What is “success” for a person is a very personal thing. I’m now in my 13 month of being an affiliate in SFI so it’s a good time to do an evaluation.
But have I become successful yet in SFI? Well, the number one goal I listed when I joined SFI was to “earn enough money to get out of debt”. Have I achieved that yet? No, I have not. Does that mean I have been unsuccessful? Well, yes it does for that particular goal, and in this particular time period.
But, SUCCESS IS A MOVING TARGET. It changes over time. And while I have yet to achieve my BIG GOAL I am making progress towards it and achieving many small goals along the way.
I would rank my success in the following ways: -
1. I am first successful in finding the SFI business opportunity in the first place, AND by deciding to join as an affiliate, AND for staying active each day for the past year. SFI is my future, without SFI I wouldn’t have this opportunity to be able to generate a second income that will one day provide me with a good livelihood.
2. Secondly I am successful because I had the gumption to realize the potential of SFI and the will power to stick with the program.
3. Thirdly I am successful because SFI encouraged me to complete a profile. It then rates my profile and gives it to my sponsor as an aid to him helping me. Not only that but SFI responds to my needs, as stated in my profile, by selecting ASK SC questions that are most suited to where I am in SFI and my experience. In other words SFI has a tailored training program for each of us.
4. Fourthly I am successful in SFI because the GOAL TAB on my home page lists 10 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) – in other words, 10 different goals that I set for myself each month. I even get VP awarded for setting these goals. Note that I am the one who is setting these goals. Then by my daily actions SFI records how I am progressing towards each of these goals. SFI gives me both a number of what I have accomplished, compares this with the goal I have set myself and then gives me the percentage of that goal that I have completed to date. The percentage is in a nice positive green colour. And when I have achieved my goal SFI tells me. In fact SFI congratulates me in BLUE. I can then set myself another goal for that particular KPI.
These are the little daily goals or “success” markers that help me along the way. I get a real kick out of seeing that, when I open my GOALS TAB each day, I may have achieved one or more of my goals. That is one measure of success. I then set a new goal and see if I can achieve that during the month too. This is the “MOVING TARGET” I mentioned above. These little goals are real motivators. They keep me keen.
5. Fifthly I am successful in SFI when I measure my progress towards the other longer-term goals I have set for myself. These also appear under my GOALS TAB. Earnings goals in six months, 12 months, 2 years and 5 years time.
I have to admit that I am nowhere near achieving those goals. There are reasons – mainly not enough time and not doing enough marketing or the right sort of marketing. But I have kept those goals there. I do plan to achieve them. In fact that will be a major focus in my second year.
But failure is a kind of success too because by failing I can assess where I went wrong and change my behavior so that I may achieve that goal in the future.
In fact having a goal is a major aid to becoming “successful” because it gives me something I can measure my progress towards. Thus I can stop being ineffectual and re-focus. Just the ability to do that is another measure of success.
And sometimes it is an external factor that has “interfered” with my progress towards my goals. For example I found that one consequence of the “security hacking scare” that attacked SFI some months ago was that a lot of affiliates in my team who had been active just “gave up”. That was very disappointing. Nothing I said to my team worked. That was a real set back.
6. Sixthly I am successful in SFI when having achieved one rank in SFI be it AFF, EA, BTL, or STL SFI immediately tells me how close I am to achieving the next rank. How stimulating is that? In other words SFI is saying to me – “You’ve done great so far but don’t stop there. You can go even higher.”
And conversely SFI warns me if I have not achieved EA again in any month because they do not want me to loose all the benefits and privileges that EA provides. To me this warning system is another measure of success.
7. Seventhly I am successful in SFI when my overall, country and class power ranks come down. Again I get a real kick out of seeing these improve under my SCOREBOARD tab. These give my relative standing in SFI compared with other active affiliates.
8. Eighthly, perhaps one of the greatest measures of my success in SFI is when I receive a new PSA or CSA. It’s even better if I can establish a correspondence with them; if they write to me and ask for my help. Most don’t and drop out quickly – and I feel so sad for them as they do not know what they are missing.
There are heaps of ways of measuring success – or as I prefer to call it – “my progress towards success”. Perhaps the best way to insure that you will be successful one day is to always have a positive, grateful and thankful attitude, With this attitude you will realize just what a gem of a program SFI is and you will stay with it and make the best of it. Success at every level will then come at some time in the future.
To your “success” Ash. God bless you.
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