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It’s exciting when you take that first step in starting a new business. You have that sparkle in your eyes, that excitement and passion for your new business, and your new found drive to succeed.

But understanding what it takes to be successful when building your network marketing business can be a little over-whelming at times.

Especially within the first ninety days, if things aren’t going exactly as planned one begins to look around for answers.

Any one of us can achieve success. Sure, we have to work at it and maybe make some changes in our lifestyle that may not always be pleasant or comfortable at first, but in the end it’s so worth it.

Perhaps the best piece of advice I can give, is to build your success one step at a time.

To achieve maximum success you must first accept that progress is made one step at a time. A building is built one brick at a time. Football games are won one play at a time. You walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. And A business grows bigger one customer at a time

Your success will be the sum of all your small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

If you want to grow an apple, you must give it time. There must be time for it to blossom, bear fruit and then ripen.

Your sponsor has a lot responsibility when you sign up with them. I am not trying to blame anyone for failures in this industry, but it’s important that you find a sponsor that will take the time to teach you the right way to build your business.

We all want to be successful, however, we don’t always want to make the changes necessary to achieve this success.

Most successful people started out from zero, so don’t be afraid to try out for something you really want and give it your all.

You will do it gradually, day by day and play by play.
Your big accomplishments will be a series of little accomplishments.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great!


~ Sharlene Stevens ~

“There are no unrealistic goals in life, there are only unrealistic time frames.”

When you set your goals within your own abilities, you can achieve them.

You have to make up your mind what it is that you want. You have to make up your mind what you are prepared to give up to get it.

You have to set your priorities, and then go after what it is that you want to achieve.

Most people spend more time planning their family vacation’s than they do planning the rest of their lives.

If you aim at nothing in life, you probably have a pretty good chance of hitting it. People don’t really plan to fail, but most of them fail to make a plan.

There’s really not a big difference between those who are successful and those who are unsuccessful…

The unsuccessful are looking for pleasing experiences, while the successful are looking for pleasing results. The unsuccessful do not want to study or take time away from the pleasant things in life.

We all know life is not simple, for no matter how well we plan and how hard we work, the unexpected will always arise.

If you have goals, if you have a plan, you have something to keep you going in the right direction.

No one is going to make you successful other than yourself. Feelings of success come from the satisfaction of constant growth towards a goal that you set for yourself and your family.

How successful you become is really up to you, take responsibility for your actions, because your actions will determine what kind of life you will lead.


~ Sharlene Stevens ~

Would you like a really great formula for success?
It’s really quite simple….double your rate of failure

If you’re thinking that failure is the enemy of success, you should think again, because it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it.

So go ahead and make mistakes…

You have a choice between Success or Failure. It’s up to you, it’s your choice. You alone have the responsibility to mold and shape your life.

It’s easy to get to the top after you have gotten through the crowd at the bottom.
But unless you change what it is your doing you will probably always have -
what you have now.

Once you understand this, nothing and no one can deny you success if that’s what you truly desire. There’s really no one to stop you but yourself.

Your life will always be to a large extent what you make of it.

It’s your commitment and determination – to the unrelenting pursuit of your goal – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

But to do so, you must first realize that we all have only one boss. And that boss is you!

If you want to be successful, you can be successful!
Which do you choose…success or failure?


~ Sharlene Stevens ~

The only way to start to improve your life is to start!
Once you know you’re on the right road, there is no
need to plan your journey too far ahead.

Don’t burden yourself with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar your progress.
You can only take one step at a time.

You don’t need to know all the answers in advance. Just maintain a clear idea of the goal you want to reach and the answers will come to you.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

If you can get up the courage to begin, you’ll have the courage to succeed.

It’s the job you never start that takes the longest to finish.
Go after what you want and you’ll get it!

Eighty percent of success is showing up


~ Sharlene Stevens ~

In every entrepreneurs life there’s one moment that stands out from all the others. It’s the moment that you take those first steps towards success, when you change from someone with a job to someone with a purpose. It’s that moment you decide to make a total commitment to your goals.

Most people have a difficult time making a commitment to anything. They spend their whole lives going from one thing to the next, looking for a quick fix or the easy road to success.

Lot’s of people make a half-hearted commitment to something, and when the next big opportunity comes up, or the grass looks a little greener in a new business. They jump ship and swim over to something new. When they get tired of that business, they’re off again looking for something else. Sometime in your life, you’ve got to stop running. You’ve got to say, “This is it. This is the opportunity, and I’m going to take it all the way!”

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