Well, one option is to throw a pity party. You can crawl up into a corner and cry “boo-hoo, not fair!” when your upline doesn’t give you the attention you feel you deserve.
 
And, in fact, a lot of people do. After one too many “rejections” they give up, blaming their lack of results on their sponsor (or on the company, compensation plan, system – you name it), and move on to the next shiny object. Where, of course, the process repeats itself.
 
This is not the case with up-and-coming leaders. They actively go looking for solutions. They understand that their upline has a lot on their plate, too, and that ongoing one-on-one coaching wasn’t necessarily part of the deal.
 
They don’t have an entitlement attitude, thinking that their sponsor “owes” them something. What’s more, they understand it is to their advantage to learn to be resourceful and to leverage tools both online and offline to provide them with the information they require to succeed.
 
Does this involve a bit more work than it does to pick up the phone and call your upline? Sure it does. But it is a much, much better way to learn the ropes of marketing. Become INdependent, not sponsor dependent!
 
With this in mind, here are six different ways to get your burning questions answered when your sponsor “fails” to make themselves available to you.
 
1.) Google your question. Google has a quadrillion resources available for free – and it is right there at your finger tips! A lot of the time you will find online forums where people are asking – and ANSWERING – the exact question you have! I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me…!
 
Tip: Google your question with quotation marks (” “) to get the most relevant search results, i.e. “how do I hyper link a word” rather than how do I hyperlink a word.
 
2.) You can also do a search on YouTube.com by typing in your topic or question in the YouTube search bar. There, you’ll find loads of useful video tutorials uploaded by YouTube’s own users that demonstrate, step by step, how to do pretty much anything you’d ever need to know about building a home business online.
 
3.) Post your question on Facebook in your status update. (“Hey, FB peeps, can anyone recommend a great course on Article Marketing?”)
 
4.) Use the forum in BetterNetworker.com to browse topics posted by other network marketers and to post your own questions that you need help with. Before long, I bet you someone will reach out to you!
 
(If no one does, try posting your question again – or use one of the other five suggestions listed here to get help! You get the idea: Never sit around and wait, always be proactive, and always be taking action.)
 
5.) Use the live Skype support group in My Lead System PRO (MLSP). MLSP is a community made up of network marketers from across the industry, and in the MLSP Skype group you can get help from other, more experienced networkers.
 
(Just don’t forget to reciprocate! How about leaving the person that helped you a nice comment on their blog or Facebook wall where others can see it? That will make them look good…and feel good, too!)
 
6.) Utilize the connections you have established with other networkers, inside our outside of your own company.
 
You ARE building relationships with other network marketers, right? You ARE attending live events, exchanging business cards and connecting with other like minded individuals…?
 
I sure hope so! You need other people – and they need you! (So again, don’t just be a “taker”, be a giver, too!)
 
So there you have it. As you can see, there’s no need to despair. There’s always a way to get your questions answered. And remember, even if your upline truly is a jerk and doesn’t deserve to have a gem like you on their team, if you are destined for success, nothing and no one can stop you.
 
Actually, let me correct myself: No one can stop you but YOU….
 
 
 
PS: Find out how you can attend my weekly Marking Mastery webinars right below – click “Attend my Trainings”.
 
 
 
Successfully,
 
 

 
More here:
 
Meet me on Facebook
 
Watch me on Youtube
 
Attend my Trainings
 
 
 
 
 

Setting goals is extremely important, this you already know. You’re probably already setting goals and working towards them. But are you writing down your goals and reviewing them every single day?
 
And are you allowing your subconscious to provide you with the plan you need to accomplish those goals? Or are you relying on logic and reasoning for the answers?
 
I was recently at a conference where one of the speakers talked abouot goal setting. This presenter, a self made multi-millionaire barely 30 years old, shared his own journey to success and the ups and downs he has experienced in his business since then.
 
“Those times,” he said, “where wealth has come effortlessly, where there has been practically no resistance, where I’ve just SOARED…those have been times where I’ve been crystal clear on my goals, down to the exact figures I was going to make in a specific time period, the number of customers I was going to aqcuire or the reps I was going to bring in.”
 
“But” he added. “I didn’t try to work it all out in my head how it was going to happen. I wasn’t being all analytical about it.”
 
“See, I believe that as human beings we already have the answers…our subconscious holds the answers. And when we find ourselves in the situation where we need the solution, the solution will present itself.”
 
He continued: “Whenever I’ve operated this way, I haven’t just met my goals, I’ve exceeded them…”
 
“But’, he said, “One thing is for certain. You have to know exactly where you are going to be in 90 days from now…6 months, 12 months… And anything that does not perfectly align itself with that vision and therefore does not belong in that future plan – any project, task or “opportunity” that calls for your attention – is brutally eliminated. Because it is nothing but a distraction.”
 
