MLM Leader or MLM Guru?…What’s It Gonna Be?

I set out today to write a post about an amazing private MLM Leadership webinar I attended yesterday hosted by an specatcular MLM Leader, Ray Higdon.  I was thinking about all the valuable content he shared, how I could be an even better MLM leader to my team and others in the MLM community.  So many ideas about what to share because there was so much amazing content.

Should I blog about the 3 problem areas most MLM Leaders face?  Should I share about how to identify your perfect prospect and focus on how to solve their problems?  Should I tell you all the amazing tidbits Ray shared with us lucky MLM leaders based on his studies of John Maxwell’s books?  Or perhaps I should blow your mind with what Ray shared with us about intellectual property -  what it is, as an MLM Leader why you need it, where to find it and how to create and leverage it…

What should I blog about?

Well, guess what, I’m not gonna blog about any of those things…today…

No, today, because MLM leadership is clearly on my mind, I’m going to tell you about my journey as an MLM Leader this past year and what’s been happening to me.

Those of you who are loyal readers have probably noticed my sporadic postings this past year.  And, before I go blogging about MLM Leadership and other citing other people’s content, I think it’s important to be completely transparent with you about me.

Can a true MLM Leader get burnout?

Last year, I saved myself from a succumbing to a serious case of burnout.  That’s right, I nearly burnt myself out of my business.  For the past 14 years I have been working a very high level, high stress corporate J.O.B. and for the past 3 of those years, I have also been an Entrepreneur, and a mom and a wife, etc.  You know the drill.  I’m sure many of you reading this right now have been trying to balance your life, your J.O.B., your business and a bunch of other things too.

That’s why this burnout conversation is so important.

Three years ago, I began my journey to become an MLM Leader …

…with a blindfold on and my hands tied behind my back and in my search to figure it all out, I came upon an amazing community of people that taught me internet marketing … the answer to all my problems of how to create success in network marketing and become an MLM Leader. …or so I thought.

I threw myself in like there was no tomorrow, learning every program, every system, every tool, every possible way to create and syndicate content, make videos, blogs, backlinks, articles, ezines, PPC, social media…you name it, I learned it.  My appetite was voracious and I fed it.  I posted, I blogged, I Facebooked and Tweeted.  I woke up at 5 am and went to bed at 1 am.

And guess what?  It all worked.  I generated tons of leads every day, people were jumping into my business and calling ME…  It was just like they said…except for the part where I got so burnt out that I didn’t even want to touch my blog or look at a video camera for almost a year…Oh and for the part where I realized that all that wasn’t duplicable and my team was struggling.

Well, let me qualify that, what I was doing wasn’t duplicable…  Simply put:  Being a guru is not duplicable.  And instead of becoming the MLM Leader I set out to become, all I was on the path to become was some sort of guru.  I had a following, sure.  People joining me, sure.  But then they tried to do what I did and many of them failed.  Why?  …Because being an MLM Guru is not duplicable!

What I did wasn’t sustainable or duplicable.  So, I pulled back.  Started focusing on balance, instead of trying to do everything.  Started focusing on improving my MLM Leader skills.  Started focusing on building locally and using the internet as a tool to connect with people instead of the be all and end all.  Started learning duplicable skills and systems that people who aren’t guru-bound, could learn and prosper with too.  Oh yeah, and I let myself have a little bit of sleep and little bit of fun too

And guess what?  This stuff works!

Being an MLM Leader doesn’t have to mean killing yourself to the point of exhaustion.  It means being the inspired example that people can follow and duplicate to achieve their own success.

So, I’m taking this moment to share this story with you because I know there are lots of people out there who are reading this right now (you?) that are killing themselves trying to do all this fancy stuff in order to be an MLM Leader and guess what, you can stop.  Breathe.  Do what’s simple and duplicable, because your team (even if you don’t have one yet) is counting on that so they can do it too.

You can follow great MLM Leaders like Ray Higdon, Erwin McKen, Dave Lovett, etc …And if you really look at them and others like them who have a great, big, growing DUPLICATING team, they are keeping it real…simply connecting with as many people as possible, inviting and following up.  That’s it.
So, that’s what’s been on my mind.  Whew!  And now that this is off my chest, I expect you’ll be hearing a lot more from me in the coming, days, weeks, months, years. …and that feels great!

You DESERVE Success!

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