Can network marketing set me free?

These past few months have been a very difficult, both exhausting and stressful!

I have been battling with self-doubt, confidence and belief in myself! A question I have been asking myself consistently is, “how am I going to manage my family, my career in the medical field and run a network marketing business all at the same time?”

I am currently an District Manager and Independent Consultant with an amazing network marketing company called Arbonne. This opportunity of a lifetime was literally placed on my lap at the right time. I had been praying for an opportunity to just get my family in a more comfortable situation where my husband and I did not have to struggle and work these long exhausting hours but barely making ends meet.

I think back to March of 2018, my husband and I had been going back and forth with our short and long-term goals. We wanted to be at home more with the kids, run our own business, and move out of state. I remember on several occasions we kept saying that there had to be something more than just running through the motions of our long days at work and our daily routine, yet barely paying our bills. I would just say there is not enough time in the day spend with the kids. Overall, I was just over my corporate America job.

Though all those goals and plans were great, in the back of my mind it went right back to, “haha okay babe really how are we even going to get there? We have to continue working to make ends meet, we don’t have the time, we have our four kids, debt, no savings the list goes on and on!”

Just feeling defeated and devastated. The goals that we had set for ourselves seemed so far and unrealistic. Well going back, I had faith, I had faith that something was going to cross our path and that if we just stayed positive, supported each other and held our heads up high I knew something was going to give. Ultimately, I knew nothing was going to break us. Life is about obstacles and I had to keep reminding myself that we are on this path because it is the path that was given. It was up to my husband and I to make the decisions to keep going.

Is there an answer?

March 16, 2018 a dear friend of mine reached out to me and said, “Kristin you need to get out of your commute that you are making daily, if you want to make that extra income, if you want to possibly leave your corporate world job and have more time freedom for you and your family Arbonne is the path to just that! ” Now, in my mind easier said than done! Yes, that sounds so great and yes of course I want all of that but how? Puts me right back into that conversation in my own head and went back to those same questions. How am I going to find time, how am I going to build a business when I know nothing about network marketing or even running my own business. Although scared out of my mind, I decided to go for it and sign up because I was ready for that change in my life that could potentially reach the goals we have set.

After an exciting few months into working my business I PROMOTED TO DISTRICT MANAGER in less than a month!!! WOOO I AM ON CLOUD 9! Well, that cloud 9 faded when I was faced with the challenge of how I was going to promote to the next level of management. Here came all the self-doubt, lack of confidence, energy and positivity that I had for a short period. Reality is just those few reasons are a bunch of, excuse my language, but that’s all a bunch of crap. Why am I so scared, what am I scared of, what is with the lack of confidence, energy and positivity?

My company put on an event this past month called Arbonne Pure Impact. This event could not have come at a more opportune time to boost my moral! To hear that one of our National Vice Presidents had been in the same level of management I am currently in for 10 years was a shock to me. To know that she had went through the same fears, the same lack of confidence, the same excuses I am making, because let’s be honest that’s all it is. To hear several stories that were all similar to mine I knew that I needed to make a change and I knew that I was going to stop with the excuses, stop with the fears, stop with the self-doubt because at the end of the day if what I want is real than I need to make that effort to get over those hurdles. Success is not handed to you, success is always a work in progress.

There are going to be several challenges that you are faced with but that is all a part of the journey. Finding the courage and perseverance to overcome them is going to result in your success.

Are you going to just lie down and be defeated or are you going to accept the challenge and move forward? I have chosen to accept every challenge that will come my way and I will defeat it one at a time. Sure, I will make mistakes and it may take me a few steps to get to where I want to be, but man, the day that I receive those keys to my Mercedes-Benz I am going to look back at all these challenges and be glad I never stopped pushing forward. I keep asking myself, if I stop where do I see myself in three to five years? The answer is I will be in the same situation I am currently in which is more terrifying than pushing through the fears obstacles that are on the road ahead.

I will ask you the same question, WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE YEARS? Are you looking for new opportunity? Are you motivated to take control of your future? Are there things in your life that given the opportunities, tools or ideas would you change them? I have not reached all my goals, however the progress I have made thus far is worth every challenge I have faced and it feels so good to kick those doubts, fears, self-doubt, lack of confidence in the butt.

I will leave you with a quote from Tom Dreeson I was recently introduced to: