tomorrow’s burden. The sense of urgency causes you to accomplish what to-
day sets before you. The sense of urgency can change a dull, shabby effort in
building your business into a sparkling career filled with positive expectation
and accomplishment. While this may not be the complete solution, I think we
can all agree this will be a tremendous step in the right direction, moving your
business forward. Right now, decide to take on a sense of urgency in your
work. Believe that you can, and then act accordingly.
To help our sense of urgency help us, let’s look at seven “tremendous”
laws of leadership that will support your networking accomplishments and
follow that up with an examination of two important qualities essential to
any endeavor—discipline and loyalty.
SEVEN “TREMENDOUS”
LAWS OF LEADERSHIP
- Learning to put excitement in your work.Why is it that some people
work and work at their network marketing business, and never have
anything to show for it? And others spend fewer actual hours work-
ing their business and accomplish more? The secret is learning to put
excitement in your work.
If I’m not learning to get excited about the tasks involved in
business building that I don’t like, I’ll never get to be very excited
about the aspects that I do like. Everybody in network marketing
looks for the right opportunity to change their lives. Sometimes
you’ll hear, “I’m looking for the perfect company that fits me.” I say,
“I hope you get something better than that.” We need to learn that
no company or income opportunity can make you successful on its
own, but anyone who can put excitement into their daily efforts can
make their opportunity successful and touch the lives of many others
in the process. - Use or lose.There’s a law that says we all have certain attributes,
characteristics, and talents. If you use what you have as you go
about building your business, you’ll develop more skills and attract
more help; but if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it. One night, as I was
coming out of a seminar, a person asked, “Do you think it’s possi-
ble for someone to be excited about their business, be thrilled
about its potential and successful in attracting others to it, and
then, three years later, be sick of the whole thing and sorry they
ever heard of the whole business?” Here’s a perfect example of one
who doesn’t know the law of use or lose. Once he was in his glory,
using all the talents he had, and as a result was successful. But one
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