In our line of work, having built successful network marketing businesses and now coaching the industry, we get our fair share of people calling to recruit us into their businesses.  And, good on ‘em. Before you head for the phone, let me say it’s against our company policy.  We wouldn’t expect you to trust us wholly and completely with your downline if we had another agenda, so we don’t.  Let me state that clearly and emphatically:  we don’t actively build – to protect your interests and those of Savvy.

Now, that said, my ‘good on ‘em’ is about applauding people for asking.  You should proudly invite everyone you think could be a good fit for you business, to take a look.  That’s your main job when building an MLM business – exposing people to information about your business opportunity and your products and services.

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Is it too scary to jump in, because your goals might seldom, or never come true? Do you feel you have to give 110% to anything you start — and there’s just no time right now?  Do your goals usually feel out of reach and self defeating?

But wait:  goals are simply something we aim toward. Goals are something we define and direct our energy toward. Humm, so they are not right or impossible, they simply exist and receive something from us (energy).

But if that’s a goal, what is the impossible part? Perfection.

It’s the idea of giving 110% and the notion we are to be without flaws.  No room for shortcomings.  The goal is lost before we begin.  All you have is your personal best.  It can’t add up to more than 100% and none of us can give that all the time.  But we can certainly bring our best – whatever it is at the moment – to anything.

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Your Business Mindset is Your Business’s Best Friend

If you listen to oldies music (or have been around a bit) you know that Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.  Now that may or may not be true, the diamond thing, I’ll leave it up to you.  But we do you know what your business’s best friend is – a robust business mindset.  Without that your business is stopped in its tracks.  Stopped before it can get out the gate or off the starting line.

A lightweight business mindset will turn your telephone into a 500 hundred pound hulk and make washing the dishes or cleaning the toilet seem more appealing. You’ll do anything to avoid picking up the phone and having a conversation with someone about your business/financial opportunity.  What is a good antidote to a puny business mindset?  Awareness. You weren’t expecting that were you?  But it’s true.

There is a great story in “The Inner Game of Coaching” by Tim Gallwey about a small professional medical office.  Too many patients were being kept waiting.  Gallwey was hired and came in to watch what was going on.  After a morning of observation he said something along the lines,

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