Will You Be Able to Run With Horses?

December 16th. 2016, 2:01am

Today my visit to church caused me to think about if I will be able to run with horses. The pastor talked about Rosie Ruiz, who won the Boston marathon in 1980. Soon it was discovered, that Rosie had cheated and she was officially disqualified.

Obviously Rosie was very eager to win the marathon, but didn’t want to put in the necessary effort to achieve her goal. This is very human like; the Old Testament reads as follows: “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses?” (Jeremiah 12:5) It was Gods answer to Jeremiahs complaints about the people of his time. God didn’t pity Jeremiah, but basically told him to get ready to do his job and that even greater challenges are waiting for him.

Not everyone lives in such turbulent times as Jeremiah did, but starting your network marketing business can sometimes feel like too much of a struggle. All this different programs to set up, web pages, squeeze pages, auto responders, emails, leads, products, all these new things to learn – for sure there must be a short cut to success? It would be so much easier to skip all these first steps, join some program and become rich without hassle – wouldn’t it?

Deep down in our hearts we are lazy creatures. Starting a new business, with big dreams in out head seems to be very exiting, but soon the first challenges arise and we realize: it’s stressful to set up a business. Looking at successful entrepreneurs, it seems to be so easy for them to earn millions of dollars almost without lifting a finger. What we often can’t see is how much it took them to get where they are.

Human laziness is the reason why programs advertising a ‘shortcut’ to riches pop up like weed; they are very successful in winning members and the owners earn big bugs. Unfortunately those who join usually end up paying the bill and after a while they leave the business, disillusioned and ready to give up. It does not have to be like that: if we are willing to embrace challenges as a chance to learn valuable lessons, if we realize that success always has its price – then we are finally willing to train and achieve our goals.

If we want to skip the first lessons, how will we be able to run a successful business later, when the challenges grow with the business and adversaries far bigger than we can imagine now hit us?

On the long run, a man can outrun a horse, but only if the man is in a good condition and is trained to run. Same goes with business: we can run a big business, but we need to train (starting with our own business) and when we are in good shape, running a big business will be no problem.

Angelika Juritsch is a network marketer, happy housewife, and the proud mother of an almost three year old boy.