Most people will tell you to set a goal, create some activities around that goal, and then form new habits that will help you reach that goal. Those are great steps to achieve results, but I want to share with you a completely different mindset.

Would you be surprised to hear that you are an educator because you’re involved in Network Marketing? You are in the education business. We educate people to the point that they understand what it is that we have to offer whether it is the opportunity, product, or service.

I want to discuss how to talk to prospects. So many people go out and immediately want to give prospects every fact and figure about the product, compensation plan, company, etc. In my opinion, this strategy is jumping the gun.

Imagine you’re the pilot of an airplane, and you’ve got everyone ready to take off. Now remember, you’ve got to be reasonable because you’ve got a job, kids, and other responsibilities. But you are in the plane, you’ve joined.

If you put the throttle at 30%, are you going to get off the ground? Any pilot will tell you no. What if you give 50% or 70%? You’re still not going to get off the ground! It’s simple physics. Now, you’ll be moving. You’re taking the product and signing someone up here and there, but you’re not getting off the ground or building momentum.

You’ve got to give it 100% to get off the ground! If you don’t give it 100% at least once, then eventually you’ll get to the end of the runway, and you’ll either have to put the brakes on and get off the plane or crash and take everyone with you. So, you’ve got to give it 100% to get off the ground.

Today, I want to talk about the power of assumption. When people first get involved in Network Marketing, they use this power not to their benefit, but to their detriment.

What I mean is that too many people assume the negative. They assume something bad is going to happen or that they’ll be rejected. They assume people aren’t going to join, are too busy, don’t have enough money, already have a job they love, etc. They assume all of these negative things, even though a majority of them are wrong.

When you assume those negative things, you start to project them into your conversations. You assume somebody doesn’t have time, and so you say things like, “I know you don’t have the time,” or “Can we squeeze this into your busy schedule?” That negative projection is not healthy.

I have realized that our attitude about the past, the meaning that we give to our past, will either allow us to move forward or keep us where we stand. And I see so many people who are completely trapped by their past. They are reliving the same story over and over, and they can’t move forward. They see themselves as victims of their past. They look back at their failures, and instead of seeing learning experiences, they take those failures to mean that they weren’t good enough. They’ve applied a meaning to their past that hurts and damages the steps that they take for a better future. So, how you feel about your past and the meaning you apply to it has a huge impact on what you do in the future.

Richard Brooke shares the story of how he used to work in a chicken factory after he graduated high school. The chickens would come by at 38 birds per minute (bpm), and he would cut them up. On average, he would cut up over 21,000 chickens per day.

Brooke earned $3.05 per hour at the chicken plant. But the fact that he worked at a chicken plant and learned to tell that story has made him tens of millions of dollars!

Can people really change? You always hear the phrase, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Or “If you want to take a look at somebody’s future, take a look at their past.” While I think that sometimes this is true, I believe that more than anything, what keeps people from changing is when they decide to stop learning and growing.

The 2017 Most Powerful Women Event was an incredible three days full of powerful women bringing powerful messages to over 3,000 powerful women in attendance. Marina Worre described the purpose of the weekend the best:

“I want you to believe in yourself and be able to understand that you are the most powerful and most amazing human beings. Women lead huge organizations around the world. They lead countries, give birth, and lead generations. I want us to create a movement of powerful women going out in the world and inspiring generations and generations to come lead the way to the entrepreneurial path and raising the standards of Network Marketing as a profession.”

There are 5 qualities that I want to have in a leader who I am going to work with:

1. Confidence
2. Capable
3. Committed
4. Coachable
5. Good Communicator