Setting Goals So what is the solution? How do you discipline yourself to get out and get to work? My counsel is to first write down your goals. Sit down with your spouse and decide where you want to be ten years from now, five years from now, and one year from now. Then develop a plan to get there. Write it down! Make a commitment to yourself as to what you are going to do to make your dreams come true. Remind yourself that this is your life! You are alive right now! You can’t keep waiting until you can find the time. Life is passing you by! This is it! We all hope for a life after this life. We probably don’t know much about what the next life will be like. But we have this one now. Let’s not waste it! Let’s make the absolute most of it that we can. Share your goals, commitments, and plans with someone else. We get more committed when we tell others what we plan to do. And then follow through! If you want to make your life the best that it can be, write down your goals and your personal action plan, and get to work. Don’t procrastinate any further! Call your support team and tell them that you are ready to go to work! Or you could wait until you have more time, but then nothing changes, does it?
The fact that Melaleuca is a “part-time” business makes it even more difficult to stay focused. We get caught up doing things that seem more urgent (or more fun) in the moment. Yet it is clear that only those who are disciplined and stay focused on their goals will reach them. The Main Thing Author Stephen Covey always pointed out that “the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” At Melaleuca, the “main thing” to growing your business is enrolling new customers. No other activity is as rewarding as enrolling new customers and mentoring them to do the same. Fortunately, enrolling new customers is not difficult. Very few people find that they can’t do it. It’s just that they need to find the time or make the time to get out and do it. It’s that self-discipline that seems to be the hard part for most people who see others succeeding but don’t quite get there themselves. Those who build big Melaleuca businesses have the persistence to put themselves on a rigorous regimen of enrolling one customer after another. They spend every free minute adding to their contact list, calling to set appointments, and introducing new customers to their products and to their business opportunity. That’s the “hard work” I’m talking about. Actually, it’s not “hard”—and very few people would actually call it “work.” Once they get into the swing of it, it’s really a lot of fun! But for those who do not have a calendar or a plan of when they are going to work their business, make appointments to do presentations, and enrol new customers this week, the hard work seems to be getting themselves to go out and do it.
Sincerely,
@FLVanderSloot
JULY/AUGUST 2016 | MELALEUCA.COM
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