"...Nope. Sorry. Too Busy."

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I was having a conversation with my wife the other day.
Rather, shewas conversing with me through a rather interrogational way. She'sknown to do that sometimes with me.
Especially when the issue at ha... I was having a conversation with my wife the other day.
Rather, shewas conversing with me through a rather interrogational way. She'sknown to do that sometimes with me.
Especially when the issue at handis about my MLM biz.Anyway, she was asking about priorities in my life and when I thoughtabout what she was asking me it suddenly occurred to me that when Ianswered a part of her question by stating that 'I didn't have time'for what she was thinking I should be doing... I realized that I hadactually lied to her without knowing it.You see, I've written about this before and I'll do so here.We all have the time to do our business.
The real (and more accurate)question is do we make it a 'priority'?I know you've almost all heard before from your guru upline triple-chocolate double-diamond star-command leader that a new distributorcan either choose to treat their new business as a hobby, or they canchoose to treat it for what it is... a business.Treat it like a hobby and make 'hobby' income, if any at all.Treat it like a business and make potential 'gangster' money, if atall.Now, with this small insight I had after conversing with my loved oneI would like you to think of this hobby/business stuff as moreappropriately a 'priority/not a priority' issue.I'll explain.You see, if you haven't yet already you're going to come across wholeboatloads of folks (a.k.a.
prospects) who are going toreply/yell/scream/swear back at you... "Look...
I just don't have the time so quit bugging me and don't evercall/talk to me again about your new biz".Now I would like to ask you (rhetorically anyway :-), does thatJane/Joe prospect really not have the time to do a biz deal with you?In some cases... yes.
But in the vast majority of cases... no.Think about it.
What do you do when *you* don't want to do something?I know, I know... silly question..."Duh, Andre, when I don't want to do something I, ah, DON'T DO IT!"I deserved that answer.
:-)But my point here is that when you truly don't want to do somethingthere is something going on beneath the surface of your inaction. Yousee, you're not only not doing what you don't want to do - you're alsomaking a decision that what you're choosing to not do is also, for themoment at least, not important enough for you to take up your valuabletime to do.Essentially, you're deciding that the proposed task at hand is not a'priority'.And what does it mean when something is not a priority?...It means that that something is not important enough to startand/or finish....It means that that particular something is not ranking high enoughin your daily scheme of things to actually dedicate or set-aside timeto do it....It means that although it might be important to get done there areother things that you've decided are more important and they are goingto get done instead of the proposed task-at-hand....It means that even though the task-at-hand might be a bona-fide wayfor you to actually make $800,000 your first week in your MLM deal(joke :-), it just doesn't turn your crank or press your buttonsenough to get you into action to do something about it.Now, let's continue and apply this to your fledgling MLM deal.~~~~Let's get back to that Jane/Joe prospect situation.They're telling you that they don't have the 'time' to do your deal.----~~~~==== Comment ====~~~~----Just yesterday I received an unsubscribe to my auto-responder on mymain deal.The fellow unsubscribing was nice enough to write a small note alongwith his unsubscribe request..."Not interested.
I work full-time."(Ya gotta wonder about folks sometimes :-)---~~~=== Comment - End ===~~~---Now that you're armed with the information I just provided you withabove... you now know that they're just using this 'time' response asan excuse.What they're really saying is that they don't have starting a biz upon their priority list.
It may be on the list, don't get me wrong,it's just not at or near the top of the list. Not high enough toactually get them into action and considering your deal.
Or someoneelse's.Instead they tell folks who contact them (after THEY requested to becontacted in most cases nonetheless!) that they don't have time.That's fine. Leave 'em alone.----~~~~==== Comment ====~~~~----This kind of reminds me of a conversation I overheard one day whileliving down here in Arizona where the wearing of helmets whiledriving/riding on a motorcycle is strictly (and legally) voluntary.(I know, some of you might be thinking 'If they're stupid enough todrive a 150-horsepower engine on wheels without a helmet...
let 'emface the consequences of bugs in-between the teeth and the resultsfrom crashing the bike.' Well, unfortunately, once they open up theirsilly little noggin's on the asphalt roadway when they lay the bikedown at 75 mph we Arizonians are all stuck with paying for the medicalrehabilitation costs. Strange laws we have here in the U.S.of A., eh?)I digressed off of my digression.
Sorry.Anyway, the conversation I overheard was...Concerned 'Person A' (after seeing a non-helmeted rider just arrive ina shopping mall parking lot): "Do you think we should go over thereand tell that guy what could happen to him if he crashes while ridinghis motorcycle? Do you think we should tell him it's not safe to beriding his motorcycle without a helmet?"Non-concerned 'Person B': "Why do that?... Don't you think he ALREADYmade the decision to not wear a helmet?"Good response.
Person B made a keen insight into human thinking.---~~~=== Comment - End ===~~~---Okay, back to this time stuff.How can this insight help you specifically grow your biz? Well, howabout you now really know what the vast majority of, if not all,people are *really* saying when they answer your request to join theirdeal and they say they 'don't have the time'.Does that make them a bad person? NO, of course not.Does that make them a liar? Well, let's be nice here.I would venture a guess that they don't truly know just exactly whatthey are saying with their answer. Just like I didn't know at firstwhen I answered my lovely wife's question about my biz.I truly believed I didn't have enough time to do certain things thatshe thought I should be doing.
But what was actually happening wasn'tthat I didn't have the time to do the actions she thought I should beable to do -- rather I wasn't making these enough of a priority toallow me to actually decide to TAKE the time to do them.Interesting twist there wasn't it.So, digging deeper here...When a prospect tells you that they don't have the time to do yourdeal with you, you now know that your deal is not important enough forthem to do.At least for right now.They don't have doing a biz up there on their priority list. They may*want* to do one.
But not right now because if they did they trulywould make the time to work with you.It's pretty simple when you think about it.Obviously, we're all humans (duh :-) and as humans we mostly don'twant to hurt others feelings. So we tell that little white lie tothose others and also to ourselves.
Instead of doing the work andfiguring out for ourselves what it is that we actually want to bedoing in life, we would mostly rather go along and take the easy routeand just tell ourselves that we don't have the time to do certainthings.Certain things that would have major impact on our life and existenceon this plane. If only we made them a priority.I know that this is tough to see for some of us.
I know that this iswhy we're told to take the six things we want to do that day andprioritize them from most to least important. Even though they may allbe important to us still just categorize them from one to six on thelist.
And then do number one and don't move on to the next one untilthat one is completed. Totally done.THAT is a good way to figure out one's priorities for that day.
Butagain...THAT is a lot of focused work to complete that task.And most folks won't truly have 'doing a biz' up there EVERY day ontheir list of six priority things to do.THAT my friends is what should help you, again, to know in another wayhow to sift and sort those prospects as you work your biz.Don't fight with your prospects.Don't argue with them.Don't 'overcome that objection' of not enough time.Rather, just accept what they say. Because now you know what they aretruly saying....And then just move on to the next prospect.
And hey, what the heck,just come back to that person in a few months or so and ask them againwhat's up in their life and if they truly show interest in your deal,maybe they now 'have the time'.Right? Article Tags: Didn't Have, Don't Have, Don't Want, Important Enough Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com .