What To Do When “Working Harder” Is Not Enough

A painting of four men pushing boxes with one ball rolling through them.

Ever Seen The Head-Bangers In The Window Seal?

WARNING: This may be another uncomfortable story!  (And it ain’t about Punk Rock flies!)

It’s about FREEDOM. 

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We’ve all seen ’em… those dead flies in the window seal.

I was sitting there thinking, “how horrible that is…”

If only they knew. 

The flies just keep hopelessly banging their head against the window, over and over and over again, working hard to “get free”. 

I wish, Mr. Fly, that you had my 10,000 foot view of your situation…

So how is this like your (Financial) situation?

Well — (like the fly in the window situation) — the tiniest “shift” or course correction can truly change the game. 

Without the right approach, Mr. Fly is pretty much “dead man flying”.

Time is not on his side.

His vision of freedom is RIGHT THERE through the glass, but it will never be achieved no matter how hard he tries.

A lot of hard work. A valiant effort… 

But his approach for freedom is never gonna work. He’s just not getting it.

He is unconsciously incompetent.

I walk away and hope he figures out a better route.

Later I come back, and there he is, still bashing his head against the window. How futile, I think to myself…

A Better Way

It could all be so simple, but there’s a catch. 

As humans, we hate the idea of being “wrong”.

I mean think about it: Do YOU like to be wrong?

So as it happens, our ego does not like to admit it.

So…

Right now, stop and think:

Is what you’re doing currently for work really working to get you to where you want to go?

Clarity Is Power

I’m so grateful for the people who challenged my limiting beliefs and bad patterns… and actually asked me some meaningful questions that made me THINK. 

It made all the difference in the world to admit that what I was doing WAS NOT WORKING… 

And now I realize that my mentors had gone out of their way to grab my attention, shake me up and show me the right ways so I didn’t have to bang my head against the wall, over and over again. 

I was working way too d*mn hard, running around, traveling all over cities, states, and even countries. 

I was working like a chicken with it’s head cut off instead of having more quality time with my kids.

What to do when trying harder is not enough, by Marc Frank MontoyaNow back to the flies…

Most of Mr. Fly’s other friends won’t figure it out fast enough either. —->

They’ll spend the best time of their life trying harder and harder, working on something that clearly didn’t work.

Their goal of financial freedom was noble, but they never had a chance.

No 10,000 foot view of their situation. No coach. No mentor.

A lack of clear direction and information kept them from their dreams and vision.

Trying “Harder” Can Absolutely Sabotage You

When my kids fail at something or don’t get the results they want, and they begin to complain or think about quitting, I say, (like most parents), “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Don’t give up too easily, persistence pays off in the end.”

However, I could be lying.

Because it really depends on your position. Persistence has it’s limitations, and it doesn’t always work.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge believer in the power of persistence, but the persistent fly trying hard to break through the window is a perfect analogy for making money as an employee or traditional business owner.

Working For Linear Income Won’t Get You Free

My friend, (we’ll call him John), has been laid off several times in the last three years. He went from earning more than $80,000 a year to less than $40,000.

Each time he was laid off, he went right back to looking for the next job, as if anything would change for him.

Each time he found work, the company in which he was employed went through more “changes”, and he was laid off again.

He’s had 2 and even 3 jobs. It still didn’t work. Like the fly, he too, continues to bash his head on that window, and still hasn’t found a life of financial or time freedom.

Simple fact is, you can’t have your own dreams, if you spend all of your time building the dreams of someone else. Not to mention getting taxed to death as a W-2 employee.

I’ve never seen anyone create financial freedom or stability by earning a salary/wage.

Window “Paining” With Your Small Business

What does Albert Einstein call insanity?
Doing the same thing over and over again and over again, expecting a different result every time.

The fly in my house, my friend John and most entrepreneurs are INSANE. 

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Wide Open Windows

What if you could finally find the “wide open window” that actually allowed you to achieve your business goals and lifestyle?

What if you just couldn’t see it before, because you’ve been programmed to focus on only one (old school) linear way to generate income?

What if the strategies that worked for your business 10-15 years ago, are now obsolete, and don’t work for today’s business?

