If there's one thing that is coming ever so clearer to me regarding a factor dictating a persons success (or not) in MLM, it's about a person's habits in life.

What kind of habits that person has about MLM will literally define the level of success they have.

Think about it.

What kind of habits do you have in your everyday life? Let's look at it. Or at least write about it.

You're daily going to your work.

You get up, get dressed, have breakfast, drive to work in the same manner and route, walk to your office, sit at your desk or cubie and go about your daily routine.

You talk to the same folks.

You do the same work one morning to the next, generally. And then you have a break or two and then have your lunch.

You go through the afternoon and then drive home again through the same route and then get home and possibly kiss your spouse hello. You have supper and then maybe play with the kids or watch the television until it's bedtime and then you dream about your desired wants and start the process all over again the next day.

I ask you. How much do you really think you had, or have, to think to get through your day after day routine? I'll bet not much.

Why?

Because it's a routine.

Was it always a routine? No.

At one point you had to figure all this stuff out.

You had to determine when to get up for that new job and what you would do everyday and how you would drive there and when you would get home and when you had to go to bed to be amply rested for the next day at work.

Essentially, you had to learn your new day. And you had to learn your behavior to get you through your new daily routine.

After a while, your routine became just that. Routine. It became a habit.

You did it, and you're doing it NOW without even thinking about it.

You're just doing it.

Day after day after day after day after day.

And then the weekend arrives and you go through the escape from work routine until the next workweek arrives.

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Your present life.

A routine.

A routine habit.

That's how we humans operate. By learning behaviors until they become habits.

The big question with all this is what kind of habits do you have in your life today. Are they habits that are getting you what you want, or are they leading you in the opposite direction?

This is the key question to determining your success with your MLM biz. Let's discuss it further.

I'll explain and I'll keep this real simple and hopefully very clear in understanding...

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You see, our lives are about habits. That's the way the human mind works. We were programmed through repetition. This occurred to us from our birth onto this physical plane and continues to this day.

How did you learn how to walk? Through forced repetition and failure, right?

How did you learn to write anything? Repeating the same behavior over and over and over again.

Last, how did you learn how to type on that keyboard in front of you right now? Even if you're a one-finger typing machine, you still learned and are learning through repeating the same actions over and over until you master the activity you're attempting to succeed at.

Okay, so we know how you get a habit. By forced repetition.

It's not rocket science and you've probably heard it stated like this elsewhere many times before. I don't profess to be the originator of this thought but it is crucial to understanding how this comes about and how your mind works to create a habit.

So, let's move on to what happens IN you, or more specifically, in your mind, once this habit...the habit in question is 'mastered'.

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What happens to that habit? What happens is, it disappears from sight, and almost from mind.

You see, your conscious thinking about your habit turns from being a thought or series of thoughts that you are repeating to yourself in your conscious mind about the action to ultimately unconscious thoughts stored in your subconscious mind.

Okay, I know. Big jump there.

I'll go more slowly.

Simply, as long as you're thinking about the action that you're doing, then you're working in your conscious mind. Because you actually have to keep telling yourself, your mind, what to do, you haven't yet mastered the action in question. You have to continue to think about it.

You haven't mastered it yet and you haven't made it a habit yet. A habit that you don't and no longer have to 'think' about.

But when you do enter this zone, this habitual way of thinking, the habit becomes unconscious. In other words, ou no longer have to think about it.

As Nike said so perfectly many years ago...You simply 'just do it'.

Again,...

You just do it.

You don't think about it.

You don't mull it over.

You don't stop yourself before you get past the starting line.

You don't need to be externally motivated.

You don't need to listen to your doubts, hesitation, and fears and all that stuff.

You don't have to tell yourself anything consciously.

You just do it.

So who's in the drivers seat then?

Easy…

Your subconscious mind.

It's now operating on automatic pilot and allowing you to automatically think the thoughts that cause the behavior that makes you do the action without you getting in the way. Or at least having your conscious mind impeding your progress.

How do you think you can drive a car, chew gum, drink coffee, listen to the radio, and give the odd person the bird who cuts in front of you on the freeway? And you do this all at the same time!

Do you think you just started out driving your car this way and you did all this without ever hurting yourself or killing someone else in the process? Of course not.

You had to 'learn' the behavior. And as you mastered one aspect of the concept of driving, you moved onto the next aspect.

Driving the car on the way to your J.O.B.

And then listening to the radio while driving the car on the way to your J.O.B.

And then drinking coffee while listening to the radio while driving the car on the way to your J.O.B.

And so on and so on. Eventually, you didn't even have to think about what you were doing. You just did it.

It all became a habit.

And as you mastered a portion of that behavior you continued to add other behavior onto your activity of driving until you ultimately were doing all that stuff, at the same time you were driving the car.

That is how your mind works. That is how your subconscious mind works.

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Again, you want to tell yourself something so you have conscious thoughts in your conscious mind. You continue to tell yourself, direct yourself to do those actions with your conscious mind until those desired actions are no longer conscious.

