Choice or Luck? Determining Your Direct Selling Success

Choices:

Every day you make choices.  Some big – some small – some are easy and some are hard. Some are scary and some are fun. You can say “yes” or “no” to every opportunity that is presented. The choice is yours.

The choices that you make on a daily basis affect the outcome of your successes in your direct selling business and your life. Your choices can also affect your attitude which sometimes affects other choices you make.

Have you ever thought about how many choices you make every single day?

Life is all about choices and in your CTMH business, because you are your own boss, you choose if, when and how many hours you invest.

You can choose to make recruiting, booking and customer care calls or you can choose to watch TV, go shopping or do nothing. You can choose to hold 1 gathering or 12 every month. You can choose to attend a Team or Corporate event or you can choose to miss it and wonder why your business isn’t where you want it to be.  You can choose to set expectations, create strategies to achieve them, dream dreams, and make it happen. Or you can choose to sit back and watch others achieve their expectations, live their dreams and make the choices that create the life they want to live and say, “Wow they are lucky!”

I agree with Thomas Jefferson when he said, “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” I believe that you make your own luck by the choices that you make and the time you are willing to invest to achieve your expectations.

When you need to make a choice, ask yourself the following questions:

• What’s the worst thing that can happen if I do this?
• What’s the best thing that can happen if I do this?
• Am I willing to invest the time to make this the best decision for me?
• Will this move me forward so that I will achieve my expectations?

These questions can help you decide if what you want to do will be worth the outcome or if you should find another way.

Some people choose not to choose. But that really is a choice too. It’s the same as saying, “No”.

Some people let others choose for them. The reality is they made the initial decision to let their choices be made for them.

Having the direct selling business success that you desire is like a sporting event. You can choose to sit in the bleachers and watch others play the game and say, “Wow they are lucky.” Or you can choose to actively participate, play the game full out and make your own luck. It is your choice.

Article by Martha Stanley -Direct Selling Success Trainer, Speaker, Author and a Home Party Plan Business Coach

Shout- Outs:

Congratulation to the following ladies who will be attending the first ever Studio J Boot Camp with me!
Almost 1/3 of the attendees will be part of our Team!  Congratulations for embracing Studio J! 

Linda Caler

Lisa Combs

Amy McGrew

Amy Ulen

Noreen Petty

Allisa Chilton

Christine David

Lynn Como

Helen Onulak

Sarita Schraeder

Vicki Ibaugh

Several of you have asked who will be attending Kathy Markloff's LeaderShare in King of Prussia, PA
I will!  plus the following 69 team members.  Congratulations to Kathy for the amazing response and hard work to put this together!

Jessica Ballas

Marvel J Carrol

Sue Ashman

Angel Villers

Betsy Fusco

Eileen Black-Rodriguez

Elaine Novak

Elizabeth Locco

Joyce Houck

Lisa Caracci

Nancy Brown

Patricia Weisenbach

Penny Yuditsky

Renee Wichert

Wendy Vogel-Vineis

Arlene Amo Hopps

Caren Goldstein

Crystal Davis

Estelle Kerestus

Jean Murphy

Jennifer Steigerwalt

Jill Bechtel

Jolene Barron

Karrie Mooney

Katherine Frase

Kathleen Lichtner

Krista Hershberger

Kristen Cabral

Lynn Como

Melissa Lightner

Michon Benic

Pat Hawkins

Sarina Sweeney

Stacey Rogers

Stephanie Brown

Wynne Thomas

Alison Tunison

Bernie Bolton

Brenda Rutt

Edna Friman

Helen Onulak

Judy Larsen

Kathy Corson

Laurie Newton

Linda Huffman

Lucy Marino

Pamala Todd

Sarah Harrington

Sheri Reiff

Tammy Barnhart

Wendy Stricker

Aimee Williams

Amy McCue

Anna Fithian

Carla Kennedy

Gennette Feagan

Jeanie Burch

Kathy McCunney

Kathy Wilcox

Kimberly Tighe

Lisa Cleveland

Lisa Sweet

Lynn VanVerth

Nickie Hoffer

Nicole Griggs

Sasha Gardner

Stephanie Huber

Suzanne Yee Gaffney

Vicki Melhuish

Creative Corner:

Washington Team meeting Swap:
Top left - Tracie Cassidy. Top right - Lisa Combs
Bottom left - Lisa Sargent, Bottom right - Carol Thompson



Easter Basket from my March workshop features the Stamp of the Month - Sensational Season
Colored in with watercolor pencils and blending pen.  Email me for directions





More Studio J - I must confess the Olivia was my least favorite paper packet from the last
catalog.  But for this set of photos from Southern Utah, it was perfect!

Quote of the Week:

“Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something.

Where are your choices taking your life?

What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?”

Eric Allenbaugh