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The
Law of Success and the Law of Failure
Few people have heard of the Law of Success. That's one reason why so few
succeed, especially in network marketing. But even fewer have heard of the Law
of Failure — which explains why 90% or more of us obey it by default.
Each of these unchangeable laws contains the promise of its own fulfilment. Obey
the Law of Success and you WILL succeed. Obey the Law of Failure
and you WILL fail.
The astonishing thing is that so many people obey the Law of Failure
and expect to succeed! (I'm deadly serious. It happens all the time.
And it's a safe bet that YOU do it, too!)
Why do they do it?
Simple ignorance, once again. How can you obey a law if you don't know it exists?
And, since these two laws oppose each other, if you're not obeying one, you
MUST be obeying the other. Since one law requires knowledge and the other doesn't,
guess which one most people obey without realising it?
It's that simple. After you've read this page, this reality should become crystal
clear to you.
The Law of
Success
The Law of Success is
brutally straightforward. You can't change it and you can't break it. All you'll
succeed in doing, if you try, is to break yourself against it. Here it is...
- "Do ONLY the right
things for ONLY the right reasons."
Can it really be that plain
and simple and still be real?
Absolutely. Think it through carefully. If you do ONLY the right things for ONLY
the right reasons, you can't make a mistake. So you can't fail. You
MUST succeed!
But if it's that simple, why do 90% or more still fail?
Equally simple... they don't know the right things to do, or they don't
know the right reasons for doing them. And you either KNOW them or you don't.
Guessing won't work.
At best, you have only a 50:50 chance of being right if there are only TWO choices
available to you. There almost never are. If you think there are only two,
you're probably not seeing all the other choices hiding in that forest you
can't see because of all those trees. And every additional choice slashes your
chances of being right!
We call this the "Reverse Russian Roulette" approach to decision
making... management by chance. (Russian Roulette is the lethal game where you put
a gun to your temple, with only one of the six chambers loaded, and pull the trigger.
If you get lucky, you live to play again, until your luck runs out. In this
suicidal version of the game, only one chamber of the gun is empty!)
Playing safe and doing what everyone else does won't work either.
There's NO "safety in numbers" when it comes to obeying the Law of Success.
90% FAIL, remember? So doing what everyone else does is nothing but a surefire
recipe for FAILURE!
They're all obeying the Law of Failure by default. (We call this the "Lemming"
approach to decision-making. Management by imitation.)
Who are they all following over that cliff? In most cases, someone who took a
guess!
The Law of
Failure
The Law of Failure is
three time bigger than the Law of Success. By that standard alone, it stands
to reason that you have a three times greater chance of obeying it through ignorance.
It says...
- "Do the right
things for the wrong reasons."
"Do the wrong things for the right reasons."
"Do the wrong things for the wrong reasons."
Can you see the problems
here?
Doing the wrong things for the right reasons is the Win-Lose*, Macchiavellian notion that "the end justifies
the means". Anything goes. All's fair in love and war, etc. Dumb (as Macchiavelli
discovered to his lasting regret).
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is the Lose-Win* absurdity that "the
means justify the end". Huh? Explain that to me again? Dumber!
And doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons is just plain suicidal. It's Lose-Lose*,
terminal stupidity. It's a death wish for your business that WILL come true!
(* See The Winning Perspective for a revealing — surprising!
— explanation. Close the new window to return here.)
Your chances of obeying the Law of Failure by default are not just
three times greater than obeying the Law of Success. They're actually
32 – or 3 x 3.
That's NINE times greater, or 9:1. Or 90% to 10%.
Hmmm... only 10% succeed while 90% fail. Those are the historical
facts...
in small business and in network marketing.
See any connections in all of this?
On the next page I'll explain another important set of connections that form the
foundation of success in all of life — not just in MLM.
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The
four cornerstones of success
