{she approaches the soap box slowly, stepping up, looking around the room and begins...}
I guess you could call this one of my pet peeves, maybe even a 'vent' of sorts... I've been networking and marketing on the web since the late 90's. (Over a decade, wow!) I am a positive person, a positive thinker, almost to the point I've driven people nuts with my postive thoughts and quotes and sometimes unsolicited advice! (I always want to help and heal!) Truth be told, you have to have a good outlook on life in general, in order to be successful, long term, in a home based (or any) business venture.
Online 'wine' should be smooth, sultry, give off an aromatic bouquet and walk with sturdy legs...
Is this how you represent YOU? You pour your wine into a crystal glass, fit to be seen by the world? You speak in light, eloquence and and positively?
Perhaps your online WHINE is gritty, gunky and a bit on the odoriferous side, stumbling off into the distance...
Is it poured into a fingerprint smudged plastic cups with a snap on stem? You words are dark, dank and negative?
What drives me nuts are people who complain,
complain and complain yet refuse to take action.
I am referring to the Network Marketing industry and people whining about their own personal lack of success. You see, I'm on many online forums, social networking sites and beyond. It is sometimes overwhelming the amount of people saying things like...
- I tried...
- I can't...
- I feel...
- I did not get...
- It does not work...
- Yadda, yadda, yadda...
I sometimes ponder if they find pleasure in the pain
of what they perceive as 'failure'...
Often I'll watch these conversations as a 'lurker', other whiners will join in (misery loves company) and when one helpful person comes along to offer some advice or a remedy to band aid the situation all the whiners jump on the positive person who was attempting to help!
The opposite of dark is light and
boy do whiners run from the light!
(I know you know at least one web whiner. Every time you see their name attached to a post you know something dark and negative about their business, their family, or their life is just a click away...)
Whiners never admit that they did not DO. They find reason for perceived failure in every other person, thing and the company itself. It is the world's fault, the economy's fault, their neighbor's fault, mother, father, sister, brother, schedule, lack of finances, etc...
They simply come on line, vent to feel better,
then sit on their cheese while drinking in the whine
hoping for others to come along
and indulge in the toxic cocktail with them...
Now I've seen this in every single dingle company out there, there is no discrimination, whiners join all the companies out there!
It's a bummer because this industry is so fantastical! ANYone can achieve success, however it's those who like wine and cheese that rise to the top... (if you don't drink, how about grape juice, that'll do too!)
Are YOU a WHINER? It's hard to admit. But if you find you run into constant problems with your business, and you run online to vent about it, you might be... Please, contact your sponsor, utilize the tools available to you and always keep in mind there are people in your same company probably making tens of thousands of dollars. (most of the major companies have people making 6 figure incomes)
The only difference between you and them
is the the brand of 'whine'...
~Alethea Anderson
Merlot Mama!
