What makes the difference between success and failure?

Looking back over the past decade of my networking career, there are several philosophies that have contributed greatly to my success over the years.

Now keep in mind that in 1995, when I first set out to regain control of my life, I was a personal trainer at a gym, showing up to work every day at 5:30 a.m. wearing a pair of shorts and a neck shirt. shirt.

My job was to hold a clipboard and count backwards from ten to one while my clients lifted weights.

In those days, he had a completely different set of philosophies.

I lived paycheck to paycheck, I couldn’t afford to take a day off no matter how I felt; tired, sick or whatever, bills always on my mind, traveling 45 minutes each way and having to put up with grown up babies whining, making excuses, procrastinating and cheating on their diets.

I did all this for 20K per year.

When I hit my own pain threshold (you know…that point where you just can’t take it anymore and you know you have to do something about it), I made the decision to stop trading my time for dollars and never work. For no one else anymore. (new philosophies beginning to form)

So even though I started out as a personal trainer living in a small apartment, I was able to change my entire life with a single decision to change.

I was so disgusted with what corporate America was like, that I went into business for myself and the rest, as they say, is history.

After running my own one-man private label sports supplement business for several years and getting back into deep debt, I decided to take my present and future more seriously and focused on network marketing success.

I was committed to developing passive income through the leverage power that came from building my people and marketing teams. (Notice I said, build people, not build my business. A philosophy within a philosophy!)

At first, I didn’t get great results (at least to the naked eye), but over the years, the philosophies I adhered to, along with total commitment, discipline, and massive action, I’ve been able to reach a level of complete and total freedom.

If you came to our Industry for these same things, here is one of my Oldies vs. New Personal Philosophies you might want to investigate for yourself: (I’ll post more in future posts.)

Ancient Philosophy – Do nothing unless it can be done perfectly.

New Philosophy: Doing something, even if it’s wrong, is better than doing nothing.

As my friend (who I met at the Ritz in West Palm last month for 8 days with our families) says, Litman says, “You don’t have to get it right, just get it going.”

The truth is that we are all perfectionists in some way.

And since that includes you, you have two options:

Either positive or negative.

The positive perfectionist is a doer.

They are producers.

They get going and make adjustments along the way.

They do not require approval or permission to do anything. They just do it.

They often shoot before they are ready or even take aim. (By the way, some of the biggest success stories come from this personality!)

They make changes as they go and improve as they go.

They progress, even if they experience a temporary setback. (Remember, the pullback is the UP setting, for the pullback!)

They stay out of their comfort zone, that’s why they succeed. They are constantly pursuing perfection through action.

They jump first and grow wings on the way down.

They are great producers.

So the key is just to get going. Just start.

Do the wrong things until you do the right things. As you advance, you are progressing.

The negative perfectionist is a procrastinator.

Most of the time, they don’t start anything unless it’s perfect.

They seek the approval and/or permission of others to move forward.

The Negative Perfectionist clears his desk, organizes his files, and practices his focus, but never gets anywhere because when it comes time to do real business, he’s too tired of all the “get ready to get ready” and as a result, no progress.

They call their sponsor and ask how they sound on their new headphones, they want to share new ideas with their friends and read the script a hundred times so they sound perfect when they read it to their suspects.

Anything to avoid having to take the actual action that will make them successful.

Anything to keep them from stepping out of their comfort zone.

Anything to keep them from having to make a decision and commit to it.

Anything from doing the wrong thing, to not looking silly or feeling bad about yourself.

Anything other than talking to new people, learning how to market, or improving their value by investing in themselves.

So, this is how you go from being a negative perfectionist to a positive perfectionist:

Do something, anything, even if it’s not 100% right.

take a chance

Take a risk.

Invest in yourself and your leadership value.

Don’t be afraid of failing.

Don’t be afraid to rack up some losses.

Don’t be afraid to take a step back to take the big leap.

What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger.

You can always go back and correct mistakes and by taking notes and keeping score with yourself and your progress, you will gain the most important thing, which is experience.

And this experience that you develop will give you that 6th sense called Intuition, which will allow you to make intelligent decisions, act without “thinking” and go from being in your head to coming out of your heart.

Remember, as my friend Jeff Combs says, “The heart beats for talent always!”

Develop more heart and achieve more success!

Keep your eyes peeled for more of my favorite Old vs. New philosophies in future articles.

Aaron