I’ve seen it again and again with people in network marketing:

You will quit if you don’t know your “WHY.”

When you come on a stumbling block, maybe it’s a negative in-law or something, and you have a 71% WHY, but you hit a 72% impediment, you’re done. You are toast.

But when you have a “kick-butt” WHY out in front of you, you will never, never quit.

A new business is always a risk. People risk to avoid pain, or to achieve pleasure. Answering these questions may help you find your “WHY”.

• What gets you REALLY excited?
• How many hours a week do you work?
• What do you LOVE about your job?
• What do you HATE about your job?
• What do you do with your free time?
• If you had 2 months vacation and all the money you wanted, what would you do?
• How do you like the people you work with?
• What problem scares you to death that more money could solve?
• What do you just absolutely HATE about your life that more money could solve?
• If you had all the money you needed, what HUGE problem would go away?
• If you had all the TIME in the world to do anything you wanted, what would you do?
• Other than money, what are you looking for?

Here’s a starting point.

The #1 reason I am in this business, that I’m here on this planet, is because I LOVE my family.

I want to spend more quality time with each of them. People say, “Michael, that’s nuts. You work full-time in network marketing, you work at home. You’re already right there.”

Yes. BUT … I treat business as business. When I’m in the office, I’m in the office. Same as if my office was 20 miles away.

But that lets me have that time I cherish with my wife Linda, my son Matthew, and my daughter Amanda.

I realize that many husbands and fathers rarely or never get the chance to do the things they want with their families because of the demands on their time from simply earning a living. Or, they don’t have the money.

For me, the rewards of MLM have allowed me to build the relationships I cherish.

Linda & I talk a LOT. It may be serious business conversation when we’re out to dinner, or simple, crazy, “laugh-to-tears” talks late at night. We love to drive on the beach at Daytona, or go snorkeling at Looe Key.

Matthew & I ride motorcycles & go scuba diving. We talk about business & computers, engines & race cars. Sometimes he even wants advice!

Amanda has a T Top Camero with a “scoop” on the hood. I taught her how to change her oil & service it. We have long talks in the boat out on the water or after watching a movie together. I love to hug her at the end of the day.

Life is good when you get to do the things that make life really worthwhile.

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Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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Your friends & family love you. And they want to save you from this bad thing called MLM … and they know nothing about it. Here’s my belief: Go build your business.

• Talk to like-minded people.
• Target your market.
• Build your business.
• Get into positive cash.
• Get your car allowance, whatever your company offers …

… and your family will still be there. Go talk to them after you already have built a positive cash flow.

Or talk to them about your products. Maybe you have awesome products they can buy from your website. Do that.

But do NOT talk to friends & family about a business! Don’t do it.

Here’s what’s magical. When you’re in positive cash, you walk differently. You talk differently. You have this attitude, this positive-ness. And your friends & family will want a part of that. They cannot tell you, “This doesn’t work” when it’s working. You’re driving your new bonus car, or you won a company-paid trip to Italy, how can they tell you it doesn’t work?

To be long-term successful, you will need a marketing system anyway. You will have to be able to tap into the cold market anyway. So you may as well go ahead and set that up first. Get that working, get successful, and then your friends & family will fall in line.

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Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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When you target people who don’t know anything about MLM, you’ll spend all your time trying to build them a dream, trying to convince them, trying to get them to believe the way you believe.

It’s kind of like religion. Let’s say you’re a Baptist and I’m a Catholic, and you want to convert me. Well, good luck! Why try to convert somebody? Just go find somebody who’s already in your religion, and talk to those people.

Otherwise, you’ll spend all your time trying to motivate somebody, trying to get them to have a dream … rather than building your business. When you work with people who don’t already understand MLM, there’s a good chance they’ll head down the road the wrong way. Often they’ve heard bad things, and that’s all they’ll focus on.

And so you spend ALL your time trying to change that person’s mind. It’s a waste of time. What you need to do is find somebody who already has the dream. Your life will go a lot easier.

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Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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Are you so desperate you’ll recruit anybody who can fog a mirror?

First, your prospects can smell desperation. You can’t hide it from them, and the good ones will avoid you like the plague.

Second, network marketing is about relationships, not selling. People feel it when you treat them as a number. When you have to build that dream for somebody all by yourself, with very limited help from them, you will spend ALL your time trying to build them a dream.

Be selective about who you want in your business. My mentor, Tom “Big Al” Schreiter, once told me never to sign up someone unless it was a person who I’d want to go on a one-month cruise with. THAT is a very good standard for you. Keep that benchmark in mind each time you talk to prospects. Then you’ll recruit the right people.

Nothing drains your energy faster than trying to help an unmotivated person build a business. Life is just too short to waste all that effort.

We Appreciate You!
Michael & Linda Dlouhy
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“Be A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart!”