James
Walled Lake,#2UPDATE Employee
Fri, July 30, 2004
I got involved with the TOD in February of this year and I'm sitting here wondering what I've gotten myself into. I am a pretty bright individual and am not easily taken by "get rich quick" schemes. I have always enjoyed traditional jobs where you are paid according to your contribution to the company, so that is what attracted me to the TOD. Plus, the personal growth that was preached by my friend and his upline. Then I started researching the net for stuff on this business. Mostly negative, but then I put it down to the people who were either afraid of doing it, did it and failed, or just the people who didn't know enough to talk about it. I tried everything that the mentors and my "coach" told me to do, nothing was working. The standard line I heard from my upline was, produce PV, read and listen to tapes...keep doing what I was doing. Personal growth wise, I've done real well. The books are a god-send...but then they are out there on the open market for anyone to obtain. The tapes, the same information over and over and over. The seminairs, the same. They told me that I would "have a moment" where the business would suddenly take off after a major seminar, but I didn't go the second day because I wasn't feeling anything. The people in my upline and my downline are awesome people that I'd probably not meet anywhere else. Most of the people in this business are there to be part of a group that is affecting massive change in personal and business life. Unfortunately, I don't think this business is going to work for me. I have experienced a nagging doubt in the past months, that all of the things they tell me to do to make my business succeed isn't moral. I was taken in by the "Make Friends, Have fun, Make money and Make a difference". But, if you have to "limit" what you tell someone, where's the morals in making friends? I am still involved, I guess, in this business. I've called my upline and told them that my family was backing off for now, that our other priorities were overwhelming us. I recieved the standard line of "It's your business. The team is here to help you." After two weeks of calling me with no response, the team is silent. I wonder what I'll be told when I get "off system"? My coach told me that he would spend his time helping the "ones who get it" ie, the ones having results and the "ones who didn't" would justifiably be left behind. Yet, on one of the Leadership tapes, the "leaders" said you are supposed to work with the ones who aren't getting results, because they are the ones who need it the most. Who's right? I see the divisions it causes in my friends home, his wife is dead set against it and wonders why he can see it. He just wants to make the life they have better, but how better is it when you're at the brink of divorce after being high school sweethearts and going through alot worse things? If you are in the business and doing well, tell me your secret. If you aren't in the business and don't want to be, well....they say it's not for everyone. I think I'm in the last category.