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

Dear Dignasia

There could be all sorts of different situations in our lives when the time comes and we feel that we are about to give up. Sometimes we give up before we even started doing something new. Sometimes we give up just before making this huge breakthrough to success just because we saw how much effort should go through in order to succeed and it can really scare us. Don’t give up beforehand!
I remember you posting this question in the Forum earlier. Probably the answers we gave there were not very satisfactory to you.

SO WHY DIDN'T I QUIT OR GIVE UP

1. I was Tired of Trying out several Shiny Objects out there and they are there in hundreds of thousands. SFI has proven to me that it is a reputable company with a solid foundation and moral background plus strong sound leadership.

2. I know what I want for my future. I have envisioned a financially free future were I do not have to work like a slave for the rest of my life for someone else. And so I am going to delay instant gratification for now so I can enjoy it in the future

3. Anything is possible: Frankly speaking and this is my personal belief that unless you are dead you have absolutely no good reason to say you cannot succeed. NO EXCUSES! You are alive! You are free to learn new ways in order to ACCOMPLISH a masterpiece plan if the previous one didn’t work out as you wished. Stop quitting your dreams. We all learn and teach each other. We all become better at things by TRYING. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! - Audrey Hepburn

4. Get Real
Everything takes time. In order to get better at anything spend some quality time practicing. Practice makes things perfect. Having looked at your badge wall I realize that you have barely finished 4 months. Everything valuable in this world requires some amount of sacrifice."Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good that we often may win. By fearing to attempt". – William Shakespeare

5. Be Strong Like Oak and face up to your challenges
Believe me, you are stronger than you think. 1,2 or even 3 little failures are not enough to stop you from achieving your goals. Your goals are far greater than all of the doubts. Imagine a little oak tree. Did it stop growing every time it was facing harsh winds? NO. So why should you stop? You are alive, aren’t you? So you have no good reason to give up. Period."Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now". – Jonatan Mårtensson

6. This Was Done Before
What are your goals? Did anyone succeed before at what you are trying to achieve at now? Even if there was only one person in the world who has done what you want to do – it tells you only one thing – whatever your goal is – IT IS POSSIBLE to achieve!

7. Be Inspired. Inspire Others
Be a living inspiration for others and refuse to give up. Who knows what someone else can achieve by listening to your motivational stories how it was tough and you were about to quit but you never caved in and succeeded! Learn from the best and make it happen! And then motivate others to go beyond their personal limits. I get motivated personally every time I remember what Gery said about his own testimony. He toiled very hard for a whole 3 years online VERY hard without seeing a single dime. Now look at him. Wouldn't you love to share your testimony too. What if he had given up and quit?

8. The Fellowship Of Success
It’s great to be among people who share the same beliefs and goals as you are. And if your goal is to be successful – be around successful people you can learn a lot from.
As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big - Donald Trump

9. In conclusion: You are so close…

There are loads of people out there eager to tell you that the goals you put for yourself on the map are impossible to achieve due to their own limiting beliefs. But who are they to decide and set YOUR LIMITS? Often when you feel that you are about to give up you are the closest to making a huge breakthrough! At any point of time you’re always just on the verge of success. Keep going until you hit your gold mine! Never give up!

Best Regards and see you at the TOP!
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Dear Dignasia

There could be all sorts of different situations in our lives when the time comes and we feel that we are about to give up. Sometimes we give up before we even started doing something new. Sometimes we give up just before making this huge breakthrough to success just because we saw how much effort should go through in order to succeed and it can really scare us. Don’t give up beforehand!
I remember you posting this question in the Forum earlier. Probably the answers
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Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

When I first started I was crying to my co sponsor and my upline team because I was advertising and not getting any customers, so what got me pushing forward is the encouragement of my co sponsor, and advice from a2a friends to stick with it, even if I don't see results immediately keep doing little things everyday to grow my business, so in my first year the only thing I have been doing was accumulating versapoints month after month so that is how I made it to the E365 finals but unfortunately I did not win the championship so I cried to my co sponsor again and two of my a2a friends and they told me that I am a winner because after a year I am still here and I have earned lots of badges that is considering that I have not been reading or studying the way I should. So now my achievements are motivating me to start reading the materials more carefully so that I can really have a solid foundation.

