“Between stimulus and response (cause and effect, choice and decision) there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Each man is questioned by life.. to life he can only respond by being responsible. When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”
- Viktor E. Frankl - Holocaust survivor and author of the international best seller – Man’s Search for Meaning.
My wife and I were visiting with old friends this evening, and got to talking about how network marketing has introduced us to many new friends from circles we had never accessed before.
Suddenly, I realized that the social impact of network marketing is not only through the fact that we get to know people we never would have run into.
Thanks to network marketing we now associate with people who have adopted a basic world view that is completely different from the one I grew up with.
We were taught that success depended on going to school, getting a good education and getting a good job. The consequences of accepting these teachings – for me and many like me – were dramatic.
The drama stems from the phrase “..get a good job”. The moment success is a function of being hired by someone or something (an organization or corporation), the individual is demeaned and belittled because by implication it says that we are helpless to succeed on our own.
It requires that we be accepted by someone or something to which – by definition – we are inferior.
This is, in fact, a modern form of slavery – physical bondage being replaced by psychological manipulation.
Enter network marketing with a radical, new – if usually only implied – view.
Not only are we not inferior to anyone, but network marketing brings a promise of a level playing field with truly equal opportunities for all.
And. success in life still depends upon knowledge and skills, but they are different from those taught at school.
There is a rub, though! Equal opportunity comes to those who choose to make the effort to master those skills that aren’t taught in school.
The most important skill – the king-pin, that once mastered makes all the others fall into place easily – is the skill of response-ability.
Sounds simple, and it is, once you get it. But, more on that next time.
