Saturday, February 2, 2008

Commitment and Hard Work

When you read these words to yourself, Commitment and Hard Work, what do they mean? Do they translate to starting a business and trying it out for a few weeks, maybe a few months and if it does not work out in that short period of time it means giving up? Maybe those words mean you are going to take action for a few years and accomplish whatever it is you set out to do by reaching specific goals? Did anyone ever ask you to write down your WHY when you first started your home based business? Did you ever sit back and really let it sink it what was going to help you get your WHY?

Your network marketing, home based business can be compared to a swimmer on a swim team. When you are young your parents put you on a team to hopefully help you build confidence and build strong freindship bonds. Swimmers are very dedicated. They have very long days. Once you are in high school swimmers usually have practice in the morning, before school, and then another practice after school. Remember, once practice ends the swimmer still needs to come home, eat and do homework for the next day. For swimmers their season seems to never end. Yes, there is a swim season for high school but during the summer they must keep up their hard work so that their time will not slow. Swimmers are one of the most committed athletes in the world. Hard work and commitment to themselves and their team is quite an accomplishment as a human being. Not many people in society can honestly say they can commit so much hard work, energy and time to such an amazing sport.

Have you ever watched how graceful a swimmer can be...watching a swimmer cut through the water with such grace is such a beautiful sight to see. How about swimming the Butterfly stroke anyone? A small percentage of the world can master that stroke. Guess what makes these swimmers look so graceful...HARD WORK and COMMITMENT!

So next time you are thinking about whether your mlm, network marketing or any other home business is right for you...ask yourself whether you know your WHY and if you do can you commit yourself to that company for a few years, not just months? If not, you need to find a new company...If you can then go for it and those around you will watch you work as gracefully as a swimmer and you will glide right by everyone because you have made the commitment. Those that want to can jump in the water with you. You will build strong bonds with "your team" and you can work together as a team to reach your goals!

at 6:29 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I would say hard work and commitment are two important factors that contribute to the success of every task and project. Unfortunately, people are prone to laziness. Maybe that's why people don't succeed easily.

February 2, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Sophia Levis said...

Awesome post, Shelley.

I've been a WAHM for over a decade now. I can't tell you how many times in the early years I grasped for every get-rich-quick scheme, every easy path to the easy life, every lazy woman's way out that I could find.

I realized after about five years of this that the road to success as a work-at-home mom was going to have to be paved with my own blood, sweat, and tears.

I work harder than any mom I know, WAHM or not. But It's been worth it.

Thanks again for the post!

February 4, 2008 at 9:29 PM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

WAHM University

Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape Copyright © 2008 WAHM University
Privacy Policy for http://wahmuniversity.blogspot.com/,http://www.glamourteeth.com/, http://www.gojipress.com/ The privacy of our visitors to our sites listed above are important to us. We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit our sites, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files - As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Time Warner), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons - We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on our sites listed above to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.