Let me put it to you this way I was going through allot of frustrations and I too felt like giving up because first of all I was trying to construct a building but I wanted to start at the top, I was just in hurry to make money, because I am soooooo frustrated with my financial situation because I was going through a rough patch, so I was trying to construct a building in mid air. All I was doing was basically getting the points and saving the info for future use, WELL THAT IS TOTALLY WRONG ON MY PART!

Second problem was setting the right goals, so now I think I will look over my goals and start to make some adjustments. \
I was just trying to get the highest points but I did not really have some definite goals in mind.

My first year I was able to make it to the E365 finals but now on my second year I am really going to start studying, and continue on the marketing so what is pushing me forward is my determination and desire to succeed.

Merry Christmas.
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When I first started I was crying to my co sponsor and my upline team because I was advertising and not getting any customers, so what got me pushing forward is the encouragement of my co sponsor, and advice from a2a friends to stick with it, even if I don't see results immediately keep doing little things everyday to grow my business, so in my first year the only thing I have been doing was accumulating versapoints month after month so that is how I made it to the E365 finals but unfortunately
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Affiliate since: 04/29/2004, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question!!

Based on my own experience, I joined SFI in 2004 but I became side tracked with many other opportunities on-line offering a quick way of making money. Some of which were ok and others were complete fakes or scams. After feeling the sting several times I could have given up quite easily tarnishing all business opportunities on-line with the same brush, but I didn't, I simply refocused and driving forward to make it happen.

At the end of it all, SFI was the first business opportunity I joined yet regretfully it was the last one I put any effort into. Since I have been active with SFI and following some of the methods as set out in the training materials provided, I have definitely been reaping the benefits of it. If I could turn the clock back I would have been consistently active in SFI from day one. SFI is certainly the most robust, solid and genuine business opportunity on-line that I have joined and proud to be part of it.

Many people that turn to making money on-line initially seek the quick cash option and then realise that you actually have to put in some work for this to happen, just like building any other business. When this happens some people give up and some do what I did. refocus, have belief maintain the right attitude to make it happen.

The bottom line is ATITTUDE is the number one thing. You can have all the best tools and guidance in the world, but if you haven't got the right attitude then it simply won't work.
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Great question!!

Based on my own experience, I joined SFI in 2004 but I became side tracked with many other opportunities on-line offering a quick way of making money. Some of which were ok and others were complete fakes or scams. After feeling the sting several times I could have given up quite easily tarnishing all business opportunities on-line with the same brush, but I didn't, I simply refocused and driving forward to make it happen.

At the end of it all, SFI was the first
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jewell's 21 other Ask SC answers

Be glad you "almost" gave up! You didn't! I did. I joined and quit in 2008, and again in 2010. I "almost" gave in October, 2013. But I didn't. Had I stayed and worked in either 2008 or 2010, I would be so much further along SFI journey in success.

The question is why did stay after losing all I had worked 18 months for? Yes, I became an affiliate again, after being EA2 and sometimes even BTL during those 18 months.

Because:
1) I had not found anything better.
2) I had been paid consistently for 18 months.
3) I had been doing the definition of insanity most of that time: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
4) I had tried to find someone else's formula that would work for me.
5) I did not think for myself. (Ah ha! There's a key!)
6) Erich Winnecke is from Indiana, USA, and so am I. (I've been transplanted to California, USA, but my roots are in Indiana soil.) If he can work and be persistent and patient and then earn more money in SFI in 1 month than I have ever earned in 1 year, I better stick with it and think for myself.

So I have decided that this isn't the time to quit. This is the time to learn more, try more, fail more, and do that all over again until I succeed. If that takes 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years--so be it. I WILL to be a successful internet marketer.

What will keep me pushing forward?
1) Knowing, for certain, that SFI is what it says it.
2) Rereading, and actually doing what George Little's Internet Marketing says.
(That's called "getting actual experience".)
3) Remembering that there really isn't a better or easier program out there. (I've looked--and you probably have too.)
4) My PSAs and CSAs and my A2A friends are a great source of inspiration.
5) I have dropped all my other direct sales distributorships because I really wasn't working them. I had too many conflicting things to do. Now I can focus on building a business that builds people. That's what I want to do.

You will have to find what matters most to you to keep pushing forward. Search your heart. You'll find your push!



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Be glad you "almost" gave up! You didn't! I did. I joined and quit in 2008, and again in 2010. I "almost" gave in October, 2013. But I didn't. Had I stayed and worked in either 2008 or 2010, I would be so much further along SFI journey in success.

