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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