We call it the zone—the place where you are focused and centered, where distractions fail and energies awaken, a place of action and accomplishment. When you’re in the zone you can hit that home run, get a project over the finish line, finally defeat the blank page and blinking cursor, and write the first chapter of your first book. Where are you when you are outside the zone? It doesn’t matter. All that matters is that your dreams, plans, and goals may be harder to achieve there. Wandering around outside the zone doesn’t mean you are inactive—on the contrary, you may be working very hard. But your energy lacks focus. Setbacks may stop you. Challenges may stumble you. You could become like a battery running down with no way to recharge. How about giving your efforts a happy ending? How about creating a locus of power in your life to advance you even beyond your goals? How about generating forward momentum instead of just treading time and tiring out? We invite you to step into… THE ACCOUNTABILITY ZONE
If your accountability zone were illustrated by a circle, you would be at the very center. Just as the nucleus of a cell contains most of its DNA, your business-building and leadership DNA will duplicate throughout your team. So how important is your own personal accountability? It’s everything. Your personal commitment to your own accountability is the blueprint and inspiration for your team to make the same commitment within themselves and with each other. Just as you can’t see electricity but you can flip a switch and see light, you can’t see accountability. But you can see its results. Electricity connects through circuits to provide current. Accountability connects through commitment to send a power surge through the team. The result of both electricity and commitment is power. It isn’t magic. It’s simply true. And it works. Accountability is the mileage-eating engine of Fast Track. Every strategic element of accountability works together in perfect synchronization to drive your business forward. You’ve heard the buzz of Marketing Executives amazed by the “before and after” experience of committing to Fast Track: “In just two weeks of doing Fast Track, we already surpassed the previous month’s enrollments by more than 20.” — Senior Director 6 Jyl Purington “I’ve discovered that being held accountable to each other increases the activity levels, production, and momentum of my team.” — National Director 5 Rebecca Garrett
A corporate Fast Track is an adrenaline-amping “event”
with an invitation to participate that is motivating in itself—an irresistible combination of a dare and a dream vacation. Who could resist and why would you want to? But Fast Track, as one of the Seven Critical Business-Building Activities, is intended to be done with regularity. The
idea behind a company-wide Fast Track is to allow accountability to prove its value in building a Melaleuca business. Business growth becomes the motivator to incorporate accountability’s principles into your daily business activities. Accountability then exits the realm of everyday events and becomes a core mindset. It fuels a business-building engine that never idles. Its results build belief from a sandcastle threatened with extinction by every wave of circumstance to a castle constructed to endure. Accountability becomes not only early morning video conferences and an ever-lengthening contact list, it becomes a place. A zone. It’s an area of activity and attitude where your business lives and thrives. Once you
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