Authors: Eric Worre
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It’s one thing to create freedom for yourself and your family. It’s another thing altogether to help someone else do the same. There are so many people struggling in this world. You have the ability to help people see a bigger picture for themselves. You can give hope to the hopeless. You can encourage their dreams. You can provide them with the inspiration necessary to face and overcome their fears.
One of my greatest joys is to appear in someone else’s testimonial. It’s great to hear that someone was lost, and in some small way I was able to help them find their way. Network Marketing allows you to do this on a very big scale. Not only can you help one person, but you can help hundreds or even thousands to live a better life. And the exciting thing is, that is just the beginning.
It’s just like throwing a rock into a pond. When it hits the water you see the ripples growing larger and larger until they hit every edge of the pond. In Network Marketing, sometimes you don’t see all the ripples. You might be aware of the impact you had on one person’s life and maybe one or two more ripples, but they keep growing whether you see them or not.
This is why I do what I do. It’s why I wrote this book. I know people will be positively impacted and that’s a stone thrown into the water. But then they’ll make a positive impact on others and the ripples begin, and those people will do the same, and over and over and over again.
With Network Marketing, you really can make a difference.
The People You Will Meet
Network Marketing has introduced me to the most amazing people. This profession gives you a chance not only to expand your group of friends, but also to be able to spend more time with them. You’ll never find a more passionate group of entrepreneurs in any other profession. These people love life and spend their time lifting each other up. Here’s an example of what that means to me and what it could mean for you. You can name virtually any state in the United States or any other country in the world, and a friend instantly pops into my mind.
Network Marketing has also introduced me to many of my heroes. I’ve been lucky enough share the stage and become friends with great people, including Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, the late Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Les Brown, the late Og Mandino, David Bach, Robert Kiyosaki, Harvey Mackay, Art Williams, Ken Blanchard, Tom Rath, Daniel Pink, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Jeffrey Gitomer, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tom Hopkins, and many, many others. On top of all that, I’ve been able to learn from more million-dollar MLM earners than I could count. All of them have had a positive impact on my life and my career.
This profession also helped introduce me to my amazing wife Marina. I was in Moscow for a big MLM training event and she was attending that event with her family. Because she could speak multiple languages, she was helping to translate backstage. I was smitten. Our first date was in Red Square at midnight after the event, with the snow softly falling around us. I’ll never forget it. We’ve been together ever since. I’m not saying you’ll find the love of your life in MLM, but I AM saying you’ll find friendships that will last a lifetime.
The Places You Will See
If you build a large and successful Network Marketing business a few things will happen. First, you’ll win some trips that will be trips of a lifetime. Second, you’re going to need to support your organization as they expand into every territory or country where your company does business. And third, you’re going to have enough money and time to go wherever you’d like.
It’s been said that your life can be measured by the number and intensity of your experiences. If that’s true, I’ve already lived a very long life. I’ve been to every state in the United States with the exception of Alaska, and I’ll remedy that soon. I’ve also been to about 40 countries around the world. I’ve gone diving at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, toured the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, visited the twin towers in Malaysia, boated around James Bond island off the coast of Thailand, visited the tent cities in Nigeria, ridden the huge Ferris wheel in the port of Singapore, had a private tour of the White House, watched the sun rise on New Year’s Day at the Grand Canyon, enjoyed a 30-course meal at the world-famous El Bulli in Spain, cruised through the canals of Amsterdam, ridden a hot air balloon over the Rocky Mountains, rented an entire cruise ship for 2,000 of my friends to sail to the Bahamas, had dinner under the stars on top of the Hotel de Paris in Monaco, visited my heritage in Norway, sailed the Black Sea off the coast of the Ukraine, witnessed the amazing Sistine Chapel in Rome, golfed at St. Andrews in Scotland, watched a World Cup match in Ireland, and prayed at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
ALL of this and so much more was made possible because I embraced the great profession of Network Marketing. The same can happen for you.
The Causes You Can Contribute To
There are lots of worthy causes. You might want to give to your parents or someone else in your family, or to an organization than means something to you. In 2011, I asked Harvey Mackay, a best-selling author as well as a wildly successful businessman and community activist, for his secret to success. He told me this story.
