Wow, I just received this recently from one of my top producers and it sent chills down my spine. Recruit up and you will find people like these in your downline. Enjoy and let this motivate you that there ARE people out there that think like this that can take your business to a whole new level.
The following is by Richard Pamplin – www.ElectricBreakthrough.com
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Ecclesiastes 10:15
“Fools are so exhausted by a little work that they can’t even find their way home.”
How many times have we all seen someone sign up for our business so excited they are on the verge of song – only to squander their opportunity and waste your time and theirs? I know from long years of personal experience how frustrating this can be.
The Reality – And The Power – Of The Numbers
As you begin to build your business, you will see that for every 10 or 20 people you talk to, one or two may be motivated enough to change their life and enroll into your business.
And for every ten to twenty people who actually enroll into your business (that means talking to at least 100 people for two minutes each = 200 minutes = an average of just three hours invested into your business), only one or two will ever engage and commit themselves to the journey.
Believe it or not, these are considered outstanding numbers, and they will surely make you rich, should you yourself engage and commit to the journey and stay the course.
Remember, it only takes ONE person who is totally committed to the process heart and soul, no matter what – to make both themselves and YOU filthy, stinking rich.
Quite a thought isn’t it?
Just one.
What if it took you six months to find such a person? A year? Would it be worth it to you? Will your current job make you filthy stinking rich in the next year?
It only takes ONE.
I have learned enough to know that the vast majority of people will, no matter how fantastic the opportunity is, fail to put aside their fears, excuses and self-importance, to actually engage in the business and produce results. The excuses are endless…
I’m too scared
I’m too tired
I’m too busy
I’m too famous
No one knows who I am
I don’t know anybody
I’m too infamous
I’m too good for this
I’m not good enough for this
I deserve more than this
I don’t deserve this
I’m to confused
I don’t know enough about the comp plan, the product, the company…
yadda, yadda, and more yadda…
To a successful person, hearing these excuses is akin to listening to someone scratching their long, craggy fingernails down a chalkboard. It’s highly irritating, has no redeeming characteristics and is completely unnecessary.
We have all heard people give us these excuses before – all the lame “reasons” why this will never work for them – and perhaps, if we’re honest, we have given the same excuses why we cannot succeed to ourselves?
I know I have been guilty of this inexcusable behavior before. But it wasn’t until I began to take personal stock – and personal responsibility – to follow my mentor’s example and engage and commit myself totally to the process of building MY business, vowing to take on the bad and the good with equal commitment no matter what – and followed through with that commitment… that I began to see remarkable results in my business and income.
It really all comes down to one thing…
HOW HUNGRY ARE YOU?
I mean really. Think about it. How completely, totally, desperately, ravenously hungry are you for change in your life?
Are you really hungry? Or just in love with the IDEA of bring hungry? In love with the IDEA of success. You see most people are in a one-sided romance with success.
They dream about it, think about it, fantasize about it…and yet do nothing to bring it about. Has this been anyone you know? Has this per chance been YOU?
There’s GOOD news and BAD news…
First The GOOD News
The good news…in fact the fantastic news…is that you can CHANGE this in your life right here, right now – by making a decision to CHANGE your destructive financial behavior and committing to that change for the long haul.
You don’t need to think about it. You don’t need to ponder it. You don’t need to pray about it (I already prayed for you and God said it was OK!). You don’t need to ask anyone about it.
Now, The BAD News
If you fail to change your thinking, and therefore your actions, you will continue to produce the same results in your life. Is that good news?
Anyone who doesn’t recognize their need for personal change doesn’t belong in any business – period.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “GIVING IT A TRY”!
THERE IS ONLY TOTAL COMMITMENT!
So what do you tell someone who wants to sign up in your business and says to you, “Ill just give it a try for awhile and see if this works…”?
Here’s what you should tell them…
If you plan on just, “Giving it all a try for awhile”, don’t bother! Please don’t waste my time or yours. Stay home, watch The Simpsons, Dancing With The Stars, American Idol and Dog The Bounty Hunter, and stay on your couch broke, struggling, in debt and comfortably miserable.
Because that’s the choice you’re making if you decide to “Give it all a try for awhile”! There is no commitment whatsoever in Giving anything a “try”!
And in the absence of commitment, there can only be one result:
Absolute failure.
It’s Time To Examine Yourself And Your Motives
I will ask you again. Are you hungry? Really, Truly Hungry?
Are you hungry and committed enough…
To accept the inevitable rejection you will face?
To accept occasional ridicule from uninformed minds as you build success in your business?
