What if you could peek inside the brain and the belief system of a $6 billion networker?

What do you think you would find?

What information would you be looking for?

Well my friend, in this blog post as you continue to read, I’m excited to share with you the top six lessons that I learned from a literal $6 billion networker.

I just finished reading a book called “believe” written by Rich DeVos the cofounder of Amway.

The other night I looked up his net worth, and discovered that it is $6 billion dollars.

As a quick side note: I do find it fascinating that this book is entitled believe and it’s a collection of his most important beliefs.

Most people are running around looking for the perfect word tract or lead strategy.

The people who really know what they’re doing are focusing on building better belief systems in themselves and the people around them.

OK so what are the top six lessons I learned.

First from the introduction of this book, I got a real gem of a nugget from a guy named Noel black who was an Amway official who came to the company in 1970.

Noel recalled his first meeting with Rich and he said he remembered exactly what Rich told him.

Noel, no business will prosper and less it has a mission larger than itself.

You can’t nearly manufacture widgets and expect that by itself to be rewarding.

There must be a cause; and because we have in our business is the preservation of free enterprise and individual freedom.

The two are inseparable.

Free enterprise cannot exist in the absence of free people. That’s the cause we’ve got to keep working for!”

So lesson one is have a cause that’s bigger than just selling products or promoting a compensation plan.

That’s a powerful tip don’t you think?

Lesson 2: form a mastermind alliance.

The story of Rich DeVos and his partner Jay vanAndel – has got to be one of the most exciting mastermind stories I’ve ever read.

Napoleon Hill has over 100 pages in the law of success on the mastermind principal.

The Bible even says “where two or three are gathered together in my name there I will be in their midst”

Rich and Jay met as childhood friends at a private Christian school.

Rich offered to pay Jay to give him a ride to school.

There began their fantastic Life long business partnership.

They started several businesses before the Amway business, and experienced success together.

They even had a crazy experience where they bought a boat and picked up a book on sailing to head down to South America for an adventure.

Despite the fact that neither one of them had any experience sailing, with the book under their arm and a new boat under their butts, they headed off.

Along the way they got lost and had to be rescued by the Coast Guard.

At another point in their ship got a hole in it – and eventually sank, leaving them stranded in the middle of the ocean.  (yikes!) 

They were picked up from the water by a passing vessel, and they continued on with their vacation.

Ha ha.

They then went on to build the 12 BILLION dollar behemoth known as Amway. 

Never underestimate the power of the mastermind.

Lesson three: believe in unlimited potential.

I’m starting to notice that all the great leaders in the home business profession have this common belief.

They believe in themselves and they believe in the people around them.

Not only do they believe in themselves but they believe that people have an almost infinite power inside that’s just waiting to come out.

Rich DeVos had this belief in spades – and the whole first chapter of his book is devoted to it.

He says

“I do have a firm conviction that almost anyone can do what ever he really believes he can do.”

He also says,

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often nearly the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”

He also warns in this chapter to be wary of dreams stealers.

The “dream nothing do nothing neighbor” Who wants to criticize you and tell you that you can’t achieve your dream.

Watch out for these people he says.

“Friends like that can do more damage than a dozen enemies”

He also says, “remember that the easiest thing to find on gods green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do”

Lastly one of my favorites in this “believe in infinite potential” chapter, is the story he tells about his father.

I actually shared this with my nine-year-old son Kayden.

Rich says, every time my father heard me say the word can’t as a boy he would say,

there’s no such word as can’t and if you say it one more time I’ll knock your block right through that wall”

ha ha

Fortunately Rich says, his dad never did, knock him through the wall, but he got the point nonetheless.

Lesson four: Believe in accountability.

Mr. DeVos states that the concept of accountability goes all the way back to the garden of Eden.

He defines it this way,

Accountability – The demand that each individual takes full responsibility for his choices and actions, the willingness to except the rewards or punishments that follow as natural consequence of his behavior”

He talks about the growing trend in society to shirk responsibility and blame environment for one circumstances in life.

He says this is a disastrous philosophy to adopt.

“unfortunately it is impossible to recognize and reward excellence without implicitly identifying inferior performance. But if we refuse to recognize the strong for fear of identifying the week, we will experience a gradual decline in performance across the board”

He goes on to say that accountability is a rule of life:

One reaps what he sows

One except the consequences of his behavior.

That is not an artifact of capitalism: it is a rule of nature.

He goes on to say that accountability is woven into the fabric of life and the sooner our children learn the reality of cause and effect of reward and punishment the better off they are.

I think this is a powerful lesson for network marketing leaders especially, because we can really help our teams by holding them accountable to the things they say they’re going to do.

Obviously we all have our own freedom, and building a homebase bit business is definitely different from having a job,

But at the same time accountability can be a powerful piece in helping people complete the freedom puzzle.

It can be as simple as an accountability thread in a team Facebook group,

Or as elaborate as a daily reporting spreadsheet that team members fill out at the end of each day.

We are using both within our team right now and it’s helping a lot.

 

Aren’t these 4 powerful lessons?  

Lesson 1 is have a cause that’s bigger than just selling products

Lesson 2: form a mastermind alliance.

Lesson three: believe in unlimited potential.

Lesson four: Believe in accountability.

Did you get value from this post?  What’s your favorite tip from above?  Please share with me below…