The last few weeks have been a wild ride for a huge portion of the United States. Hurricane Ike not only caused massive destruction in Texas and the Gulf Coast, it reached all the way into the Ohio valley leaving over 2 Million people without power for days. Not to mention, we had the biggest stock market dive since 9/11 leaving millions more wondering if the money in their bank account is safe.
Is there anything we can learn from this as marketers and individuals?
You bet!
Life is good at throwing us curve-balls – especially when it comes to making a change in our life. It takes more energy to make a change than it does to stay the same so it’s easier to get knocked off course by external events or even our own loss of motivation.
They key to making sure you don’t lose your momentum in the face of natural and man-made obstacles is to have a contingency plan.
Motivation experts and top success coaches say that people who have backup plans have a greater chance of reaching their goal than those who don’t. They don’t lose momentum because they have already figured out what they will do if “Plan A” doesn’t work out.
In fact, the most successful people and companies are those who not only have a “Plan B” but also a “Plan C” and “Plan D.”
The key though isn’t to jump to the next plan without sufficient reason.
Too many people in network marketing move from one system to the next system or from one company to the next without ever giving themselves any real chance at success.
I have met and wroked with many marketers that are proud to tell me they have been in network marketing
for 10, 20 even 30 years. Yet in all that time they have never achieved the success they talk about.
The reality is that working a plan is not the same as trying a plan – or even just thinking about it.
Working a plan means starting from a realistic and achievable path and tracking your actions (alongwith results) with great care using a proven tracking method like we teach on the Free to Relax Team.
Tracking reveals where things are going right and where things are going wrong. It’s this “real data” that allows you then to troubleshoot and retool your plan. This is what I was taught by a past mentor in Leader’s Club and what I share and train about today. Tracking helps marketers plan out an ongoing contingency plan based on their own personal results – not hypothetical results, not results from someone else 2 years ago, not results based on dishonest representation of a single above average marketer.
So what are your contingency plans?
What are you going to do about your business and personal goals when the power goes out or your house gets flooded?
What is your Plan B or Plan C if your ads don’t produce the number of prospects you hoped for or you don’t find any customers?
When it comes to helping Network Marketers make successful plans no other training program comes close to teaching others how to track and why it’s so important for their success. Having a plan, based on REAL DATA means you never need to make excuses or worse, blame others.
