It is frightening. Ninety eight percent of the people in this country who are age 65 or over depend on Social Security, charity or relatives just to get by. Of the remaining 2% who are financially independent:
Now, think about your retirement years. Do you think you can depend on social security? Will it even be around in 20-30 years? Do you want to be dependent on your children?
Most people live in a state of self-denial. They don't even want to think about their financial future. They just keep on going, barely making it from day to day, hoping for the best. Maybe they'll win the lottery.
Time Magazine said on November 22, 1993, "Americans are realizing that the great American job is gone." No job, no career is secure anymore. Even the largest and most profitable companies are reducing their workforces in order to compete in the global marketplace.
If you want a secure financial future, you must take matters into your own hands.
Network marketing is one of the few routes open to the "little guy." Building a successful network marketing business requires very little investment. It doesn't require any specialized skills or know how -- your sponsor (if they indeed live up to the word "sponsor") will be happy to give you all the training and support you need. To succeed in network marketing, you simply have to DO IT. Day after day, over and over again. Plug yourself into the system and keep with it. Your hard work and persistence will build your business.
It is rare that anyone can become wealthy solely through their own efforts. Oh, it happens every once in a while. But 99% of the wealthy people in this world have learned a powerful secret: that the greatest way to build a fortune is to help other people make money, too. That is what network marketing is all about. You will never be a success in network marketing until you help other people become successful. Wow! When you think about it -- what a great deal that is. Imagine the satisfaction of turning lives around. Forget the money for the moment, just think what it would be like to help other people become successful and take charge of their financial future.
There is a basic, underlying problem in our society that will not go away by itself. But as a network marketer, you have the tools to help solve that problem. And the problem is this: our machines are becoming so productive that we don't need workers anymore. On the one hand, that's great. We have more leisure time. But on the other hand, it is a threat to civilized order, because work and jobs are a very fair and productive way of distributing wealth. Take away the jobs and you start creating a bigger and bigger gap between the rich and the poor. But network marketing is a business that will always require people. It the people-to-people networking that is the heart of network marketing can never be replaced by a machine (thought it can be powerfully facilitated by technology). In our modern post-industrial society, the old-fashioned work ethic has been seriously eroded. The connection between effort and reward has become weaker and weaker. Network marketing is a powerful way to re-build the work ethic. It is one of the purest implementations of free market economics in the world today. It re-establishes the relationship between effort and reward. In network marketing, there is no getting around the fact that you have to work to be successful. You can't schmooze your way to the top. You can't buy your way to the top. You can't cheat your way to the top. You have to WORK your way to the top by building an organization below you.
Don't think of your network marketing business as just a hobby that you do whenever you get bored or there's nothing else going on. Commit to your business. Realize that you have the power to change lives, to introduce a new paradigm to society. Be a positive force for change! Work every day to lead the way to a brighter future for yourself and those around you.
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