really bothered me. Especially when I'm allowed to hit the monsters as hard
as I can. When I was 18, I was fortunate to make the University of Toronto
New College Men's Football Team. I was the smallest guy by 30 pounds. But
oh man, could I pound them!
Playing football meant hitting the weights. I still remember doing squats
with this lineman. He was doing reps with so many 45 pound plates, the bar
bent and sagged over his enormous back like a child's toy. Then we'd strip
the bar down and I'd grunt up 90 pounds with my scrawny 125 lb frame. What
I lacked in size, I tried to make up in intensity and heart.
The strongest guy on our team was around 6 foot 6, and about 265 lbs. He
was routinely benching around the 500-pound mark. For laughs, he'd get me
to spot him. I'd have to stand on a little platform hovering over this
monster as he lowered the weight to his chest before pushing it up. If he
ever got stuck, he'd grunt and I was to apply a single finger's pressure
under the bar to help with the lift. If he "failed" the lift, I was to save
his life by lifting it off his chest...I had about as much chance of
lifting that bar as Bill Gates...
An interesting thing about "Mongo" was that he always carried a journal
into the gym. He showed me how he tracked his body weight at every workout,
the sets and reps of each weight, and how he felt about each set. He was
tracking GROWTH...a real student of the gym.
Years later, I would apply that same tracking to my MLM business. On the
wall of my office is a little chart. It has 5 columns.
Month New Personals Active FL Payline Vol Group Vol Notes
I track my business monthly. The second column shows how many people I
personally enrolled that month. The 3rd column shows how many people on my
frontline are on autoship. The 4th column shows how much volume I got paid
on. The 5th shows total group volume in my whole downline. And the final
column I make notes on promotions, etc.
I block the chart into quarters, every three months I draw a black
horizontal line. I like to break the year into 4 campaigns, and devise my
activity accordingly. You may get a slow month in the summer or winter, but
having a quarter-by-quarter growth strategy will help you from getting
discouraged.
Track your growth. It's the secret to big muscles and big downlines!
I appreciate you!
David Ledoux
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