Do you do those actions before that happens? Probably not.

Why not? Because your conscious mind will stop you with all the reasons 'why not to' do that stuff.

Rather what WILL happen when this process becomes a habit within your mind is your thoughts will essentially get taken over by the subconscious mind. Your thoughts will be passed down into the subconscious mind and it just dictates the actions that you desire without you having to repeat yourself.

Your subconscious mind doesn't judge, opinionate, disagree, agree, or even care about what you want it to do and what you are telling it to do from your conscious mind. It just accepts your desired activity request and follows through with it.

And what happens then?

Voila! A habit is formed.

Okay…

Now, let's move on to your MLM business.

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What are your habits pertaining to your MLM business? I'll bet that they aren't too good or too effective. Otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this article, would you?

NO badgering intended on my part, just the truth. :-)

Again, what are your habits with your beginning and maybe floundering MLM biz? Do you have the habits that all successful MLM'ers have? Do you work on your business in the right 'HABITUAL' way?

The way that those successful MLM folks do?

Do you work on yourself in a way that will grow you as a person so that your business will grow along with you? Or are you stuck in trying to figure out how to make all of this work without really sticking with the successful actions?

You see, since you're probably not making it happen too well with your MLM biz, or you're just starting out with it, you probably don't have any successful habits with your biz.

This is not pounding-on-you or beating-you-up time from me. I'm just stating the facts.

I ask you, why would you have the habits of MLM success down pat? Right now, today, you wouldn't. If you did, you'd be an MLM heavy wouldn't you?

So, since we agree that getting into the habit of MLM is your ultimate goal so that you make your primary deal work and get this puppy rolling to the finish line for you, then you need to do a little work on your conscious mind and re- program that subconscious mind hiding beneath it.

You need to implant into your subconscious mind the habits of successful MLM'ers.

You need to have the daily necessary thoughts that create the behaviors and actions to grow your business AND yourself become as automatic as driving that car on the freeway whilst you chew and drink and listen and curse at those 'other' ignorant drivers.

Yes, it has to become that automatic. Otherwise, you won't make it. I guarantee you that.

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You see, your mind, our minds, are all the same. Basically.

And it is our 'mind' and only our mind that separates us from our pets. There is nothing more unique about the human body than what can be found in your pet cat or dog's body. Seriously.

But the only thing that you do have that is unique to you as an organism on this planet is your 'mind'. And all that that entails.

That's the great gift you've got and you need to learn how to properly program it so that you succeed in life and in your MLM business. You see, you need to develop some new habits.

You need to develop the habit of working on your business instead of watching the television for three hours every night.

You need to develop the habit of getting up an hour early every day to read a self-help book instead of sleeping-in again.

You need to stay away from the movie theater for that Saturday afternoon matinee so that you can get into the habit of using that time for calling those leads or that list you have. You need to develop that habit.

You need to develop the habit of believing in your company, your products, your business, the MLM industry, and most importantly...yourself. Yes, you need to make that a habit.

You don't have it that way yet. I know you don't.

You need to do what it takes to change your mind and you need to do it as many times as you find necessary until you're living the life of an MLM'er who is successful.

You need to inject into your days AND your life the habits of success in your MLM business that will get you what you want out of it.

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What you are in the habit of doing right now WON'T get you there.

I'll repeat that.

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What you are in the habit of doing right now WON'T get you there.

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Accept that. It won't.

But like a computer, your mind and your subconscious mind can be reprogrammed with success. And that reprogramming is not up to…

…your upline,

…your partner in life,

…me,

…your friends,

…your Higher Power,

…your parents,

…or anyone or anything else.

It's ultimately up to YOU.

Again, your life needs to become filled with the daily habits of successful MLM'ers.

You have to unconsciously choose and then do those actions that WILL get you what you are working towards with your business. They have to be automatic autopilot actions. Otherwise YOU'LL get in the way.

Like you are now.

And that is why you're spinning your wheels. And are frustrated to no end.

Right?

Get OUT of your way.

Get INTO your mind.

Develop the habits of successful MLM'ers. Look for them. Find the one's who made it big in the 90's. Perhaps even the late 90's. They know what it takes to make it big in today's MLM industry.

Mimic their actions. Mimic their thoughts. Mimic THEM.

Read the books they do. Listen to the tapes they do. Work on your-SELF like they are. Absorb their habits of BEING and doing MLM until you 'become' them in thought and activity. And you do what they do without second-guessing any of it.

Get your-self on autopilot.

Get your old programming erased.

Get your conscious mind out of the picture and delve into programming your subconscious mind. Yes, that unique part of you that has nothing to offer you but what you program it with.

Program it with the habit of MLM success.

Remember that overused saying…'Change your mind, change your life'?

Now you know why it's so critical for you to do more than just read and remember it.

Go ahead. Change your mind.

And get in the habit of MLM success, okay?

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.freemlmebook.com

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