If there's one thing that is coming ever so clearer to me regarding a factor dictating a persons success (or not) in MLM, it's about a person's habits in life.What kind of habits that person has about MLM will literally define
level of success they have.
Think about it.
What kind of habits do you have in your everyday life? Let's look at it. Or at least write about it.
You're daily going to your work.
You get up, get dressed, have breakfast, drive to work in
same manner and route, walk to your office, sit at your desk or cubie and go about your daily routine.
You talk to
same folks.
You do
same work one morning to
next, generally. And then you have a break or two and then have your lunch.
You go through
afternoon and then drive home again through
same route and then get home and possibly kiss your spouse hello. You have supper and then maybe play with
kids or watch
television until it's bedtime and then you dream about your desired wants and start
process all over again
next day.
I ask you. How much do you really think you had, or have, to think to get through your day after day routine? I'll bet not much.
Why?
Because it's a routine.
Was it always a routine? No.
At one point you had to figure all this stuff out.
You had to determine when to get up for that new job and what you would do everyday and how you would drive there and when you would get home and when you had to go to bed to be amply rested for
next day at work.
Essentially, you had to learn your new day. And you had to learn your behavior to get you through your new daily routine.
After a while, your routine became just that. Routine. It became a habit.
You did it, and you're doing it NOW without even thinking about it.
You're just doing it.
Day after day after day after day after day.
And then
weekend arrives and you go through
escape from work routine until
next workweek arrives.
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Your present life.
A routine.
A routine habit.
That's how we humans operate. By learning behaviors until they become habits.
The big question with all this is what kind of habits do you have in your life today. Are they habits that are getting you what you want, or are they leading you in
opposite direction?
This is
key question to determining your success with your MLM biz. Let's discuss it further.
I'll explain and I'll keep this real simple and hopefully very clear in understanding...
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You see, our lives are about habits. That's
way
human mind works. We were programmed through repetition. This occurred to us from our birth onto this physical plane and continues to this day.
How did you learn how to walk? Through forced repetition and failure, right?
How did you learn to write anything? Repeating
same behavior over and over and over again.
Last, how did you learn how to type on that keyboard in front of you right now? Even if you're a one-finger typing machine, you still learned and are learning through repeating
same actions over and over until you master
activity you're attempting to succeed at.
Okay, so we know how you get a habit. By forced repetition.
It's not rocket science and you've probably heard it stated like this elsewhere many times before. I don't profess to be
originator of this thought but it is crucial to understanding how this comes about and how your mind works to create a habit.
So, let's move on to what happens IN you, or more specifically, in your mind, once this habit...the habit in question is 'mastered'.
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What happens to that habit? What happens is, it disappears from sight, and almost from mind.
You see, your conscious thinking about your habit turns from being a thought or series of thoughts that you are repeating to yourself in your conscious mind about
action to ultimately unconscious thoughts stored in your subconscious mind.
Okay, I know. Big jump there.
I'll go more slowly.
Simply, as long as you're thinking about
action that you're doing, then you're working in your conscious mind. Because you actually have to keep telling yourself, your mind, what to do, you haven't yet mastered
action in question. You have to continue to think about it.
You haven't mastered it yet and you haven't made it a habit yet. A habit that you don't and no longer have to 'think' about.
But when you do enter this zone, this habitual way of thinking,
habit becomes unconscious. In other words, ou no longer have to think about it.
As Nike said so perfectly many years ago...You simply 'just do it'.
Again,...
You just do it.
You don't think about it.
You don't mull it over.
You don't stop yourself before you get past
starting line.
You don't need to be externally motivated.
You don't need to listen to your doubts, hesitation, and fears and all that stuff.
You don't have to tell yourself anything consciously.
You just do it.
So who's in
drivers seat then?
Easy...
Your subconscious mind.
It's now operating on automatic pilot and allowing you to automatically think
thoughts that cause
behavior that makes you do
action without you getting in
way. Or at least having your conscious mind impeding your progress.
How do you think you can drive a car, chew gum, drink coffee, listen to
radio, and give
odd person
bird who cuts in front of you on
freeway? And you do this all at
same time!
Do you think you just started out driving your car this way and you did all this without ever hurting yourself or killing someone else in
process? Of course not.
You had to 'learn'
behavior. And as you mastered one aspect of
concept of driving, you moved onto
next aspect.
Driving
car on
way to your J.O.B.
And then listening to
radio while driving
car on
way to your J.O.B.
And then drinking coffee while listening to
radio while driving
car on
way to your J.O.B.
And so on and so on. Eventually, you didn't even have to think about what you were doing. You just did it.
It all became a habit.
And as you mastered a portion of that behavior you continued to add other behavior onto your activity of driving until you ultimately were doing all that stuff, at
same time you were driving
car.
That is how your mind works. That is how your subconscious mind works.
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Again, you want to tell yourself something so you have conscious thoughts in your conscious mind. You continue to tell yourself, direct yourself to do those actions with your conscious mind until those desired actions are no longer conscious.