I got my car at 6:00am this Friday morning after a long night of partying at the club.

No just kidding . . .

But I was up at 6 am this morning to get to answering emails and get things set up for the team and it is dark and foggy out.

I looked out my window and I could barely see across the street. Looking out the window I started to think.

I thought . . .

How does a ship trying to get to port ever find its way in the dark fog?

Well the answer is simple.

The ships captain even if he has never gone to his designated final port of entry finds his or her way to port with a few simple tools; a map and a compass.

I thought this was good analogy to how he all entered into your internet network marketing businesses.

None of us knew exactly how to get to our final destination with our business when we started, but we were given the tools to navigate our way to our final port.

Your ship is your marketing system and your compass and map are your team's tools and sponsors guidance. These tools guide us to our final destinations.

The only difference between a ships captain and us is that the ships captain knows he will get to port as soon as he sets of on his journey while we, on the other hand, sometimes dont carry this same level of faith going into our business.

We hope that the tools that have been given to us will get us to our final destination, but we dont know as a matter of fact that we will get there.

The reason for this is most of us in netowrk marketing, me included, have never set sail in such a business before, so rather than knowing we will reach our desired level of success, as the ships captain does, we hope we will.

I understand why there is a difference in mindset, so let me expound on it.

If the ships captain had never seen the sea before he started his voyage or met any captains that had successfully gotten to port he would be left with the same hope we hold. He wouldnt know for sure that would get to port, he would have to trust in his tools and have faith that he would get to port.

After successfully arriving at his destination for the first time, the ships captain, would then have full faith in his tools and his ship and their ability to get him to wherever in the world he was called to go.

But in that first voyage he would be riddled with fear and trepidation at every turn in his journey. Little storms or detours that would normally be of no consequence would be magnified his mind as an almost insurmountable obstacles.

Well the same thing happens to us all when we set off to create a thriving and large organization in oue businesses if we have never done it before.

When little obstacle come our way we tend to magnify them.

For instance . . .

Say you started your business a month ago and after hard studying and testing you finally carried out your first successful marketing campaign which brought in 4 new people into your team and then two days later 2 of those people that you brought in went inactive.

What would you think?

You would most likely immediately think, whats going on? Why are people quitting on me? I worked so hard to get them and now there gone. Does this thing really work?

A small storm in your path and your first test.

What happens at this point is a litmus test for the rest of your business. Ive seen it happen. Some people come in all excited and call me every 3 hours asking for help and advice and I give it.

Then they have their first small success and then they sit back and wait to see what happens next. They want to see if theyre done - if their new downline will just take over and do all the work for them.

Then 2 out of their first 4 sign ups go inactive on them and they call me and say Daegan whats happening my downline is going away. How do I stop it? I say, dont worry about it go out and market your business some more and support your people that are still there.

Some will do this and some wont. Those that wont have lost faith in their map and compass.

They dont think that they work.

In their minds, theyve used their tools effectively and now their done. Its time for their downline to take over and do the same. Then when nothing happens for them they say the system didnt work.

You see they had only understood part of the system.

They thought that once they had set their original heading and flipped on the autopilot switch then they would just float into port without any further effort.

Thats not how it works.

You have to use the tools that you have been given to guide your way all the way to port, not just set a heading and sit back.

So all I mean to say is, if you have used the tools in our in your business or in Internet MLM Success to generate even one sign up you have used these tools successfully, but your not done yet.

You have to keep going, keep using these tools, changing and correcting your path when obstacles are put fourth all the way until you get to port.

Thats how you create success in network marketing or anything else in life.

I hope this little rant of mine has helped a few of you recalibrate your path to success and see through the dark fog thats been put in front of you.