The question is why did stay after losing all I had worked 18 months for? Yes, I became an affiliate again, after being EA2 and sometimes even BTL during those 18 months.

Because:
1) I had not found anything
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Affiliate since: 09/28/2022, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olga's 32 other Ask SC answers

I believe that most of us face the same problem in the second or third month of membership. You may become discouraged at that time because it's much harder to collect action VP than in the first month, PSAs are not so easy to find as you expected, and you don't feel like investing much money in the business at the very beginning.

Patience is the key! I reminded myself that this is a long-term business, that all I really need to do right away is maintain my EA2 status, while waiting for PSAs and ECAs to turn up. I never stopped doing my daily tasks and playing games, reading SFI news, Forum posts, getting new ideas. But I also placed bids at some DP auctions to pile up my MRP, and advertised a lot. After a while, I availed with some 'capital' in terms of TCredits, MRP, downlines, etc. That's what gave me strength to go on, as I was reassured that you can only win as the time goes by, provided that you read and understand the way the system works. Now I'm determined to stay on track!
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I believe that most of us face the same problem in the second or third month of membership. You may become discouraged at that time because it's much harder to collect action VP than in the first month, PSAs are not so easy to find as you expected, and you don't feel like investing much money in the business at the very beginning.

Patience is the key! I reminded myself that this is a long-term business, that all I really need to do right away is maintain my EA2 status, while waiting for
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Affiliate since: 10/24/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Remko's 1 other Ask SC answers

You almost did give up and I gave up but that was I believe over 10 years ago when SFI started and I was not able to get it going. In between then and today I have joined many programs, some very well known companies. Every one of them cost me nothing but money and was depressing why people did not want to join in an opportunity I thought was great. Most people are in a rut, they do not want to change.

So I did see many ads for SFI and wanted to know if anything changed so I signed up again. Wow, this was a whole different ball game. I started racking up the points and was EA the next day! This is fun I thought, trying to gain as many points as possible.
The next day I was Bronze Team Leader and proud to be so successful.

Now 6 weeks later I have 132 affiliates and never looked back. It's the competition that is driving me and I am in it for the win! I know I will not make a huge income right away but the constant drive for points is in me. Every day I am looking forward to the red tabs and can't wait to click them, read the page and progress to the next challenge. There is so much to learn and read. Every month is a new challenge, looking for ways to be better then the month before. Looking for people that have the same mentality can be challenging and exhausting but they are there so that keeps me pushing forward.

So I will keep pushing forward and never give up. SFI is so much fun, challenging and rewarding with the daily contests. 10 months from now I will be the E365 Champion and then some.

For the people that signed up and never log back in: " You don't know what you are missing!"

SFI is rewarding and creates leaders, something I never thought I would be!

Thank you for believing!

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You almost did give up and I gave up but that was I believe over 10 years ago when SFI started and I was not able to get it going. In between then and today I have joined many programs, some very well known companies. Every one of them cost me nothing but money and was depressing why people did not want to join in an opportunity I thought was great. Most people are in a rut, they do not want to change.

So I did see many ads for SFI and wanted to know if anything changed so I signed up
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Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 152 | Read GT's 63 other Ask SC answers

I first joined SFI several years ago when I was new to Internet Marketing. It was the first affiliate program I joined before I knew anything about affiliate marketing. The first thing I discovered was that marketing online required focus, commitment and work.

So, I did not properly focus on SFI and instead, I kept "chasing my tail" for a few years looking for the secret to instant success without having to work for it. You could say that I "gave up on SFI" during that time.

Then, a few years later, having much more insight and experience into what Internet success truly means, I came back and gave SFI another very thorough review. My new perspective on marketing allowed me to properly see the strength and value of the SFI marketing plan combined with the power of the TripleClicks.com shopping site.

This new insight strengthened my confidence in SFI and my vision for it's potential and I made a decision to commit to it and focus on building my SFI business no matter what challenges or obstacles I might encounter.

It is still not growing as fast as I would like it to ... however ... now that I have experience with a variety of other marketing plans, I know that the challenges with SFI are no exception and I have just as much or MORE chance of success with SFI than I do with ANY other Internet income program.

THAT knowledge and understanding is what helps me to keep pushing forward day by day, week by week, month by month! You can do it, too!

