Two Things Missing That Are Vital For Success

As I look back at times that I've failed in business, or times that I've watched as others have failed, I can see two things that were missing in my own life at the time. I know that the failure rate in MLMs is up around 97%. I've also heard all the excuses, as have you all about how they were not trained well enough by their upline, or maybe a lack of skill got the blame. I could write this whole post on the reasons people give why they failed. These days most people don't want any of the blame so the biggest reason that everybody fails supposedly is because what ever they were trying was a scam.

Let's face it, A lack of training can be compensated for through a variety of ways. These days there is no real excuse for a lack of knowledge if you are willing to learn. You can recieve training through books, the internet, or possibly even by finding someone in your business to mentor you.

As far as a lack of skill goes, it's been my experience that with most things in life, when it comes right down to it, you have to be bad before you can be good. True you have the individual that is a natural, but that is the exception rather than the rule.

No I believe that really just about all the failures you see in this business come about due to the lack of two simple things. Determination and the ability to spot opportunity when it strikes.

Determination, I would say is the single most important key to seeing success. Many people get into business then when they don't find success in the first couple of months, or maybe they even hang on for a year, but they quit. If you really want success you have to approach your business with the attitude that it may take a year, it may take 15 years, but if it takes you the rest of your life, you are determined to go out successful.

If you don't approach it with that attitude you're not going to be successful. You may find some level of success, but eventually hard times will come and you will quit. I've had some very successful businesses in the past. I can't say that I've had one yet though that didn't have hard times. As a matter of fact I can't think of any that there weren't times that I felt like a complete failure. Determination is needed to get you through those times.

Secondly, you need to practice developing your ability to spot opportunity when it surfaces. Many times when opportunity presents itself, it kind of sneaks in the back door, possibly disguised as misfortune or even disaster.

We tend to look for opportunities when things are exciting but we really need to remind ourselves to also keep an eye open for it when things are bad. When things just really are not going your way, and maybe everything just seems to be falling apart, sit back and try to figure out a way to benefit from the misfortune. I've been amazed at how many times things seemed to go wrong, but then those very situations opened up avenues that would have been closed to me otherwise.

In closing, maybe you are going through hard times right now. Maybe you are even considering quiting. Before you make any big decisions, I'd like you to sit back, relax for a moment, and think back to other times in your life when it seemed like everything was going wrong. I'll bet you can remember times when you really didn't see how you could make it through the month. Maybe things that you thought were secure just seemed to fall apart in your hands. But now that you are on the other side of it, looking back, was it really as hopeless as it seemed at the time?

Just remember, things are rarely ever as bad as they seem to be. Make up your mind to stick with it. Look for opportunities even in the bad times, and you will be successful.

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