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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Anyway, she was asking about priorities in my life and when I thought about what she was asking me it suddenly occurred to me that when I answered a part of her question by stating that 'I didn't have time' for what she was thinking I should be doing... I realized that I had actually lied to her without knowing it.

You see, I've written about this before and I'll do so here.

We all have time to do our business. The real (and more accurate) question is do we make it a 'priority'?

I know you've almost all heard before from your guru upline triple- chocolate double-diamond star-command leader that a new distributor can either choose to treat their new business as a hobby, or they can choose to treat it for what it is... a business.

Treat it like a hobby and make 'hobby' income, if any at all.

Treat it like a business and make potential 'gangster' money, if at all.

Now, with this small insight I had after conversing with my loved one I would like you to think of this hobby/business stuff as more appropriately a 'priority/not a priority' issue.

I'll explain.

You see, if you haven't yet already you're going to come across whole boatloads of folks (a.k.a. prospects) who are going to reply/yell/scream/swear back at you...

"Look... I just don't have time so quit bugging me and don't ever call/talk to me again about your new biz".

Now I would like to ask you (rhetorically anyway :-), does that Jane/Joe prospect really not have time to do a biz deal with you? In some cases... yes. But in vast majority of cases... no.

Think about it. What do you do when *you* don't want to do something?

I know, I know... silly question...

"Duh, Andre, when I don't want to do something I, ah, DON'T DO IT!"

I deserved that answer. :-)

But my point here is that when you truly don't want to do something there is something going on beneath surface of your inaction. You see, you're not only not doing what you don't want to do - you're also making a decision that what you're choosing to not do is also, for moment at least, not important enough for you to take up your valuable time to do.

Essentially, you're deciding that proposed task at hand is not a 'priority'.

And what does it mean when something is not a priority?

...It means that that something is not important enough to start and/or finish.

...It means that that particular something is not ranking high enough in your daily scheme of things to actually dedicate or set-aside time to do it.

...It means that although it might be important to get done there are other things that you've decided are more important and they are going to get done instead of proposed task-at-hand.

...It means that even though task-at-hand might be a bona-fide way for you to actually make $800,000 your first week in your MLM deal (joke :-), it just doesn't turn your crank or press your buttons enough to get you into action to do something about it.

Now, let's continue and apply this to your fledgling MLM deal.

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Let's get back to that Jane/Joe prospect situation.

They're telling you that they don't have 'time' to do your deal.

----~~~~==== Comment ====~~~~---- Just yesterday I received an unsubscribe to my auto-responder on my main deal.

The fellow unsubscribing was nice enough to write a small note along with his unsubscribe request...

"Not interested. I work full-time."

(Ya gotta wonder about folks sometimes :-) ---~~~=== Comment - End ===~~~---

Now that you're armed with information I just provided you with above... you now know that they're just using this 'time' response as an excuse.

What they're really saying is that they don't have starting a biz up on their priority list. It may be on list, don't get me wrong, it's just not at or near top of list. Not high enough to actually get them into action and considering your deal. Or someone else's.

Instead they tell folks who contact them (after THEY requested to be contacted in most cases nonetheless!) that they don't have time.

That's fine. Leave 'em alone.