Personal Growth: Is it worth it?
The Juice Plus+ Virtual Franchise is a course in personal development, cleverly disguised as a business.
Some thoughts for the Leadership:
The process of personal development, growth and change is something we experience with mixed feelings. The best word is ambivalence.
Here’s the deal:
We want to grow, we want to get better, but we know on some deeper level that we are going to face the unfamiliar, the unknown, something new and challenging, to experience a little, maybe a lot less confidence and certainty, at times to feel inadequate, incompetent or foolish.
We may not know it, but it’s at those times we’re asking ourselves this question:
Is it worth it?
We know that real personal growth means giving up the known, which means letting go of security, feeling safe, while risking the unknown, which is uncomfortable at best, threatening at worst.
Is it worth it?
Here is the basic choice we face when it comes to personal growth, to change, and in our discussion here, when we are asked to build a growing, successful Juice Plus+ business.
We are left with opposing feelings about these changes. And the more significant the changes facing us, the more intense will be our ambivalence, that wavering between doubt and confidence, fear and safety, feeling in control and spinning, it seems, completely out of control.
The loss of control always feels like suffering. It’s different for everyone, but to the extent we feel out of control, we are uncomfortable, some times confused. We don't like suffering.
Real change, real growth can be pretty painful. Not life-threatening, but painful.
For most of us, known misery is more comfortable than unknown joy.
This is true if you have no experience in our business. It’s true if you are a dealer just getting started, looking to find your first 5 customers or take a stab at your first Wellness Presentation, or talk to a friend about your new business.
Or you might be an experienced NMD, who’s feeling the need to sponsor some fresh people, build new legs, to stretch those muscles that had become so comfortable with the status quo, with going through the motions, doing the bare bones, getting a so-so check, and now, there’s a fresh stirring of new possibilities, an excitement and a panic at the same time, that maybe I can become more, that maybe I have settled for too little, that I can build a 24 Club, a 39 Club, that I can engage more, become more proactive, become a more effective communicator, leader, teacher, coach.
But there’s always that other question.
Is it worth it?
Is it worth the effort, the discomfort, the tightened schedule, the sorting through priorities, recovering my personal vision, hassling with people who don’t care, pushing through the seasons of discouragement and self-doubt?
Is it worth it?
The bigger question, however, is this:
"Am I worth it? Am I worth the growth and validation and abundance that will come my way?"