Something or nothing?

I was asked a question a couple days ago by a friend I see at the gym every. I made a comment about what I do, and evidently he got curious, as he knows a couple people who were involved in network marketing and didn't do very well.  He asked, "how did you make it work like you have?"

 

As I've told you, I told him that there really isn't a mystery in what it takes to succeed.  For the most part I decided very early that I was going to listen, evaluate and then go from there. I decided to listen to the people who had the experience and were successful. At the same time, I was talking with people about our business and I heard a lot of negativity. The pattern was always the same. People seemed to focus on problems and/or issues - I was just trying to learn what to say and what to do. It was easy for me to decide that I wasn't going to listen to someone doing nothing. 

I just received an e-mail this morning from someone in our downline who decided to get herself going again and she's doing a great job! Here is what she said in her message to me: 

 

The most important thing is I’m doing SOMETHING, and if I do enough of "something” something will happen. If I do nothing, nothing will happen!

 

Print out the words in that statement and in some way keep it in front of you. It is probably one of the simplest and very powerful statements you will come across - and it works. Early in our business I just started to "do something" and learned lots of lessons (some people call these lessons "failures!"). I kept "doing something" and "something" started to happen. The successful people I was listening to were right about what to say, what to do, "learn the lessons, work hard and some day you will reach your goal" and that is what happened.

 

You might be thinking that this is over-simplified. You would be right but I like things kept simple.

If you want to grow, be careful who you listen to, find people who have been successful and my guess is you'll find that those people will all tell you the same story of how they made this business work. 

No one ever told me it would be easy, but it is simple.

 

Enthusiastically,

Gary Burke