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In building your SFI business, it would be best, if you can get the approval and support from your family. However, if they cannot go with what you believe in about SFI, you should never give up SFI. That is, if you really believe that SFI is the best home-based online business there is on the net and that it could eventually help you fulfill your financial goals.

So, examine yourself first. Do you really want to do SFI? Do you believe that SFI can be trusted and that it is a genuine business and not a scam? Considering the multiple ways to earn residual income that SFI offers, do you believe that you can earn the monthly income that you want to earn for yourself and your family? If your answer is yes, then you need to do the following to convince your family to embrace your SFI business:

1. Study how to do SFI effectively and successfully. Then communicate clearly and openly to your family what they can do to help you succeed in this business.

2. Lay out what can be expected in this business. Make it clear to them that this is not a get-rich- quick type of business. Specifically, it is vital that your family’s expectations regarding their role in your SFI business are communicated clearly.

3. It’s important to prioritize your family relationships over business. It’s heartbreaking to hear of families that have been ripped apart by financial or business disputes. Listen and communicate well with your family about the ins and outs of your SFI business.

Lastly, you must take account of your family's participation and expectations in your SFI business but if ever they cannot support you in this business, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP SFI!
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In building your SFI business, it would be best, if you can get the approval and support from your family. However, if they cannot go with what you believe in about SFI, you should never give up SFI. That is, if you really believe that SFI is the best home-based online business there is on the net and that it could eventually help you fulfill your financial goals.

So, examine yourself first. Do you really want to do SFI? Do you believe that SFI can be trusted and that it is a genuine
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Hi Andjela
i believe it is important that our family embrace our SFI business. Why? Because we are family and we work and should work as a team.
Whatever i make from my SFI business is for the benefits of my family as well.
If i am successful as i am, it speaks for the welfare of my family and greatly improves our financial status and standard of living.
With our family support lies moral, financial and emotional support when the tough gets going or through a difficult.
Recently, my health experienced a set back, but through the help of my kids, my SFI business was still in shape as they help me with my daily vp routine.
To answer your second question, what if they don't?
Basically, it is not everybody in my family that embraces my SFI business. Some kicked against it, discouraging me severely telling me that SFI is a scam as well and that only when i begin to earn big money will they believe me. What did i do?
1. I didn't listen to them because i know what am gaining in the business.
2. I proved to them by my successes through the establishment of my ECA Store and my sales from it and my achievements as well.
3. My Fast Tracker Label Pin was a proof to them that SFI was real.
4. Through my earnings they began to believe me.
5. Through my long stay in the business and my successes so far and my achievements in the business, it has removed all suspicion that SFI is a scam.
6. Through the successes of my team, my hardwork in the business and meeting my family needs from the business as removed all doubts from them and today am enjoying the support of my family, all criticisms set aside.

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Hi Andjela
i believe it is important that our family embrace our SFI business. Why? Because we are family and we work and should work as a team.
Whatever i make from my SFI business is for the benefits of my family as well.
If i am successful as i am, it speaks for the welfare of my family and greatly improves our financial status and standard of living.
With our family support lies moral, financial and emotional support when the tough gets going or through a difficult.
Recently,
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

For any business - Family Is Important.

Most of the big successful businesses in the world try to develop a 'family environment' at their place of work. Why? Because a family environment is supposed to be a supportive environment where everyone work for the common good. In the business world this means a successful flourishing business.

Its the same with SFI. Look at the way we conduct business and communicate with each other - especially in The Forum. We place being supportive, being helpful and caring for each other highly in SFI.

Its the same with our own families. If your family embrace SFI and are supportive I am confident that this will go a long way to you having a successful SFI business.

SFI however is not your everyday way of conducting business or earning an income. Most people grow up with an employee approach - go to work (office/factory/plantation etc) and the boss pays you for doing the work. They may not understand or may be suspicious of SFI and would try to 'help' you by telling you its a waste of time or that its a scam etc..

Don't be discouraged if they are not supportive. Continue to work you business and don't forget to share your successes with them. In time they will come to realise the great work you are doing and how great SFI is. They may become you best PSAs or recruiters.

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For any business - Family Is Important.

Most of the big successful businesses in the world try to develop a 'family environment' at their place of work. Why? Because a family environment is supposed to be a supportive environment where everyone work for the common good. In the business world this means a successful flourishing business.

