Let me tell you something: if you're planning to get into network marketing, you should rent out your brain to your mentors. That's how the business works. Ask them about everything. Changes in your life. Spending money. Travel plans. Everything should be brought to your mentors and filtered through them. That's how you grow your business in network marketing—by working with your mentors and listening to what they tell you to do.
But here's the problem: If you have any counter intentions—if you aren't actually looking to build the business, if you're still poking around, going, "I'm not too sure this is for me"—then there are definitely some dangers in renting out your brain to mentors.
Bottom line? They're gonna make a lot of decisions on your behalf. Including financial decisions. And they're not necessarily thinking what's going to be best for you, how they can support your passions, how they can support your personal goals. They're thinking in terms of how to support you on a business level.
That means if you have other priorities, those must be communicated to your mentors. And they may advise you to drop those priorities—or, in some rare instances, support you in them. But either way, if you happen to have other priorities and network marketing isn't really your main thing—and you haven't communicated this—then seeking advice from your upline mentors could actually be a hazard to you.
I realized this for myself as I was starting to go through some financial difficulties. In my experience with network marketing, I went through financial difficulties two or three times. And it was really around the third time that it finally hit me: If I continue to prioritize what my mentors are telling me to prioritize, I'm just gonna continue to go further into debt. Broke. Possibly unable to buy another car. Things weren't gonna turn out well for me if I just kept renting my brain out to my mentors.
At the end of the day, you still have to make the decisions. You have to make a decision that's in alignment with you. That feels right to you. That feels good to you. Others can give you counsel. You can ask for advice, strategies, tactics, and techniques. And that may not necessarily be a bad thing. You are going to get some feedback that will prove useful.
But you shouldn't expect anything that isn't fully in alignment with you to work out in the real world. And that's the danger of renting out your brain to your mentors.
In this post (and video), I share why renting out your brain to mentors works in network marketing—and when it becomes dangerous. https://davidandrewwiebe.com/the-danger-of-renting-out-your-brain-to-mentors/
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