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In thermometers, there is a perfect temperature for the body of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the comfort zone for our body. If our body is below that, we are not comfortable, and if we are higher than that, our body produces fever to attempt to get back to that lower level which is its comfort zone.
We too as humans have a comfort zone and average people choose to stay there since it is the path of least resistance. It is also the place where you don't have to challenge any beliefs and habits you have developed.
We tend to take our beliefs of our life experience and use them as the frameworks for what we personally are able to achieve. This belief system translates into our own thermometer for where we feel comfortable. The creates an unfortunate double edge sword as we begin to promote a network marketing business.
In the beginning, as we join a company, we have no downline members and no customers. Our internal dialogue is going to start kicking in.
If we tell ourselves "I dont Think I Can Do This" or "I Failed in the Past" or "What If People Laugh at Me or Reject Me"...and similar type of defeating thought, then we are doomed to really begin promoting at all.
On the other hand, once we start attaining success, if we start achieving more than we believed possible, we start to doubt we deserve the success and may dig in our heels to slow down our own progress.
We might tell ourselves "I'm Getting Too Rich and Don't Know What to Do With All This Money" or "I'm Not Smart Enough to Manage All This Extra Income" or "No One in My Family Ever Had So Much Success Before" or "I Just Don't Want the Pressure of Such a Big Business"or "Why Do I Have to Be in the Spotlight...and similar type of limiting thought, we put a block on the expansion of your business.
The reason is we become uncomfortable earning more money than before and are afraid we might screw things up, so we would rather just be in the comfort zone instead where we know how to handle things.
In both cases, we actually get in our own way and cancel out the possibilities of greatness. It is a form of self sabotage and it is something everyone must confront if they want to push past whatever experiences and conditioned ideas of self worth developed in the past.
Winners know that you must get uncomfortable and stretch yourself. They know that rejection is a normal part of this and failing forward is crucial. They realize it doesn't matter what others think as their opinion of your success does not pay your bills.
Achievers know that personal growth must occur, similar to hermit crabs who leave their small shell and find a bigger one. We as Winners must have the same mindset and be willing to grow our own proverbial shell, thus increasing our internal temperature of success as we keep moving forward.
If we are not willing to do this, our network marketing journey will be painful and produce hobby part time results at best. Once we are honest with ourselves of this truth and work at this self belief as we are working our business, we will thrive and grow into quite an impressive human being, business person and leader in the process.
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