He added: “Success as an entrepreneur is a result of pushing through barriers, moving outside your comfort zone…doing something different so that you can achieve different results…doing that which doesn’t come naturally to you.”
 
He concluded: “Which is why you’ll never get to where you want to be by being who you are today.”
 
Hmmm, interesting isn’t it?
 
I don’t know about you but I’ve made it a habit to listen carefully when someone more accomplished than me gives advice!
 
And I’ve noticed how extremely successful people always seem to have this one thing in common: They keep a journal (or several!) where they jot down their thoughts and ideas…and, of course, their goals.
 
This is no coincidence. Successful individuals live their lives with determination and purpose. They have a plan. Yet – according to this speaker – when it all comes down to it, they trust their intuition.
 
They don’t rely only on logic and reasoning, and they don’t allow the fact that they “don’t know everything” keep them from taking action with what they DO know.
 
If this highly successful entrepreneur (who also happens to be a mentor of mine) is right, it means we need to come more out of our shells, be wiling to take calculated risks…and also, we need to learn to become better at trusting the process.
 
I don’t know what you are going to do with this information, but I can tell you that I personally – since I heard this presentation recently – have recommmited to consistent goal setting and journaling.
 
Will you join me in this radical pursuit of excellence?
 
I hope you will.
 
 
<----- SHARING IS CARING. If you think this post could benefit others, be sure to re-tweet, share or "like" it. Also, as always, feel free to leave me a comment below.

 
 
 
Successfully,
 
 

 
 
More here:
 
Meet me on Facebook
 
Watch me on Youtube
 
Work with Me
 
 
 
 
 

Do you know what one of the biggest differences between successful people and those that seem to always be “trying” but never accomplish much?
 
One of the most important differences is that whereas accomplished individuals create a plan and follow it, the “average” person lives life “by default”.
 
Let me elaborate by means of a real-life scenario that should be familiar to all of us. This struck me today as I was seated aboard an aircraft on my way from Houston, TX back home to L.A.
 
Having just attended an event in Costa Rica, I was in an even more reflective mood that usual. I looked around at the passengers, observing their activities, and I noticed that they fell into five main categories. They were either –
 
1) Napping,
2) Staring blankly into space,
3) Watching a movie,
4) Reading a novel, newspaper or gossip magazine…OR
5) Playing with their phones or other electronic devices.
 
Now please understand that I’m not here to pass judgement, merely to point out what I observed and the lesson I think it holds. There are obviously times that we all deserve to take a nap in the middle of the afternoon or relax with a good movie or an entertaining magazine!
 
Still, I think there’s a lot to learn about human nature from studying people in a passive situation (such as passengers aboard a plane), a situation where they don’t have to physically be anywhere, don’t have a clock to punch or a deadline to meet.
 
Simply put, they can’t do much else but wait.
 
Or CAN they?
 
There is one thing in life you are never ever going to get back once you lose it, and that’s TIME. Of course, once the hours and minutes are gone, you’ll never be able to retrieve them. Which is why I think we can safely say that time is our most precious commodity.
 
We all know this at a subconscious level. The difference is that the accomplished person, because they’ve also come to realize this at a conscious level, lives accordingly. They live deliberately…purposefully…NOT by default.
 
The natural thing to do – the thing that comes easy to us – is to just go with whatever we feel like at any given moment. When we’re hungry, we eat. When we’re tired, we take a nap. If we feel like watching a movie, we watch a movie…
 
This is all reactive. It requires no effort whatsoever. It’s passive living, and it’s how the vast, vast majority of people lead their lives.
 
They merely react to their circumstances.
 
The succesful person on the other hand, CREATES their own circumstances. He or she boards the plane with expectation of getting something accomplished: To them, a four hour flight from Houston to L.A. is the perfect opportunity to work on a project saved on their laptop or to get some new, creative ideas down on paper…
 
They are PROactive.
 
That’s the big difference between successful people and those that never seem to get anywhere in life.
 
Not to get all dark and gloomy here, but life is short and time is rarely on our side…we all know this.
 
And this is exactly why you need to have a plan. You need to know where you’re going so that you can get yourself to your desired destination during your allotted time on planet Earth.
 
With a good plan, faith and persistence, truly any obstacle can be overcome. What at first seemed impossible becomes not only possible but probable – because you made a conscious decision to take that vehicle off auto-pilot and grab the steering wheel with both hands.
 
That, while the rest of the world sits there dreaming about what could have been…
 
 
<----- SHARING IS CARING. If you think this post could benefit others, be sure to re-tweet, share or "like" it. Also, as always, feel free to leave me a comment below.

 
 
 
Successfully,
 
 

 
 
More here:
 
Meet me on Facebook
 
Watch me on Youtube
 
Work with Me