I have been thinking if hard work the trait, is something we are born with or something we develop; because I always feel like the hardest worker on the floor. I mean, I am sure everyone thinks they are the most hardworking, right? But I am really the most hardworking. If you were to compare apple to apple in time spent, or years of hard work, I usually win hands down. It isn’t something to be proud of. It is just what it is.
When I was working a job, I’d be the best performer. I was always ahead of the game. If the Boss asked for RM100,000 sales target for the month, I’d bring him RM200,000. I never did anything half way. If there were 50 property managers in town to meet, I’d meet them in the fastest way possible without wasting any time.
So when I told some women lately that there are people who contact 500 people a week, and their eyeballs looked stunned, it made me wonder if I was the one who was crazy. They were barely managing with 5 a week and here I was talking about 500? I started to think when it was that I started to be hardworking and if there was a turning point to my madness.
At the age of 7, I started Standard 1 at a Government School and was helping a tiny little Indian girl do her homework for RM0.50. It appears I was already hard working at 7. At 8, I was moved to St Mary’s School and started a business at school collecting RM0.20 from all my classmates. I was always doing something entrepreneurial. The thing is, NEITHER of my parents were in business and I do not have any recollections of anyone in the family talking about money or being in business either; which leads me to the conclusion that this is something I was born with. But just because I was born with it does not mean one cannot develop this very same skill.
At 10, I was writing thousand word essays. I remember my daughter at 10 and needing to write only a 2-3 paragraph essay of 150 words.
So when people say they work hard these days, I always ask myself what version of hard that is. Be the hardest worker on the floor, guys. It is worth it.
**************************************************************************Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.
Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.
She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.
A beautiful life without limits.
If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.
Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.
Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.
