Is procrastination killing your MLM Business? At one time or the other, we’ve all been guilty of it; staying glued to the couch and the TV when there’s work to do; Putting off some important actions until we have to rush and perform them poorly; Postponing a condolence visit until doing so becomes embarrassing to both us and the host, etc.

Let’s quickly narrow the consequences of procrastination down to how it can adversely affect the business you set out to build. When we procrastinate, what happens is that the initial interest we had in that activity and therefore the priority we assigned to it gradually wanes.

When we continue to procrastinate, other activities will continue to build up. Finally, you’ll begin to feel that things aren’t happening fast enough. Then you get overwhelmed, discouraged, and disinterested.

Don’t let that happen to your well thought-out network marketing plan. Start implementing what should be implemented right away. Confront and kill the destructive habit of procrastination, or else it will kill your business.

Here are 4 tips to help you win the fight against procrastination:

Aim at one thing at a time: there’s an African proverb that if you chase two goats at the same time, you’ll catch neither. When you over-task yourself, there’s a tendency to get overwhelmed by the workload. In the end you’ll do nothing.

It’s a lot better to set smaller manageable goals. For example, rather than focusing on writing 240 articles in 3-6 months period, why not break it down to something like 5 articles every week.

In the end you may still achieve your 240-article-per-year target. Shrinking tasks down in this way alleviates the thoughts of feeling overwhelmed.

Moreover, when you set an unwieldy target, you may never seem to have enough time on hand to tackle it, causing you to procrastinate. But when a task is small, we find it easier to get it done with so we can face other things.

Write tasks down: this is one of the most effective strategies to getting things done—and on time. When we write things down, we keep them staring us in the face until we perform those tasks.

So you should not only put important tasks down in writing, you should also keep them where you would frequently bump unto them. Take them out only after they’ve been performed.

Don’t be too competitive: if you constantly measure your achievements in MLM by comparing it with what others are doing, that could lead to procrastination. It works both ways. If the person you are comparing yourself with is obviously achieving far greater success than you , there’s a tendency to feel intimidated.

You could begin to feel like “what’s the point trying. I could never be like this guy. He’s already up there—web content, followership, and of course earnings.”

On the other hand, if the marketer you are looking at is way behind you in achievement, you could begin to feel conceited, like what you’ve achieved is already enough in comparison.

Either way, the tendency would be to put off things that ought to be done. So run your own race! Perform your tasks without looking back.

There is also a tendency to procrastinate when we are not seeing immediate results from our sincere efforts. There may then be a tendency to put off performing certain tasks relating to our MLM goals since the previous efforts are yet to bear fruits.

Is that your experience? The way to overcome this feeling is to remind your self that in MLM, content is compounding. They build up not only in size but also in effect over time. This means that those previous efforts that you thought were in vain are just bidding their time to bear fruit.

So keep working your plan. Refuse to procrastinate. Above all, refuse to give up. Only consistent right actions bring positive results in this and all other businesses.

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