"Anne, you don't understand..I've had a bad experience...." Yes, when it comes to failing in MLM, I think I do understand.
Dave and I are just ordinary people. And when we got married 24 years ago, we had boatloads of dreams. We were going to be different than the norm. We were going to be financially independent so we wouldn't have to rely on a job. We wanted to have choices and not do the usual 9-5 for our entire lives. When we got married, we were already in our first network marketing company. In fact the first 16 years of our marriage we were in 6 different businesses, with Amway/Quixtar/Team in Focus taking up at least 12 of those years and over $40,000 in 'investment.' All the companies we joined are still around today and have good products. And I won't put any of them down, I don't think the company was to fault for our lack of success.
But as often happens, as you start up a family and get a house and cars, those early hopes and dreams start to fade. Being a single income family was not easy. We scrimped and saved. We drove old, paid for cars and fixed up houses that no one else really wanted. And we made do. And finally we gave up on our dreams.
And I don't know if you've gone through that, but for me, it felt like someone stuck a blunt object in my chest. I remember the day when Dave and I admitted to ourselves that our hopes and dreams would never happen. And that we needed to get out of our "Quixtar debt" and live like 95% of the population does. Day to day. No more dreams. And I almost felt physically ill and trapped when we decided to quit dreaming.
But over time we got conditioned to it. But then I found myself squashing my children's dreams. They would tell me what they wanted to do when they grew up or places they wanted to go and I couldn't "play" along anymore. My oldest boy would talk about learning how to fly a plane and I would tell him, "I wish that was possible, but you know we'll never have the money for that." I feel terrible now but how can I instill dreams in someone else, if I have none myself?
So...why/how...are we becoming successful with Beachbody when we couldn't do it with 6 other big companies?
I don't know..maybe I just wasn't passionate about taking chunks of old toilet tanks out of the dump and showing people how to get the lime off with this amazing product. Sure, I did have my glory days as an Quixtar distributor..my family and best friend called me 'the stain queen' because I could get most stains out of anything! That was exciting. :) But I couldn't sell anything. They just brought the items to me to get the stains out! You know, I couldn't even sell girl scout cookies when I was young. I'm not a salesperson.
Team Beachbody is just different. I see people with real life transformations every day now. I get phone calls from people who never had success with weight loss before and had given up on ever feeling good again. Beachbody's workout programs are second to none. Shakeology literally is the healthiest meal of the day with 70 ultra healthy ingredients from around the world.
We are making a difference in our physical and financial health with Beachbody. And it boils down to persistence and not giving up. That's it. This time we aren't giving up. We've got something that NO other company out there even comes close to having and we know it. And we are passionate about that. We are done working for somebody's else's dreams.
Are you willing to work as hard for your dreams as you are for your boss' dreams?
In this together,
Anne
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