Who Is Sabotaging Your Online Business?

So you’ve made the leap and committed to creating an online business. You’ve been promised that this is the way to true financial freedom and finally getting those darn bills paid — once and for all. You’ve been told that you can’t fail if you just “follow the system.” And you do … follow the system, that is … at least for three days.

And then something happens. Suddenly, you don’t have time to get on that morning call with the company. You don’t log in to your backoffice to continue the marketing plan you started so earnestly on Day 1. You get busy with life. And another business opportunity begins to slip out of your hands.

What happened? You signed up with such enthusiasm and believed in the system and product and your ability to finally make a go of it. But wait. What’s that lurking in the corner of your mind … doubt? Self-doubt? Doubt in the system? Doubt in your ability to make it work? Doubt ….

For many new entrepreneurs, self-doubt will be the biggest hurdle to conquer in creating their new enterprise. With a network marketing business, everything else is in place. You have the product, the support, the online marketing systems, the websites, the training … you have, in fact, the makings of a million dollar enterprise. And yet, it never gets off the ground.

I watch this happen over and over again. And I’ve done it myself. Allowing self-doubt to go unchecked will cripple your ability to create a successful and thriving enterprise. Self-doubt creates inaction, and inaction leads, inevitably, to failure of your network marketing endeavor. Contrary to what your upline might say, those life-changing products are not going to sell themselves! It takes action on your part. And because you’ve entered into this endeavor quietly, you can quietly just pull the plug cancelling your subscription, taking your name off the mailing list, and slinking back to that sad 9-5 endeavor you call “your” job. Ding-ding! Wake up! You’ve just allowed another opportunity to slip on by, while you stay stuck where you are.

What I’ve just described is self-sabatoge. Your sponsor didn’t do it. Your company didn’t do it. Your friends and family didn’t do it. The product didn’t fail. The system didn’t let you down. You did. You did this. And you can fix it. Let me tell you how.

First, do a self-assessment. What are your strengths? Weaknesses? Don’t make this your life work, just jot down a few ideas. Next, take some time to look at your sponsor, and at others in your industry who are successful. Are they smarter? Funnier? Were they born with some “success” gene that you are lacking? Trust me on this … the answer to those last 3 questions is an unequivocal “no!” So, what is it that allows them to hit homeruns while you are still standing on the sidelines afraid to get into the game?

The answer is doubt. Doubt in yourself and your ability to create a successful enterprise that is solely of your own creation. Sure, you have the product and system and training, but at the end of the day, YOU are the one talking to others to show them how to follow in your footsteps to financial freedom. YOU are solely responsible for the success or failure of your enterprise. YOU decide to get up each day and get in the game, or you choose to let the game go on without you.

This is not about talent, or intelligence or luck. It’s about you becoming confident in yourself. Confident enough to just step outside your little comfort zone and take the action needed to create your enterprise. The absolute only thing stopping you is YOU. Guaranteed.

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