An employee mentality is quite stubborn, it hinders you from taking your own stance in SFI and to make use of all the opportunities.
It is best to tackle this while the affiliate is still new. He/She needs to know that this SFI business will be his own business and that you are just his mentor. Also you yourself need to build up the mentality to be a mentor and not an employer to your downline.
What everyone needs to know:
Ones advices and teachings as a mentor can be quite similiar to that of an employer: you do want your downline to duplicate you, to copy your actions, thus they will recieve a similiar pay when they are successful in using your methods.
What is the difference then? The mentality, methods, advice and the goal within a company itself.
-> Teaching Success vs teaching hard work. A mentor gives out much more specific advice to its students than an employer will ever do. He proudly sees the success of his students as his own.
Do you know of employers that will teach you everything about THEIR business? They won't because they won't rise the competition unnecessarily.
-> Individual methods vs tasks and methodcopying
An employer just asks for duplication and hard work, he doesn't explain much how and why the things work as they do for you. A different approach of the downline is mostly disliked because the employer wants to have the upper hand in every little action. He would feel like losing the forehand otherway.
The mentor works directly on finding the best paths for his individual students even if the answer to the question does not meet with their own actions. He is respected for his shared knowledge and is also known to look at all the sides of a coin (not just front and back, but also the coin edge and specific designs and materials of each) to be able to give the best of teachings.
-> Growth vs achievement
At a normal job everything that counts at the end of the day is what you achieved at the end of your task. Growth is not the goal just a more or less necessary means to finish the work - an unnecessary limitation of oneself in SFI.
The mentor takes the growth itself as goal: if even one of his students was motivated to surpass him in growth and achieve even greater heights, it will be the mentors ultimate bliss. Restrictions will only hinder the mentors work and his own goal. Thus he shows his downline: Just by growing you open up endless opportunities, new paths and endless rewards.
What is the main difference between a boss and a mentor?
Familiarity.
An employer will always keep up a wall to his worker, so that he can make efficient decisions (fail=fired).
The mentor is more like a parent: he enjoys teaching and seeing the growth, he will be sad with you when you fail, build you up again, be firm with you when needed and will have to release you upon the world one day.
Your own words and actions are led by your own mentality. If you do see yourself rather in a mentor role instead of a boss role, your very first talk with your new affiliates sound already different and leads them away from the employee mentality.
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An employee mentality is quite stubborn, it hinders you from taking your own stance in SFI and to make use of all the opportunities.
It is best to tackle this while the affiliate is still new. He/She needs to know that this SFI business will be his own business and that you are just his mentor. Also you yourself need to build up the mentality to be a mentor and not an employer to your downline.
What everyone needs to know:
Ones advices and teachings as a mentor can
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