Even the above note says '...is the result of threats which are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable"
What are you creating your FEAR emotion from?
Take a moment of your time to analyze FEAR and these few definitions...
- FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
- FEAR = False Expectations Appearing Real
- FEAR = Fictitious Events Appearaing Real
- FEAR = Future Events Aren't Real
- FEAR = Forseen Events Appearing Real
My favorite is False Evidence About Reality. Each one of these says the exact same thing, you are expecting something based on a false mental creation of the non-reality of what has not even happened yet.
It is even false FEAR when you see a spider and freak out. But this FEAR is indeed based on emotion but seriously, that spider is not going to jump off the wall and suck your brains out. He's on the wall, walking, and could not give a care less about you. (until he sees a wad of toilet paper heading his way) and THEN that is a true definition of fear. He runs his 8 legged little butt off hoping not to be wall spackle, his fear is based on flight or fight and he's flying!
Now YOUR fear applied to your home business. Now very few will actually admit that they are fearful. They instead make up excuses as to why the business won't work for them, creating a wave of emotion, enabling themselves to QUIT without feeling guilty.
They say things like...
- The economy is so bad here no one will buy.
- No one can afford to join this company.
- I just don't have time to call leads.
- I am too chicken to even attempt to sell anything.
- I am too chicken to even share this opportunity.
- I am too chicken to pick up the phone.
Chicken tastes good, but you don't look good in tar and feathers. The Chicken Factor is when people who join a home business do everything they can to NOT succeed. They fill their days with busy work. (which in reality is farting around doing next to nothing actually business related) so they can FEEL as if they are accomplishing something, yet, accomplish nothing. These Chicken Factor people will go as far as saying "I've worked this business a full ((30, 60, 90 days)) and nothing has happened. This company sucks! I can't believe I got SCAMMED in an MLM Pyramid. They stole my money, I QUIT!"
(These are the ones who spread the rumors of how they failed in MLM and that all Network Marketing companies are SCAMS and that only the people at the top make all the money.)
You know what that does right? Creates excuses and FEAR (refer to definitions above) for those who'd rather not even attempt to make their most wild dreams become reality so they too share how they know someone twice removed who 'failed' at an home business and got caught in a 'pyramid scam'.
We whom are successful in the business have a wee bit of a soft spot for those individuals, well, I do. Some don't tolerate the ignorance for one moment! But I know what it's like on both sides of the coin. Having quit several businesses over the nearly 2 decades I've been in the industry, I know first how how easy it is to QUIT and lay the blame on someone else.
- It was the company...
- It was my sucky sponsor...
- It was the product, it was too expensive...
It is so much easier to pass the 'cluck' vs admitting you are a big feathery chicken! Not until I realized it was my own F.E.A.R. that hindered my success, was I able to move forward and reach new heights. Once you grab the bull by the horns, look him in the eyes and tell him you are ready to end the BS (i.e. look in the mirror, look yourself in the eyes and tell YOURSELF you are READY to end the BS) this is the only moment where you will shift from F.E.A.R. to moving forward.
Drop the past. Move forward, eat the chicken, tar and feathers is just not 'in' right now...
Alethea Anderson
What the CLUCK?