Its the same with SFI. Look at the way we conduct business and communicate with each other - especially in The Forum. We place being supportive,
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

You have several advantages if your family supports your SFI/TC business:

1. The encouragement you will get from their approval will take you far when fighting the road blocks that you will come to when building a business such as this. As your family asks about the business or just listens to you as you tell them all about what you are learning and facing, and achieving, they will pick up on and add to your excitement and joy.

2. As your family sees you progress, some will want to help you with parts of it, and others will want to join your team. Your spouse and children living with you cannot join, but they can help you by:

A. Using the products from TC that you buy and buying their own products from TC..
B. Telling their friends about the products.
C. Helping with advertising from placing ads, passing out x-Cards, posting bulletins on
public boards.
D. Talking about it on social media.
E. Wearing SFI/TC advertising clothes.
F. Helping man a table at flea market, job fair, or public place.

If your family does not support your efforts at SFI/TC, then you will have a harder time of it. At the very least, they will just ignore your efforts, not give you any encouragement, and not even let you tell them about it. What will you do if they refuse to use any of the TC products. If their hearts are hardened, they will mock you and maybe even talk about you to what would be your warm market. You never know when someone will ask your spouse what they think about it.

At this point your house might become a war zone.Don't let this happen.

You must keep in mind the importance of your family whether you are a child in a family, the parent of a family, a partner with someone, or part of a big family clan. My church teaches that we rank in importance 1) God, 2) Family with our self as part of it, 3) business/work and everything else is less important.

So, while SFI is important, we should not belittle our families by ignoring them, giving them no time or attention. Be considerate of them, include them in as much as they will allow. Do not force them into a bad feeling for your work.

Where will you be if you make fistfuls of money but your family has abandoned you?
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You have several advantages if your family supports your SFI/TC business:

1. The encouragement you will get from their approval will take you far when fighting the road blocks that you will come to when building a business such as this. As your family asks about the business or just listens to you as you tell them all about what you are learning and facing, and achieving, they will pick up on and add to your excitement and joy.

2. As your family sees you progress, some will
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Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

It would help your focus and concentration if they had a positive attitude about your business, but it is not essential for your success.

Your family's support and acceptance of your business would be a wonderful boost to your morale when you are feeling frustrated or confused, or when you have a "hooray!!" event to share with them, but it is not required. You are the one doing the business, you are the one who has to believe in your ability to succeed.

If your family supports you, I say you are fortunate! Thank them from time to time for their belief that you can succeed, even though it will not be overnight.

If they do not support/approve...well, it just adds a little stress and frustration, maybe hurt feelings. You just have to let the negatives go, concentrate on staying positive and focused on growing your business. Mayhaps one of your friends will believe in you and SFI, and you can share the hoorays as well as the disappointments with them without worrying about someone's negative response.

Believe in yourself and SFI, stay positive, continue to push onward and upward!:))...
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It would help your focus and concentration if they had a positive attitude about your business, but it is not essential for your success.

Your family's support and acceptance of your business would be a wonderful boost to your morale when you are feeling frustrated or confused, or when you have a "hooray!!" event to share with them, but it is not required. You are the one doing the business, you are the one who has to believe in your ability to succeed.

If your family
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Affiliate since: 09/17/2012, Power Rank: 437 | Read TREON's 4 other Ask SC answers

On a perfect day, and in a perfect world, your family will support and embrace your introduction to SFI's business opportunities, with no questions asked.

Be that as it may, the near perfect day and imperfect world is a true reality. It is important that your immediate family embrace and support your SFI business. This would be and ideal situation. They could help you set up an SFI Marketing booth at Business Fairs, Expo's, and so forth. Their interest could be very intense and dedicated, just as yours is.

It is just as important that your family gives you emotional and verbal support. Also, that they never speak negative of you home business. It is important that they encourage you to be successful with the SFI business venture.

If they don't embrace your SFI business, you should continue to plan to work, and work the plan. Go to your Sponsor, Co- Sponsor, friends, Co-workers, A2A friends, and forum friends for encouragement. With all of these affiliates and other's helping you, you'll continue to love your family just the same.

Regardless of their support of your SFI business, your family may support you by passing out business cards for you. They may also in friendly conversation with others, help spread the word about your SFI business to potential customers.

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On a perfect day, and in a perfect world, your family will support and embrace your introduction to SFI's business opportunities, with no questions asked.

