subject: Learning To Fly - Loving What You Do [print this page] What do you love doing? What excites you? What gets you up early in the morning and keeps you up late at night?
I remember the day I got hooked. I have a few friends that are professional speakers. One friend in particular is not only a great speaker, but a pilot with his own airplane. He was flying to Denver a few years ago and asked me if I wanted to come along and be his co-pilot. I was free that weekend so I immediately jumped at the opportunity.
I met him at Scottsdale airport where he was getting the plane ready. I was a little nervous, but it was more excitement than anything. As the plane slowly lifted off the ground, we climbed over Scottsdale on our way to Denver; the view took my breath away. It was so much different than being on a commercial flight. I could see things so much easier. The sense of complete freedom overtook me. I felt like a kid experiencing Christmas for the first time. That flight gave me a taste of what absolute freedom meant to me. It inspired me in a way that nothing else has.
A couple of months passed, and it was that time between Christmas and New Years when you find yourself in limbo. As I was creating my Be-Do-Have list, one of the first things that I wrote down was...
To become a private pilot and earn my pilots license
I had lots of goals, but that one kept coming up. I thought about it non- stop. I knew the first step towards achieving anything was to take some kind of action right away. I immediately emailed and called my good friend who was a pilot and worked for Cessna.He asked if I would like to do my discovery flight with him. The discovery flight is a students first flight. I was actually able to be on the controls, fly the airplane and be in control while the instructor guided me through the process. If I was hooked before, I became obsessed after that flight! From there, I reached out to a local flight school, enrolled in the program, bought my books and training materials and got started. About a year after starting lessons, I earned my pilots license. It was one of the best accomplishments of my life.
It took a lot of lessons, reading, studying and flying with my instructor before I was ready for my first solo flight. I EARNED the opportunity to fly solo. The process of building your network marketing business is just like learning to fly, other than the fact that if you fail on certain tasks in your business you do not risk injury or death!
Youve got to have fun building your business. If you have to grind it out and are not enjoying what you are doing, do you honestly think its going to last? Do you honestly think that other people will want to join you? I love the business that Im in. I get to meet amazing people and share with them a way to have fun, be happy and do good in the world while creating an amazing income and business for myself and others. Not only am I having fun while building this business, I have goals that I want to achieve. I am having fun while keeping my end goal in mind.
My first goal in my network marketing business was to make as much money part time in my business as I was making at my job. Once I reached that goal, I reset my goals and pushed myself even further. The same holds true for my flying lessons. Do you really think I would stop after earning my private pilots license? My next goal is to achieve my instrument rating. After that, my goal is to achieve my multi-engine and commercial rating. Eventually, I want to be able to fly jets. The same success principles for flying hold true for your network marketing business. Find ways to make your business fun and exciting, and have an end goal in mind.
You find something you have fun doing. You learn. You work on it. You get better and better. You reach your first goal. You set your next goal and repeat the process.
This is an excerpt from my ebook, "Foundations for Success".
