I spent some quality time with Mariela tonight watching a movie I had not seen yet.  “How to Succeed in Business without really trying,” and it got me to thinking about network and internet marketing.  Is it the whole bailout mentality? Or what my mentor calls the welfare mentality?  I mean, how is something for nothing really even possible?  Are we seeing the shifting and rearranging of the corporate business models due to the behavior that they drive in the field or is it because of the greed and ego of the top executives?

So if you get a little time to watch the movie, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” I highly recommend it.  It’s a well-rounded, fun musical about the foibles of the long gone days of the corporate world of big business.  It did give me the inspirational push to break through some attitudes that have been keeping me at a bit of a stand still in my network marketing business.

I recently was blessed with a suggestion to watch an interview with Frank Kern, John Reese, and Anthony Robbins.  And the interview took me back to a time in my life where I had to make the decision to live or die.  And this interview talked about following through and why some people do manage to be successful yet most don’t.  In my particular case it was when I sobered up from drug addiction and alcoholism.

But the best thing that I gleened from the interview is that I have been led by either positive or negative emotions into following my dreams of being a motivational speaker.  The negative emotions led me to a career that served me well for many reasons for many years and that is new and remodel construction.  I recently had to let go of this field to pursue my dreams-not easy to acknowledge all of the reasons why I took up the career in the first place.

But the interview, my decision about following my dreams, and taking the necessary steps to achieve them led me to an underlying feeling I had associated with my choice of becoming a professional network marketer.  I remember the first time I publicly acknowledged being sexually molested as a child, and all the feelings associated with it.  I recently found that I had those same feelings around telling friends, colleagues, and former business associates about making the change from construction to network marketing.  I have found that this was my break through point in alot of ways and am grateful to have a team, a mastermind group, a loving woman, and God to take me into a new and exciting world.

I can’t bring myself to ignore this for the accumulation of money. And the truth is that I wouldn’t want to be without the satisfaction that I provided the world with the necessary contributions to acquire it. What does it mean to me at the end of the day? I’m right with God and myself. I used to spend a good deal of time caught up in the fear of criticism of others-not a good way to live life or do business. But over the years this has been replaced with a definite purpose, goals, and the understanding of the wonderful industry I will be a part of for the rest of my days. What is this going to require of me? First, it will require training in network marketing. And guess where that starts? You guessed it, with me.

To be successful I have to know a little bit about people, and if I don’t know about myself I will flounder from one affiliate scam to the next. Self-improvement leads eventually to self-confidence, or at least it better! Is that all there is to it, definitely not. Having a plan might be helpful in checking to see if you are indeed making progress. Some of this is beginning to sound like work. Hence the saying you don’t get ‘something for nothing’ I think our government is in the process of finding this out too! Yes, I had to go there too, but you know it’s progress and today that’s where I’m at.

So how does all of this affect my motivation? Definitely in a positive way. I know why I’m in this industry, why I want to be successful, and why it is I’m still alive and healthy-the most surprising of all. It’s because of the people who took the time to help me. Call it a debt of gratitude, but this is what moves me beyond the objections of family, friends, and former colleagues. This is what will push me beyond my current capabilities to realize legitimate royalty income, to say nothing of the residual income. I have never been averse to hard work, but I can say in all honesty that working on myself has been the most difficult and rewarding.

So while $652,287.47 a minute did catch my attention and seems inviting enough, at the end of the day if it doesn’t push me beyond my current capabilities it could never be worth it. Why? Because leaders don’t inspire without motivating others to become more than what they are now. And also is there the possibility for duplication? Can I mentor the people in my organization to take action to develop the leader relationship with themselves so that they can mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs? Cause network marketing is NOT a sales business, if it was then I’d be able to make $652,287.47 a minute and be able to sleep at night. The truth is it’s a people building business that takes commitment and yes, some hard work.