The Employee Mindset

Overcoming The Employee Mentality We Were Brought Up To Expect

But, how many of us were raised to get out there, start a business, and be 100% accountable for the bottom line?

I can tell you that I sure wasn’t raised that way. The idea of doing something so risky… so crazy… was not even a consideration.

That is why I personally found affiliate marketing to be difficult – the mindset shift. Getting things straight in my mind was very challenging for me, especially when I first started out.

Well-meaning friends and family would ask things like, “You’ve been doing this online thing for a weeks now, so why can’t you pay your bills with it yet?”

Ugh!

When you are stuck in employee-mindset mode, those types of questions are horrible and defeating… and it’s hard to handle that. Those questions lead to feelings of (dare I say it)  failure and are very de-motivational. In fact, I know plenty of people who have quit affiliate marketing because they were not living up to the expectations of those around them who spoke from an employee-mindset.

Once I started reading and learning from those that lived outside the employee-mindset, things got tremendously easier for me. Sure, the learning curve is challenging and the changes online fly at me each day at an amazing rate, but that is not the hard part.

The hard part, for me, was learning to change my mindset to accept that this is what it’s like to be a business owner. That change in mindset was freeing… empowering even… and things suddenly became much easier.

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   Starting a home based business as an affiliate marketer is not the same as starting a job as an employee. In one to four weeks you have your first check for just showing up to work and working eight to sixteen hours a day. As a home based entrepreneur you probably won't make a dime the first month as an affiliate marketer. The "instant gratification" mindset of the employee will not serve the affiliate marketer very well at all. There is no financial "instant gratification" for the home based entrepreneur. However time is on the side of the affiliate marketer who stays committed and puts forth consistent effort to build his or her network marketing business. Employees will never have ""residual income" being able to make more money only if their employer gives them a pay raise. Once the network marketing entrepreneur builds an active downline of a few committed entrepreneurs like themselves the "sky is the limit" when it comes to the financial gain from network marketing "residual income". To be a successful affiliate marketer and home business entrepreneur let go of the "employee mindset".