Jerry Clark became a Network Marketing millionaire in his mid 20′s and eventually went on to establish himself as one of the industry’s most respected coaches and trainers, producing over 100 Home Business training programs, writing for some of the most prestigious business publications; including “Success Magazine” and “Working At Home Magazine”, and speaking at the top industry events and seminars around the globe. Recently during a trip to Malaysia, Jerry Clark was conducting a live television/Internet training broadcast, sharing advice on personal development and Home Business success principles, and during the last section of the program, people were asked to call in with questions. One caller asked Jerry…


“How do I get people to treat our network marketing opportunity like a business?” Jerry gave the “standard” answer he’s given a thousand times to that type of question, and the caller was happy with the answer, but once Jerry got back to his hotel room and reflected on that question he realized that the answer he’s been giving for so long actually needs to change! In a BIG WAY!


He realized the way you REALLY get people to treat their network marketing opportunity like a business is to actually tell them NOT to treat it like a business at all! Sounds crazy, but here’s Jerry, in his own words, explaining this “crazy” idea… Why Jerry Clark Says “Stop telling people to treat Network Marketing opportunities like businesses”…



Why? Because most people in our society have never had a business, so they don’t even know what that means. Most network marketers come from an average and ordinary background. They were programmed to do what 97% of us were programmed to do: Get a good education; get a good job; work hard; be loyal and industrious; and then move up the corporate ladder so you can eventually retire with a big stack of money that’s big enough to choke a horse.


Thus, the masses are programmed to work a job, not build a business. The masses don’t have something they can relate to with personal experience when you tell them to treat it like a business. So, stop telling them that. Instead, tell them to treat it like a job.

They can understand that. Think about it. When people have a job, they get up every morning when they really don’t want to, and they go to a job they would prefer not to go to in an effort to make barely enough money to pay their bills and make a living.


It would therefore be more effective to tell them that this business requires the same type of commitment and energy that they devote towards their job; however, in network marketing, they will be working towards designing a life instead of merely making a living. More people will understand this because they have personal experience with having a job.


They can personally relate to what it takes to make a job work. And guess what? That’s exactly what it takes to make network marketing work. Success is the result of consistent execution of a daily method of operation even when you don’t want to execute.


– Original article So don’t treat it like a business. Instead, treat it like a job. When you do, you will eventually become richer than you ever imagined!  This of course makes a lot of sense. It can take time for someone who has been an employee for their entire working life to make the transition to successful entrepreneur. So having people treat their Home Business like a job in the early stages will produce much better results and stop them from becoming overwhelmed and entertaining doubts like; “I’m not cut out for this business thing”.

Over the years I've come to stop believing in goal setting. Why? Because goal setting, or at least the way most of us are trained to do it, actually gets us to be obsessed about the how of attaining our goals, rather than the passion, the vision, and the beauty of the goal itself. In short, we get obsessed with the 'means', rather than the 'end'.

And this is why so many of us wake up at the age of 40 one day, dreading going to work because we were forced to pick a career before we could legally buy a beer.

 

we are going to change the way you think about goal setting. We are going to present to you the 3 most important questions to ask yourself. If everyone asked themselves these questions at the age of 18, we believe the world would be a much happier place. But no matter how old you are, it's not too late.



3 QUESTIONS ARE -- WHAT DO YOU WISH TO EXPERIEANCE
                                   HOW DO YOU WANT TO GROW AS A PERSON
                                    WHAT DO YOU WISH TO CONTRIBUTE

I remember when i was 21years old sitting at a Leadership summit with my first MLM company - I was their with a team of over 400 people at this convention - things were looking promising for us all. I said finally, I'm going to be able to afford things, and one day buy my mom that home she always wanted. But then murphy's law came to sit right beside me, we got news that one of our friends who we all grew up with who was suppose to be at that event with us, was gunned down for being in the wrong place at the wrong time back home. I remember my up-line who was on stage accepting her award, she got the text that her brother was murdered and I watching her break down  - It was devastating for all of us - long story short 400 associates went down to zero - and so did our incomes -

3 months later , I decided to go to my company's weekly meeting - I still remember the date - it was Nov 2007 - The company flew in a guest speaker and as i was sitting in the back with my arms folded , i began to think to myself "Andrew why are you even here" I felt that it was impossible to rebuild an organization that size again , their is no more momentum , I talked to everyone i knew - everyone quit- no one's taking my calls-I started to think, that maybe network marketing was not for me -  The speaker arrived, and the first thing he said was - " 6 months from now, more than half of you wont be here- more than half of you will quit - and when you're thinking of quitting, remember this - Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."


What came to mind was that story 3 feet from gold in the book think and grow rich where the two men gave up because it was too hard to find their treasure , but all they needed to do was move 3 feet to the left and they would have found what they were looking for - Sometimes, all we need to do is move and adjust so we can keep on keeping on.

I brushed myself off- went home and rebuilt my team and that month was my BEST month, I ranked advanced and got to speak at the next company group convention received my first medal for leadership and from then on - I was sold on this industry! 

I don't know what your going through or what your facing - but I know this- you have greatness within you -  and you will never raise to your potential until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing - It was hard for me to get back into the game - but the alternative was worse.


God is not a respecter of persons, if he can do it for me, he will do it for you! 



Andrew Jones