"Overnight" Success

We all know of someone who has joined a company and "shot to the top," so to speak. Being an "overnight" success. They are touted by the company as "Joe Blow reached the Grand Poobah Level in only 6 months! You can, too!" Joe is paraded across the stage and is used to inspire the masses. He does training on "how he did it and you can, too."

But the problem comes when people don't realize how much groundwork was laid in the years before Joe Blow became an "overnight success" with XYZ Widget company. Maybe he has a huge mailing list from a related business. Maybe he already had a downline that followed him into the new opp. Maybe he was the mayor of the town. Maybe he simply had spent 40 years building relationships with people and people joined when he said they needed to sign on the dotted line! Maybe he used to run a marketing firm and he has a huge list of wealthy clients who want to join his biz opp.

So people listen to his story and think it is easy! But when they cannot duplicate his success, they feel like the problem lies with them. They don't realize that they are not getting the whole picture.

Success does not happen overnight. No matter what you do, you have to learn, grow and build a successful business. Now, you might learn, grow and build in one type of business and then find success in a different field, but you have to learn, grow and build somewhere.

Let me give another example.

Let's say someone spends 20 years in a particular field: computer repair. After 20 years he decides to open his own shop. In 6 months he is making money hand over fist. Is it because he is an "overnight success"? No. he spent 20 years training and developing a reputation and relationships.

So don't be discouraged when you don't have success overnight - keep working towards your goal.