Be that as it may, the near perfect day and imperfect world is a true reality. It is important that your immediate family embrace and support your SFI business. This would be and ideal situation. They could help you set up an SFI Marketing booth at Business Fairs, Expo's, and so forth. Their interest could be very intense and dedicated,
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Affiliate since: 06/18/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jelena's 5 other Ask SC answers

Hello,
This is very good question.
It could be very important that our family embrace our SFI business, especially at the moment, when we want to involve our money and spend more time.

If our family doesn't like our work it could be a reason that we should work with more effective acts, doing as much as we can, quickly as we can. So, we should plan exactly, about every minute spending online, doing our job, several times during a day and evening, so that they can't blame us for being too much on net.

We could also, plan about involving our money, but if we can't do that, we have to be prepared to work harder and spend more time.

I only could say, that if your family doesn't understand your work, it doesn't mean that you should give up, even it could take you more time, or even months, to earn your first dollars.

Some of my downline members have this problem, but if they believe in themselves and in SFI, they will never give up, and for sure, it will be the way to success – sooner or later.

Explaining about Triple Click, and about selling and buying, could be also useful, as people could understand this part, much easier, than such complex, but great system of SFI.

One more thing, even it is hard to say, but it is my way of thinking. If my family doesn't respect my dreams and wishes, how can they respect me at all? This is not a call for "revolution" but it could be a sign that something is wrong, and there could come a moment for choosing between my family and my dreams - with, or without the SFI.




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Hello,
This is very good question.
It could be very important that our family embrace our SFI business, especially at the moment, when we want to involve our money and spend more time.

If our family doesn't like our work it could be a reason that we should work with more effective acts, doing as much as we can, quickly as we can. So, we should plan exactly, about every minute spending online, doing our job, several times during a day and evening, so that they can't blame us for
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 44 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Do you have your family support in your SFI business? Families and businesses have often been treated as naturally separate institutions. I believe that they are inextricably intertwined and that entrepreneurship would benefit from a family embeddedness perspective.

Importance of your family embracing your SFI business:

- Positive and full support of your family would motivate you to always give your best in promoting your SFI business.

Have a family action plan with family members who are interested in contributing to your SFI business. Having your family members contributing to the business will help you not to lose track and keep you focused on your activities. It is important to give your family members, roles and responsibilities that they really enjoy doing, and you really have to play on everybody’s strengths, and to use your own strengths to the best of your abilities.

- If you have a really good organizer in your family, they could do your financial planning or keeping the books to contribute, or if they are good at filing maybe just tidying up and help to keep your office in order.

- In terms of time management, if everybody in your family understands what you are doing, and how important it is to the future of your family, then it is going to be a lot easier to schedule time. It is important for you to keep your SFI business time separate from family time.

What you can do if your family don’t embrace your SFI business?

- Generally entrepreneurs may face a common situation where families are not supportive. This can have a negative side effect in the development and growth of your SFI business and overall on your entrepreneurial aspirations.

- To get you started how to deal in this kind of situation; here are important questions to ask yourself:

1. What is your family’s real reason for not supporting you?

2. Are they unclear about what you’re doing?

3. Have they failed at an entrepreneurial attempt themselves or do they know of others who have?

4. Do they doubt your ability, due to age, lack of experience, or preconceived notions about what they think you can or can’t do?

- Put aside your own feelings for a moment and look at your situation objectively. Once you understand the underlying reasons, face the pessimists directly with a loving confrontation or a plea for understanding.

- Once you understand your family’s motivations, the next thing to do is launch your own family PR campaign. Anyone who has ever been in this horrible situation knows how difficult these circumstances can be.

Here are suggestions to help you overcome any bad family vibes that you may be receiving:

- Tell your success stories, E365 champion, Leadership Challenge winnings, etc. Share SFI/TC facts and figures. Display your E365 champion plaque somewhere visible to everyone in the house.

- Let them feel your enthusiasm and see how your SFI business makes you happy and that you look forward in doing your SFI business each day. Seeing you happy and actively pursuing goals will usually make any parent/family happy.

- Discuss your endeavor with friends of your family who understand business, have children who are not enterprising, or just simply like you. Once they show interest and understanding for you and your SFI business venture, mention that you wish your family felt the same way. (This works with relatives too.) They’ll feel so badly for you that they might just take up the issue with your family themselves.

Let other people put a little pressure on your family to cut you some slack and show you the respect you deserve for what you are doing. Unfortunately, friends or respected peers are often more likely to recognize your achievements publicly than your family is. Despite how close you might be, it’s not uncommon for people to need outside opinions to really open up their perspective – particularly about their own children.

