Hi Everyone: Thank you creekindiannana for your message. It sounded
like you were in a tough financial state and the MLM seemed like the
rope you needed to pull you out of the quicksand.
I know I joined a MLM several years ago when I was unhappy with my
career and was looking for a way to get out of it. The MLM seemed
like the vehicle that I could use to build a business while still
being fully employed. I thought it would give me the freedom to then
decide what I wanted to do. Of course, it went nowhere and I lost
most all of my money. My wife joined Arbonne a couple of years ago at
the request of her sister and she tried it for three or four months
and went nowhere. My wife did it thinking it would help pay for our
first daughter's wedding. It drained cash rather than adding cash. I
thought it would but didn't want to interfere with her relationship
with her sister.
Her sister since has gone onto two other MLMs and has tried to
recruit us to join each of them. What I would love to know is how all
of you decided to join a MLM; what was it that motivated you to make
the investment of time and energy required. I venture to say that
most of us didn't have any clarity about what MLMs really were and
how small the odds were of success. We were persuaded about how
beneficial the products or services were to others so we felt like we
were doing some purposeful only to find we were only filling the
wallets of those at the top and straining family and friendship ties
by using the relationships to earn money off of them.
In retrospect, the MLMs were not what I dreamed I wanted, but more of
a means to help me decide what I wanted to do. They promised the
freedom and the flexibility for those of us to full time jobs working
for others believed was the answer. We thought it would help us get
rid of the pain of our financial woes or make us millionaires so we
could then decide what we want. They got us caught up in the euphoria
of a life free from the debt or make ends meet existence. But in
reality all they were offering was "pain relief", not the means to
help us discover, chart and pursue a career doing what we love. So I
am really curious what motivated the rest of you down that road. From
such, we can perhaps be more effective at helping others have clarity
before they make the decision to join a MLM. If they could see it
really is more their running away from what they don't want (poverty
or financial stress) than going after what they want, we can
influence them to make wise decisions.
Thank you all for what you've taught me so far.
Warmly, Troy L. Tate
Troy Tate
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