Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This is such a personal question...the I the tipper.

I believe when I am successful I am...What?

What is your belief? Is it something small of making an individual sale? Is it the first time you get someone under you to become an EA? Is it making a good check (what is a good check)? Define your goals. The goals tab has an excellent place to start. Write down the rest of your goals so you can try to reach for those too.

Affiliate since: 02/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Philippus's 100 other Ask SC answers

Different people will measure success in different ways, but most of us are in SFI for one reason and one reason only: To earn an income, whether it be an additional income or a main income. So, we are here to make money and not to see how many badges, PSA’s, CSA’s, etc. we can get, although those are indicators of our progress towards success.

To measure our success we must start out by setting some short term and long term goals. Your long term goals are your ultimate goals you’re setting for yourself and it’s against them that you must measure your success. They must be high enough to make a huge difference in your life and motivate you. It must be something worth fighting for. It’s that part of your goals that must be high enough to not be changed all the time because you reach them to quickly and easily, like becoming very wealthy or earning a huge income. But it must be specific. It can’t be just in general. That is too vague. They might even seem too high to some pessimists, but if someone else are able to achieve it, so can we.

Our short term goals we use to measure our progress towards reaching our long term goals. They mustn't be too high, especially in the beginning, but also not to low so that you don’t have something to work for. By reaching some of them each month also help motivating us to do even better and that way you can measure how successful you were during that month towards reaching your monthly goals. So, your short term goals may be to get so and so much badges, VP, PSA’s, CSA’s, PRM’s and ECA’s, this or that rankings, so or so much money, etc. per month, after 6 months or a year, etc., and by reaching those goals you are working towards your long term goals and you can measure your success by how many of that short term goals you have achieved. Ultimately that would suggest in what measures you have achieved your ultimate goals.

Your Goals Tab at SFI can help you a lot in setting and achieving your long and short term goals and in measuring how successful you were in achieving them.

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Different people will measure success in different ways, but most of us are in SFI for one reason and one reason only: To earn an income, whether it be an additional income or a main income. So, we are here to make money and not to see how many badges, PSA’s, CSA’s, etc. we can get, although those are indicators of our progress towards success.

To measure our success we must start out by setting some short term and long term goals. Your long term goals are your ultimate goals you’re
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Affiliate since: 07/03/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gilbert's 79 other Ask SC answers

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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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
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Karl's 41 other Ask SC answers

One way to define Success is measuring your by income versus your out-go. When you start any business, there is a time of negative cash flow. This is called being in the red. This can last for some time, even years in the brick and mortar world. Once you start actually making a profit or begin to be in the black, most would consider you a success. When that profit grows to the point that it covers some of your monthly bills, you have reached another level of success. When it covers your house payment and your living expenses, that is another level of success. I think you see where this is going.

At SFI, there is no brick and mortar to worry about. There is just a standing order that takes the place of rent and utilities. When you have recruited enough EA2 to get you to BTL each month with just the 100 VP per EA2 for supporting them, and when they are buying enough products that your Standing Order, which includes a S-Builder share so that your business will continue to grow, is paid for, you will be in profit. At that point, you have reached the first level of success. If you keep on and grow it, you will surely reach the other plateaus that I outlined above.
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One way to define Success is measuring your by income versus your out-go. When you start any business, there is a time of negative cash flow. This is called being in the red. This can last for some time, even years in the brick and mortar world. Once you start actually making a profit or begin to be in the black, most would consider you a success. When that profit grows to the point that it covers some of your monthly bills, you have reached another level of success. When it covers your house
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 74 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

I would first ask you this question: What are your goals? Your goals you have set really determine your success. You can always change your goals to make them become more realistic but a challenge to reach.

Success is different for each person because each person is unique. So What you call success may not be what I would call success.

Your greatest love should be helping others in your team achieve their goals, and you should even be glad when they surpass you. We are all here to help one another, and although you must work your business and accept responsibility, you are not alone. We are all here to build together. For example, you play in football and gain a touchdown, but the team was there to help you by stopping the other side from blocking you from your goal. You kicked the ball for a field goal, but someone else kept an opponent from blocking that kick. It's the same with teamwork here. You are successful when you know you have reached a goal, and you will remain successful when you continually reach more goals, either financially or in other ways. You work to become successful throughout your life. It doesn't stop when you reach the top of this business or when you have become, "rich." You keep moving or slide back into stagnation if you stop.

May this be helpful to you.
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I would first ask you this question: What are your goals? Your goals you have set really determine your success. You can always change your goals to make them become more realistic but a challenge to reach.

Success is different for each person because each person is unique. So What you call success may not be what I would call success.

Your greatest love should be helping others in your team achieve their goals, and you should even be glad when they surpass you. We
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Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

How long have you been on SFI? The answer to your question is to simply look back on what you had when you first started and follow the road you have travelled upon to succeed and take a look at the achievements and milestones you acquired along the way.

From my personal experience I know that I have succeeded considering my financial situation, when I first started I could not afford a standing order so it took me moths before I could do so and maintain EA and eventually I added another product allowing me to become a Bronze Team Leader.

When I first started I only had the free gateways to use for advertising but now I have three personal SFI websites, one of them is a blog. My first commission was $1.00 because I had no downline and now I have two active CSA and 2 Active PSA so now I earn commissions form matching VP and I get Co sponsor Commissions.

I also have my own website for training on how to succeed on SFI which is called Dollarwise and now in my second year I have $40.00 in commissions and My Payoneer debit card.

The point of telling you my experience is to show you how to look back on the things you had when you started and what you have now.
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How long have you been on SFI? The answer to your question is to simply look back on what you had when you first started and follow the road you have travelled upon to succeed and take a look at the achievements and milestones you acquired along the way.

From my personal experience I know that I have succeeded considering my financial situation, when I first started I could not afford a standing order so it took me moths before I could do so and maintain EA and eventually I added another
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