Friday, June 25, 2010

Network Marketing with a Horse?

Part of my Why is to have more time with family and to have the freedom that we want. I want some land and I want to have a couple of horses, I think it would be nice to teach our children responsibility and also allow them to have fun, if they would like.

I am currently purchased a horse from a friend of mine. I am getting a quarter horse palomino colt, he is only 2 months old. I know a lot about horses but there is still so much I have to learn, so I can teach this horse how I want him to behave. Having a 1100 lb. animal it's good to make sure he knows you're the boss!

I don't want much tv but lately I've been watching this tv channel on training horses and how to teach them what you want them to do. The main way to teach a horse is called approach and retreat. If a horse is head shy let's say and they move their head everytime you try to touch them, this can be dangerous. So you have to apply pressure to the horse or do constant movment to the horse UNTIL he quits moving or over reacting. So you approach with pressure and then you release when the horse behaves. This exercise looks like a lot of work and patience.

This reminds me of network marketing. When I am helping someone new with their business, I help them in small steps. The first time I talk to them I could tell them Everything I know in a couple of hours. But would that be fair to that person. No way! Just like having patience to train a horse, I have to have patience when training someone. I can't train a horse in 1 day, no it takes a while to train a horse the way you want it to be. I have to say I am passionate about horses and helping people. They both make me happy and I know I am fulfilling my purpose.

Back to the Approach and Retreat training with the horses. Approaching the situation can be like this business but you also have to retreat and drop it. In other words you train and teach but after that you have to retreat and take a break. There still may be more training but you set it up for another time. I know when I receive too much information I get overwelmed, I never want to give anyone that feeling. Yikes!

So I hope this little article makes sense to you, and I hope you enjoyed it. : )

I appreciate you,
Stefanie Sanspree
http://ssanspree.bigmlmtruths.com

1 comment:

  1. Stefanie,

    Great analogy you have used here regarding training horses. Too true right, you simply can't expect a new networker to take everything in right away.

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