’t set yourself up to fail before you have even had a chance to get started.  Set realistic goals, realistic expectations of yourself and realistic expectations of this industry.  Do a reality check – do you really (now come on be honest), really believe your enroller that you can pay off $25,000 worth of credit debit in the next 30 days with out any previous network marketing experience?  hmmmmmm—I don’t think so either.  But do you think that it is realistic instead to be able to create a business foundation that you can build on within the next 30 days?  ABSOLUTELY!!!  Be honest with yourself and you will move forward – hey – remember we went to school for 12 years – there is a reason our education takes a while – there is a lot to learn.

4) Get with the program – you know what? at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what opportunity you are with – it really doesn’t! What matters is that you are honestly concerned about help others – you know funny thing called Attraction Marketing?  What matters is how you lead the people who are looking to you.  Get with the program guys, the days of contacting your warm marketing and hounding your friends are disappearing.  The way to do network marketing is networking…and branding yourself.  Be the professional that everyone aspires to follow.

5)  Use your resources - Get back to your basics and hone your marketing.  Yes you can create a very lucrative business online and when you allow your self to be overcome with every opportunity – blogging, articles, campaigns, SEO, RRS, video marketing, social media, Pay Per Click, on and on and on…..You drown in a sea of “what next? How? When? Where? and How Much????  Deep breath – focus, focus, focus – you can’t master it all – so break it down master one, then move one, master, move on, master, move on!

6) Balance – If you have spent any time in the industry you know  that you have enter a business in which life long learning is a must – the playing field changes on a daily basis and in order to stay in the game you have to learn the rules of the game.  And the rules change. However, you have to balance the work with the learning – don’t get caught up in feeling that you need to learn everything there is to learn.  I find myself sometimes sliding into this trap – and you have to push off from the shore – you need to take action before you know it all.  This industry is built on doing and doing means be activate and doing the things that build your business and make you money.  And yes, learning will make you money down the road but but there comes a point where you just need to take the plunge and become one of the doers.  Find the system that provides the framework and the training, and then start doing – I am!

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