Is it important to have your family on your side when building an SFI business? Absolutely not! Is it important to have a great sponsor or co-sponsor. Absolutely not. This things are nice, but not essential.
What you need to build this business is the guts and determination to do this no matter what obstacle you face. If you don't have that, no amount of loving encouragement from your family or your sponsors will make a bit of difference. It has to come from within you, not from an exterior source.
When I started this business, my wife was the proverbial witch with rabies, denouncing this business as a scam, telling me it was either her or this business. I built it in spite of her. In eight days I was TL Bronze, back in the days before Fast Track. We went through incredibly hard times, times when we didn't have food to eat, times when the electricity was shut off because we couldn't pay the bill, times when we couldn't put gas in our car when it was empty. In the middle of that, social security abruptly cut of my retirement payments when that was our only source of income, and it took four months to get that straightened out. In spite of everything, I kept building the business.
He who won't be stopped can't be stopped. Now our financial situation has changed radically. What we went through empowered both of us, and fortified our resolve. Yes we are still together, and no she is not involved in the business, but she realized that I was going to do it with or without her. Through that, her respect for my strength and resolve has grown, and I don't hear any more negative comments about the business from her.
We both had to learn to respect and believe in each other, but far more important was for us to respect and believe in ourselves. That comes first and the other will follow.
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Is it important to have your family on your side when building an SFI business? Absolutely not! Is it important to have a great sponsor or co-sponsor. Absolutely not. This things are nice, but not essential.
What you need to build this business is the guts and determination to do this no matter what obstacle you face. If you don't have that, no amount of loving encouragement from your family or your sponsors will make a bit of difference. It has to come from within you, not from an exterior
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