Is Referral Marketing Difficult?

Difficult! Is Network Marketing Difficult? It is difficult when you must produce a report on a Sunday afternoon and cannot attend your son's baseball game.

It is difficult hearing the mobile phone ring on Christmas morning and you cannot see the excitement on your daughter's face as she feverishly tears into another box.

It is difficult knowing the rust bucket you call a car is eating you alive in maintenance but you cannot afford a new one.

It is difficult to go to your annual performance review, and even though you have worked hard for another year, you come away empty handed.

It is difficult always lowering your dreams to meet your means.

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 cannot live on today.

It is difficult knowing that the fish are biting this week and you cannot drop what you are doing and take your dad fishing.

It is 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 else is controlling your finances.

It is difficult dropping your one year old at the nursery because you have to be at work by 9am to stand by the copy machine or handle irate phone calls and realize someone else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son say "dada" to the daycare helper.

It is difficult knowing that you have diligently worked hard only to be given an early retirement.

I will tell you what is difficult. It is real difficult realizing it is too late and that time frittered away can never be retrieved. It slips through our fingers one second at a time.

What are we doing with it? We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastinating 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 future.

Is network marketing really difficult? Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting product or idea? Is it so difficult to understand that if you work this marketing idea for a couple of years you might not have to confront some nasty options?

Would you work real hard for a year or two so you could put your family in the home of their dreams? Would you work real hard for a year or two so you could send your children to college chosen by excellence rather than one chosen by price, the same criteria you used for clothes shopping?

Would you turn off the idiot box, the soaps, the talk shows, sporting events or Desperate Housewives for a year so you could take dream vacations several times a year?

Would you apply yourself for a year or two so you would have the freedom of being able to roll over, yank the covers over your head and wake at the crack of noon because you wanted to?

Would you work really hard for a couple of years to 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?

Realize the awesome power you have in your hands with network marketing. The business you have chosen has the ability to change lives.

It cannot do anything. But you can change lives with it.

You are the one with the life changing ability. What are you waiting for? What will it take? You will pay a price for your actions. Which one do you choose to pay?

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