One of the many things that IBOs are badly misguided on is the concept of dreams and fighting for dreams. A dream is basically a long term goal. Someone might dream about playing in the National Football League. To accomplish that dream, one might play high school and/or college level football. For the vast majority, the dream will end. No matter how much someone wants to play in the NFL, only so many people are proficient enough to be able to make the team. Sometimes you even need a bit a luck to find the right situation to be able to make the team. Even fewer are elite players that become stars. So while you might fight for your dreams, there is also an alternate reality.
In the Amway business, via the "systems" such as WWDB or Network 21, the leaders will often sell hopes and dreams to the downline. That the downline can be retired at the age of 29, walking the beaches of the world while the income just rolls in forever and ever. These kinds of "dreams" would be the same as hoping to win the powerball lottery. You may have seen a few who did it but the chance of you duplicating it is very unlikely. Slim to none is your chance in reality. Even those who might achieve diamond will find it difficult to maintain. The truth is that there are many people who went diamond and are no longer diamonds and no longer receiving "residual income".
Another thing uplines will often do is tell anecdotal stories about crabs keeping each other in a bucket when one tries to escape, or about monkeys preventing each other from grabbing bananas at the top of the pole. While the stories may be interesting and even true, it doesn't necessarily apply to the Amway business. While it is true that an IBO may have friends and family who are skeptical about Amway, it is with good reason. Many people have gone through the Amway business with no success. Many people have lost money doing everyting they were advised to do by upline. There is a track record of financial disasters associated with Amway and the attached "systems". It's not like there's a long list of people who have walked away from Amway with the cash rolling in and not a care in the world. Ever wonder why none of the crown ambassadors have exercised the option to "walk away"? Instead, crown ambassadors die on the job.
I think people should have dreams. I think people should pursue their dreams. I also think people need to know that certain dreams can come true. There also needs to be a degree of reality in their dreams. There will always be some inspirational person such as a "Rudy" who overcame great odds to accomplish a dream, but the untold reality is that there were probably many many young men who dreamed of playing for Notre Dame that year. Likely, no one else accomplished the unlikely dream like a Rudy. What I am saying is that earning a nice income and having the option of early retirement can be acomplished in many ways. You might be choosing to use Amway to accomplish your financial dreams and that is your right. But the reality is that very few people have made all their financial dreams come true due to the Amway opportunity, as compared to the tens of millions who have tried.
Keep fighting for your dreams, but keep in mind that you might need a plan B and a dose of reality.
The business of Amway Crown Ambassadors dying on the job (rather than retiring and living in leisure) is a crucial fact to consider.
ReplyDeleteA basic truth is this: THERE IS NO RESIDUAL INCOME IN AMWAY. You can't quit and still have checks coming in every month. Unless you are actively promoting your business through the recruitment of new down-line, your old down-line will eventually fall away, and you will see your income shrivel to nothing.
This is the really devilish lie that Amway pushes: It says "It all depends on you! You can go as far as you want in Amway! You don't have to depend on the work of others! You're an IBO -- an Independent Business Owner!"
But the exact opposite is the truth. You only make money in Amway by endless and laborious recruitment of others, and if those others drop out or don't recruit, then you can't do anything else except to keep on recruiting MORE AND MORE! You are totally dependent on the choices and actions of others.
Amway is a life of self-imposed and freely chosen slavery.