Day 1 – You are a CEO of Me {{YOU}} but are you thinking & acting like it?
So you’ve started your own direct sales, party plan, network marketing business, way to go! You are now an entrepreneur. You are now your own boss. You are officially a CEO of Me. You are ready to be a rock star in your business. You are on your way to reaching big goals and dreams.
Oh if only it were that simple, right? You just decide to start your own business & the knowledge automatically pops into your head and success magically happens the next day. Crinkle your nose & people just start calling you, emailing you and walking up to you on the street wanting to book parties, join your team and buy your products.
“An entrepreneur is not someone who owns a business, it’s someone who gets things done.” – Tim Ferris
The truth is that if you want your business to work for you, you have to work for it too. You will always get back exactly what you put into your business. If you treat your business like a hobby, you can expect the income of a hobby. If you treat your business like a business you can expect the income of a business.
Building a successful direct sales or party plan business all starts in your head & in your heart. Zig Ziglar said: “Your attitude, not your aptitude will determine your altitude.”
You have to make sure you develop the mindset of a CEO of Me®. A CEO of Me® is an entrepreneur who:
C – controls their calendar & works proactively
E – engages in income generating activities
O – is opportunity focused & goal oriented
Start with controlling your calendar and choosing to work your business like a business. Create a schedule for yourself. If you are commitment phobic like I am and do not do well with working set hours, then come up with theme days or a list of tasks for each day, week, month and work your way through them.
Think of it this way, if you took a job at the mall, you would have to go in and work your hours to get your paycheck. It is the same way with your direct sales business. You have to put in the hours and work to actually get a paycheck.
You need to make sure you are spending 80% of your (working/business) time focusing on income generating activities. That means making money, yo! Cash in your hands (or debit or credit cards work too!). So who are the only living creatures on our planet that have the money and can give you the money??? People. Yes, people. That means you need to focus your time on activities that involve people. (And NOT just to make money of course, we are here to serve and help others first and foremost and in doing so we can achieve, earn and enjoy everything we want and need as well)
Those activities include parties, vendor and networking events, 1 on 1 customer care, follow up, host coaching, recruiting interviews, 1 on 1 networking. Any activity where you are talking to a live, breathing human being about your business opportunities. Sure it’s tons of fun to spend all day posting on Facebook and pinning all the pretty things on Pinterest and hoping, waiting for a message to pop up, an email to come through or the phone to ring…
Let’s get real though, business does not just come to you, people don’t magically know you are a consultant for XYZ company & that they can purchase or get free awesome XZY products from you unless you tell them so! You’ve got an awesome product, host program and business opportunity to share with the world.
Last but definitely not least, in fact the most important one of all, is being opportunity focused and goal oriented. The real deal with being a CEO of Me® starts in your pretty little head. You have to have the mindset of success. You have to believe that you are worthy & capable of achieving your goals (because you are beautiful one, you really are).
You have to be passionate about the products, host program, business opportunity & the problems they solve for your customers. You have to figure out your “why” and what your vision is for your life. You have to set goals and dream big dreams and create a vision for your life. Because what you focus on is what you get in life.
You don’t have to be an extrovert, you don’t have to have a bold, confident, outgoing personality to be successful in this business. (I know because I am an introvert and I had zero confidence when I started in direct sales) You just have to want it and go for it & turn those fears and doubts into excitement.
The super cool, amazing thing (& secret that you might already know) about your direct sales, party plan, networking marketing business is that it is NOT about how much money you make, how many prizes you earn, how much recognition you get, how high up the ranks you go. Yes, those things are pretty awesomesauce, but the REAL DEAL, BIG REWARD you are going to get from your business is how it changes your own life, how it helps you reach the bigger goals and dreams you have in your heart for your own life, your family, your future.
You have to work on removing any fears, negative thoughts, people, emotions, bad habits and any other obstacles that are holding you back, that are keeping you from stepping into that role of CEO of Me®. Today, right now, not tomorrow.
I hereby crown you a CEO of Me®, so please go out there & do the CEO of Me® name proud. I know you can! 🙂
Your Action Plan for Today:
Part 1: Take some time to write down all the reasons, thoughts & excuses of why you feel like you cannot succeed, why you are struggling, whatever it is that you know in your heart is holding you back from living the life of your dreams. Then once you’ve wrote them all down, take that piece of paper and tear it to pieces! And like that Frozen song goes that no one can get out of their head when they hear it: “Let it go, let it go, let it go!”
Part 2: Then create a Dream / Vision / Goal Board for your life and start creating that vision of your life that you deserve and begin focusing on what you need to do each & every day to achieve those goals.
I love to celebrate with you so when you’ve done it, so please share your Plan of Action on our team page before Monday and the next training
Next week, we’ll be talking about Marketing, Branding & Customer Service. Keep your pencils sharpened there is a lot more great training coming to our training blog in the next week!
** From the CEO OF ME Training! **
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