Gatekeepers exist because we allow it.
Obviously we are not talking about the legal system and societal controls but choices we can all make.
First, the gatekeeper may be in our own mind and the setting of personal limitations. This could be as simple as our “comfort zone.”
Second, Network Marketing is not a zero sum game. People have been conditioned that in order to win that job, promotion, etc. they have to succeed because someone else fails. Thankfully, this is not true in Network Marketing.
People in Network Marketing often understand the art of promotion and they use it to promote only themselves and those that fit into their agenda. Others are demoted simply by being ignored or left out. This can be overcome by developing personal momentum. Obviously, the momentum developed by us cannot be by promoting another persons agenda but our own agenda. Learning how this is accomplished becomes part of the skill set of a professional Network Marketer.
Sometimes we become amazed at how unskilled people who control the agenda are but they are not your competition. They may have once been a major leader that became a relic (like an outdated computer) and every time they speak it’s about the past. They only promote past success or those, like them, who have been out of the game for a long time and that have no current track record. Some leaders become relics because they have alienated other powerful Network Marketers by continually promoting their own people and controlling the agenda to the Nth degree (even when their agenda sucks in the minds of the competition). Sometimes they become a great challenge for the inexperienced Network Marketing business builder who is not in their small inner circle. How does a person get past a past relic?
Take a step back. Realize that you have “mentally” allowed other people to control your personal success and it’s not up to them. Your success is up to you and if you don’t take your personal momentum seriously you will probably end up following and promoting a past relic. Your allegiance won’t be reciprocated.
