| After years of meticulous research and introspection | | | | perhaps it's time for a change. Being "teachable" |
| (not to mention hours of expensive therapy, and | | | | means opening your mind to the possibilities of |
| large sums of money spent on self-help books), I | | | | growth and self-development. |
| have finally formed what seems to be an accurate | | | | Phrases like "I can't" or "I won't" or "I don't know |
| and enlightening self diagnosis. Seems I have suffered | | | | how" need to be erased from your daily vocabulary |
| from an affliction I have chosen to refer to as O.D.D. | | | | and be replaced with "I can learn how". Fear is the |
| (Oppositional Defiance Disorder). This self-revelation | | | | underlying cause for our refusal to let go of the |
| has meant having to admit to myself that I haven't | | | | familiar and admit that there might be a better way. |
| always been the open-minded, flexible and unbiased | | | | We need to be prepared and even look forward to |
| individual that I always believed myself to have been, | | | | new learning experiences. We need to perceive them |
| and certainly not the one that you read posting this | | | | as opportunities for growth. |
| article before you now. | | | | How particularly true this is of the Network Marketing |
| Just taking a quick look around I can see that I am | | | | industry. Product lines, marketing strategies, customer |
| not alone and that this "dis-ease" claims many | | | | response and business relationships all evolve over |
| sufferers. Perhaps it has become an epidemic and | | | | time making it essential that we remain teachable and |
| clinical research studies are in order. Maybe they'll | | | | open to new ways of developing and evaluating |
| need volunteers. Would you qualify? You can easily | | | | methods for business success at all times. |
| make your own self diagnosis by answering a few | | | | Nothing changes if nothing changes. That may sound |
| simple questions: | | | | like a very simplistic concept, but how often we |
| | | | choose to ignore it in favor of our O.D.D. tendencies |
| 1. How many tasks do you perform the hard way | | | | to avoid anything new or admit that we might be |
| simply because it's the only way you know how? | | | | wrong. The simple fact is that if we continue doing |
| 2. How many problems are you failing to solve | | | | what we've been doing, we'll continue getting the |
| because you haven't been "teachable" and haven't | | | | same results and may never get a chance to reap |
| been willing to seek out solutions that would work? | | | | the benefits what could prove to be a better |
| 3. How may opportunities have you not taken | | | | approach. The solution? Remain teachable! |
| advantage of because you didn't understand | | | | "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never |
| something and were unwilling to put forth the effort | | | | regainsits original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, |
| or take the time to learn something new? | | | | Jr. |
| If you can answer "yes" to any of the above, | | | | |