“Eric, my father sat me down after I graduated from the University of Minnesota at age 21. I was a little bit cocky, going to take on the world, going to start at the top and work my way up. And he said, ‘Harvey, 25 percent, one-fourth of your life, starting now, is going to be devoted to volunteerism.’ Now I didn’t know what that meant, other than I started volunteering for everything. Heart, cancer, United Way, Boy Scouts, March of Dimes, Salvation Army, everything. Let me tell you what that experience has done for me my entire life. By being on all those boards and being involved in all those charities, I became a better communicator. I became a better leader. I became a better salesperson, because all I was doing was raising money for the more than 20 boards that I’ve been on. I became a better sales manager. And can you imagine how many new people I met by just being a volunteer? My network grew tremendously.
“But the biggest thing that happened was my sense of being a citizen of the world. To know that you’ve helped another human being and to be able to see the results—it’s an unbelievable feeling. I’m so thankful to my father because his advice changed my life. “
This interview changed MY life because it impacted my thinking on contribution. I had always thought there was really only one way to help a worthy cause and that was with your money. But after my conversation with Harvey, I realized there were three ways to help.
The first is with your money. Of course you can write a check, and that’s wonderful. Network Marketing can allow you to write bigger checks than you could ever imagine before.
The second is with your time. Like Harvey said, you can dedicate a portion of your life to causes that are important to you. He chose 25 percent. You can choose whatever you’d like, but I’d encourage you to choose. And by time, I don’t mean just volunteering few hours here and there at the shelter or something. I mean give your time to creative thinking, raising awareness, and raising money.
And the third is probably most important, and that is with your influence. Take the time you’re going to spend on your cause and put all of your influence behind it. Inspire your organization to do something great with you. Encourage your company to get involved. Leverage your network to do great things. You are powerful and more so because of your involvement in Network Marketing. Use that influence for good. It will change your life for the better.
The Person You Will Become in the Process
Network Marketing changed my life for the better because it forced me to become a better person. As a profession, we move products and services to the customers who want them, but our real purpose is much deeper.
At its core, this profession is an incubator for personal growth.
- You’ll learn how face your fears.
- You’ll learn how to solve problems.
- You’ll learn how to feed your mind with positives and protect your mind from negatives.
- You’ll learn how to grow stronger.
- You’ll learn how to lead.
When I first started out in this profession I did almost everything out of fear. I was afraid I wouldn’t succeed. I was afraid I was going to run out of prospects. I was afraid I was going to miss out on the opportunity. But over time, that fear went away. I decided to focus on myself and my skills instead of all the things I couldn’t control, and then everything became clear. I learned the true secret of Network Marketing.
The greatest benefit isn’t getting what you want. The greatest benefit is what you’ll need to become in order to get what you want. I learned what was always there and what has been passed down for ages. The journey is everything.
Thank you for taking this journey with me. Let me conclude by sharing what I say at the end of every Network Marketing Pro video. Ladies and gentlemen, my wish for you is that you decide to become a Network Marketing Professional—you decide to Go Pro—because it is a stone-cold fact that we have
a better way
. Now let’s go tell the world.
About the Author
Eric Worre has been a leader in the Network Marketing Profession for over 25 years. In the course of his esteemed career as a top-producing Network Marketing Professional, he has:
- Earned over $15 million
- Built sales organizations totaling over 500,000 distributors in over 60 countries
- Worked as the president of a $200 million direct-selling company
- Co-founded and worked as president of his own company, TPN—The Peoples Network
- Worked as a seven-figure-a-year marketing consultant to the direct-selling industry.
Along the way, Eric has purposefully become an accomplished trainer, and has conducted live events with more than 250,000 people around the world, teaching them how to also become Network Marketing Professionals. He has shared the stage with Anthony Robbins, the late Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, the late Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Les Brown, the late Og Mandino, David Bach, Robert Kiyosaki, Harvey Mackay, Art Williams, Ken Blanchard, Tom Rath, Daniel Pink, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Jeffrey Gitomer, Tom Hopkins, and many others.
In 2009, Eric founded NetworkMarketingPro.com, the most-watched training site in the Network Marketing Profession, with an audience in 137 countries around the world. Since its inception, Network Marketing Pro has provided hundreds of free training videos encompassing dozens of interviews with the most iconic and successful Distributors in the world, and the most powerful training events in the Network Marketing Profession.
He ends each of his videos with his trademark statement: “Ladies and gentlemen, my wish for you is that you decide to become a Network Marketing Professional—you decide to Go Pro—because it is a stone-cold fact that we have
a better way
. Now let’s go tell the world.”
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