Stepping up your game by simplifying Your  Network Marketing system.

Here’s a quote I’ve heard attributed to a number of different authors including Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson and Blaise Pascal.  

Whoever said it – the story goes that he started a letter to a friend as follows.

"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.”

Simplification is not just a matter of cutting things out - it takes time to truly simplify something.  You have to understand the core ideas and principles and how they connect with each other.  It's only when you understand these key factors that you know which of the many extras that surround every subject, can be deleted.

MLM is certainly one of the subjects that have generated a huge volume of extra material.  People add their own ideas - those extra little bits just to tweak it - though relatively few of them really understand the core principals.

One of the many ways this industry gets complicated is through full-time networkers.  They want to create websites for their team, put together training manuals and provide conference calls to support their people.

Each time they add something extra, the people in their team think they to have to do the same because people who haven’t been in the industry long, or haven’t spent time thinking about it, will unquestioningly take on board what a sponsor is doing.  So they take on the complexity their sponsor has given them and over time they add their own little bits. 

Eventually a huge and complicated system emerges, where more effort is spent on running the system than conducting business.  But all those training meetings, conference calls, endless e-mails, voice mails and the like - are they all really needed?

The result of all this is extreme complexity and the core activities and principals getting lost.

Many people have found that hiring a personal coach is a very quicker way of accelerating the simplification process and resisting complexity creeping back in.

So - never resist the urge to simplify.  Take the time to understand the core ideas and principles of this industry and each time you're tempted to add something – STOP!