Sometimes it happens to the nicest of people and it often happens slowly and subtly. These are the signs that you are becoming indoctrinated, and you are likely annoying your loved ones at this point. You are trying to do your best but part of the system is to sacrifice nearly everything you hold near and dear on the altar of Amway. There are countless stories about this on the internet, and I've lived through some of it myself, having once been an IBO.
*You're driven to recruit everyone you know. You may even resort to deception or outright lies to get people to meetings. Before you know it, your family and friends avoid you like the plague. And can you blame them? Zealous Amway IBOs can often become annoying and overbearing in their quest to go diamond.*You're encouraged to develop an unreasonable, irrational zeal for the products. Even so far as to justify the quality of toilet paper or to call the products prestigious. You may even argue the quality of energy drinks or about phyto-nutrients, something you may not even know about. In the end, is there really any information to confirm that Amway products are any better than run of the mill products? not really.
*A whole bunch of demands, promises, subtle threats of failure if you don't try hard enough are made in the promotional material and motivational seminars. i.e. If you quit, you are a loser destined to die broke and unhappy. The upline will drop these hints as pressure on the IBO to keep going, even if financial losses become staggering.
*Because the system is touted as the way you're going to make yourself fantastically rich, you're under pressure to drop any conflicting or competing interests such as your bowling league or golf club. Nothing else in life has importance except for the quest of financial freedom. All activities in your life must enhance your Amway business and have an effect on your financial future.
*Your upline soon becomes your most trusted friend. Your thoughts and feelings are shaped in part by the cds, meetings and functions. You might even be guilty of "tapespeak", in which you simply parrot what your upline says.
Do you recognize these behaviors? Hopefully you aren't displaying these behaviors.
1 comment:
Amway freaks really are zombies, especially after they have been continually brainwashed by endless meetings and half-assed 'functions."
Like zombies, they walk around in a trance, completely unconscious of anything except Amway, and preying on innocent persons whom they meet.
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