BECAUSE,

The new strategies have everything to do with Social Commerce and leveraging social media. And it can all be done with a laptop (or even a smartphone), all from home.

Wouldn’t that feel a lot better than breaking your back to build the dreams of someone else?

Did you know that Facebook helps you find out where your perfect clients and customers hang out, so you can get the RIGHT information in front of the RIGHT audience?

Did you know…

You can engage and build a relationship with them, all at the same time, so you actually have passive strategies working FOR you while you’re not at work, so you SAVE yourself a ton of time?

What if all your eggs were no longer in one dangerous basket because you found out how to generate multiple streams of income, 24-7, from all over the world?

What if it wasn’t “too good to be true” and you discovered real tactics and strategies that generated recurring online income, in less time and with less effort than a traditional job or small business?

Wouldn’t multiple streams of income make your life more stable and secure, along with more TIME freedom?

What if this income actually allowed you to be work FROM HOME and choose your own schedule?

Change Is “Uncomfortable”

We all learned a long time ago, that in order to get something you’ve never had before, you’ve got to learn something you didn’t know before, and do what you’ve never done before.

You know what you must do…

For 15 years of my life, like the fly, I also used my body to try and forge my escape.

I have landscaped, loaded boxes, roofed houses, delivered pizzas, snowboarded professionally, and helped build huge companies & branded many different snowboard businesses.

Then one day a mentor showed me the path I was on…

My business plans were not actually gonna get me what I really wanted:

FREEDOM. 

And finally I had clarity. I decided I must again come out of my comfort zone so I could find a different (better, faster, more efficient) path to reach my lifestyle goals.

When I stopped to think of the fly’s perspective:

They just don’t know the difference between an open and closed window.

(Many times, we humans do the same thing. We kinda have “tunnel vision”, with only our own perspective).

Archibald MacLeish said:

“The only thing about a man that is a man…is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”

If you are not using the higher faculties of your mind to craft creative solutions to your challenges, you will be no better off than a pig, or a horse, (or a fly in a window).

You have the power to see, do, and accomplish anything you could ever want in your life and your business.

If you’ve been trying hard and trying harder isn’t working, may I suggest a different approach?

Dead flies in the window - Marc Frank Montoya dot comJust as the fly would be very uncomfortable with me “shooing him out” an open window, it was for his own good.

In my opinion, this is how we help so many people…

Dead Or Alive

The “old” ways of building a business are dead and most traditional business owners are struggling. 

If I wouldn’t have stopped and suspended by disbelief for a moment, I would have ended up like all the other dead flies in the window.

Now it’s a whole different story. Completely game-changing!

The good thing is, we all have choice

You can stick to your guns and keep doing what you’ve been doing…

Or…

You can invest the time to take an educated look at a tiny course correction that could change the direction of your life and business forever…

From experience, I know…

It Pays To Be Cutting Edge

Picture yourself waking up and seeing you have reached 120,000 people while you were snowboarding (or sleeping).

MarcFrankMontoya dot comImagine building business 5 times faster, with more efficiency, and less time consumption, while generating multiple channels of income from anywhere in the world.

How would that feel? What would that mean for your life and family?

Do you think that investing the time to learn a few new approaches for “more fishing poles in the water” would help you achieve the next level in your business and the life that you’re really looking for?

You Are One Move Away

I believe 1000% that what you search for, you will find.

Now, if you’re like I was, and not sure where to start, but you are coach-able and open to discovering these solutions my wife Mari and I have used, I will show you the path….

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Welcome to the next level!

The World Is Yours, M.

What To Do When Trying Harder Isn’t Enough

A window sill with many small black bugs on it


A fly flying in the air with its wings spread.Don’t You Wish You Could “Save Them All”?

So this fly was still buzzing around in my room, frantically looking for an escape. I watch him for a while, a little irritated, by the buzz. In the summer, it gets outta hand. I can’t save them all. I don’t like to harm anything, not even a fly, so when I can, I take the time to gently snatch them and walk over to open the door and put them on the right path to their freedom. But when I can’t take the time to save them… I wish the flies knew this:

How The Tiniest Course Correction Can Change Your Life

This guy, Mr. Fly is toast. Time is not on his side. He can see his freedom – his world of dreams – through the glass, but with all  sixteen of his eyes, he still can’t see that his freedom will not be achieved by banging his head against the wall, time and time again. His approach for freedom is clearly not working from my 40,000 foot view, but he just doesn’t get it. He is unconsciously incompetent. He tries over, and over, and over again. A quick subconscious irritation happens in my own head, as I walk away and hope he can stop to figure out that there is a better route just 10 feet away. My open door to his freedom.

