I spent a little while transcribing the bit from the notorious live where the person talks about losing friends.
With my new business a lot of people have probably said to me in the past, “oh, it’s not going to work”, or “I wouldn’t waste your money on it”, things like that. But I just do not take any notice of them, because actually I don’t class them as friends. Any friends would support me no matter what. Whether they believed in the business, the company, the products or whatever, they would be there for me. And that’s another really important lesson I’ve learned. I’ve actually learned who my real friends are.
And this is the one thing that I’ve really struggled with, with this business. I absolutely love my business. I love the products, I love my team, I love the whole ethos of Forever. You know, how ethical it is. I just absolutely love it. But the one thing I’ve really struggled with is finding out who my real friends are. I’ve actually lost friends, and I don’t actually know why I’ve actually lost them. They just go quiet on me, or they don’t respond to me, or they don’t support me in terms of any of my business stuff that I put online. And it’s actually quite obvious, because they like a lot of things to do with my personal life, and they like my posts. But the minute I put anything on about the business, or about promotions, or anything about recruiting, they completely ignore it. And I actually find it quite funny, I really do. And I laugh about it now, I certainly don’t let it get to me at all, I just don’t.
But have lost friends, and it’s actually quite sad. But I suppose that’s life, and you lose friends throughout your life anyway. And I don’t hate people, I don’t hold grudges. What I will do is I’ll just carry on working my business, and I show people that, you know what, I will make this business work. I will build a phenomenal and fantastic team, which I’m really starting to do anyway. And I will achieve my goals that I’ve set myself, because that’s me. I will not stop until I’ve achieved something. And I’m doing it for my little boy, so I will do it.
But that’s been a harsh lesson. And I have lost friends, or people avoid talking about the business. It’s as though they think that I’m going to try and make them join the business, or pressure them into joining. That’s just not me. I’m not gonna make anyone join my team. I don’t think I’m that powerful in making someone join my team. But it’s as though they avoid mentioning Forever, just in case I jump on the bandwagon and say “join my team, join my team”. You know what, I want people joining my team who want a different lifestyle, who have goals, who want something different to work alongside another job, maybe. I don’t want people to join just because I’ve asked them to join. I’m not the sort of person to pressurise people into anything. I would love people to maybe take a look at the business, and if it’s not for them then that’s fine, but maybe they know someone that it would suit. I just find it really sad that I have lost some friends that I thought I was really close to.