Staying On Track With Your Herbalife Business

Staying On Track With Your Herbalife Business

A. Use the products.
B. Wear the button (or some other attention-getting item).
C. Talk to people.

However, there are two other essential elements to your success, especially if you want to turn this opportunity into a big business. They are: work consistently and avoid distractions.

Sometimes you may not realise that what you are facing is a distraction. It may appear under the guise of a problem, a necessity, an excuse, a reason or an act of God. Yet, they are all distractions, and if you can recognise them as such it becomes easier to get them out of the way quickly while you stay focused on your goal.

If you treat this business as if you had just invested $1 million in it you would avoid distractions and work like your (financial) life depended on it. Notice how someone works a McDonald's franchise as if they just invested their life savings in it. They take a long-term outlook and do whatever it takes to make the business a success.

Here are some of the things I've seen come up that have kept people from becoming successful in this business:


1. Never really getting started. Don't wait! Don't worry about spending six weeks organising your desk and setting up a bookkeeping system. You won't sell any products or sponsor anyone doing that. Take the first step right away and start talking to people. You can get organised later when you have something to organise.

2. The business doesn't go as fast as you want it to. Some people move faster and some people take a little longer. We've seen people earn $500,000 in their first year, and we've seen others who have taken up to 10 years to get to that point, but they have two things in common: One, they stuck it out and didn't give up. Two: they accomplished this with no boss, little or no stress, little or no overhead, no employees, and the freedom to live and work wherever they desire.

3. You get busier at your current job (which you said you wanted to leave) and don't make time for Herbalife. If success in this business is important to you, at some point you have to figure out a way to give it the time it needs and deserves. If you don't build your Herbalife business and stay in your current job, you are going to work hard anyway for the rest of your life. Statistics show that by the year 2035, only 50% of all people ages 60-65 will be able to retire (compared to 95% now).

4. It's softball season (or bowling season, or beach season, or...). There will always be something! If you work hard at building a large productive Herbalife organisation for the next two to five years, you will have leveraged your time and can play as much as you want for the rest of your life.

5. Personal distractions, which are frequently used as excuses for not making phone calls, attending a meeting, passing out flyers, etc. These range from melted ice cream to burnt toast, flooded basements to flat tires; a baby sitter that doesn't show up to a toilet's overflowing. All of these are a nuisance and have to be dealt with, but they only need to take from a few minutes to a few hours. Turning them into "reasons" for why you can't work your business gets you distracted for days or weeks, and if you give in to enough of them, can cost you your business.

6. Real personal distractions: These are genuine problems that range from minor illnesses to forecasts for a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, rainstorm, snowstorm, etc. You have to prepare for all of these eventualities, but, unless they really happen, don't get distracted. For example: a few years ago there were terrible fires where we live. We packed our car and turned on the TV to listen for evacuation announcements. We were prepared, but the fire was two to three miles from our house and there was nothing more we could do. So I spent the day on the telephone, making sales, talking to prospects and working with my downline. It would have been just as easy to use the fire as an excuse not to work that whole day or week.

7. Major personal distractions: These include large proportion tragedies and traumas such as a death in the family, divorce, moving etc... All of these are major, life-changing events and genuinely disrupt your usual routine. The key is to realize that in almost all cases, we, as human beings, are resilient and recover. If the freedom and long-term financial gain is important enough to you, you'll figure out a way to keep things going. Throwing yourself wholeheartedly into your business may even help you make it through the crisis.

Here's the favourite:

8. "I'm too broke to do this business..." Money is not the issue. If you are willing to work hard and talk to lots of people, this business will work for you. Many of Herbalife's top earners started out having to borrow money to buy their Distributor kit, many were on Welfare, and some sold their television set or other belongings to buy a supply of products. Many had no car and delivered orders by bicycle, bus and even roller skates. Many had no telephone and made their follow-up calls from a phone booth while standing in an inch of rain or snow. It really boils down to how badly you want to change your current situation. If you don't do something you will be just as broke in five, 10 or 20 years! Why not Herbalife?

In summary, the most important thing is to be honest with yourself. You know when your business is sliding from lack of effort because of real or imagined distractions. Acknowledge that you have allowed yourself to get off track and then correct the error. Then you can continue to move forward to your big goal of financial independence.

* The income testimonials presented are applicable to the individuals depicted and are not a guarantee of your income nor are they typical.