Can you put a price tag on your head? Can you demand a certain wage from your employer? If not, why not?

Look at the amount of money you are making right now. That is exactly what you are worth. If you are making next to nothing and on the poverty scale in income, it is because that is all you are worth. If you were worth more, you would make more. There is no excuse.

You may say that you have more potential and should be making more money, but if you want more money, you will find a way to make it. If that is not how you operate, then you have a problem with your mindset and your self worth.

If I were your boss and I told you that I would give you $50,000 if you could generate 500 quality leads for my business in a month would you get it done? Of course you would. You would find a way to get someone to teach you how to do it so you can do it again and again and make $50,000 every month. If you would do that for an employer for the promise 0f $50,000 a month, why can you not do it for yourself?

The problem lies in your belief and motivation. Why would you be able to get the job done for an employer who has a deadline and is willing to pay you handsomely for it, but would not do it for yourself?

Is it the fear of being fired and losing your job? Or is it because your boss has more faith in you than you do in yourself?

So many entrepreneurs fall into this trap of not being able to get the job done for themselves. They may know what they have to do in order to make themselves successful, but struggle to get motivated to do it. The reason is they are not backed into a corner and being told what to do and have other people relying on them.

They are not willing to perform for themselves. They lack that self belief.

A common trait for many marketers is that crisis stage, where they realize they have no other option than doing what it takes to become successful. It is the place where there is no way out and it’s either fail and quit or roll the sleeves up and do whatever it takes.

The mindset shift during this crisis stage is the shift needed to become successful. It is not an easy thing to have the discipline to have that mindset when you are living a comfortable life, which is why so many people fail in all businesses.

Having a community and mentor is crucial to success. Someone who is going to make you accountable and who has actually gone through the steps and the work to make themselves successful. One of the major problems with the network marketing/MLM models is your upline, who is supposed to be your mentor has no idea what they are doing either and they have not done what it takes to be successful. So, you one unsuccessful person trying to motivate a new recruit. It is a relationship that is destined to fail. Success breeds success and failure breeds failure. It has nothing to do with the product and the business model if you are following the practices of a failure. Only 3% of Network Marketers are successful and if you can manage to align yourself with one of those guys and do what they do, you have a good chance to succeed yourself, but the majority are following the other 97% and are doomed to failure.

The law of straight lines states, “The shortest path between 2 points is a straight line.”

It is one of the simple laws of geometry, but how does it apply to business?

If you want to take a trip from New York to LA, you would take the most direct route and not add extra steps, like a stop off in Atlanta.

Unfortunately, we tend to add extra steps when trying to get something we want. Many times those extra steps prevent us from getting to our destination at all.

Anything you want in life is subject to this simple, but powerful law. So why don’t we live our lives like this every day?

The problem is, you are bombarded with so many distractions every day that the straight line is no longer obvious.  The world is full of people trying to sell you on the idea that you need some other steps, like their magical product, that we have been trained to believe that these other steps are necessary.

How many times have you sat down to do something only to be caught off guard be an email, a phone call, or even a thought that came into your head that you had an impulse to act on? Did it hinder the process of what you were trying to get accomplished? Did you even get back to the task at hand, or was it forgotten about and left for ‘another day’?

You can have all the right intentions and positive thinking and even faith that you are going to get results from your business, but the bible says in James 2:16 “If one of you says to him, ‘Go, I wish you well; stay warm and well fed’ but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead.”

Take positive action in the direction you wish to go and stay on the path until you reach your goals. Do not stray to the right or the left, but keep a straight line.

Believe God For Great Things

The poet wrote, “Beware of those who stand aloof, and greet each venture with reproof. The world would stop if things were run, by those who say, “It can’t be done.”

Refuse to let the word “Impossible” stop you. If those who changed the world had ever left every “impossible” task undone, we’d still be living in the dark ages.

Here are a few examples.

1. German experts predicted that trains traveling at 25mph would cause severe nose bleeds and the passangers would suffocate going through tunnels. American experts added that we would need more mental institutions because people would go mad when they saw the first trains.

2. When the YMCA first announced typing classes for women, there was a furious backlash on the grounds that the “female constitution would deteriorate under such strain.”

3. Experts insisted that iron would not float and the iron would wreak havoc with the compass readings.

So much for the “Experts”

Most of us are persuaded into believing for too little than believing for too much. Vision is essential for survival. And a God-given vision is conceived by faith, sustained by prayed and fueled by God’s Word. It’s not about what you can do, it’s what God can do with your life when you are fully surrendered to Him. It encompasses things outside the realm of predictable, the safe and expected. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Pr. 29:18)

If God has given you a vision- pursue it, and believe Him for great things!