- Be sure to avoid neglecting family responsibilities because of your SFI business, whether they involve family gatherings or doing the dishes. Be your own person, your own boss – but do your best to show your family that they still hold an important place in your life.

- Collect a few stories about people like you who became great successful entrepreneurs. Know the stories well of one of the entrepreneurial giants, particularly the vital facts: How old he/she was when he/she started, his/her experience, his/her family’s support (or lack of), his/her resources, and current success markers (sales, employees, clients, etc.).

- Show to your family that you have researched your SFI business and have a clear understanding of your options, environment, and chances of success. If you are uncertain about your chances, be honest with them and tell them that despite your own doubts you feel that the experience will be well worth any potential failure. After all, the best way entrepreneurs learn about business is by being in business.

Conclusion:

Evaluate the pluses and minuses of having your own SFI business, write a business plan, and then reach out to your spouse/family to get his/her/their feedback. Your spouse’s/family’s support can mean the difference between success and failure . . . not only in your business, but also in your life.

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Do you have your family support in your SFI business? Families and businesses have often been treated as naturally separate institutions. I believe that they are inextricably intertwined and that entrepreneurship would benefit from a family embeddedness perspective.

Importance of your family embracing your SFI business:

- Positive and full support of your family would motivate you to always give your best in promoting your SFI business.

Have a family action plan
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While it is important that your family embrace your SFI business for their moral support, it will be to your advantage if you are prepared to accept the following outcomes.

For young adults still living at home and dependent on their family's financial support, they should be willing to show eagerness, interest, and willingness to work hard and learn how the SFI business works and how to promote the TC products that will produce financial result with which to start investing in their business.

Earning their first commission from their activities will prove how serious and real the business is.

For others who have started families of their own, this means your spouse, partner, or significant others' moral support and respect of your SFI business can work wonders for your self-esteem and make you strive more.

This may start with them helping you by spreading your success by word of mouth, or help you find customers. Your enthusiasm will convince them to fully embrace your SFI business as it will also make them proud of your accomplishments knowing that they were also a part of your success.

However, if they don't, then don't despair. Keep up with what you have started. Let their lack of support spur you on to success. You have your own goals and dreams to pursue whether they like it or not.

Show them what you are made of: a strong-willed, ambitious, hard working and smart person on his way to financial freedom! Think Big. Aim High and hit the mark!


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While it is important that your family embrace your SFI business for their moral support, it will be to your advantage if you are prepared to accept the following outcomes.

For young adults still living at home and dependent on their family's financial support, they should be willing to show eagerness, interest, and willingness to work hard and learn how the SFI business works and how to promote the TC products that will produce financial result with which to start investing in their
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2013, Power Rank: 308 | Read Gilbert's 79 other Ask SC answers

How important is it that your family embrace your SFI business … and what if they don’t?

Well, it’s like any obstacle you may face in life. How will you respond? Are you going to let someone else determine your path? Or are you going to follow your own convictions?

Sadly, my family don’t embrace my SFI business. But I am determined to keep going.

To be fair they haven’t put the hours into SFI that I have. They haven’t read what I have read. They don’t understand SFI as I do. They don’t realize the HUGE potential of SFI as I do.

And, I was in their position when I joined SFI too. I knew nothing about SFI. I just wanted the opportunity to lead a better life. So I started as a skeptic and I spent the first two days or so reading and learning enough about SFI to convince myself that SFI was for REAL.

No, SFI works. I’m the weak link. I just have to learn how to make SFI work for me and to build a successful SFI business.

And, let’s “cut our family a bit of slack” too. It is not only them that don’t embrace the SFI dream, it’s almost all of my team. (I find that even harder to understand.) So why should we expect our family to be any different?

After two years in SFI I’m beginning to see some results. Last month was the first month that I will receive commissions for the month that are greater than my investment for the month. I’m really excited about that!

And, I know that when I can show my family that SFI is working for me they will change their minds.

So keep believing “SFI IS OUR FUTURE!”

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How important is it that your family embrace your SFI business … and what if they don’t?

Well, it’s like any obstacle you may face in life. How will you respond? Are you going to let someone else determine your path? Or are you going to follow your own convictions?

Sadly, my family don’t embrace my SFI business. But I am determined to keep going.

To be fair they haven’t put the hours into SFI that I have. They haven’t read what I have read. They don’t
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