My Secret Weapon: From Struggling to Success

I am excited today to share my secret weapon. Something that helped me go from struggling to successful. This story started a decade ago, when the downturn in the 2008 economy looked similar to where we are right now. 

I was home raising our boys who were 10, 13 and 14 at the time and knew I wanted to help out. I wanted to find a way to do something. 

But I wasn't about to leave my life, leave our children and go back into the corporate world where I had started my career  and sacrifice my freedom. I was praying for an answer and fortunately it showed up. The challenge was it wasn't in a package I understood or found acceptable. In fact, it was a network marketing company and being a corporate girl this was way outside my comfort zone. 

But I learned something that changed my life and gave me the power to help other people learn and change their life too. I also found a company I wanted to be a part of because I believed in their future. What the corporate world taught me was to find opportunities to position myself where people were going and capture a piece of it.

I struggled because I came from the corporate world with no experience in network marketing and when my friends and family looked at me like I was crazy, it bothered me.  I had been successful in everything I'd done before so doubting my business intuition was a challenge. I also failed because I didn’t respect the industry or business model and thought I was smarter or better than network marketers. As a result, I didn't ask for help even though I saw other people having success, I kept struggling.

 The most important thing tI had to learn is that this is an entirely different business model. It's not about being coin operated - going to work and getting paid.  It's about being an entrepreneur. It is a business of duplication which means following the leader and keeping it simple so that anyone can be successful.  Not making it up as you go, which is what I did and why I struggled for a year doing it the wrong way. The unfortunate thing is I led other people down the same path with me, who also struggled. 

After a year, I was ready to give up, because I believed network marketing doesn't work, or at least not for me. But instead of quitting, I took one action, and this is my secret weapon that I want to share with you. I raised my hand and asked for help. I humbled myself. I reached up to a top leader in the company and industry and said, “I don't know what I'm doing. I'm failing miserably. I believe in the company. I believe in science, I see other people are having success, I need help.”   He grabbed my hand because he saw my passion and commitment to learn and help others. He made me commit…”If you'll be coachable if you'll do what I tell you to do, keep it simple and don't do it your way, I will mentor you for free.”

He taught me the proven way. A simple system with simple steps that anyone can take and be successful. We build this as a team so you are never alone.  We are all invested in each other's success which elevated ours. Raising my hand and asking for help shifted our struggles to success.  90 days later, not just me, but our team grew to the next rank and 90 days later to the next rank and 90 days later into the top leadership of this company and the top ranks in the industry.  Why is Apple or McDonalds successful? Duplicatable Systems.  

So this is why my secret weapon is being open to receive help. So if you're struggling and looking for answers or uncertain about the future and don't know what to do, just raise your hand.  It doesn't have to be to me, it could be to anybody.

But if you're looking for simple steps to create another stream of income inside of your life while you change your life and help other people change theirs, don't hesitate, raise your hand and ask for help. You don't need to know anything. You just have to have a burning desire, willingness to be coachable and a commitment to follow a simple proven system.  I can show you the way so you can show others.

Whatever you are doing right now or whatever you're looking to do, find somebody that you admire and trust, somebody you respect, and ask them for help. Ask them to coach you, ask them to mentor you, ask them to help you.

 Share with me what you're struggling with or better yet, raise your hand and ask for help. Message me or schedule time, I'd love to grab it.