You spend your time with friends, who are usually people you enjoy and who share your interests. Your life is full of ups and downs, but your loyal friends are always there to support you when you need them most. When you decide to change dwellings, your friends will be there to assist you. They might join you for a round of golf or to attend a sporting event, supper, or a backyard barbecue, among other things. These are the people with whom you will most likely spend your retirement years and your golden years.
However, you are persuaded to join Amway all of a sudden. You perceive the "opportunity" to get wealthy through the use of a shortcut (not get rich quick, but a "shortcut"). Your sponsor becomes your new "best" buddy as soon as you sign up. The majority of the people you had a good time with believe that Amway is a risky business venture to get engaged in. For some reason, you suddenly see these same kind individuals as "broke" or "losers," simply because they do not share your dream of accumulating enormous money by working 12-15 hours a week. This is due to what you have been told or taught. Suddenly, your pals become into prospects, or people you want to sponsor, and you begin recruiting them to join your team. Some may decide to participate, but the majority will not. Suddenly, you find yourself engrossed in recruitment meetings, activities, and avoiding the "negative," which refers to persons and events that are detrimental to your Amway company's operations.
You're losing out on birthday parties, barbeques, and other social gatherings right now. Your social gatherings have evolved into recruitment meetings, seminars, and other Amway business-related activities. You've been taught that these occurrences may be postponed and that your enjoyment can be postponed. When you reach the diamond level, you have complete freedom. (Even if there is only one (1) diamond out of every ten or twenty thousand IBOs, your hard work and dedication will be rewarded, correct? Unfortunately, for the most majority of people, even the most dedicated, all they will notice on their yearly tax returns are losses, which are primarily attributable to the purchase of CDs, books, voicemail, and event tickets. But, after all, these are your "friends."
Here's what I have to say about it. Try skipping a couple meetings or functions to see how it goes. Stop purchasing CDs and count how many "friends" are still working in the company. It is possible that your upline may claim that you abandoned the friendship because you were taking your time with the "system." If this occurs, you will have conditional pals, sometimes known as "fairweather friends." They are your "friends" when you are both working towards the same goal. These people become your buddies when you are at social occasions. Are they there for you when things go tough?
My father passed away just a short time after I attended my last function (I was still an IBO, just not a business builder at the time). Not a single one of my "friends" from the IBO bothered to show up for the memorial ceremony. Not a single one of my International Business Organization (IBO) pals contacted or came to the house to offer their respects. All of my "real" friends, who saw through the AMO smoke and mirrors called to talk to me and/or attended the memorial service.
Are your IBO pals true friends, or are they conditional friends? Mine were.
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