Later I come back, and there he is, still bashing his head against the window. How futile, I think to myself…
I have to stop what I’m doing and take the time to help him stop bashing his head into the window, and very gently, pick him up without hurting him, and take him 10 feet over to the door. I let him go on the right path, showing him a better direction he can take that will get him where he wanted to go. It’s literally that simple… and it it my passion to do this for people every single day…

The Life Changing Power Of Knowledge, Information, And Mentoring

The next morning, waking up when I’m done sleeping, with no alarm clock, drinking my coffee, I’m looking out of the window again, feeling so grateful. The mentors I found online had done the same thing that I did for Mr. Fly.

They caught my attention, picked me up, and showed me a different way. I had banged my head against the wall, trying the same old strategies, over and over again in my Network Marketing company for over 5 years. I was working so d*mn hard, doing meetings, traveling all over cities and states, organizing meetings, feeling like a chicken with it’s head cut off, spending all my time and energy trying to drag dead bodies over the goal line.

I could never seem to break through to that next level in my business and nobody was working as hard as I was. I was getting tired, frustrated, and worried that I could be spending my valuable time building something else that might work better.
What to do when trying harder is not enough, by Marc Frank MontoyaNow back to the flies…
Mr Fly’s other friends hadn’t figure it out yet. By now, that had all either slowed down, fizzled out, or stopped buzzing altogether. Without the right direction, no matter how hard they tried, they died in the window sill, with all of their dreams right on the other side of that clear barrier.
They spent the best time of their life, the best energy they had, trying harder and harder, working on something that would (clearly) never work. (Pun intended)!
Their goal of freedom was noble, but they never had a chance. No good plan. Lack of accurate knowledge, information, or help, kept them from their dreams and vision.

How Trying “Harder” Can Absolutely Kill You/Your Business

When my kids fail at something or don’t get the results they want, and they begin to complain or think about quitting, (like most parents), I start to say, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Don’t give up too easily, persistence pays off in the end.”

However, I could be lying. Persistence has it’s limitations, and doesn’t always work.

Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge believer in the power of persistence, but the persistent fly trying hard to break through the window is a perfect analogy for making money as an employee or business owner.

Window Paining For Jobs

My friend, (we’ll call him John), has been laid off several times in the last three years. He went from earning more than $80,000 a year to less than $40,000. Each time he was laid off, he went right back to looking for another job. Each time he found work, the company he was employed by went through “changes”, and he was laid off again. Like the fly, he too, continues to bash his head on the window of employment, and still has not found a quality of life or freedom. Simple fact is, you can’t have your own dreams, if you spend all of your time building the dreams of someone else. Not to mention getting taxed to death as a W-2 employee. I’ve never seen anyone create financial freedom or stability by earning a salary/wage.

Window Paining With Your Home Based Business

Albert Einstein calls this insanity…
Doing the same thing over and over again and over again, but expecting a different result every time. The fly in my home, my friend John, and so many others like him, continue to do the same thing over and over, and over, expecting that somehow, things are gonna change.

If you have your own Home Business, but you’re struggling to jump to that next level, then something is clearly not working.

You’ve been working harder for desired results, yet you may be failing to reach some of your goals.

Now, What If

What if you could finally find an “open door” that actually allowed you to achieve your business goals and dream lifestyle?

What if you just couldn’t see it before, because you were told to focus on only one way to build?

What if the ways that worked for your up-line 10-15 years ago is obsolete, and doesn’t work for today’s business?

What if the best strategy has everything to do with leveraging social media, being able to sift and sort through millions of people on the internet, and knowing exactly where they hang out, and how to engage with them?

What if we stop taking the “ostrich approach” and find out that instead of only one channel of income, where all your eggs are in one dangerous basket, there were actually MULTIPLE open doors that complemented each other?