To treat your business as a business, investing a generous amount of your TIME, EFFORT, FINANCES, DEVOTION AND ENERGY to build permanent wealth?
To run the race all the way to the finish line without quitting?
To completely finish what you begin?
To love others enough to lead them out of their struggle and into a new life?
To work like there is no tomorrow to secure your family’s future and the futures of countless others?
To do whatever It takes to cross the finish line, never again to look back on financial hardship and uncertainty?
Don’t answer “YES!” without carefully examining your motives and willingness to engage and commit to the journey.
And What’s On The Other Side Of All This Hard Work
And Commitment?
Freedom.
Sweet, total, complete freedom.
What kind of freedom?
Freedom from debt.
Freedom from financial uncertainty.
Freedom from anxiety.
Freedom from insomnia.
Freedom from stress.
Freedom to live in peace.
Freedom to have all bills paid and all debts eliminated forever.
Freedom to pursue adventures you have dreamed about.
Freedom to spend your TIME as you see fit, with those you love most until the day you die.
Now THAT’S a journey worth totally engaging and committing to.
I hope you agree.
Most people, regardless of our attempts to move them, will choose to ignore the call of the leader and choose instead to remain on the sidelines where it is more comfortable – miserable but comfortable.
So be it.
How will you choose? The decision is before you now. Not tomorrow, or a month from today. Now.
Are you hungry for a change? Really, truly hungry? I will close with this short version of a story once told to me by my mentor.
There was once a poor man who, like most other people around him, lived in mediocrity and financial struggle. Day after day, year in and year out, he lived paycheck to paycheck, hand to mouth, and always worried about his present and future.
One day he became so fed up with his circumstances, that he decided it was high-time for a change. He had heard the stories of a wise sage who lived on the highest hilltop by a sparkling river, and was said to be the wealthiest and happiest person in the land.
It was also said that this wise sage possessed all the secrets of success and that he was willing to share them with anyone who would listen – but rarely did anyone venture up the hill to bother speaking with him.
And so the poor man ventured up the hill in search of the wise sage. Upon arriving at the sage’s house, he introduced himself and got right down to business. “Wise sage”, he asked, “what is the ultimate secret of success?”
Without a word the wise sage rose and began walking to the river, saying, “Follow me”. And so the man did.
At the river’s edge, the wise sage said, “Here is the secret of ultimate success and happiness”. Puzzled, the man said, “I don’t understand. The river is the secret?” “Move closer”, the sage told the man, “right up to the very edge of the river’s bank and peer closely into the waters”.
Still not sure what this was all about, but willing to try, the man complied. As he placed his face just above the water’s surface he suddenly felt the sage’s hand around the back of his neck, thrusting the man’s head under the water!
For long seconds, the sage held the man’s head under the water, as the man struggled brutally but in vain. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the sage released his grip and the man, out of air and about to drown, came blasting to the surface gasping in as much precious oxygen as he could.
After a few minutes, the man regained his composure and leered at the sage in disbelief. “Why would you do such a thing to me? I came to you for help and advice and all you did was try to kill me!”
“Not everything is as it seems”, said the wise sage.
“Answer me this question – When you were under the water struggling for your very survival, for your very life – what were you thinking about? Were you thinking about how cold the water was? Why I was doing this to you? How many fish were in the river? What you would have for dinner tomorrow? How busy your life was?” Tell me.”
“The man said, “No I didn’t think about any of those things. All I could think about was getting air! All I could think about was breathing again. I wanted oxygen more than I wanted anything else in the whole world”, said the man.
“And would you have fought to the death to gain that end” asked the sage?
“Of course I would have”, said the man.
“Very good”, said the sage. “When you want your life to change as badly as you want air to breathe…as badly as you want your very life…then you will have it.”
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So what is the lesson?
That when you finally get angry enough about your present circumstances to finally do something about them… when you want change more then you want to breathe…more than you want to go on living…you will have it.
And nothing and no one will stop you.
How hungry are you?
Who am I to say all of this to you?
I am Richard Pamplin.
And I am hungry. I am Ravenous. I Crave change like I crave air. Like I crave my very life. I will run the race until it is finished. I care not how many injuries I will suffer along the path. I will crush my fears beneath my feet. I will laugh at my detractors, knowing it is they not I, who are foolish and unwise. I will overcome all obstacles set before me. I will have my freedom or die.
And I will not be denied.
So who are you?
May God Bless you, and Always Keep You Moving Forward!
Richard Pamplin
210-854-4289
www.ElectricBreakthrough.com