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I first joined SFI several years ago when I was new to Internet Marketing. It was the first affiliate program I joined before I knew anything about affiliate marketing. The first thing I discovered was that marketing online required focus, commitment and work.

So, I did not properly focus on SFI and instead, I kept "chasing my tail" for a few years looking for the secret to instant success without having to work for it. You could say that I "gave up on SFI" during that
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Affiliate since: 02/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Alison's 28 other Ask SC answers

Fellow Affiliates,

Giving up is the easiest thing in the world to do. But what does it accomplish? Absolutely nothing hence one would always be in the same place and same situation if not worse.

Most of us want something, need something or dream of something whether it may be a career path we always wanted to follow or a family structure, something you would like to buy but the price tag has too may zeros than are in your bank account.

To keep pushing forward, I stay focused on "the end game." Keep your eye on the prize. I constantly remind myself of this question, "why should others be successful and not me if the path to follow is the same?" I think of my other achievements personally and academically and none of them were achieved overnight. They took time, with many failures and many lessons learnt and to some degree still learning.

A pilot doesn't become one overnight, neither does a doctor or any other professional. The same principle applies here and we all must recognize and hold on to this concept because this business is riddled with many opportunities and in order to see the true lifetime benefits, we have to stay committed and keep pushing forward.

To your success!
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Fellow Affiliates,

Giving up is the easiest thing in the world to do. But what does it accomplish? Absolutely nothing hence one would always be in the same place and same situation if not worse.

Most of us want something, need something or dream of something whether it may be a career path we always wanted to follow or a family structure, something you would like to buy but the price tag has too may zeros than are in your bank account.

To keep pushing forward, I stay
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 74 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

I can understand how you would almost give up on SFI, with friends and family not understanding what this type of business can do and with the slow growth of income. However, when SFI was in its infancy and I joined, we received payments the next month after joining. This was a real incentive for me. The Affiliate Center was so accessible that I really couldn't give up.

Even though I tried other businesses over the years, nothing compared to SFI. So I determined in my heart to leave these businesses alone and give my attention to SFI, simply because it was better and I got more results month after month. It has paid off. Also, the support from other affiliates helped me stay the course and encouraged me when things sometimes got rough. All of the new features that were added over the years kept me curious and kept me moving. Now these changes are beginning to snowball! They are incredible and keep the excitement going for me to move forward, and that's what I am doing and helping my affiliates to do.
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I can understand how you would almost give up on SFI, with friends and family not understanding what this type of business can do and with the slow growth of income. However, when SFI was in its infancy and I joined, we received payments the next month after joining. This was a real incentive for me. The Affiliate Center was so accessible that I really couldn't give up.

Even though I tried other businesses over the years, nothing compared to SFI. So I determined in my heart to leave
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Affiliate since: 11/22/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Helen's 13 other Ask SC answers

So often people join these 'opportunities' to make money and they end in disappointment, mainly because of their expectations! Too many people are desperately looking for ways to make money and a 'quick fix' to resolve their financial problems.

I believe most of us join to make money and get financial freedom - that is a 'given'
but when it comes to work, so many lose interest and move on. BIG MISTAKE!

When I joined SFI I had tried a few other programs with no results, despite my efforts. I am a hard worker and if I go for something I usually give it a good try! I was very impressed with the tutorials, responsiveness of SFI and the incredible resources available. I decided this was worth pursuing. I was fast-tracked, made EA and got a standing order etc.

But what really convinced me to stay was my first commission payment - it was $1.87
I was euphoric! I know that sounds crazy!! That was my first month's earnings, hardly anything to rave about, but I still earned something! SFI pays out, they do what they say and there are so many rewards you get along the way.

I have been here for a year now, have over 1700 affiliates in my team, and although I am not earning a fortune yet, I can see my business growing every month. I know this was the right choice for me and believe that anyone who truly desires success, should look no further!
Believe in yourself, set some goals, be realistic, work hard and persevere.

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So often people join these 'opportunities' to make money and they end in disappointment, mainly because of their expectations! Too many people are desperately looking for ways to make money and a 'quick fix' to resolve their financial problems.

I believe most of us join to make money and get financial freedom - that is a 'given'
but when it comes to work, so many lose interest and move on. BIG MISTAKE!

When I joined SFI I had tried a few other programs with no results,
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