Crashing Through Limiting Beliefs
by Kevin Hogan
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You begin to feel life has passed you by because you allowed self-limiting behaviors to take hold for
long periods of time.
"Hey Kev...buy $12,000 of vitamins and you can get into this business
and get an automatic executive distributorship, full commissions on
downline....all the way down.......blah, blah, blah,..."
Doubt.
Because you think of doubt as negative and don't see the self-
limitations of "thinking positive..."
....You don't wait. You do it immediately.
Talk about self-limiting disaster #447.
Ugh...
What kind of an idiot buys $12,000 of stuff that may or may not
sell? ...or worse....may or may not even be effective, or work if
you did sell them.
But people do this all the time because they have no sense of real
limitations...like their time on earth.
Here's the deal: You can't buy $12,000 worth of vitamins, toilet paper,
soap, dishes, dog food or anything else, get tons of friends to buy
it from you, and make millions.
It CAN happen. It COULD happen. It MIGHT happen.
But it can't happen for everyone, nor can it happen for the vast
majority of people.
It's a simple, "do the math" function.
All you have to do is think quickly about three things:
- Time to do those things.
- Money people have to spend.
- Money people are dying to spend with you.
Say someone wants to buy $40 (gulp) of vitamins per month from you.
You get paid $10 (25% on the sale).
It takes you an hour to make the sale. (Shockingly, only about 1/10
people will buy vitamins or toilet paper or soap from you...)
You knocked on 20 doors to find 10 people at home to propose
your offer, of which one lady was nice enough to say "yes."
How much time does it take to sell $12,000 worth of vitamins?
Exactly. 300 hours.
If you work 10 hours per week in your part-time business, it took
you 30 weeks to sell $12,000. (That's 7 months)
But then you say, "but hey, that's a LOT of money."
I agree. 25% of $12,000 is $3,000 and that is a lot of money.
You got paid $10 per hour for your time. You earned an extra
$3000 in seven months. Nothing to be ashamed of, but nothing
to build much of a future on...and darned hard work.
Worse, you had to find 300 people to buy from you. (That's every
human you know and all of their neighbors.)
Now you have no one else to call, and it takes about 10 times as much
work to make a sale. (Try it sometime.) You don't know anyone else,
attrition happens from those who bought six months ago.
"But Kev, I can have a 'downline' that will sell for me. I get paid on
their sales, too!"
"REALLY? Cool. How much?"
"I get 10% of their commissions on the second level."
That's 40 cents per bottle of vitamins. If you train 10 people to go
out and kick butt and sell like maniacs,..they each sell all 300
people they know, including children and the janitor at work...
That's 3000 sales over the next seven months for them.
WOW!!!
Your total income from this? Another $120.
Time investment 400 hours over about 250 days.
Dollars per hour?
Thirty cents per hour.
Nothing more need be said there.
The problem becomes obvious... 
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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
3432 Denmark #108
Eagan, MN 55123
(612) 616-0732
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