Burn the Ship!

If you are doing this business on a part time basis, this is probably the most priceless piece of advice that someone could give you and this is the same advice that my long-time mentor had given me once: BURN THE SHIP! And I still need to hear this advice, again, and that's why I am bringing up this subject.

Burning the ship does not necessarily mean that you have to quit your job, but whatever it is that you are holding onto for security (like a day time job) is keeping you mentally unprepared to pursue your business with the full determination needed for you to succeed.

As Stone Evans cleverly said 'INTERNALLY, you must find a way to "burn your ships of security" and start relying on your business AS IF IT'S THE ONLY THING YOU'VE GOT'. Doesn't matter if you don't know who this guys is, but the statement does make lots of sense right? If the business is your sole source of income, wouldn't you work harder for it? In fact, you would work the hardest!

Want to know how a ship on fire looks like? Have a feel...

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Pie in the Sky

When talking about great opportunities like network marketing, real estate, etc., you know the kind of options that would make us huge amount of money, most of us could not help but have this at the back of our heads 'oh, that's is great, but it is just a pie in the sky'.. To those who are not familiar with this idiom, it is about something very promising that's just isn't going to materialize. Like the following composition from 'The Preacher and the Slave' by legendary labor hero Joe Hill, which is then became part of the widely distributed 'little red songbooks' of the Industrial Workers of the World:

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

However, as many of the great leaders (in whatever fields they may be) would tell us, everything is possible. And I couldn't agree more.

In Usana, I see people come and go. They came with great anticipation that they're going to make it in this business. And they should be. What went wrong? Not enough fire inside of them to get them through the challenges? Not enough action on their part? Not consistent? May be..

We've been mentored and coached on how to do this business in the best possible ways. It is really up to us to work it so that it will work for us. Doesn't matter from which angle you look at it, Usana is definitely not another pie in the sky...

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Great Marketing Plan

I heard too many times about this. It made people mad, sad, and frustrated at the same time. It's about a great marketing plan went sour. And I heard it again a couple of days ago. And it just broke my heart to think about all those people that worked so hard, thinking that they could earn the promised reward, that's just not going to materialize. It would not come just as rain on their parade, we're talking about hurricanes!

And why do these things happened in the first place? Many reasons. But for me, I think there are 2 reasons. One, the marketing plan was prepared shabbily. Not enough calculations and analysis were done to justify the figures offered. And second, it was done to lure people in. Either case, it is bad. They say that life is not always peachy-creamy. Well it could be, at least as far as marketing plan is concerned.

For network marketers, I think the first thing that they have to do when they want to join a certain company is that they have to look for stability of the company. If the company has existed for more that 10 years, it is a good company. Then look at how many times during their existance have they changed their marketing plan. Many changes means bad. And then, look at the marketing plan itself (with the help of a senior associate that is). If it is never been changed but nobody could understand it, watch out. There is a possibility that you will never get the bonuses promised. There is a trick somewhere, hidden in that marketing plan. Or maybe it is only good for the top people, which is not so good for the new ones that just joined the company.

Anyhow, since the inception of Usana, they have never changed their marketing plan until a couple of years ago when they actually added more good stuff to the existing one to make it even better to their associates. There are many good things about Usana marketing plan such as easy to understand, helps the newly joined associates to get money fast, the 100% overriding bonus that's not found enywhere else, etc, etc, etc. Just take time to really understand it, and I am definitely confident that you will be amazed. As my friend was telling me, "the more you know about Usana, the more you will love the company"..

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