Is Direct Sales Difficult?

Hey Everybody,

I came up with this article after coming across speech given by a direct seller/mlm network marketing team mate in Canada at a local meeting that was asked to speak on how direct sales compares to working a “regular” job. We have edited it to share with you as you embark on a brand new opportunity to count the many blessings we have in this business.

 



Lately, I have heard so many people say how difficult direct sales/network marketing is. “It’s too hard.” “I can’t get customers/prospects/team mates.” “This just isn’t for me.” “I didn’t know how difficult it would be.”

Well jeez and I thought I had challenges sometimes, I have felt so empowered since I sat and listened to a single mom of three who, before joining our direct sales family, held down two jobs. She would get up at 4:00 in the morning and not get to bed until midnight most nights. After returning from a part-time retail job before doing mlm/internet network marketing , this woman was packing lunches, checking homework and relieving babysitters and her mother, who helped out with the kids and so on and so on.
Now That, My Friends, Is Difficult!

It is always difficult having to lower your dreams to meet your means. It is difficult to miss your son’s football game because you have to work. It is difficult knowing the rust bucket you call your car is eating you alive in maintenance, but you can’t afford a new one. It is difficult to realize that someone else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son say mama to the preschool teacher.
It is difficult knowing that you have spent 40 years of your life working for someone else, only to realize that you will be retiring on one-third of what you can barely live on today. Or, worse yet, it is difficult knowing that you have diligently worked all your life, only to be given an early retirement and be replaced by someone younger, more capable or by a machine.
I will tell you what is difficult. It is difficult waking up one morning and realizing that your children, the most precious things imaginable, no longer need bottles, diapers, have tea parties, or are shorter than the baseball bat they are trying to swing. It is difficult realizing it is too late and that the time frittered away can never be retrieved. It slips through our fingers one second at a time.
It is also difficult watching the spark in your partner’s eyes fade because both of you realize the house you have been wanting is just a dream because someone or something else is controlling your finances.
We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastination and skirting important things, rather than facing the issues. Too often we allow others who do not pay our bills, who do not share our dreams, to direct our futures and steal our dreams, hopes and desires.
As children we have absolutely no freedom; we rebel in our teens and scream for freedom. We reach adulthood and are finally free, only to relinquish that freedom because we think it is too difficult. We do not want to take responsibility. We do not want to make a wrong decision, so we obligingly give that awesome power to someone else rather than using it to empower ourselves and our network marketing business. We wake up too late. We hear ourselves uttering phrases like: “I wish I had only…” And “If I could do it over again I would…”
You have no one yourselves to blame. You’ve had the chance. Perhaps the Opportunity was presented many times and each time you elevated the trivial to a higher priority than yourself, and comprise the things you know you should be doing.
Let me ask you: Is direct sales really difficult? Is it really that hard to be successful and have the right frame of mind and priorities in your life?
Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting product or idea in a way that’s interesting, prioritized and intriguing? Is it so difficult to understand that if you work this marketing idea for three to five years, you just might finally be able to send your children to a college chosen by excellence, rather than one chosen by price? That you could finally put your family in the home of their dreams, finally start taking those vacations?
Would you work really hard for eight to ten years, so you could mold a lifestyle of your choosing, so your family could live a lifestyle of their dreams, rather than trying to live how someone else thinks you should live? Did you know it’s a FACT 90% of people, myself included that stick it out in this industry and pay that kind of dues end up with 6 and 7 figure yearly incomes?

How difficult is it to pick up the phone and call people to enhance and empower the quality of their lives? How difficult is it to pack up your kit and meet some new friends? How difficult is it, really, to share what you love with others? Think about it.
Realize the awesome power you have in your hands, in your heart and in your mind even just with with direct sales, mlm/network marketing, wether it be in Canada The United States, The Phillipines, Guyana, Africa, Germany, Wherever.. There are people out there working three jobs. There are people drowning in debt; or agonizing through bankruptcy or on their second maybe even third mortage, realizing they only needed a couple hundred more dollars per month planted fruitfully. That is difficult!!
Thats why I love this industry. It a business where you have the chosen ability to change lives with your skills knowledge and resources. Direct sales cannot do anything. But YOU can change lives with it and what you learn doing mlm netorking with people in Canada The U.S and all over the world. You are the one with the life-changing ability and service. What are you waiting for?
There is difficulty and pain in success, and there is difficulty and pain in failure. Difficulty and pain in success will last a short period of time but pain in failure lasts a lifetime. Which one is really more difficult?
You will pay a price for your actions and your choices.

Which choice will you make in 2011?