Most people spend their entire lfe walking along the edge of the swmming pool. They bother everybody who's lready in.

"How deep is the wter?"

"You think it’s too cold?"

"Se any snakes?”

"Think I could drwn?"

MOST people live their lives that way.

I know. I spent a lot of my years worrying about the snakes. My advice to you is: Stop doing that NOW!!!

Listen. Comes a time you gotta say, “What the heck!” and jump in. In your heart, you know whether or not it's time for you to move to that next stage.

No doubt you could find 200 conference calls today, people talking about how great their products are, how they cure cancer, their comp plan has a fast start superduper whizz-bang bonus, their CEO graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, they just started pouring the concrete on their new $50 million dollar home office; if you want to be successful, how you better call a hundred people a day and 98 of 'em will be dead wood and you just KICK all that dead wood out of your way.

That is exactly how the vultures talk. It’s embarrassing. That’s the standard in network marketing. But that is how salespeople EVERYWHERE talk! They are the elite. You and I are the dead wood. If that's the plan you think you're going to follow to success, good-bye, good luck. Don’t let the door hit you in your butt on the way out.

OR ... you can do wht the best in any business hve always done eventually. See what a tre mentor can help you with. And as you lok around, you will run into 3 typs of MLM mentor:

1. The person who has nver had any MLM success and is mre than willing to teach you verything (anything?) they may know.

2. The prson who has had great MLM sccess and offers themself up as a mntor to you. But you get mch more of their time BEFORE you jin their company than you ever wll after.

3. The successful MLMer who is trly "a mentor with a servant's hart." This person is driven to hlp others, because that's what turns thm on ... even more than the mney. If that sounds crazy to yu, I understand. But those people are out thre.

You need a mentor with a prven, tested MLM business-building system. Otherwise, yu're starting from zero, and chances of you bing successful are very, very slight.

It's mportant that you do your due dligence and choose the right mentor. If smeone puts pressure on you to jin NOW, that person probably is not yur best choice. An MLM team is a vlunteer army. People who have to be "clsed" to join are usually very nproductive in this business.

And guess wht? Your prospects will be just lke you, needing guidance. There’s a bttle in their minds, over all the dfferent marketing messages they get. If YOU are tht "mentor with a servant's heart," thn as you are learning your new bsiness-building system, you'll be able to ffer your prospects a chance to be prt of your mentoring group.

Give thm something simple to focus on, and you hve a chance with them. Why? Bcause sometimes MLM seems very complicated. If t's simple, they know they can do it. Othrwise, they get hopeless in a hrry.

So you need a simple, simple plan ...

... and a mentor constantly directing you to focus on that simple plan. Simple ideas have a ring of truth. Listen in on some of the compensation plan explanations on different company phone calls. Then you’ll know how precious and rare it is to actually promote a SIMPLE idea!

You don't want to be pshed into a wrong decision. However, sccessful people do make decisions. You ned to recognize and separate the 5% tht’s worth knowing from the 95% tht isn’t. You’ll never, in your lfe, in a HUNDRED lifetimes, absorb verything you think you need to knw to choose the best opportunity for you and bild it. You need to see and rcognize what's important ... and let verything else slide.

And what’s MOST mportant? Find that "mentor with a srvant's heart." When you find that prson who is really committed to YOU bing successful, chances are good they've chsen a company and products that llow you great achievement. If you’re wlling to do the work, the rght mentor can show you the way to ntwork marketing success.

The article MLM Mentor - The Key Criteria in Your Choice was Submitted by Richard Dennis through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Richard Dennis is an MLM mentor who writes often at http://RichardDennisNetworking.com/ about what you need to do to be successful in MLM.

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