Network Marketing Tips: Stop Taking Financial Advice From Broke People

As a hypnotherapist, I don't work with alcoholics. Let me explain.

I used to. My success rate, however, was extremely low. I couldn't figure it out. I wasn't connecting with them somehow.

Then I talked to a friend of mine, who just happens to be a licensed drug and alcohol counselor. She told me that most of the people who worked at her facility, including herself, were recovering alcoholics.

As she shared her stories about working with her clients, I began to understand my lack of success.

It reminded me of a chiropractor I used to see. To be fair, her work was OK, but she was quite overweight. And sometimes, when she would stand a certain way, I swear I thought I smelled stale cigarette smoke.

Her trash can next to her desk almost always contained an empty soda can or two.

Now, if she were a CPA giving me financial advice, this wouldn't be an issue. If she was giving me legal advice, I wouldn't have thought twice about her caloric intake.

But she was in the profession of helping others become healthy. I wondered about her own spinal health, and how her spine could support all that weight, and how much damage she must be doing to the discs in her own back.

Was she really qualified to give me advice on bettering my health?

This is how I felt about working with alcoholics. They had gone down a road unfamiliar to me. Some of what they told me, and much of what they did, made little sense to me. I tried to understand them the best I could, but my understanding was limited.

Have you ever been told by a burger-flipper that network marketing is a rip-off? Did you believe it? Why?

Did you ever listen to a well-meaning family member when they explained to you how, in network marketing, it's only those on the top who make the real money? The chumps on the bottom support the rest of the pyramid.

Oh yea, and all network marketing is a pyramid scheme. Never mind that "pyramid schemes" are well-defined by the government, and shut down as soon as they are discovered.

Despite the fact that this family member might have your best interests at heart, are they really qualified to give you financial or business advice? What are their qualifications?

Were they in Amway back in the 1960's for a couple weeks? Do they know somebody who lost some money working in Herbalife? Does this qualify them as an expert on network marketing, or any financial subject, for that matter?

Does this person work a job? Perhaps a more important question to ask yourself is, "Does this person make the kind of money I want to make?" If the answer is no, then why would you want to take this person's advice?

In network marketing, there is a plethora of people out there ready to steal your dream. They can only do so if you allow it. Why would these people, who say they have your best interest at heart, try to drag you down?

Well, since they're not successful themselves, they've managed to create believable excuses for their lack of success. If you were to succeed, you would destroy those excuses.

Your success literally threatens their comfort.

Do you really think it's logical to take financial advice from broke people? Would you listen to a heart specialist who smokes 3 packs a day, or from a personal trainer who can't bench 90 pounds?

Of course you wouldn't. So stop letting these losers bring you down.