Hello savvy leaders! This episode is about the one most important thing you’re going to need to do to unlock what YOUR future holds.
It’s a great day to be in direct sales, isn’t it? Today we are getting into the ONE most important thing every leader in direct sales needs to do to unlock what YOUR future holds.
This is all about you. Not your team. Not your customers. Not your mentor. Not your prospects. Not your kids, family, or dog. No. This is all about you.
You spend significant time and energy serving and giving to others. And it can actually feel a bit lonely in your role.
I want you to take this time with me for yourself and yourself alone. Ultimately, everyone around you will benefit. But this time right now is just for you.
Why?
Because ONE we almost never do this leadership work on our own. So, stay with me. You’re in good hands.
And TWO you’ve been dismissing and justifying some areas as a leader where there is simple opportunity with huge payoffs.
Are You Playing Small as a Leader in Direct Sales?
This episode will be worth your time because if there’s an area as a leader you’ve been playing small (and there is, because there always is) and you know where & how you’re playing small, I will invite you to once and for all face it.
And if you don’t know what that area is yet, that you’re playing small in as a leader, then this time together will be that much more worth it for you.
So, what is playing small? Playing small is going through the motions, doing what’s easy, routine, actions that are reactive, and living and working out of habit.
We feel unsure a lot of the time. We feel uneasy. It feels like we’re questioning ourselves more than we want to. We’re indecisive.
What it’s not, is working and living with intention to your fullest potential.
When we’re not playing small, we’re playing big, our actions are focused, deliberate, we pause, the rhythm to our day is slower and more genuine.
We’re more certain of ourselves, our choices, and our actions. Playing big brings much more satisfaction and fulfillment because we’re not working or living in a reactive state.
Live and Work Your Direct Sales Business with Intention
When you’re playing big you are working and living with intention to your fullest potential. You are working and living toward all that your FUTURE holds.
I want you to know that every leader questions if they are being effective for their team. You’re human. It’s incredibly common.
I cover more about confidence as a leader in my free guide called 4-Step Success Process to Help Transfer Belief and Resilience to Your Team by becoming a Savvier Leader.
Hands down, all of the successful women I have worked with in the past question their leadership abilities and if they are enough. If they are meeting the needs of their team.
They question whether there is a blind spot they are missing crucial opportunities they just haven’t seen, yet their team is craving to have help with.
They question if they are connected enough to their people in a way that their emerging leaders both need and value.
The very same leadership abilities these savvy leaders question are often the very same leadership qualities their team shares with me that they admire about this person. It’s fascinating.
And yet, I wish these savvy leaders could own what others value in them. But the truth is they really have to work at it. It requires them to allow me to both challenge them and encourage them.
And that’s what I’m going to ask of you. I’m here to challenge you even as the savvy leader that you already are. To encourage you to become even more savvy as a leader.
Because the work you’ve done to get where you are is remarkable. But I know you believe there is room to grow, to learn, to become even better for what YOUR future holds.
It’s going to require one thing of you.
The Most Important Attribute You Can Exercise as a Leader
And that is … to get uncomfortably honest with yourself. Yes! To the point of discomfort.
Not honest in a way that has been passive or dismissive, where you downplay the areas you know you could level up in. Maybe that sounds something like “Oh I just fly by the seat of my pants. That’s just what I do. That’s just my style.”
Or “I really should get back to the basics. Of doing more of what I did when I first started my network marketing business.”
Or “I really should be better with my time management.”
Yet you try this or that. You implement something for a day or a week or a month and it doesn’t stick.
Getting uncomfortably honest with yourself will also help you identify the opportunity areas you haven’t even discovered yet. But to sit in that discomfort. To feel all of it. To ask yourself the hard questions.
This is the space…where you sit with the hard questions…where you get uncomfortable, this is the space where the answers will be revealed.
Missed Opportunities as a Leader in Network Marketing
I’m here to invite you to once and for all identify & admit to yourself the area of missed opportunity where you’re playing small yet there are huge payoffs waiting if you were playing big.
Sometimes the answers are right below the surface. You simply haven’t gotten quiet and still long enough to identify the way forward and the next step.
Other times the answers are buried. Sometimes deep down. And we need significant guidance to help dig them up.
So, let’s start with one question you can sit with, be quiet with and see what comes up for you.
Where as a leader is there simple opportunity with big payoffs that you’ve been justifying and dismissing?
I’m going to ask you again.
Where as a leader is there simple opportunity with big payoffs that you’ve been justifying and dismissing?
What are the areas for you? Could you use your time better? Would it be getting back to the basics in your personal business? Are you flying by the seat of your pants?
And maybe it’s something else entirely.
When and where will you sit, just be, have some quiet, and get uncomfortable? Let yourself be uncomfortable with all of it.
Your past performance, the disappointment, the missed opportunity, the reasons behind why you’re playing small, how you’ve justified it and accepted less than your personal best and let it unfold.
Become savvier as a leader and embrace it. The way forward will come. Because the best is yet to come. Always.
