DON'T waste your time on skeptics and non-motivated people. You and SFI
can only provide the track for them to run on. You cannot drag people
across the finish line. They have to want it for themselves. Always
focus on the workers.
Way too many people focus on QUANTITY. They sponsor dozens, even
hundreds of affiliates--which is great--but it is ultimately QUALITY
that is the real key. Once you've found or developed 3-5 topnotch
affiliates, you're going to see a lot of great things happen with your
commission check.
How do you develop quality affiliates? It's real simple: WORK WITH THE WORKERS!
When you see people who are working SFI in your group, work with them!
Tip: You can easily locate these people by checking your "My Movers"
list on your SFI homepage daily. Support them closely, and train them
to do the things you do so that you are creating duplication and maximum
leverage.
It's of course more natural for us to let the workers in our group just
do their own thing. After all, they got active without you even telling
them to, they're already sponsoring new affiliates, referring TC
members, etc. They don't need your help or support--or so you think.
Meanwhile, you're spending all your time trying to get the people who
obviously don't "get it" to do something. As the old saying goes, you
can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink—yet you continue
to try.
You need to know that this is exactly the opposite of what you should be
doing to build a successful business. I'm not saying you shouldn't
follow up with those who don't immediately get active with SFI. You
should. But don't spend ALL or even the majority of your time with this.
And DEFINITELY DO NOT IGNORE your workers!
Indeed, the way you create those 3-5 "top-gun" affiliates that you need is by treating them LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON THEM!
If you're not in touch with your best, hardest-working affiliates at
least every week (email, phone calls, chatroom, or whatever), I'm sorry,
but you're trying to win a race with a car that only has one wheel!
How many affiliates will you have to go through to find your top guns?
That's of course difficult to say. What I can tell you though is that
they're out there (or are ALREADY in your group), and you'll develop
them so long as you deny your natural instincts and apply the proper
focus (work with the workers!).
Just like in a deck of playing cards, you KNOW there are four aces. If
you start working your way through the deck, the first ace may not come
up for a while, but eventually it will so long as you keep going through
the deck. And if you don't quit, you'll eventually locate FOUR aces.
It's the very same principle with SFI; the aces are there.
Keep sponsoring affiliates, work with your workers, and success will happen.
Tip: Don't waste time on skeptics or pessimists. They will NOT succeed
in SFI or any other similar endeavor. They do not possess the qualities
of a winner (this includes "rocking-chair advisors" who talk and talk,
seem to know all the answers, but never act).
"Eagles don't flock--you have to find them one at a time."
--H. Ross Perot

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