Fear And Your MLM Home Business Opportunity
Oct 8th, 2008 by admin
Here is a fact of life that I’ve heard and read many times, phrased in a variety of ways. If you continue to do exactly what you’re doing now, your life will continue unchanged. You will simply get more of the same. If you want your life to change, you have to do something you currently aren’t doing.
This looks easy enough to comprehend, but it actually runs against common wisdom and contains more than meets the eye.
Notice the implication that you yourself are the reason why your life is the way it is, and that you are the only one who can do something about it. Most people believe that their external circumstances dictate their lives. They resign themselves to their “lot in life” and do a lot of criticizing of other people, especially those who are willing to pursue something better.
But what about the people – and perhaps you fall into this group – who really are willing to take their lives into their own hands and strive to bring about desired changes. Why does it remain so hard, even after you’ve taken the crucial step of taking responsibility for your own circumstances?
It’s that little problem of doing something you currently aren’t doing, isn’t it? In the first place, you’re not quite sure what that something is. Maybe you’ve decided it’s an MLM home business. Now you’re not sure which one. Or maybe you’ve picked one, but you’re not sure how to get started. Then your sponsor gives you a plan of attack. You look at it and promptly say to yourself, “I can’t do that.”
Uncertainty, more uncertainty, and finally just plain fear. Fear of other people. Fear of inadequacy. Fear of failure.
What do many people revert to at this point? More of the same, of course, because it’s easier on the surface than facing all those fears, especially failure. Then they tell themselves that they don’t have the right personality for it, don’t come from the right family, don’t have the right schooling, etc. That is to say, they go back to blaming their circumstances. It’s a vicious cycle, leading round and round to what Thoreau calls a life of quiet desperation.
Is there a way out? We’ll have to dig a bit deeper into the reality of fear to give ourselves an honest answer to that question. I promise a sequel to this post.
