To do what you want to do it is necessary to be with people who are also doing it.
Being with people who are doing what you want to do is logical in just about every branch of activity you can imagine. Certainly for me it was that way when I got into music.
I got started in music a little late actually. It wasn’t until my sophomore or junior year in high school when I actually started doing something about my musical talent. So what did that mean?
First of all, it meant taking piano and organ lessons. Then it meant taking voice lessons. So, I sought out teachers first. Then, when it became obvious that I was actually pretty darn good did I begin to join choirs.
Joining choirs is a great way to learn about music, but it is also a networking tool as well, although one doesn’t think of it in that way. But, what you have is a large group of people who like to perform music and know something about it as well. They slowly become friends and then colleagues.
When I went to the university to take lessons the first thing that happened is I was put into the opera production Carmen. So, I basically went from not knowing anything about opera, acting or theater, to being one of the main characters in an opera.
Since then I have been to graduate school, apprenticeship programs and ultimately spent 20 plus years singing major roles in the greatest operas in many German and European theaters.
I could not have done that by hanging out with my friends and family from before.
There is no way I would have ever had a career in opera or in music at all had I not gotten around other people who were doing what I was interested in doing. Nor did I have any interest at all in trying to get my friends or family members involved with me. I was the only person in my circle of friends and family, outside of a couple of very talented cousins, who could be a musican professionally.
In network marketing the same holds true.
People from your circle of influence are not doing what you are doing. I thought that I could market to my musician and artistic friends and colleagues. But this is not accurate thinking. They don’t want what I want. They aren’t interested in doing what I want to do, so why would I knock myself out to get them to do it? It is wrong thinking.
You have to be around the people who are doing what you want to do and nothing is more true with this than in network marketing. Make friends, make connections, make business connections. It is all about locking arms with a chorus of people who are singing the same song.
Our job in the network marketing niche is to find others who want to be in that choir, not to go out and try to convince people who have no mind for it to do it.
They say you shouldn’t decide for people, but lets face it, you sort of know who will and who won’t. Okay, so tell them about it, but don’t expect people from your past world to want to come with you into your new world. They won’t do it. They like it where they are. You are still friends with everyone, but you just stop trying to get someone to sing who doesn’t have a talent or interest in it.
In the home business world there is a lot of talk about money and the numbers that people use are far different than the numbers people use in my past life.
In the network marketing world a small income is less than $10,000 a month, in the world I come from that sounds like CEO pay. Nobody in my family ever earned that. So if your past influences can’t even talk in terms of $30,000 a month income, how on earth are you going to ever have that conversation with them.
You will not learn a thing from your past only from the group that you want to become a part of can be the circle you want to be in.
It doesn’t work in music and it definitely won’t work in network marketing.
I have chosen the Empower Network, because this is the choir I want to make music with. If you are wanting to improve your life then get in with people who are all about doing that! Because you can, but you can’t without joining.
Get in, Get all in, Go to Events! Thats the Empower Network!