By Marcus
A week after the Internet Marketing Workshop of Mr. Jomar Hilario, is the date where M.A. become an accredited Sales Associate on a Real Estate Company. There he met his Manager Carl and his girlfriend, which is also a Sales Associate, Anne. At the very moment they met, there's sort of a same grounds that makes them friends easily.
At the accreditation Seminar, the President of the Company does the talking. There he explain how the business works and opens to the attendees the great opportunity their business offers. And at that very moment, M.A. knew that this is the job he is looking for. He knew that if someone wants to have a business, he must know how the business works, so that person must work first on a company that offers the same kind of business that you want in the future, and then study the business and then do the business. Luckily, being a Real Estate Sales Associate, what you do is like doing business itself. Because in Real Estate Company, they offer the product, the Sales Associate help the company in selling the product, and the profit that the Sales Associate will gain is base on his/her performance, and thus, they are doing the business already.
NETWORKING
In business, when you're not netWORKing, you're not WORKing, that's one advice of the President of the Company to all the new Accredited Sales Associate. So after the Seminar, he starts texting to everyone in his contacts about his new business.
While walking home... until he got home... until he finishes all his contact...
he was texting.
After a while, he got some response from his contacts that says, they got it noted, and that makes M.A. so happy.
SUCCESS IS BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME... NOT!!!
T. Harv Eker said that success is not just being in the right place at the right time - you have to be the right PERSON at the right place at the right time.
And that's what exactly happened to M.A. He may be in the right place at the right time when he saw success to his business but he is not the RIGHT person yet. Yes, M.A. has a wealthy mindset and that's crucial to success, but having the right attitude as a salesman/businessman is not equipped yet to M.A at that time. But as I've said a while ago, M.A. has a wealthy mindset and so that keeps him going forward.
IT'S NOT EASY
In 3 months without a closed deal, M.A.'s wealthy mind can take it, because he knows all the things that doesn't kill us, only makes us strong, but as a fresh graduate with no own money yet, M.A.'s parents cannot. It's a funny thing but yes, because of this scenario, M.A. is still asking for his allowance. Thank God his parents are the best parents in the world (for M.A.) so he still can manage to go out and attend the meetings and meet his girlfriend. But in M.A.'s mind, it's not easy for him to still ask for his allowance to his parents, so he made a point that, with his first full commission, he will not ask for money anymore to his parents plus he will give money regularly, every commission, as a part of his gratitude to his parents. But for now, he still needs to work hard.
FINALLY!!!
By this time, 2010 is almost coming to an end. And it became the spark that M.A. is all been waiting for to the success of his career.
A woman texted M.A. and inquire about a house that he is selling. He answered all the questions his Clients asked. He scheduled a tripping. Go to the site and the Client inspects the site. They go home so that the Client can talk to his husband about their chosen house.
... A week after. They go to the office, and officially... CLOSE THE DEAL!!!
And that also ends the year for his company. He closed the Last Deal for the Year on his Company. What a great way to end the year! ;)
LESSON FOR THE DAY - "PLAY now and PAY later or PAY now PLAY later"
Read Proverbs 5
At the end of your life you will groan,
when your flesh and body are spent.
You will say, “How I hated discipline!
How my heart spurned correction!
I would not obey my teachers
or turn my ear to my instructors.
Proverbs 5:11-13
As I'm browsing a blog in the net before I write mine, I came up to this passage in the bible. And the lesson for today is related to this.
In life two things can happen: We can “play now and pay later” or we can “pay now and play later.” What do I mean by this? Let me illustrate: A boy was raised with a golden spoon in his mouth. His father was a seaman who earned a lot of money that gave his dad the capacity to send him to an aeronautical school so he can become a pilot someday. He blew his chance by hanging out with the wrong kind of friends. He was involved in using illegal drugs and theft. Two decades later, this boy is now a man who regretted his past actions and wished that he had done things differently. He played then and he is paying the price now.
Another boy was born into a wealthy family. The family fortune was lost when his father died. Being the eldest child, he became the breadwinner of the family. At an early age, he learned how to sell food and other goods in the streets, competing with men and women who were at least twice his age. In his teenage years, he bought his own bicycle so he can go to nearby towns and barrios to sell soap, thread, candles and other things that people need. He would wake up early so he can start selling early on. By the time the sun sets, he would be on his way home to bring food and money back to his family. This boy is John Gokongwei who is now one of the richest men in Asia.
AN INSPIRATION
This inspires me a lot. And I think this is how M.A. is motivated to his SUCCESS. He chose to Pay now which is accepting all the not so good things that his parents told to him, because of not having a normal job. Doing his job all day long rather than partying with friends (Because at that time, when he is still looking for his first client, it was Christmas season, party here and party there. But he chose to PAY now, of not being able to go to the parties that he was invited to so that he can focus on having a first closed deal, and to PLAY later, where he can be financially free because of his hard work and have more time to his future family.
So I advice you guys to do the same. To do what sir John Gokongwei has done, than to regret life, because of wrong doings you might be doing now, for the rest of your life.
May you have a wonderful Journey to Success!!!
-Marcus
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