Network Marketing Journey

When I started my first business I was pressured into joining with the rest of the group. As I got acclimated with what would be required of me I couldn’t help but watch each and every one of them drop like flies. Everyone was giving up. Except me.

It took me some time to get there but I recognized the need to prepare for a journey. Everyone else expected to happen automatically. They literally wanted to get together for their ‘meetings’ so they could sit on their bums and chat about their dreams. The cars they’d have. The freedom. And so on.

There is absolutely nothign wrong with this BUT you need to take action in order for those dreams to come true. This means we have to acknowledge we are all on a journey. It doesn’t matter if you’re learning jujitsu, cooking, marketing a business or how to communicate better with your spouse.

It’s a journey. Period.

On that journey we learn things (Duh!).

Each time we learn something new we see a spike in the amount of knowledge and skill we integrate into our lives. Then invariably, at some point the spike gives way to a plateau, followed by another spike.

What is a plateau?

Have you ever watched a heart monitor when visiting someone in the hospital? The monitor spikes up and down according to their heart rate, showing each pulse of the heart. When that line suddenly stops jumping OR ‘flatlines’ we become acutely aware of a problem.

The pattern stopped. What went wrong?

Unfortunately, this is how most people see things while they are working towards a goal. The excitement is in the growth and then when the playing field levels off we suddenly panic. The results just aren’t there. The roast is dry every time.

During these times we should continue our efforts to practice our skills. Pressing forward. Keep talking to prospects. Keep cooking. See what I’m aiming at? It may seem there is a dry spell but during these times we need to be even more vigilant in our endeavoring to push forward. They are an opportunity, not a problem.

Learn to Love the Plateau

In fact, these plateaus are a blessing. Overload would set in if were were in an ongoing steady climb to the top. We wouldn’t be able to take in all the things we are learning let alone finding ways to refine and make them better.

To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life. - George Leonard

The next surge in growth will always come after having spent time on a plateau taking in what you’ve learned. Secondly, you’ll be afforded the opportunity to enjoy it. After all, that is why we work so hard, isn’t it? We want to enjoy life and the people around us.

And in time we will discover new things. But for the time being–this is the nature of the journey. Time spent on the plateau prepares and disciplines us for the next surge of excitement and success.

To finish my story, while my friends chose to drop out, I stuck to it and started down the road with the knowledge that I had a lot to learn.

I have had three mentors in the past two years. One of those mentors would give me the key to the system I needed to create success. Since then I’ve gone on to develop my own flavor of that system, and have been developing others.

The best part of this entire ride has been when I realized that another plateau was coming to an end. The feeling of accomplishment is like nothing I could possibly describe in just a few words.

Ladies and gentleman…

Learn to love the Plateau. The feeling that follows is like no other.

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