It used to be the case that nobody wanted to be exposed as having been bankrupt, homeless, unemployed or a convict. In the field of success mentoring on the Internet, however, things are different.
Being open and up front about a past rooted in poverty, low expectations, serious hardships or personal trials and tribulations of one sort or another is no longer unheard of.
Take the testimonies of two of the most successful success mentors active today, Matt Morris and Johnny Wimbrey...
Matt Morris was homeless and living out of his car before going on to found Success University, which is one of the fastest growing self-development affiliate programs on the Internet today.
Johnny Wimbrey, the National Training Director of Success University, was raised in an environment of poverty, alcoholism, gangs and guns, and spent part of his childhood in a shelter for abused women.
Both Matt Morris and Johnny Wimbrey are now very successful and their stories of the trials they were exposed to not only make for great marketing material but also serve as testimonies to motivate others to succeed as well.
Why?
Because the sheer desperation of the situation they found themselves in became the source of their motivation. Their ability to pull themselves up by their bootstraps without any specialized training or resources makes their success all the sweeter.
Their testimonies are energizing and make those of us who have neither suffered such extreme hardship nor enjoyed such outstanding financial success think, “If they can do it, surely I can do it too!”
It is the sheer motivational and inspirational power of testimonies such as these that seem to make aspiring affiliates all the more willing to follow the instruction of a such a person as a mentor who will see them through their journey to financial independence.
Such mentors have a great ability to reach out to a wide range of people and inspire them to find the success that has so far eluded them in their own lives.
Some of these people are, by other people's standards, already quite successful, competent and professional, but who in their own estimation of themselves feel that they have not yet achieved their full potential.
Others may be more obvious under-achievers who have lacked the discipline to visualize challenging goals and focus on achieving them.
Still others may turn to them from out of backgrounds of failure similar to their own; these are the people that nobody expects to experience success, but who suddenly decide that they are no longer going to allow themselves to be defined by other people's low expectations.
All of these people find something to identify with in the stories their mentors tell them of their struggles with poverty or other tribulations of the past. Their stories give their success a thoroughly human dimension that touches the heart.
If you find yourself in any one of these categories, maybe you should consider seeking out a mentor whose stories will move you, whose testimony will inspire you, whose success will challenge you and whose advice will discipline you to succeed like you have never done before.
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Contributor's Note
This article is one written by a small group of between 5-8 Success University members who have formed a private plr coop and contribute articles once a month. Each member then rewrites the article to ensure original content and is then free to distribute it.
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