If your team isn’t winning, it’s because you weren’t working. You collected a paycheck for years while doing very little, leveraging a great business model while fake working. You were stuck in MANAGEMENT mode. Now, I know some of you were genuinely putting in the hard work and still faced challenges.
I’m not dismissing those of you who truly gave it your all but still encountered obstacles—sometimes the timing just wasn’t right.
Others might have needed a change of scenery, and that’s completely understandable. To everyone who’s winning now, I’m genuinely happy for you. But here’s something we all need to remember: Whatever we do well tends to duplicate sometimes, but whatever we do poorly almost always duplicates. Sure, the economy is down, inflation is out of control, and the network marketing profession as a whole is struggling.
These are all valid external factors, but focusing too much on externalities only shifts responsibility.
Successful people take 100% responsibility for their outcomes. As Jack Canfield said, “Successful people take 100% responsibility for their lives.” When you UNPLUG, which many of you did, it catches up to you—and your team. The problems don’t just linger; they amplify.
Momentum doesn’t care about your reasons for stopping—it cares about the effort you’re putting in right now.
In times of “non-momentum,” it often takes a 10x effort to get things moving again. So if you’ve spent three years in management mode, expect at least a year of working SMART and HARD to get back to a place where you feel progress is being made. Often, when I hear “EVERYONE is WINNING again,” what I really think is, “EVERYONE is WORKING again.”
There’s no magic formula here—just plain old consistent effort.
And yes, I get it—sometimes a change of scenery is what someone needs to start working again. That’s totally valid. Whenever I make posts like this, there are always leaders who think I’m talking specifically about them. But this post isn’t aimed at any one person—it’s a general statement about an issue we all recognize in this industry. We’re all marketers, and everyone has their own bias. We all promote our situations and highlight the best parts of them.
We show the highlights, but rarely the grind behind it.
As a coach, my job is to call out all sides, offer perspective, and create meaningful discussions. So before saying your team isn’t winning, ask yourself—were you truly putting in the work? Or were you just collecting a paycheck while coasting on a great business model?
Take a step back and reflect—honest conversations with yourself are the first step to transformation.
It’s time for honest conversations about what it really takes to succeed.
