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OVERNIGHT SUCCESSES
Years in the Making |
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(This is an
article written by Gery Carson and published at the SFI website)
Hardly a day goes
by that I don’t hear from an affiliate questioning why they’re not seeing a
big check yet. More times than not, the person asking hasn’t even been an
affiliate for more than 90 days and is only barely beginning to even
understand how the whole SFI system works. And frankly, even if the number was
six months, it’s still much too early to be expecting a significant income
stream to have developed.
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I always say that
if you’re not willing to give a business at least a year, don’t even bother
getting involved. Understand: It takes time to get to know all the nuances of
the compensation plan. It takes time to determine which products you want to
lead with. It takes time to develop a game plan. It takes time to figure out
what marketing activities deliver the biggest bang for the buck. Anything
worthwhile takes sustained effort. If you’re not thinking long term, you’ve
set yourself up for failure. REPEAT: If you’re not thinking long term, you’ve
set yourself up for failure. I can’t emphasize this enough!!!!
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| But let’s look at
some real examples and see if we can put some perspective on this. I’ll start
with myself. My success as a home business entrepreneur is well known. Having
earned over eight million dollars, I’m sure there are some who’d vote me in to
the Home Business Hall of Fame if there were such a thing. Yet what most of
those same people don’t know is that I LOST money my first two years. I only
broke even in my third year. And it was only when I got to my fourth year did
I see my first profit. Was it worth it? Are you kidding?!! Today I live a
dream life, work from my dream home, drive my dream car --I’m blessed beyond
my wildest expectations. |
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In other words,
even the most dynamic, highest-earning entrepreneurs in the industry took
MONTHS to begin seeing an income of any real significance. And the real
wealth, the $100,000+ income we all strive for, took an average of almost
THREE YEARS to achieve!
Do you think ANY of these gentlemen don’t think the ends justified the means?
Do you think for an instant that the months and years invested hasn’t been
rewarded a thousand times at least? You don't even have to think about it, do
you?
If I told you that after 2-3 years of following our system you’d be making
more in a month than you now make in a year, could you handle that? If you
were sitting across from me right now, I can look you in the eye and tell you
that this is a genuine and realistic goal. But when you say to me you want to
quit your job in six or nine months and live off the income from your new
business, I’ll tell you that probably is not reality.
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| Not what you
wanted to hear, right? But is what I’m suggesting so tough to swallow? Of
course not. Can you think of any other endeavor where you could invest just
5-10 hours a week for a couple years and at the end of that time have turned
it into a $3000 - $10,000 residual monthly income stream? Money that keeps
coming in month after month, year after year. Money that keeps coming in
whether you work ten hours a day or two. A commission check waiting for you in
your mailbox when you return from yet another vacation. Money that when you’ve
left this planet continues to provide for your spouse, children, or
grandchildren. |
| Sounds extremely
nice, doesn’t it? But again, these are not things you’re going to see in your
first year. It just ain’t gonna happen, folks! Some of you, the go-getters,
you WILL see it happen in your second year. For most of you, however, you need
to be thinking 2-5 years. And you know what? When you get there, I guarantee
you, you’ll say it was nothing! |
| We reap what we
sow, but the harvest is never in the same season as the planting! Today you
are planting...and will be at least for the next several months. Your harvest
will come in time. Be persistent. Be patient. Work the Web using our proven
SFI system. Think long term. Take action every day, (no matter how small) to
build your business and you cannot fail. Great success will be yours if you
follow this simple formula. |
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