Be true to yourself and your home-based business
“You cannot live a lie and have peace. You cannot live a lie and have joy.”
The preceding quote in Deborah King’s “Truth Heals” caught my eye. I’ve been pondering that quote because it goes to the root of so many of our frustrations and tribulations. My own story makes a great example.
My roots are humble. I grew up in a poor family and was the kid who dressed funny in school. Today, I’m self-employed. I own properties and a collector’s motorcycle. My seven year old son already has more toys than I ever did. I pulled myself up by my shoelaces and am a success by most measures.
Am I really?
When I was six, I really wanted a toy microscope. My mother agreed to buy it but later withdrew the offer because we needed food. She broke her promise to me and boy was I angry! I confronted her and she repeated that she just couldn’t afford it. I gave up… and that’s when I got the microscope. Was I happy? No! I was guilty because my parents were going hungry to buy that toy.
No way was I ever going to feel that kind of guilt again. I went on a decades-long spending spree, buying myself all the toys I’d wanted but never gotten. Eventually, I forgot all about the microscope.
You should have seen the look on my mother’s face when I finally told her that story. She had gotten a bonus in her paycheck and been able to afford the microscope. Nobody had gone hungry. She acted out of love and caring, which I interpreted as anything but. Here I’d been carrying this huge burden of fear of scarcity and guilt for over 30years… for nothing. I let go of that fear and guilt only to be faced with having to pay for my decades-long shopping spree plus interest.
I spent a good portion of my finite life energy attempting to right a wrong that never existed in the first place. On and on the pattern went, buying things to both overwrite the guilt of previous purchases and prove that I could have my cake and eat it too.
Here is a very simple question for you: Why are you alive? Everyone is here for a reason; what’s yours? Is your network marketing business serving that mission or are you serving your business? If your network marketing business is serving you, congratulations! I will go so far as to venture the guess that a good deal of any chronic problems or difficulty you may be facing could stem from some fundamental disconnect between what you’re doing and what you’re on this planet to do. In other words, your troubles may exist because of a gap between who you are and who you’re supposed to be. Just because something seems shiny and wonderful doesn’t make it so. Spray lead with gold paint and all you’ll have is gold-colored lead.
Your network marketing business must serve you; you must not serve your network marketing business. That is my mantra, both for my coaching clients and my downline. My coaching clients know that I let few assertions or statements of fact slip past sans questioning. Your network marketing business aside, you are on this planet to fulfill a mission… and you don’t have forever.
I am neither saying nor suggesting that you’re living a lie or that you are on the wrong path. I am suggesting that you stop every now and again to double-check yourself and get in touch with your inner truth. Modern society encourages us to “bottle up” our feelings and our troubles. By contrast, an aboriginal tribe gathers around its sick to let them share whatever truths that person has bottled up within them. They know what we’ve forgotten and what Deborah reminds us: truth can and will set you free.
If your network marketing business is serving your innermost truth, then you are prosperous beyond measure. If not, then it doesn’t matter how many zeros you have in your bank account because chances are the biggest zero of them all is inside you.
Anthony Hernandez
Anthony Hernandez is a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Business Association Coach and author of Guerrilla Marketing Success Secrets with over 20 years of successful self-employment experience. He is proud to be a co-founding member of the MOXXOR WORKS Team. Visit Anthony’s Web site to learn more about the MOXXOR WORKS Team and our network marketing opportunity.