You, And Only You, Can Prevent Your Own Success

Wouldn’t it be nice to always be able to blame our lack of succeeding on others? We could try and do anything without worrying about how or why we failed. Maybe it would make us more courageous, but most likely it would end up hurting us, as we wouldn’t learn from our failures.

Remember those days when you were so easily controlled or manipulated by others? There’s no denying it as much as we want to. You at times had no choice in the matter when your parents, teacher, coach or elder family members told you to do something. The great thing about it is if something went wrong then we could sometimes blame it on those telling us what to do.

Taking Responsibility

When we became adults, not only did those days disappear, but along with it came responsibility. The kind of responsibility that we are eased into throughout our childhood, that as we grow older, steadily increases.

Now you can no longer say that “it didn’t work because my mom told me to do it.” As ridiculous as that sounds coming from an adult, there are so many people that are ready to place the lack of their success on someone else.

Be Accountable

Your success starts with you and no one else. As an entrepreneur, and Network Marketer, this should especially hold true. If you’ve joined a company and your sponsor hasn’t reached out to you, then take the initiative to contact them. If you feel that you haven’t been coached enough from your upline, then take the initiative to do something about it. Your upline doesn’t have to be the one that coaches you.

If you can’t sell a health shake, body wrap, purse, jewelry or some soda bread, but someone can, then don’t blame the product or the company, take responsibility for your own actions.

Too often people just give up and quite, because they feel like someone or something else isn’t living up to what they expect. Having a victim mentally will always stunt our growth because we will never see the errors of our ways because of it.

Being Successful

If there’s anything that I've said that you should take from this is this; being successful means that you’ve taken responsibility for what has failed in your business or in life, and have learned, and changed into something that has worked. It means that you have taken ownership of it, and haven’t given up before finding something that does work.

Don’t mistake your lack of commitment for a lack of support. If you give up because of something as simple as not being contacted by your upline, then most likely you were never serious about being successful in the business anyway.

There’s certain things that you must bring to the table to be a good Network Marketer. Passion, desire, motivation and confidence to name a few off the top of my head. Note, that these are all traits that you must possess or learn to, and that no other marketer is responsible to provide to you. Besides the opportunity, whatever else it is that you need to succeed is also your responsibility, and should not be expected from others.

You, and only you, are responsible for your success.

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