How tragic we are our own worst enemy

December 17.  A special day for my little girl and me.  It’s her sixth birthday.  She’s excited and happy.   I have been reflecting on her little short life and the gains and advances she has made.

Challenged physically, mentally and socially she worked hard to overcome the disadvantages she has.   Has she beat them all?  No.  Will she ever?  No.  She has learned and will continue to learn to work around them.

We, on the other hand, as network marketers are presented with far less challenges.  We limit ourselves, we limit the people in our organization and the people we haven’t even met yet.

My little girl didn’t know there were limitations on what she should have been able to do or not to do.  She just tried and tried harder.   She jumped in and sometimes cried, sometimes needed a hug, sometimes needed the applause and sometimes she needed nothing.  She just did it.

We, on the other other hand, as network marketers think about what we need to do, talk ourselves out of it, convince ourselves it won’t work or just don’t believe we can do it.

Thankful my little girl didn’t operate that way.  Thankfully she wasn’t surrounded by most network marketers.  I, and the professionals she worked with, believed in her.  Believed she could do it.  There was no excuses.  There was no thinking something through, talking herself out of it, convincing herself it wouldn’t work.   She just did it.

How tragic we are our own worst enemy in network marketing.

I adopted her knowing there were going to be challenges.  I walked into network marketing knowing there were going to be challenges.  No child, no business comes without that.  With either or both there can not be any limited thinking.   With either or both my child’s entire future is at stake.

In Max Lucado’s Devotional Bible, he writes in a side comment, a short paragraph on adoption.   My heart responds each time I read it. 

Knowing the trouble you would be and the price He would pay,

He signed his name next to yours and changed your  name to His

and took you home.

Your Abba adopted you

and He became your Father.

God adopted you simply because He wanted to.”

I chose to adopt knowing all that I knew.  I chose to throw out all limiting beliefs .  I chose to believe.  And that has made all the difference.

To your success,

Joyce Penner