There are 3 main types of laziness; intellectual/metal, physical and spiritual but for the purpose of this discussion the first 2 are pertinent to SFI business. A lazy person is a lazy person, so how do you motivate a lazy person? It is extremely difficult because they are either your colleagues or team members and not your children or employees, so does it mean you have to work their businesses for them? No. Does it mean they have to put their businesses on auto pilot? Not a successful strategy.
However, this does not stop you from trying some suggestions below:
1. Encourage them to work at their own pace because they are the owners of their businesses; no boss, no time constraint and no floor/ceiling on how far they want to go.
2. Offer some incentives/gifts if they achieve certain level of activity or success. However, I may not want to encourage you to reassign your PSAs to a lazy person or include them in your co-op until they flip their lazy attitude.
3. You may encourage them to let you know what they derive pleasure in doing and who knows, they may just say games, so direct them to EZ games as warm up or as alternative platform to commence building their businesses.
4. Try some encouraging quotes:
“If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” – -Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
-Bruce Lee
"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."
-Alexander Graham Bell
It may be a lot more easier to motivate the unmotivated and affiliates are not motivated for several reasons and as a sponsor/team leader you may have the benefit of hindsight occasionally to understand the basis of un-motivation, which makes your work easier by applying a pinpoint strategy to address it, otherwise you may consider the suggestions below to motivate unmotivated affiliates:
1. Where possible, develop a simple and easy to understand plan of action on how they can be successful and forward it to them as a guide. This is because some affiliates are discouraged and demotivated when they are overwhelmed.
2. Encourage them to participate in the forum, especially in the My Region/My country forum in order to draw inspiration from successful and motivated affiliated from the same country or geographical location. Here may also be a source of support to resolving issues that are peculiar to their region.
3. In the same vein, you may help them to make a2a friends with serious and motivated affiliates from the same country, who are willing to assist and provide source of motivation. For example’ ‘we are from the same place and with similar circumstances, so if I can why not you.....come on try this, this and that....’
4. Always highlight the importance of reading training materials in order to develop an understanding of what this business is all about and how it works, in order to appreciate and be more prepared for the challenges ahead.
5. Organise contests and offer attractive prizes for winners and communicate them, including the winners of your contests in your team mails and stream posts. Also, inform them of the importance and benefits to be up to speed in the E365 contest and Fast Track where necessary. People are motivated more when they know the benefits they stand to derive from their actions.
6. You may need to provide tips and other helpful contents in your leadership page and encourage these affiliates to also visit your leadership page but make it attractive, worthwhile and keep it updated.
7. It is also a good strategy to recognise and offer gifts to members of your team who achieve certain milestones and ensure you communicate this to specially target these unmotivated affiliates.
8. Again, you may send them some encouraging quotes like the one below:
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
–Frank A. Clark
Let me conclude by adding that, no matter what you do and how far you try, you may be unsuccessful and at some point you need to realise you are flogging a ‘dead horse’ and therefore make a decision to let go, and divert your energy to working with the workers in your team.
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