There is pain and pleasure in MLM … 50 Shades of YAY!

YAY, not dismay, now that the company we were in has closed its doors.  

Some who experienced the downfall of this company are angry, bitter, and downright vengeful. It’s understandable, but I choose instead to celebrate all that we experienced, accomplished and learned from building success for the first time in our network marketing journey.

Oh, the bliss we felt as the foreplay began. Our team grew, it swelled to great size.  We felt the pleasure of watching incomes grow to new levels of success never achieved before.  It was pleasurable, it tickled our dreams, it enticed us to do it again and again and again.

There was an energy of hope and promise and belief that THIS was IT for everyone – we found our one true love and we were on our way to the paradise we dreamed of living.  Buy the ring – plan the wedding – this is IT!

Remember your first breakup?  Promises are not kept. Evasiveness permeates the relationship. You start to suspect he’s not really that in to you?  And oh, how you try to believe you are just imagining things, blowing them out of proportion because you truly love this guy.  You ignore what your best friend tells you because you KNOW this just couldn’t happen – it has been such a wonderful, fulfilling relationship.

That’s what it felt like for a couple of months as the company began to be the bad boyfriend.  I wanted to believe he (the company) would come to his senses, make everything right and we would continue walking hand in hand down the aisle.

My best friend, my sponsor, saw it coming and tried to warn me for weeks, suggested I “date around” to find other opportunities.  He told me over and over how worthy I was, how capable and strong I was without “him.”   I finally took his advice and I’m so glad I did.

This week, the breakup happened. It’s over.

Was I devastated by the news? No. I was prepared for it, thanks to my best friend’s encouragement and support to expand my horizons and find other “guys.”

It was a great year with that company.  We had so many fun “dates” – events all over the country where I met our teammates and made new connections.

And, it helped me grow into the woman I am right now – a woman who knows what she wants, knows her worth and ability, feels confident and assured that one breakup does not define the rest of her life.

There is pain and pleasure in MLM.  Enjoy the pleasure, learn from the pain and you’ll be just fine … really, you will.

What has been your pain or pleasure with MLM?

Trisha

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P.S.  I’m loving this “dating around.”  It has brought me some great new connections for building our Naked Hippies business.  You can meet all these “new guys in my life” by clicking here.

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