The Law of Receptivity

This is the fifth and final article based on the book, THE GO-GIVER by Bob Burg and John David Mann.

The Law of Receptivity states that the key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

Do you have a problem receiving?  Is it hard for you to receive a gift without FEELING the need to pay someone back?  If it is, you need to see, experience, and accept the final law to stratospheric success: Receptivity.

Wonderful things have been happening to me since deciding to freely receive:  I have been getting MORE!  I have a habit of gifting books to people (giving), with no problem.  I think books are some of the greatest gifts one can give.  If they are good books, they can change a person’s life.  As I have been giving, all of a sudden I have been receiving books from others.  Now these are not just books, they are GREAT books. 

When I first started getting these books in the mail, I FELT a need to do something in return.  However, since I learned the Law of Receptivity, I have received the gifts with a big “Thank You.”  I dismiss all thoughts of needing to “pay the giver back.”  That attitude robs THEM of blessing.

Here is how the whole thing works.  You give and the result of your giving gives you a good FEELING.  Not only that, but your giving starts a flow of receiving.  If you don’t receive you end up stopping that flow and shut off the blessing to the giver. 

If you offer me a nice pen, and I don’t receive it from you, I cut off the blessing to you and stop the flow of receiving to me.  However, if I thankfully receive your gift I bring the blessing of giving into your life, which will bring you more receiving.  This is a cycle that we must NEVER stop!  So, don’t be a dam in this cycle.  Let it flow!  Give and be WILLING to receive and you WILL received beyond what you have given; pressed down, shaken together and running over!  Try it; you’ll like it!

Law of Compensation

This is a second in a series of articles based on the book THE GO-GIVER by Bob Burg and John David Mann.

The Law of compensation says: Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

There are no shortcuts.  If you want to experience stratospheric success, find as many people as you can and serve them in an unforgettable way.  By doing this, you will keep a lot of clients and have them bringing their friends to you! 

It’s easy to be average today.  Serve just enough people to get by and you will make just enough money to get by.  Put forth little effort and you will get little compensation; it’s that simple.

Actually, the Law of Compensation says that what you give in service you receive back in a greater proportion than what you gave.  Look at a kernel of corn.  You plant a single kernel of corn and get back several ears with hundreds of grains in return! Now that’s compensation!  If you sow more kernels, you get a field of corn stalks and an enumerable crop of ears of corn.  The same holds true in any aspect of life.  Serve more; serve well, and you will get back much more in return then you gave. 

In network marketing, you mentor two people to become successful.  Each one of those you served help two each.  Now you have an organization of seven, including you.  You just helped two people and now you have seven!  This keeps going and grows way out of proportion to what you sowed.

Here is an example of how the law of compensation works in network marketing:

Month One: 1 + 1 = 2 (That’s you and your first affiliate)

Month Two: 2 + 2 = 4

Month Three: 4 + 4 = 8

Month Four: 8 + 8 = 16

Month Five: 16 + 16 = 32

Month Six: 32 + 32 = 64

Month Seven: 64 + 63 = 128

Month Eight: 128 + 128 = 256

Month Nine: 256 + 256 = 512 (over $10,000/month with me)

Month Ten: 512 + 512 = 1,024

Month Eleven: 1,024 + 1,024 = 2,048

Month Twelve: 2,048 + 2,048 = 4,096

If you are in network marketing, you are in the best business to experience the Law of Compensation.  Here is the key, however:  Serve your downlline, serve as many as you can and serve them well.  By doing this, over time, little by little, you will experience stratospheric  success.

The Law of Value

Note:  This is the first in a series on the five laws to stratospheric success.  These five laws were taken from the awesome book, THE GO-GIVER, by Bob Burg and John David Mann. 

The Law of Value states that, your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.  The common view is to hopefully get more in money than you give in value or at best, break even.  However, to experience stratospheric success you must give more in value than you take in payment.

A good example is the book, THE GO-GIVER.  I paid under $15.00 for the book.  I don’t’ believe the paper it’s printed on is worth $15.00!  However, the information contained in the book is PRICELESS.  I believe that whoever buys the book and practices the five laws could conceivably become very wealthy over time.  Therefore I feel that Mr. Burg and Mann have practiced the first law of stratospheric success.

We live in a dog-eat-dog; claw your way to the top world.  It seems that everyone wants to be rich but many do it at the expense of others.  Such people feel that to get ahead, one must take from others.  After all, the pie is only so big and if one wants to get rich, they need more of the pie.  To get more of the pie they must take somebody else’s piece.  I have a news flash:  The only lack is the lack between the ears of such thinkers.  If you fall for what the media tells you are never going to succeed.  They point out lack and depravity of mankind.  But if you look around at creation you will see that lack is a myth.   Everywhere I look, I see abundance.  The abundance of air, water, light, and so forth.  The only lack is the lack of belief and understanding of the principles of creation.  More on this subject another time.

Look at the work place.  It’s filled with people who feel, “The company owes me!”  They do just enough work to get by and wonder why they can’t get ahead.  They don’t realize that there are laws in effect.  Do you want to get ahead?  Give more in value then you are being paid.  Eventually you will be noticed by management and given advancement and raises.  If not, someone in another company will notice you and give you a better opportunity; it is law!

In network marketing it’s the same.  If someone joins your team, do you take their money and run?  Do you make money at the expense of others?  Unfortunately this is all too common in network marketing.  Do you want lasting, outstanding success?  The key is to give more in value than you receive in payment.  Give more training.  Be there when your affiliates need you.  If you can’t help them, point them to someone who can.   Make your affiliates feel that they received much more in value than they paid in money.  Do this and watch your business GROW into the stratosphere.