So What Are You Going To Do About It?

There are a few things that I enjoy about my actual J.O.B. When dealing with customers I like to ask them about work and then life.

Today I had the priviledge of helping a 77 year old gentleman. He came into get 2 phones for him and his wife. When he got out the car I noticed he used a cane to walk with. After conversing with the gentleman he began to tell me that he couldn’t stand for a long time because he had arthiritis.

Not only that but he was dealing with his bout with cancer. After the new year he said he will be back to normal. 1. He said to me that you gotta fight no matter what. If you’re not fighting you are dying.

WOW! At that moment I knew I was going to learn quite a bit from this customer.

He proceeded to tell me that he has been a lawyer for 54 years. He’s enjoyed his time doing what he loves and still works from time to time when he feels like it. The customer then asked me had I made working at AT&T my career. I expressed to him that I’ve been here 2 years. In my head I was thinking 2 years too long.

2. He then told me if you are not happy doing what you are doing do something that you like. Life is too short not to enjoy it.

I wanted to say AMEN brother preach!!! That is why I am working relentlessly to get up out of here. More on that later.

I told the customer after the sale that I listened to every word he shared with me and I am acting on them. I told him the two main points that I learned which I shared above.

This is where the story gets more inspirational. He told me that his dad had a saying. “Deal with the hand God dealt you.”

His dad had polio since he was four. He was crippled on one side of his body. Over time his leg that was once crippled started to work good but the arm never recovered.

His dad’s parents lived on a farm and thought since he was crippled that he would never amount to anything. So they never bothered to enroll him into school or anything.

Over the course of life his dad taught himself how to work on cars, had a good life, and made a decent living.

When my customer was a kid he like any other kid would go cry to his father when things didn’t go right, got hurt, or someone was picking on him. His dad would always ask him SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

He told me that he thought his dad was non compassionate bastard. That was until he grew up and realized what his father was instilling in him. My customer told me that his dad lived in a way that he never realized he really only had one arm.

All this made me think about how so many people jump into the internet, network marketing, and or MLM industry with hopes of achieving success. Most come into it with a $10-$15 mentality thinking if they just work hard enough that they will soon see success. Unfortunately the masses don’t realize they work hard on the WRONG things.

TRAJEDY…….

When things don’t happen right away they are ready to quit and throw in the towel. These are the common complaints: the leads aren’t coming in, I don’t understand this whole keyword research, I can’t ever get anyone to try my products, my sponsor is not there for me, I’m too old to learn how to use the computer to market, my ads aren’t being seen, I can’t get help, I’m not technical savvy, this is too hard, why does it cost so much money.

SO WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Wake up and stop complaining. If it were easy to make million dollars then everyone would do it. We have to take what comes with the territory. Its time to become solution focused.

If you have a problem in your business SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

No leads are coming in….SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Taking you longer to reach your goals……So WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

If there is ever any CHALLENGE in your life always focus on finding a solution to your challenge. Never moan, complain, or whine.

Don’t allow people like that to be around you as well.

This 77 year old guy inspired me to do more and take life by the horns……what about you?

Let’s make things happen,
Adrian

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