Stop Trying Harder

One of the first mistakes people make when they start
their own network marketing business
is to do the same things they’ve always done when
working all the other ventures they’ve ever done. After all, it’s
worked before . . . right? So what’s the very first thing we do?
Try harder.

There are two problems with this: For one thing, there’s the
word try itself. It just doesn’t make any sense. And second is
the notion of trying harder.

Let me share with you a little story I read a while back.

I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Millcroft Inn, a peaceful
little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out
of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m listening to
the desperate sounds of a life-or-death struggle going on just a
few feet away.

There’s a small fly burning out the last of its short life’s
energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the
windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the
fly’s strategy- try harder.

But it’s not working.

The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the
struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to
try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass.
Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching
its goal through raw effort and determination.

This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.

Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds
of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside
world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being
wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The
breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.

Why doesn’t the fly try another approach, something dramatically
different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this
particular route, and determined effort, offer the most promise
for success? What logic is there in continuing until death, to
seek a breakthrough with “more of the same”?

No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it’s
an idea that will kill.

“Trying harder” isn’t necessarily the solution to achieving
more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you
want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it’s a big part of the
problem. . . .

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a
different result is one common definition of insanity. If you
aren’t having, and doing, and being all you dream of in your
life and work, trying harder clearly isn’t the answer. Doing
things differently is.

Your friend along the way,

Ismary Leon