I view a2a as a central piece of the "Help Network" available within SFI, and the entire SFI as a family and a team.
If you help another affiliate, you also learn, grow as a mentor and a team member. Thus, it is much more positive and rewarding to approach a2a as a sharing, mutually supportive, and personal growth opportunity. As a result, your a2a friends should not be picked up from the standpoint of "what help you can get", but rather from your own willingness to provide help to others.
Before the changes in a2a, in my first year with SFI, I built over 2,000 a2a connections. It was a great support network with affiliates across continents and seniority within SFI. I made it a priority to have as many a2a friends from my E365 class as I could. We helped each other. We supported one another. We grew as affiliates, together.
The changes brought to a2a were justified, as I learned afterwards, because some were abusing it. Now, it is safer. We all are benefiting from the current a2a.
The 10 a2a friends, we may have now, are those with whom we can initiate contact. However, we can still accept 'friendship requests" from as many other affiliates as we get. As they are not on the 10 list we picked, we cannot initiate contact with them, but they can take the initiative to contact us with their questions for any advice they see beneficial to seek. Thus, we have the possibility to provide them with our support, our mentoring and our help. By doing so, not only are we useful to others, we also benefit, learn and grow because of our openness to provide unselfish assistance SFI family members. .
This approach to a2a changes the dynamic of your question. It is not about "from whom I can get help". It is about "who I can help".
When we put the a2a network back within the entire SFI Help mechanism, we have a comprehensive , effective and very useful support system. We can follow any of Forum members. We have knowledgeable answers from the Ask SC questions. We have our upline that is mentoring us. And finally, we have Technical Support.
These are the reasons why I took a passive approach in picking up my 10 a2a friends. I did not go asking "with whom I can be friend". I picked them from those who contacted me, wanting to be my friends. We all have noticed that when we get an a2a friend request, we have the options to "accept and add" to our friends list or just to "accept" , or simply to reject. I choose to accept any request I get. I feel honored if an affiliate asks to be my friend. I accept their request and give them the opportunity to contact me if they choose to do so. Within this process, I have replaced only two of my 10 a2a because they were no longer active with SFI. That is the only reason why I make modifications on my list.
In the Forum, we may choose to follow any member who posts accurate information about SFI, gives valuable, practical tips that help us grow our business, as well as those who are great motivators and mentors.
I have found this to be very effective and very rewarding in building my list of 10 a2a friends and keeping myself abreast of the dynamics of Ask SC and the Forum.
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I view a2a as a central piece of the "Help Network" available within SFI, and the entire SFI as a family and a team.
If you help another affiliate, you also learn, grow as a mentor and a team member. Thus, it is much more positive and rewarding to approach a2a as a sharing, mutually supportive, and personal growth opportunity. As a result, your a2a friends should not be picked up from the standpoint of "what help you can get", but rather from your own willingness to
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