What is the ”hard work” in affiliate and network marketing?

You always hear people talk about ”hard work” in the business of affiliate and network marketing and to be honest, I am not sure what they are talking about. Working on the computer is not what I deem ”hard work.” Learning how to do it is not hard work.

Hard work to me is getting up at 4 a.m. and going out to the barn and feeding the chickens, slopping the hogs and giving hay and feed to the cattle and horses. Hard work to me is waking up at 5 a.m. to prepare for a school day of teaching preschool to handicapped children who kick, scream and bite you.

Hard work is going to a factory for 30 years and working on the same sprocket every single day and dealing with the personalities of people you have to be around because of that job.

So, what is the ”hard work” here?

Dealing with objections from prospects? Trying to help a reluctant downline? Getting your content written and published in all of the right places. Is it getting leads, making sales and learning how to write emails regularly?

No, I don’t really think the tech part is the hard part either.

The hard work with this type of business is breaking through your own objections and limiting beliefs about it and yourself.

All of the things that people see as being the ”hard work” of getting traffic, leads and sales, dealing with people or learning the tech part of websites, video and audio technology, are really convenient lame excuses to not do it at all and actually distract you from the real ”hard work” of moving your INSIDES to be aligned with what you are wanting to do….at least it is for me.

I grew up thinking that the only way to earn a living was to get a job, and get paid per job. Every step my family took was taken through the lens of making ends meet with the money we had. Making money through investments and owning a business, heaven forbid, were risky, unreliable and sometimes even immoral or illegal. Certainly, being ”RICH” was a huge dirty 4 letter word, because ”RICH” people can’t get to heaven, because all they care about is money, materialism and power.

I got the message that the only way to earn a living was to ”work hard” for ever single penny and take that penny and pinch it for all it was worth. Being constantly on the look out for cheap, reasonable, used, on sale items and collecting coupons, stamps and points to save 5 cents on a jar of jelly for breakfast was the way to save money.

Now, don’t get me wrong, saving money and not overpaying for things is a good thing and this sort of thrift made it possible for my family to make it when the going was tough. But, we could have done much better.

The ”hard work” for me is convincing myself on a daily basis that what I want to do really is a moral and correct way to live. In addition to that is believing in myself, that what I have to say matters and that it can be of benefit to others. In essence, believing that I can lead, speak, and commit to my own inner quality.

The ”hard work” is knowing, believing and talking about your products and opportunity as if it is the best thing since sliced bread!

Is what I am doing in fact…right?

That is the hard work here for me and it has taken awhile to get that right within myself.

If America was built on the principle of everyone being equal and the entrepreneurial pioneering spirit of free enterprise and a market based economy, then what I want to do is 100% more in line with that than working at a job and being a good employee and getting benefits.

I have to get excited about that and believe in myself and that others can make this jump as well.

If you want to make the jump from the ”work force” economy to the ”entrepreneurial” economy then check out the banners on this page and just get started.

That ”hard work” is worth it.