| 9/9/1999
Dear friends,
As many of you know, I have had a lot of problems in the
past year trying to make my [company] business work out for me. When
I lived in Florida, I had little to no training and made many mistakes.
Then I moved to Ohio. In Ohio, I started going to Star Gazers
meetings and received the best training in any direct selling company in
the world. Even with all the help the outstanding leadership team
gave me, It was not easy. I didn't know anyone in Ohio to even make
up a contact list and the Columbus area has a few regions in it, with
hundreds of people selling [company] already.
Last year after conference, shortly after we got home;
my unit leader announced that she was leaving [company] to get in on a
great new business. Everyone in my unit quit [company] within a month
or two except for me. Even people I sponsored into [company] quit
and joined the other business. However, at the time; I really wanted
to give [company] a try. Then in the past year many of my dear [company]
friends from the internet have left and gone into many different
direct selling jobs as [company] wasn't working for them either. You
know from the list and board what many of them are.
I love the [company] product and know that it is the
best on the market. I love the [company] people and have to admit
that many of you are the best friends anyone could ever ask to work with!
However, my love of [company] and it's people doesn't pay the bills.
I know for a fact that many of you have been in my shoes. I'm not
the only one thinking these thoughts, I'm just the one to tell you about
it!
In a little more than a week, I'll be 41 and need to
stop dreaming and face reality. If I'm going to have a retirement
plan I need to settle into a good paying job soon and start saving.
I need to make enough money at 41 to pay my bills on time and have some
left over to enjoy life with. I'm tired of just existing and need
more money to start living life to the fullest. I have done a lot of
sole searching in the past few days and came up with two new choices.
1) I can change to one of the new home based businesses
and get in on the ground floor. And/or,
2) Work harder at finding a permanent job with a steady
pay check.
I must admit that some of the new and/or other direct
selling companies look attractive. Some of them look like [company] with a different name and fewer pieces that I liked.
The fact is, that the grass is only greener where it is
watered and fertilized. A direct marketing job is a direct marketing
job! If it's going to work, you have to work it. [company] or
hat racks, It's a job and when you put your time into it and work you make
money. We can change what we sell but that's not the problem.
People have proven that selling [company] can make you a lot of money.
If we are not making money in [company] WE must be doing something wrong.
By leaving [company] we just take our problems with us. I know that [company]
has one of best profit plans out there! My former unit
leader and all of the others learned that the hard way. To the best
of my knowledge all of them have quit the other businesses and most of
them lost much more than they ever made. If your thinking that you
will do better selling something else think about it first and be honest
with yourself.
A) Have you really worked at [company] as hard as
you could have?
B) Are you really going to make more money in a plan that pays you less
for the same work as [company]?
C) What are you really disappointed with, [company] or the amount of
effort you put into it?
D) Do you take notes at meetings and make positive changes from time to
time?
E) What Will another company offer you that [company] already hasn't?
It's all about you! It's not how many people
already sell [company] around you. Others in your neighbor are
making a good living with you next door! If they make great money
with you around, you can make great money with them around. GET TO
WORK! If your not going to put the effort in selling [company],
odds are that after the excitement of a new product wears off, you wont
put the effort in on that other one for long either! Stay put in [company]
before you change to another company and take advantage of the
head start you already have!
That leaves me with looking for a permanent job.
I have been looking for a job for some time now. I
find that most jobs want you to kill yourself for little pay or the hours
stink. With a real job, I would have to work when I didn't feel like
it, 5 or 6 days a week. I won't have any time off for the first year
and then only get a week in most cases. That is part of my [company]
problem. I haven't been treating it much like a job yet I want it to
pay like one!
A) What would happen if I worked my [company] job 8
hours a day?
B) What if I worked [company] when I didn't feel like it?
C) What if I worked as hard and steady at [company] as I would have to any
other job?
D) Is it any easier looking for a job than looking for a booking?
E) Will a new job understand me having many doctors appointments?
F) Will I make friends as kind and supporting as in [company]?
G) Will any other job give me all the training I get at Star Gazers?
H) Will a new job offer to pay my way and expenses for a vacation if I
work extra hard?
I guess for many of us, that we have the right job, we
just haven't been working as hard as we should. The problems that I
thought I had, were not the problem at all! It's been my attitude
and work habits that weren't working. Dreaming only works when we
WORK at making them happen! No other direct sales job offers me as
much as [company] and yet, I would have to work just as hard. A
permanent job could lay me off at any time leaving me without work again.
As hard as I would have to work at a full time job, and as many hours that
I would have to work; I could do better with [company].
Work is just that, WORK! I think that instead of
looking for greener pastures, I'll just put the time in watering the one
I'm already in!
Working hard to be my best, Hank |
