2007, My Business Year in Review

I’m a believer in personal growth. Growth is usually the result of your personal experiences and how you relate and react to those experiences. I can tell you from my own personal experience that regardless of how bad an experience seems to be at the time, there can always be something good to come from it.

Your own ability to find the good in each experience is what will truly define how much growth you achieve in day to day life.

Late in 2006 I started to realize that those I looked to for leadership in my primary business simply did not have the skills, tools or knowledge to lead me in the direction I needed to go. They also did not share my business ethics and consistently droned on about working your warm market, the 3 foot rule and all the other old school techniques that don’t work in todays internet marketing environment.

The feeling I had was that I had been taken for a ride for the sole purpose to either build the credibility or line the pockets of my leaders. I’m sure there are marketers out there who have also felt the loss off respect for their leadership.

Many of those marketers will simply drop from their program, give up or start looking for a different direct marketing opportunity.

During that time of enlightenment in 2006 I had to start making some serious decisions and determine if I what I had was worth continuing. Because I did have faith in my product line and had already built a small team which I was already collecting residual income on I decided it would be to my benefit to continue.

The majority of 2007 was spent turning some bad experiences in my business into something positive. I shifted the focus of my disappointment in my leaders to learning and building what I had truly wanted in my own home business.

At first my business overhaul was fueled by my emotions but as time went on I learned how to make logical decisions based on fact and not my emotions. And believe it or not, in spite of the emotional upheaval I felt I now realize how grateful I am that I had experienced it was what put a fire under me and got me started toward the right direction.

Like a child who grows up and finally takes that necessary step out into the world on their own, I needed to do the same with my business. I cut the ties with my own leadership and started on a year long journey to make my business reflect my wants, needs and desires.

The final outcome of my 2007 efforts will be an ongoing process as my own business continues to grow. I now have a solid foundation for my own business and have developed up to date tools for my team to help them build their foundations and get their business into profit.
My personal growth during the calendar year 2007 has also been quite amazing. The largest part of that growth has been learning to trust my own instincts and use my common sense when it comes to my business.

It’s important to always remember why you got into a particular business, for me it wasn’t hard to cut the ties that were holding me down because I did not start my business to be popular or to make friends, I did it to make money.