Empower and me–what was I thinking…

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

I recently joined the Empower network, and this is my first blog post, not just with Empower, but EVER.  Watch how it sucks!

I say that with all honesty–I’m working against a clock here.   Part of my commitment to this system is to blog every day, and my day is almost up.  I now have a choice–one that most of us have all of the time–get it done or do it well.   It’s a scary choice–it opens us up to the critical judgement of others.

The reason that this is my first blog post is that like most people, I keep choosing to do it well instead of getting it done.  This is a crap decision.  I keep giving myself excuses with all of the other things that I need to do, but what it boils down to is this–I don’t like doing things badly.  I don’t like failing.  I REALLY don’t like failing in front of witnesses.  It scares me.

I’ve decided to get over it.   Most people don’t care any part of a rat about me (much less a rat’s heinie).

So, I’m blogging.  Tadah!  And the suggested initial topic is the reason that you joined Empower.

One reason that I joined Empower is that I realized that I need more training to grow my online business.   It was a journey to get here.  Starting in May (shortly before my birthday), I was re-evaluating my life, and I decided that things need to change.  I believe in myself and in the companies I work with, but I’m not getting anywhere.  My conclusion was that I need to learn more and change ME in order to be more successful.

So, I started listening to personal development audio and reading books/magazines from well-known coaches.  These personal/business development professionals were all saying that successful people spend about 3% of their income on self-development, and that they do this ALL THEIR LIVES!

This was in June.  My first thought was that this made good sense, and I should do more training.  After I heard the same thing about the third time, I had an epiphany:  Whoa!  I need to be spending 3% of my income on self-development.  I haven’t been doing that.  Whether I think I can afford it or not, I need to find a good training program and pony up the money to feed my mind.  I’m not going to get where I want to go until I do what I need to do, and I don’t know what that is yet.  That is why I need to spend the money on training!

By serendipity, Empower came to mind as that training vehicle when someone I respect, and is an upline in my main MLM, posted about them on Facebook.  I had heard about Empower months ago but rejected it (another stupid mistake of mine).  After my June epiphany, I realized this was also a bunch of crap.  If Empower was something that would provide the training necessary to help me build any business, then it would help me build my main MLM.

So, here I am, working the steps to Empower.  And you are the recipients of my very first, very crappy, blog post.

I am choosing to face my fears and learn what I need to learn in order to build a business with a company that I believe in so very much.  I am willing to fail in public to do that.  It won’t kill me.  It won’t kill you.

I suggest that you be less of an idiot than I have been and get started now.  Your first blog post can’t suck more than this one.