One of the biggest challenges and the biggest barriers that any network marketer will face. Transitioning your 9 to 5 job mentality to a business owner. I think this is the biggest hurdle that you will have to do. Many have stumbled and left the business because they couldn’t jump this one. It has been my biggest struggle.

I worked for Ford Motor Company for thirty five years. Everyday I was getting up at 4:30 am. Dragging myself off to work for the man. It was a routine that my body knew all to well. I didn’t even need my alarm clock. I usually woke up a couple of minutes before the alarm went off.

When I worked the assembly line, the jobs were very routine. Your mind could drift away for a long time without really knowing what you were doing. You were just a human robot.

Every once in awhile, I was unable to complete the task that I was assigned to do. A repairman would catch my mistakes and everyone elses’.  I was always dependent on that repairman to catch my back.

Many network marketers come into the industry with that same kind of mindset. They are constantly calling their sponsors for a computer problem that they might have. How to run this program or spell a word. Well…maybe not that bad, but they do nitpick their sponsor to death with trivial things.

This is your business. You have to have the mindset of a business owner. There is nobody to catch your back on this. Get a book on how to use Microsoft word. Don’t bother your leaders for that. They should be called about the training and the strategies that you will use to build your business.

What if you were playing basketball and you had Michael Jordan as your coach. Say he made some suggestions to you on how to stand at the free-throw line. Would you question him? Would you tell him you might have a better idea.  Let’s see……….Michael Jordan……..six NBA titles………..hall of  fame….. two Olympic gold medals…….I don’t think you would.

It’s the same with your mentors and leaders. These are the people who are successful at what they do.  They have been doing it longer than you have. They tell you to do this and get these results. Be like Nike and just do it!

It’s your business. How bad to you want to succeed? You keep working and doing what the successful people are doing and you persevere. Don’t quit! Why did Michael Jordan shoot six to eight hundred shots a day? He wanted to be the best there was. He didn’t sit in front of the TV eating bon-bons. He was working. he was polishing and sharpening his skills to be one of the best basketball players that ever played the game.

There is a mindset and a transition you have to make. Get with good leaders. Get with some good mentors.  They will give you the tools it takes to be successful in your network marketing business. Go to the functions and glean from these successful people. Do what they do.

There is no safety net to catch you. It’s your business. Treat it as a business, and it will reward you like a business. Conquer those fears and knots you have in your stomach. Life is full of fear. You have to conquer them with success.

” Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the judgment that what you want is more important than your fears.” Les Brown.

How bad do you want it?