What if we stop the “it’s too good to be true” mentality, and start being open to real strategies that would make it possible to generate multiple streams of income, 24-7, online, for the same amount of effort, (or less, because you don’t have to chase dis-interested people around town). Wouldn’t multiple steams make your life more stable and secure, relieving all your stress for time money, and actually allow you to be working FROM HOME like they promised?

And what if you could actually target entrepreneurial minded leader types who are ALREADY motivated and interested in financial freedom, instead of chasing your friends and trying to convince skeptical 9to5 employees that think they’re “not interested”?

We all learned a long time ago, that in order to get something you’ve never had before, you’ve got to try something you’ve never done before.

For 15 years of my life, like the fly, I also used my body to try and forge my escape. I mowed lawns, cleaned floors, roofed houses, delivered pizzas, snowboarded professionally, and help build & and brand different snowboard companies.

Then one day I realized the path I was taking was not working, and finally stopped to think, and decided for the first time in my life, to simply come out of my comfort zone to try different and better paths to reach my lifestyle goals.

Sensible Proven Navigation

When I stopped to think of the fly’s perspective, I knew they just don’t know the difference between an open and closed window, using only their own perspective.
(Many times, we do the same thing, having “tunnel vision” with our own businesses, using only an up-line’s system/perspective).
BUT every fly does have their own system, and they use the light to navigate. So I can simply make it easier for them, by closing the curtains, making the house dark, and opening up just one open window to the light. Then they may be lucky enough to automatically know to fly toward the light, finding their own way to freedom!

Now, Archibald MacLeish said, “The only thing about a man that is a man…is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.” If you are not using the higher faculties of your mind to craft creative solutions to your challenges, you will be no better off than a pig, or a horse, (or a fly in a window).

You have the power to see, do, and accomplish anything you could ever want in your life and your home business. If you’ve been trying hard and trying harder isn’t working, may I suggest a different approach?

This system RIGHT HERE is one of the best systems I have found that helped me absolutely break through to the next level in my business and have the free time for my son, instead of chasing people around town, getting stood up at home parties.

I believe, 1000% that you will find these specialized strategies will do the exact same thing for your business.

A window sill with many small black bugs on itNow I’m sure this is uncomfortable to hear, and the fly was very uncomfortable with me snatching him up, but he sure thanked me in the end. I’m going to reveal my 40,000 foot view/perspective to you:

The “old” ways of building an old school network marketing business, one by one, without the use of the internet, was a serious struggle for me, and if I would not have searched out these solutions, I would have given up like the other flies in the window.

Done wrong with no leverage, it is a nightmare and a struggle. And to be honest, the internet has actually made it harder for the old school strategy builders. (More on that in the next post.) But done RIGHT, it’s a dream!

The good thing is, you have a choice…

You can stick to your guns and be irritated by the internet marketers, (like I did for years), and keep doing what you’ve been doing, trying it the same way, like the other struggling flies in the window, (meeting skeptics, one by one, talking on the phone all day instead of being outdoors or watching a movie with your spouse and kids)…
or..
You can invest the time to stop and take an educated look at some tiny course correction that could change the direction of your life and business forever…    From experience, I know…

It Paid To Be “Cutting Edge”!

Imagine becoming skilled with today’s marketing strategies, leveraging with the internet, in the Information Age. Picture being able to reach 90,000 people at the click of a button like I did this last week, all while doing a family trip.

A man and two children jumping off of a rock cliff into the water.Imagine building your business 5 times faster, with more efficiency and multiple channels of income…

What would that do for your life? How would it feel?

Do you think that investing the time to learn a few new approaches for “more fishing poles in the water” would help you achieve the next level in your business and the life that you’re really looking for?

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I believe 1000%, that in your search, you will have found the exact solutions for generating more leads and more income into your home business, and with massive action, you will find a faster and far more effective route to freedom.

Now, if you’re like I was, and not sure where to start, but you are coach-able and open to discovering these solutions my wife Mari and I have used, I will can show you the path that can finally put you on the right route to your freedom. I’d love to hear your story when you contact us.
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Welcome to the next level!

The World Is Now Yours, MFM!