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THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO NETWORK MARKETING
and CDs and seminars became very helpful to him once he found his direction and once he committed to his path.
LET YOUR PASSION BECOME YOUR CHAUFFEUR What drives you is more important than what you want. Way more. In fact, what you want out of life has very little to do with what you get out of life. Wishes come and go like the seasons of the year. What you want now blooms in the spring and falls off the trees in the fall. In contrast, your passions drive your expectations and your expectations drive your life. So what if you want to become a network marketing rock star. Who doesn’t? If that was all there was to it, all networkers would be rock stars. We become slaves to our expectations. When we expect something to happen, our entire physical being changes to brace for the jolt. We simply begin to act and perform differently when we expect something good or bad to happen. Your expectations are your windows into your future. When you expect something bad to happen, you prepare for it by feeling bad, shutting down physically, and boarding up the windows to your soul. Then, like you expected, it happens and it’s bad. When you expect something great to happen, you get excited, you perform at the top of your game, and you open up to the possibilities. Then, like you expected, it happens and it’s great! How do you control whether your expectations are good or bad? Easy—follow your passions. Your passions drive your expectations. I’m letting you in on this little-known and seldom-practiced secret so you don’t have to spend all that time and money on your trip to Tibet. If you’re passionate about helping humanity and you can do it through your network marketing opportunity, fantastic. If you’re passionate about helping others succeed beyond their wildest dreams and you can do it through your networking opportunity, let that drive you. It doesn’t matter what your passions are, pursue them passionately and you will become a slave to your expectations. You simply won’t lose.
EXPECTATIONS DON’T LIKE TO DRIVE BEAT-UP 1984 FORD ESCORTS In 1993, I had been involved in network marketing for almost 20 years. I was earning about $1,500 per month between my two occupations—one as a fulltime network marketer and the other working part-time in a factory to supplement my network marketing career and pay the bills. Somehow I never