Just read LL 21 and was amazed that Rebecca was once where I am now with network marketing... people who come into my business and who somehow do nothing. I figured I needed to start with me and change the way I think, to then attract different kinds of people into my business. At least that is how I see it.

I have been doing this (and am grateful for the opportunity lol) but am struggling with disillusionment, yet I know I am supposed to carry on 'filling my current place' in the certain way so that the universe will bring about changes through the appropriate channels, which may or may not come through what I am doing now.

Does anyone else in SOGR have similar experiences with their own businesses, be they network marketing or otherwise?

I know the best way to overcome disillusionment is through gratitude for everything, I am working on it, but hearing other people's experiences can be really enlightening... so I look forward to comments!

I am grateful for everyone and their wonderful postings!

BlessedSinger

quote:

I know the best way to overcome disillusionment is through gratitude for everything, I am working on it, but hearing other people's experiences can be really enlightening... so I look forward to comments

Hi Blessed Singer,

If you've been reading in the forum for a while I'm sure you've heard that recognition is one of the first steps toward creating change. Well, when it comes to feelings like disillusionment the first thing to recognize is that you're not feeling that way because of how things are, you're feeling that way because of the story you're telling yourself about the way things are. You are, essentially, projecting the past into the future.

In the past your business hasn't grown as much as you'd hoped or expected. That may be what is true up till now, but disillusionment comes in when we begin to believe that the results I have now are how it will always be and that may or may not be true. What we do know, however, is that if you dwell on what you don't want you feel crummy and if you dwell on what you do want you'll feel grand... and... most likely, receive much grander results.

To turn this around let the feeling of disillusionment remind you to shift you're thinking. Let it remind you that it's time to change your mind.

I have to do this in my business all the time. I'm in a commissioned sales business and I only get paid when sales are made. I begin each day, month, and year with a picture in mind of what I desire to see happen. Like most sales industries I'm in one that's cyclic. Sometimes I'm busy as heck and sometimes I have time to watch the paint peel.

When I enter into a period of slowdown I put my mind to work by deciding what's the most productive thing I can do this moment. I don't worry or talk about how slow things are. I hold inside a notion that any moment an opportunity will present itself and I'll get another client happily involved in my product. I think how great that will be for both of us. Then I go back to work doing what needs to be done now.

In the end business is always good. For the past 5-years I've consistantly been a top producer for our firm.

Blessings,
Bob