"Four Easy Steps to the Career of Your Dreams"

Dr. Eileen Silva © 2006
email:ensilva@aol.com
web: http://www.easilymakingmoney.com

Have you ever wondered how to step into the career of your dreams? What if you could --- without considering the education, talent, or attributes that might be needed --- design a future for yourself and your loved ones that included everything you ever wanted to accomplish in a career?

The good news is . . . it’s possible! Here are four easy steps that will lead you to success:

Step #1. Visualize yourself successful in your dream career one year from now. Mentally explore your daily dream job performance. Now, bring yourself backward in time to the present day, jotting down each month’s activities. Check the list to see what you need to be doing today towards your dream career.

I’m going to take a middle-of-the-road approach and say that in a year, you’ll want to be earning $10,000 a month and be full time in your business. You’ll have over 500 distributors and the full support of your healthy, vibrant, and successful family. If needed, your children will stamp brochures, prepare orders, and make deliveries. Your spouse will be enjoying with you the financial and emotional rewards of your career. You will charismatically attract those you want, rather than trying to persuade all the passers-by to join you.

Now, organize the work schedule that arises from this mental exercise and start executing it on a daily basis, without fail!

Step #2. Choose your mentor, and then volunteer your services with someone who is already successful at what you want to do. Tirelessly master all that you can, avoiding the tendency to improve on anything until you have produced and mastered it exactly as first presented (this one is tough for most of us). This step is a real time saver, and your whole success could hinge on it. Let’s face it: most of us are constantly reinventing the wheel in MLM --- prematurely working on “our own” trainings, brochures, flyers, etc.

Amazingly enough, in 1987, my husband, Taylor Hegan, and I developed a huge organization, which earned over $21,000 in our first month, and launched a new company --- with a single typewritten brochure, which had almost no information in it.

It is more important that you “be” a certain way, than it is that you “do” a certain thing, in order for your MLM career to blossom. Since your mentor keeps you on track in distinguishing the difference between “being” and “doing,” you’ll need to be sure this person’s ethics are firmly in place if you want high integrity, as well as high-income, in your dream career. Your mentor needs to embody the elements of service that you’re looking for besides being a dollar cruncher who can drive income.

Step #3. Divide the masteries you need into small steps that you can handle. It comes back to the old --- “How do you eat an elephant? . . . One bite at a time” metaphor.
If, for example, you are terrified of learning how to do an effective phone presentation, you should begin your mastery by simply setting a phone appointment for your prospect to meet your sponsor on the phone. Then, listen while your sponsor makes the pitch.

Most distributors fail to utilize the power of third party credibility, which is that it’s more exciting than simply speaking with one person. Maybe the lesson here is to learn to work smarter, not harder.

Step #4. Get your family to create a dream list and make the fulfillment of that list a priority as you become successful in your home-based career. If, for example, your wife would like to quit her job and manage the home and family full-time, then earmark a significant portion of your growing income for her job-salary replacement. She will be more supportive of your evenings out and Saturday trainings if her dream fulfillment is your dream motivator. Your children will be more supportive if they are looking forward to the skating or tennis lessons that your additional income will provide.

Every member of the family can participate and contribute to a home-based business, which is the last bastion of tax relief left in America today. We can all relate to the dream of the family that works together and plays together, then stays together.

It’s time for you to step out and go for it! You can, and should, control your own destiny with the implementation of these four easy steps, and if you don’t, someone else will. It really comes down to this: either you will fulfill your own career dreams or you will work your whole life to fulfill someone else’s. Which would you prefer?