Affiliate since: 06/24/2015, Power Rank: 99999999

While relying on a sponsor sounds wonderful to help get you started in business, you honestly should view your sponsor more as a resource, than a crutch for your business. If you don't support your business with your own desire, work, and effort, deciding to rely on your sponsor, you could end up with a rather shaky business that won't withstand the test of time.

For this reason, I would suggest that you do not rely on your sponsor to build a successful business. You should rely on the training materials, your desire, the team you build, and focus your energies into completely duplicating what your sponsor or co-sponsor shows you. If they don't show you the process, or you feel like they are not responsive enough, you can always ask others and use the forums to ensure you get the right answers you need.

Any business that you begin is only as strong as you make it.

Think of it this way...

If you build a house on the beach, you must build stilts to support the weight of the house. If you want to build a second floor, you must then ensure that the first floor and the stilts can both handle the additional weight. This would directly translate into your business as your sponsor is above you (the second story), and you are the first story, while those you sponsor are the stilts.

While your sponsor holds an interest in your business (because they don't want to fall), they have other beach houses they can live atop (their other sponsored affiliates)... so you are not their everything, though they do care about your success...

Meanwhile, your success depends directly on the stilts (your sponsored affiliates) being able to support you. This means that if you don't work with them to ensure you are supported, you crash into the ground below, while your sponsor adjusts to another supported structure, and tries to offer advice and suggestions on how to build your first level better.

This means:
1. While your sponsor is a great resource to help you build your business, they are not as vested in your business as you are; they work with multiple supports for their own house.
2. There is nobody that will want to ensure your house is supported as much as you will; take advice and suggestions from others, but it remains up to you to take action and make sure your house is built!
3. While it is up to you to put in the "hard work" to ensure that your house is built properly, you can always lean on sponsors, co-sponsors, the SFI forums and even your team mates for help in making sure that you build your house secure -- but also have the opportunity to ensure that you are also set up for the niceties that are possible as you build!

I hope this helps you understand that the best option is to rely first on your own efforts, and second upon the support of your sponsor, co-sponsor, and SFI forums equally, to ensure that you can find the success you seek in your SFI business!

I wish you the best!
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While relying on a sponsor sounds wonderful to help get you started in business, you honestly should view your sponsor more as a resource, than a crutch for your business. If you don't support your business with your own desire, work, and effort, deciding to rely on your sponsor, you could end up with a rather shaky business that won't withstand the test of time.

For this reason, I would suggest that you do not rely on your sponsor to build a successful business. You should rely on the
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Affiliate since: 06/24/2015, Power Rank: 99999999

This is something that is often asked in many organizations.

The real question you are asking here is simple: "Do I want to be seen as an expert in my field, or as merely another team member, when I begin to grow my own team?"

Can you see that in your question?

If you decide that you do not want to go for the team leader, you are not maximizing your impact on others that you recruit. They will see that you are only an Affiliate/Executive Affiliate, and that is what they will aspire to -- or, they will look toward someone in your up line to follow. Either way, you no longer appear to be an expert in your field, thus your attempts to grow or encourage your team... and even your suggestions, will be met with very low response rates.

If, however, you achieve the Team Leader bonus, it leaves you in a perfect position for recruiting. Why? There are a couple reasons:

1. You prove yourself by achieving that level, as someone who knows what they are talking about, because you have actually done it. This means when you give that little nudge, or suggest something for your team, they will be more likely to listen to what you have to say, as they will view you as an expert in your field.

2. When you have someone on your team ask you about how you could achieve Team Leader status without any real team under you, you can refer to your following the system, and doing what it says. This strengthens your position as an expert on the subject, and it supports the fact that following the training will help them to succeed, just as you have.

3. Completely apart from SFI specifics: Anyone who can accomplish something is much more readily accepted as being an expert in their field, as they didn't just talk about what and how to do, but proved that what they said can be accomplished. This is where your 'Personal Testimony' stage comes in. "Your story" can become a tool of inspiration for anyone who joins your team.

...now add those three points together, and you have the base for the dynamic leader you've established yourself to be, standing tall as the example for others in your team to follow, knowing that if they run into problems they have someone that has gone through those issues themselves, and can offer "valuable" advice on how to get around (or through) the issue being encountered to ensure a smoother journey as they continue on their individual path to success.

This doesn't touch the fact that you also prove that in being an entrepreneur, and working for yourself, the only limitations of your success is found in your own attitude and actions. This means that the only limits those joining your team will encounter are the ones they create... something that will truly light up your team to achieve their dreams and become successes in all they face! ...and all this is because of your choice to push to be everything you could be in your own business, working toward making yourself a success for others to look to as an example, and inspiration when they first begin!

I hope this helps in confirming that you should definitely reach for success (become the highest level you can achieve), every chance you get, so you can reach your own goals and provide a good example for others in helping them to see how to reach their goals as well!

Remember: Their success is also your success... providing a good example (role model) for your team will also help everyone become successful in your team; never stop reaching for the stars to make today's dreams into tomorrow's reality!

Here's to everyone's success!
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This is something that is often asked in many organizations.

The real question you are asking here is simple: "Do I want to be seen as an expert in my field, or as merely another team member, when I begin to grow my own team?"

Can you see that in your question?

If you decide that you do not want to go for the team leader, you are not maximizing your impact on others that you recruit. They will see that you are only an Affiliate/Executive Affiliate, and
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