Working on Yourself

Something very few (if any) MLMs will tell you is that you must work on yourself as well as your business. The people who came into your organization with you as their leader look to you for guidance. And they are also a reflection of you or pieces of you. So if people are joining under you and they aren't coachable - ask yourself if you are open to coaching or if there has been a time recently when you weren't? If you are being honest you will say yes to either or both of these two questions.

I personally had to own this one recently. Very few of my downline were following my lead, the few who were doing the business side as well as the products were trying to do things their own way. They were circumventing my instructions and doing what they felt comfortable with...which is exactly what I had done when I began. It took me a little while to get past this but I did.

With experience and reflection we're all able to learn, grow and navigate our businesses and our people. But some may need more assistance then others in this area - I know I did. And so I chose personal growth.

When my life wasn't moving where I wanted it to nor had it lived up to my expectations I wanted to really understand why. And because I was open to the answer to this question I began navigating the personal growth arena. It was an area I was somewhat familiar with, I spent a lot of time in therapy as a teenager and knew personal reflection was necessary to sort through difficult situations.

The truth of the matter is everything is a reflection of pieces of ourselves and when we're willing to view experiences in this vein it becomes a much simpler world. We own our piece of the conflict puzzle, acknowledge it, move through it and grow.

And doing so is integral to our businesses. If we aren't willing to be accountable who will follow us? No one wants a leader who blames others. Napoleon Hill in "Think and Grow Rich" touches upon this as one of the great assets of a leader: accountability. And really are any of us going to argue with Napoleon Hill? I think not.

So whatever or wherever you are in your business understand there are tools, resources and - most importantly - people to help you see yourself clearly, clean up parts of yourself that need cleaning up and grow from the experience.

All of that can only lead to better relationships and consequently better business.