Tracking Your Sets And Reps For Maximum
MLM Growth
Have you ever been
the shortest guy in a room? I sure have. But it's never really bothered
me. Especially when I'm allowed to hit the monsters as hard as I can.
When I was 18, I was fortunate to make the University of Toronto New
College Men's Football Team. I was the smallest guy by 30 pounds. But oh
man, could I pound them!
Playing football meant hitting the weights. I still remember doing
squats with this lineman. He was doing reps with so many 45 pound
plates, the bar bent and sagged over his enormous back like a child's
toy. Then we'd strip the bar down and I'd grunt up 90 pounds with my
scrawny 125 lb frame. What I lacked in size, I tried to make up in
intensity and heart.
The strongest guy on our team was around 6 foot 6, and about 265 lbs. He
was routinely benching around the 500-pound mark. For laughs, he'd get
me to spot him. I'd have to stand on a little platform hovering over
this monster as he lowered the weight to his chest before pushing it up.
If he ever got stuck, he'd grunt and I was to apply a single finger's
pressure under the bar to help with the lift. If he "failed" the lift, I
was to save his life by lifting it off his chest...I had about as much
chance of lifting that bar as Bill Gates...
An interesting thing about "Mongo" was that he always carried a journal
into the gym. He showed me how he tracked his body weight at every
workout, the sets and reps of each weight, and how he felt about each
set. He was tracking GROWTH...a real student of the gym.
Years later, I would apply that same tracking to my MLM business. On the
wall of my office is a little chart. I t has 5 columns.
Month
New
Personals
Active FL Payline Vol
Group
Vol
Notes
I track my business monthly. The second column shows how many people I
personally enrolled that month. The 3rd column shows how many people on
my frontline are on autoship. The 4th column shows how much volume I got
paid on. The 5th shows total group volume in my whole downline. And the
final column I make notes on promotions, etc.
I block the chart into quarters, every three months I draw a black
horizontal line. I like to break the year into 4 campaigns, and devise
my activity accordingly. You may get a slow month in the summer or
winter, but having a quarter-by-quarter growth strategy will help you
from getting discouraged.
Track your growth. It's the secret to big muscles and big downlines!
