"These things never work!" How often have we heard that phrase? You have an idea, you're enthusiastic about it but there's always someone who will try to rain on your parade. The sad fact is that very often the comment may even be justified, there are lots of things that fail. The failure rate doesn't just affect a few business approaches, it's a very common occurrence in any of life's ventures - If you chose to see it that way. However, it's worth remembering that it only takes a few verifiable positive results to prove the statement wrong.
I'm inclined to think that there are two ways of viewing the result of any attempt to do almost anything. Some see failure as an end point where others see failure as educational, merely a step in the road to success. Successful people have failed, not just once or twice but repeatedly until they have it figured out. As observers, we generally only see the end result, the winning athlete, the hugely successful business person, the incredible invention. The road of how they got to where their success was acclaimed is so much less interesting to a world raised on 15 second TV sound bites.
So, how is my personal plan 'B' working out for me. Slowly, but surely, is I think a fair assessment. The slowly part is that for my particular affiliate program to work, I have to have three lines of affiliates all bringing in a certain amount of sales revenue. Now whereas one line is going great guns, with over six hundred people in the team, I have yet to reach certain levels in two other business lines. Am I worried, do I consider this a failure - not at all. It may just take a little longer than I might have wished is all. The steps I can celebrate is that the three lines are well established and my job is to do everything I can to help them grow. The line with six hundred affiliates, might be considered success in the bank. The overriding success, is that the plan has been started and my team and I are well on our way. Six months in, we haven't failed, we are six months ahead of anyone who was offered the same opportunity but chose not to join in. Not only that, but we each have a little nest egg of gold, perhaps small now but accumulating nonetheless.
