Use Positive Thinking to

Increase Your Income

When we talk casually with friends and family, we want them to be proud of us, to think only good things about us and to hold us in high regard. So when things are not working the way we would prefer them to, whether it is dealing with a regular 9 to 5 job or our work from home opportunities, we tend to look for circumstances we can blame our lack of success on.

For instance, how often have you been speaking with someone and said something along the lines of: “I had such great hopes for xyz program, BUT it turned out to be a con”. “I have everything set to start the money flowing BUT the program folded on me”.

There are many different ways you can say it and there are many different excuses you can use as to why things did not go the way you were expecting them to, yet in almost every case you can think of, there is one word you will see pop up over and over again, BUT.

The word BUT is a highly negative word and we use it to attempt to put blame for a specific set of circumstances off onto someone or something beyond our control. In reality however, we are 100% in control of our lives, yet there are times when we overlook things that allow things to go differently than what we expected.

To overcome this, we need to take responsibility for our actions by simply accepting the fact that we do make mistakes and we can overlook things that allow things to happen to us. For instance, in another article on this site I talk about List Joe being on my Do Not Join list. I take full responsibility for what happened because I did not take the time to research them, to ask others what their experience was like. The main reason I did not bother was because I saw the program as nothing more than an advertising source, not as a program for me to build a downline in.

Had I done my homework, I probably would not have bothered to purchase the credits from them, but I personally made the decision to spend the small amount of money rather than taking the time to do proper research and the result was, I got ripped off.

So rather than playing the pass the blame game, it is in your best interest to either choose to not speak of an incident, or to turn the situation into something you can learn from. A chance to grow not just your business but also your knowledge in your business.

You might say something like: “I am not making as much money as I thought I would, because I still have a lot to learn, and I am working hard to learn as much as I can right now.”

Don’t beat yourself up over your mistakes, learn from them. Seek out things you could have done to prevent it from happening and you will end up a stronger and smarter marketer because of it.

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