Success in Direct Sales Businesses
Any good direct sales leader will tell you there are good days and bad days. There are times when you’re in the groove, magnetizing incredible opportunities. And there are other times when you’re discouraged and exhausted, and all your efforts seem to be wasted. We call the former state, flow. Being in flow is a wonderful thing. We love the feeling of achieving great things effortlessly and joyfully. We love the delightful little surprises, the unexpected opportunities. Direct selling success depends upon having more times that we are “in the flow” than not.
Awareness and Flow In Direct Selling
The real problem isn’t that we may not be in flow, but that we’re not aware when we’re not in flow. Sure, we are eventually, but usually our level of awareness is a few steps behind reality. What we need to do is become aware more quickly when we’re not in flow, and respond accordingly.
Here are some tips on keeping an awareness of your direct selling business flow:
- Take your mental and emotional temperature every morning. Are you happy and free or joyless and intense?
- Acknowledge that if you’re in a negative mindset, you’re not going to be particularly effective.
- Stop trying to overcome that mindset by working harder. It will only spin you deeper into frustration, despair and exhaustion.
- Shift your goals away from your business objectives and towards your emotional ones.
- Take actions that are specifically designed to elevate your mood, even if they have nothing to do with your sales objectives.
- Always treat yourself with love and respect. Never beat yourself up for feeling low. It will only prolong the state.
- Call a friend or colleague who can help you remember all the things that make you great.
By following this formula, you’ll find you can quickly return to a resourceful state where your efforts are once again bearing fruit, and where you’re having more fun! Enjoy the flow and you will achieve success in your direct sales business!
Dr. Steve teaches direct sellers how to clear mental roadblocks so that they can take action to propel themselves and their sales teams toward their goals and achieve greater success.





















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