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Are Selling and
Recruiting Difficult?
The following article is
an excerpt from a speech given by a direct seller at a local meeting. We are
told she was asked to speak on how direct sales compares to working a
"regular" job. Although the original author is unknown, we wish to thank her
for her thoughts and insights. We have edited it to share with you as you
embark on a brand new year, with new opportunities to count the many
blessings we have in this business.
Lately, I have heard so many people say how difficult direct sales is. "Its hard." "I can't get placements." "This just isn't for me." "I didn't know how difficult it would be."
Well, I am a single mom of three who,
before joining the direct sales family, held down two jobs. I would get up
at 4:00 in the morning and not get to bed until midnight most nights, after
returning from my part-time retail job, packing lunches, checking homework,
and relieving my mother, who helped out with the kids.
That, my friends, is difficult.
It is difficult always having to lower
your dreams to meet your means.
It is difficult to miss your son's
football game because you have to work.
It is difficult knowing the rust bucket
you call a car is eating you alive in maintenance, but you can't afford a
new one.
It is difficult to realize that someone
else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son
say mama to the preschool teacher.
It is difficult knowing that you have spent 40 years of your life working for someone else, only to realize that you will be retiring on one-third of what you can't live on today.
Or, worse yet, it is difficult knowing
that you have diligently worked all your life, only to be given an early
retirement and replaced by someone younger, more capable.
I will tell you what is difficult. It is
difficult waking up one morning, realizing that your children, the most
precious things imaginable, no longer need bottles, diapers, have tea
parties, or are shorter than the baseball bat they are trying to swing.
It is difficult realizing it is too late
and that the time frittered away can never be retrieved. It slips through
our fingers one second at a time.
It is also difficult watching the spark
in your partner's eyes fade because both of you realize the house you have
been wanting is just a dream because someone else is controlling your
finances.
We have nasty habits about
rationalizing, procrastinating, and skirting important things, rather than
facing the issues. Too often we allow others -- our friends, relatives, and
critics who do not pay our bills or share our dreams --to direct our
futures.
As children we have absolutely no freedom; we rebel in our teens and scream for freedom. We reach adulthood and are finally free, only to relinquish that freedom because we think it is too difficult. We do not want to take responsibility. We do not want to make a wrong decision, so we obligingly give that awesome power to someone else. We wake up too late. We hear ourselves uttering phrases like: "I wish I had only . ." and "If I could do it over again."
You have no one but yourself to blame.
You had the chance. Perhaps the opportunity was presented many times and
each time you elevated that moment's problem to a higher priority than
yourself.
Let me ask you now:
Are Selling and Recruiting Really As Difficult As You Think? Isn't everything relative?
Author Unknown
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