In fact, success is a balance of all three things. You will find it easier to DO business when people know you, like you, and trust you. And of course, it is nearly impossible to make much money if you are closed-minded and unwilling to learn. Can you see that the three things are inter-related?

When you have made money, earned respect, and learned quite a bit about business, you become the kind of person from whom others want to learn. Inevitably, people turn to you for advice because they recognize success.

When that happens, when people turn to YOU, it is a sign of at least some business success! You have, perhaps without deliberation, branded yourself as someone who can help.

It's good when people seek a particular company's product or service and then turn to you because you happen to sell that product. But if the sale is made and later the company you represent goes out of business (it has happened to many network marketers!), your business is severely jeopardized. Your focus should always be to convert people to you, to your brand. This is not the same as converting people away from any loyalty they may have to the network marketing company you represent. You do not attract people to yourself while you are dissing others. So when people come to you because of the company or product you represent, it can become the start of a relationship where the person knows, likes, and trusts you. An opportunity to sell yourself.

YOU are your business. That view should impact three key components of your business: Your learning, your attitude, and your actions.

Learning: You should always be in a position of learning and training. In the beginning your learning will be fairly directed by one person, ideally your upline leader, in order to get immediate benefit to your growth. Over time, you will need to learn more things and will look to additional trainers and mentors. In the beginning, you will do little to no training, but this will change fairly quickly. After time, training and mentoring will become a primary responsibility. A sign of your successful branding of yourself is when others seek you out as a consultant/mentor with something to offer others.

Attitude: Two deeply felt attitudes must coexist. The first is a healthy view of yourself and of your responsibility for your own business. The second is a healthy attitude for the value and success of other people. Your attitude is revealed by what you do and say. When people see a genuine smile, when they hear you give credit to others who are not present, when they receive a referral that helps their own business or information that helps them in some other way - then you are attracting people to your brand, to yourself.

Actions: You cannot grow a business without communicating with people! If you are not (1) meeting new people, (2) getting and following up referrals, or (3) obtaining and following up your own leads -- you will never be successful. All of the learning, along with the best attitude toward yourself and others is useless without action! But you know that.

If you are not doing the tasks that you have learned, you must take stock of the reasons as best you can. Some possible culprits:

• Fear of failure or of embarrassment.
• Not believing in or liking oneself.
• Not liking the company of others; more of a loner.
• Not believing or liking or trusting the company or upline.
• Poor time management; not practiced in following a schedule of priorities.
• A one-track-minder; totally absorbed and focused on good things to the exclusion of finding, meeting, and communicating with other people.
• Easily distracted by both trivial matters as well as urgent matters.
• Liking pleasures (television, books, hiking, cooking, etc) more than working.

So what is YOUR idea of success? Define it. Then take responsibility for your learning, your attitude, and your actions. If you do those three things, you can be successful.

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