Why Isn’t This Working?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Why Isn’t This Working?
We’ve all had those days. Nothing seems to be going right. It’s the end of your 30-60-90 day plan and it’s time to review your results. You’re more than disgusted to see that you are not hitting your numbers. The results are just not cutting it.
You go back over your action plan to see what went wrong. Why is there a drop here…and small momentum there? Why are you no where near your goals?
You’ve done everything right…followed all the advice. Faithfully executed all of the strategies. Still, it looks like you are light years away from reaching your goal.
The dream vacation and the luxury car that you were planning to purchase now look like more of a joke than a dream.
You’re tempted to pick up the phone and call your sponsor and unload a world of hurt on him.
You see yourself screaming into the phone: WHY ISN’T THIS WORKING???
Why This Isn’t Working? Here’s a Few Reasons
First of all…don’t do that. Fight the urge to beat up on your sponsor. It’s really not their fault. And any sponsor with an ounce of game isn’t going to put up with that crap anyway. You may very likely get a world of hurt unloaded back onto you. So just chill.
Now, to answer the question…why isn’t this working? Well the answer could be any number of things.
First of all…you may have grossly overestimated your efforts. Sometimes it’s hard to be objective about ourselves and our work. What may have seemed like 10 hours of labor may have actually boiled down to one. There’s a difference between being effective and being busy. If you’re going through a learning curve, it may all feel like it’s the same, but I assure you it’s not.
It could also be that your goal wasn’t achievable to begin with. I’m not saying that you can’t achieve anything and everything you set your mind on doing. That is ridiculous. Of course you can. But you can’t run 26.2 miles without first crossing mile 5. Perhaps your timeframe from on getting from point A to point B just wasn’t possible from the get go.
And lastly, it’s entirely possible that it just hasn’t happened yet! Patience is a dirty word in this ‘I want it and I want it now’ culture we live in. If you truly have been diligently following your action plan, then just trust that you’re desired results are on the way.
Why Isn’t This Working? So Now What?
By now you’ve figured that asking why isn’t this working doesn’t really work either. So now what? Well, take a deep breath, step away from the phone and really consider the three possible reasons above.
Time to remove emotion from the equation. Look objectively at the facts.
-Are you being as effective as you could be?
-Are your goals realistic given the time frame and your current level of experience and knowledge?
Don’t compare your results to other people. That is the quickest way to make you doubt everything that you are doing.
Sometimes getting the results you want requires a little patience. Perhaps the question isn’t why isn’t this working…but rather why will this work.
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