Are you a person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others?
Avoid being a busybody in your Network Marketing business. Network Marketing experience certainly helps our personal growth and being a meddler is something to avoid. Hopefully we won’t learn that the hard way (blowback).
We may think that we are telling someone something that they agree with or approve of us telling. In reality, they may have mentally marked us as a busybody and someone to avoid. Often people don’t tell “certain people” anything! On the other hand, they may tell a busybody something if they are trying to nail someone indirectly (no blood on their hands). This is a trick that politicians learn early in climbing the corporate ladder.
There are several interesting scriptures in the New Testament about this subject. Here are just a few:
“But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.” 1st Peter 4:15
“And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.” 1st Timothy 5:13
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” Romans 16:17-18
Of course, one of the offenses contrary to doctrine (right up there with being a murderer) is being a busybody. Why? How many people in the world have actually been killed (physically or spiritually) because of the words of a busybody?
We don’t have to be religious to learn this lesson because it is just common sense not to meddle in the affairs of others and become a critic instead of builder. If we do we will soon pay the price by becoming someone that people avoid.
What could be accomplished by some if they focused their time on building up instead of tearing up the works of other more industrious (better focused) people? “Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.”
