How Will You Make Your Network Business A Success This Year? Post 2 in the series

Why?

Why are you doing what you are doing? Let’s face it, most likely if you are starting or building a business in networking, than you are probably working in another job or have other day-to-day commitments to contend with on top of building your business.

Unlike a traditional business, where you put in a huge up-front investment in order to create a fulltime replacement for a job with someone else, most networkers do their normal day activities and then, in their spare time, take on building what many call their “freedom” business.

That means that in those times where the normal population is, say, watching TV, going out to activities and running on treadmills, you are out there talking to people about products, about dreams and about opportunity. Well, you will be if you are actively building a business to the point where you have a permanent, and passive, income being generated by your networking business.

I guess you just didn’t jump out of bed one day and shout to the world that you wanted to work 8 to 10 hours a day in your normal job and another 3 to 4 hours a day building a business – just because!

No, I suspect that someone sold you a dream.

A dream that by building the business you are in, with the company you are with, you would receive enough income to do the things that are important to you. You found a reason to do something normal people would reject.

What was that reason?

The purpose of asking that question at this time of the year is that I’ve found that, whether it be in a traditional business or a networking business, in the busy-ness of life, or after a year where the results maybe didn’t reflect what you set out to achieve, we easily forget why we set out to do the things we are doing. And it is important to know why! Because without a why, there is no reason to do the extra-ordinary things we do. And that is when people give up.

Also it’s important to ask that question because, like many things in life, things change. Circumstances change. People change. Relationships change. Needs change. Health changes. Jobs, careers, prospects change.

By reviewing your reason why you are giving yourself an opportunity to renew your relationship with that reason why or create a new sense of destiny by not clinging to an out-dated motivation.

So, early on in the year, what is your why for 2012?

Make A Difference – TODAY!

Colin

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