I’ve read many books during my free time. When I was introduced into network marketing more than 8 years ago, one of the books that I was presented with was “Parable of the Pipelines” by Burke Hedges. It was simply a good book that was easily understood. This is a summary of the book.

Two ambitious young men, Bruno and Pablo, who were “big” dreamers lived in a small village. They dream to become the richest person in the village. Both of them were hardworking and always have bright ideas. What they needed was an opportunity to realize their dreams.

One day the awaited opportunity came to them. The villagers decided to hire them to carry water from the nearby river to the village cistern. They accepted the job and started the work immediately. Both of them carry their buckets and headed to the river.  At the end of the first day at work, they had filled the village cistern to the brim. The village elder paid them a penny for each bucket of water transported.

“We are going to be rich if we continue to do this everyday! God had fulfill our dream!” shouted Bruno. But Pablo was not very sure of this as his body was aching from carrying the heavy buckets. In fact, he dreaded himself from bed the next day to continue carrying the buckets of water. Pablo vowed to find a better solution to solve the misery. He proposed to Bruno that they should built a pipeline from the river to the village. However, his idea was rejected by Bruno.

Bruno carried 100 buckets of water a day and was soon became a rich man. He bought a new house for himself. The villagers cheered for him for his hard work. On the other hand, Pablo only work half a day carrying buckets of water and spend the other half of the day and the weekends building his pipeline. Pablo had to work long hours but his earning was not as good as Bruno. The villagers mocked him and even called him “Pablo the pipeline man”. But Pablo had a dream that would help him in the future. He kept reminding himself that short-term pain equaled to long-term gain. He had to achieve his goal in building the pipeline.

Days turned into months, Pablo realized that his pipeline was almost completed. One day as he sat under a tree to take his rest, he watched his friend Bruno lugging buckets of water. Bruno was not the same person that he knew. Bruno was in pain whenever he carried the buckets; his steps slowed down as days passes by; he was an angry man and sullen, to the fact that he was doomed to carry buckets, day in day out, for the rest of his life, just to be “rich”.

Finally, Pablo’s big day arrived! The pipeline was completed! Pablo need not have to carry buckets anymore. The water from the river flowed throughout whether he worked or not; it flowed while he ate, slept! The more water flowed to the village, more and more money flowed into his pockets. The villagers lauded Pablo for his vision.

However, Pablo realized that what he had accomplished was merely a fraction of a big, big dream. He had the skills and methods to build pipelines and by working with his friend, Bruno, they could build pipelines to supply water to more villages.

Pablo came to see Bruno. He shared his plan with him… A dream to build pipelines all over the world!

What do you think?

Talk soon,

Jailani

* There are many lessons that we can learn by reading the book. It started with a dream; given opportunity; positive ideas; mindset …. Build pipeline dreams in a bucket carrying the world….

The key in promoting your network marketing business is to recognise that your success or failure is in your own hands even though deep in our thought that it’s all up to fate, as we could only plan what we desire.

A young man once captured a small bird and held it in his hands. He took the bird to the wise old man in the mountain and held it behind his back. The young man actually had some plan to test whether the old man was really a truly wise. He said to himself, “This is my chance to show that the wise old man isn’t so wise after all. I will ask the wise man if the bird is alive or dead. If he says it is alive, I will then squeeze my hands and crush the bird to dealth! If he says it is bird, I will free the bird and let it fly away. So, either way, he will be wrong.”

The young man stood before the wise old man of the mountain, holding the bird tightly in his hands. “God bless you, old man, ” the youth said. “I hold a bird in my hands. Now, if you are really a wise man, tell me, whether this bird is alive or dead?” The wise man looked deep into the boy’s eyes. Then he said, “The answer, my boy …….. is up to you.”

When it comes to making out ideas successful or the business to excel, our fate is in our own hands.

Talk to you soon,

Jailani

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As a network marketer, an IT trainer and an outdoor events organizer, I have to ensure that I’m able to manage the time well to execute all the tasks accordingly. Being able to manage your time is not enough. You need to have the passion. You must love what you are doing. If you want to succeed in whatever you do, you must know the art of self-motivation.

On my previous blog, I shared with you an article written by the founder of the Leaders Club, Andre Vatke on the importance of motivation if you are a network marketer. In the article, he stated the reasons to be self-motivated if you want to succeed in the industry.

How do you motivate yourself? It may sound difficult, but actually if you know how to do it, motivating yourself towards success, is achievable. It may easier said than done. But, deep in my heart I know that you can do it.

Needs and confidence equalled actions and motivation. Motivation comes from many angles. As a network marketer, the system provides you with the positive environment, teaching you all the know-how, giving you all the tools you need to succeed in the business. However, the most important aspect in keeping you focus in the business is none other than your own self-motivation in believing that you can succeed in the business.

How you keep yourself motivated will determine how positive and serious you are in managing your business franchise. One of the method to keep you self-motivated is to have daily habits or tasks that will keep you focus and positively charged. I called this the daily habits of a Network Marketer.

Listen to tapes related to the industry. Read books to increase your knowledge and if you have to opportunity to built a mini library, then do it. Try to attend all meetings organized by the system and your direct selling company. You must use all your products that you are marketing.  This will give you the confident to share with others by knowing the characteristics of the products. Have regular contacts with your working uplines. Try to be a good student yourself. Don’t forget to build your organization by doing some retailing of the products and share with others the business ooportunity.

If you continue to do this very often, I bet that you will be motivated yourself. You strengthen the believe, you will not be easily distracted by things not concern to your business, and you will definitely put aside all rejections and focussing on taking actions to succeed.

There are other methods available but the above is one of the core that must be done so that your desire won’t be ‘killed’ by the negative surroundings.

Talk soon,

Jailani

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