MelissaMcCloud.net… Teaching Stay-At-Home Moms To Be Work-At-Home Moms!

No doubt you have been dazzled by incredible income stories in network marketing.

In fact, these amazing tales were what attracted me to the business in the first place!

After hearing incredible rags-to-riches stories of high-school drop-outs turned world travelers, and stay-at-home-moms becoming millionaires, I figured that there was no way I wouldn’t be a success!

What I didn’t realize is that these folks had achieved incredible success because they had something I lacked when I started my home-based business: humility.

When I discovered network marketing, I was working as a corporate professional and had a college education. I believed that I could easily excel at network marketing considering all of the other people that succeeded despite their personal challenges. I quickly learned that my background and my degree had little to do with whether or not I would succeed in my business. I realized that my confidence in my ability to achieve wealth was actually arrogance. Just because I wasn’t achieving the same success didn’t mean that their tales were lies. It was my haughty attitude-because I mistakenly believed that I was smarter and better-that prevented me from moving up my company’s marketing plan. I believed that I would still find success even if I did less work than those successful individuals I would see at the meetings and large events.  I was completely mistaken.

This initial frustration has since become my favorite thing about network marketing: anyone can do this business… if they are willing to do the work!

No matter what your background, education, age, work experience, or financial situation is, you can win at network marketing. The network marketing business model is the big equalizer because everyone starts at zero when they sign up in a home-based business. Those who succeed are simply the ones that are willing to do the work.

My sponsor is a stay-at-home mom that built her business part-time around two young boys. The only job she had ever had was as a waitress, which she had done for 17 years before she was involved with network marketing. When I met her she had been in the business for about three years, and was making about $4000 a month. My initial thought was, “If this waitress is making $4000 a month working part-time around two kids, then I am going to get RICH!”

What I know now was that we had very different attitudes toward completing the activities needed to build a business. I felt that the idea of talking to strangers and calling leads was below me. Because I came from corporate America, I felt entitled to be doing more challenging and exciting work. However, my sponsor was excited to be calling leads and talking to strangers because it was far more appealing that the hectic, exhausting life of a waitress. Our attitudes about the work could not have been more different. I saw calling leads as tedious and boring, and she saw it as a way that allowed her to be an incredible mother and provider for her two children.

After I understood the difference in my attitude of entitlement and my sponsor’s attitude of EXCITEMENT, I was able to get over myself and understand that I too would have to roll up my sleeves and do the dirty work if I wanted to achieve the lifestyle I desired!

Today I have a different attitude about the work that is necessary to do to build my business. Just because one does not need a college degree to do this business does not mean that it is unrewarding or not respectable. In fact, there is no business more rewarding and respectable that network marketing, because you only will make money by helping someone else.

Please comment below… how has your attitude changed throughout your MLM experience?