Friday, August 8, 2008

Is It So Difficult to Give People Step by Step Instruction?

Why is it so hard to find information, businesses, or people out there that are willing to show people, step by step, how to be successful at something? I'll be honest with you, it royally ticks me off at all the hype and b.s. out there that turns out to be worthless.

When I started practicing law, the first law firm I worked for expected about 45 billable hours per week from me. Anyone who knows about new attorneys knows that it takes them about 60-80 hours of work to get 45 billable hours. Why, you ask? Because in law school they teach you how to "think" like a lawyer, but not how to actually practice law.

What's interesting is that law firms know that, yet they do not spend even a few days teaching their new attorneys what to do to have productive billable hours. Could they? Yes. Do they? No. What's ironic is that the new attorneys would end up billing more sooner if someone would take the time up front to show them how.

The exact same thing happened when I started in real estate, both as a broker and an investor. Nothing but vague instruction that leaves you wondering "so what exactly do I need to do?" "What is the next step?" "How do I do that?"

In both professions, I spent countless hours of research and trial and error to learn how to be successful. It worked, but it took a lot of hard work and countless hours.

Not surprisingly, the network marketing industry is even worse about this. What makes it even more ironic is that your upline's success can be highly attributed to their downline, yet few, if any, teach their downline step by step what to do (except for the b.s. they feed them that does not work).

Consequently, my wife and I decided that we wanted to be different. We have learned, the old fashion way (by hard work), what it takes to be successful. And our mission is to share with those who would like to be on our Success Team, step by step what they need to do to be successful and make multiple streams of passive income.

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