Chicken Soup For The Network Marketer's Soul - The Little Girl Who Wanted To Fly

The Little Girl Who Wanted To Flyactualize their dreams! They could make their deepest
Here is just ONE of the many inspiring uplifting MLMdesires a physical reality. People were making their
stories from the new book Chicken Soup For Thedreams their real living realities!
Network Marketer's SoulThe little girl began pinching herself to see if she was
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win gloriousreal.
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than toAs she left the Opportunity Meeting, clutching her new
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoydream-building kit, she was beyond excited, thrilled, and
much nor suffer much, because they live in the grayon-fire! She couldn't wait to get home and start
twilight that knows not victory or defeat.studying all about it and listened late into the night to the
Theodore RooseveltCDs about people who were flying-people who were
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who wanted toliving their dreams; people who only worked ten hours
fly. She would lie on her back on the soft green grass,or twenty hours a week-from beaches, from sailing
and stare wide-eyed at the immense blue sky. "Look,"ships, from home offices, from verandas! People who
she would ponder to herself, twirling a blade of grass indid not commute two hours a day on hot, crowded,
her teeth, "Those geese are flying high. And the cloudsstifling subway trains.
are floating by."People who were their own bosses; people who
A rare plane would sometimes pass by in the sky highmade their own decisions on where to work, when to
above her sight, leaving the white tracer of its tailwork, and how to work; people who had their own
across the sky of her mind.businesses; people who worked from home, or from
One day, when I grow up, she mused to herself, I too,wherever they wanted to work.
will fly."WOW! WOW! WOW," was all the little girl/young
Carefully, she tucked her dream inside her heart.woman could say. The next day she flew home from
Young as she was, she already learned that if shework. She was even more on fire and called up her
shared her dream, others would shatter it with ridiculefriend who had taken her to the Opportunity Meeting.
and put downs, scorn and sarcasm. So she smiled to"How do I get started? What do I do? Please tell me
herself, bided her time, and kept her secret dream inhow to do this. I want to fly!"
silence.Being an exceptionally smart young woman, she
Years went by. The little girl grew and became alistened carefully and then followed all the advice and
beautiful young woman.suggestions of the people who were already flying.
Every so often, the little girl/beautiful young womanLearning to fly, of course, has its ups and downs.
would take her secret dream out of the secret placeNevertheless, the young woman kept up with her flying
inside her heart, spread it out, and remember herlessons. Every day, she practiced more. She studied.
innermost secret desires: YES! Someday, she wouldShe mentored. She trained. In the beginning she went
fly!out with her flying instructors. Until the big day
In school, she learned to only put down on paper whatcame-she went out solo! She got her wings. WOW!
the teachers liked so she could get those big bright A'sToday, she has her own flying school and teaches
on her report card. And get approval from all thepeople all around the world how to fly in the jet of their
adults around her. She never mentioned her dreams toown dreams. She teaches people how to use the
anyone again. As her new adult life became busy,vehicle of Network Marketing to create a life that
even she forgot about them.others only dream of: a lifestyle of play, fun and ease;
After graduation, she got a J-O-B.a lifestyle with more money than bills; a lifestyle that
That's when she learned a very cruel lesson. Shehelps other people create more money than bills; a
could work fifty-one weeks of the year, commutinglifestyle that empowers people to live their dreams; a
two hours a day on a hot crowded subway, to getlifestyle that includes lots of flying-flying to all kinds of
one week off a year to lie on her back, stare at thefun events, flying to conventions, flying on dream
sky, and remember her dream of how much shevacations that she keeps winning from her Network
wanted to fly. But now, she was so tired from workingMarketing company, flying to the bank to deposit her
fifty-one weeks of the year, commuting two hours apaychecks.
day, and enduring the suffocating hot ride on theMost importantly, she flies to the heights of her own
packed subway train every day. At work she put upinnate God-given talents, dreams and achievements.
with the on-going insulting remarks of her fellowShe is living her life to its fullest potential, growing and
workers who spent hours every day telling each otherstretching her wings everyday, learning to fly better
sad and depressing stories of their lives while makingand faster, further and wider.
wounding, sarcastic jokes at others' expense. TheyAll of her new friends and fellow Networkers are the
went on and on about how much they hated theirmost incredibly positive people. People who want to
jobs. Complaining, whining, belittling. How they all wishedgrow and evolve. People who aspire to be the very
they could do something else.best they can be. People who study and apply
Somehow, the little girl realized these people wouldself-improvement and pure communication and who
never leave the prisons of their own minds. Theysee the best in other people, speak of the best in
seemed to enjoy, in some perverse way, complaining.other people, and mastermind to help each person fulfill
Our little girl, who was now a beautiful young womantheir own great destiny. No more whiners and
on the outside, but still a girl in her heart, buried hercomplainers. She's living a life that others have long
treasured dreams deeper inside herself. In fact, sheforgotten how to dream of.
was so busy and so tired, that even she forgot allHer greatest thrill is to meet people who forgot their
about them.dreams, and to remind them of their own special
One day a friend invited her to an "Opportunitydreams, to wake them up to their dreams. And to
Meeting." To her surprise, everyone at the Opportunityshow them how to fly to whatever heights they want
Meeting was talking about wanting to fly!to go.
Live the life of your dreams. What you believe, youAhhh . . . Now our brilliant young beautiful soulful
can achieve.woman runs her own flight school! And this great
The sky's the limit.leader has become an incredible capt
Fly HIGH.The sky's the limit!
Create the life of your dreams.Network Marketing is the vehicle.
Oh my! The little girl/beautiful young woman wonderedFreedom of time and money and lifestyle is the
if she was dreaming . . . or hallucinating. All of thesedestination.
people were talking about their dreams! And some ofPat Crosby
the people were actually living their dreams.Reprinted with Permission in
The little girl/young wide-awake woman wasCHICKEN SOUP FOR THE NETWORK
spellbound as she listened to story after story unfoldMARKETER'S SOUL.
of people growing into the realization that they couldCopyright 2007. Pat Crosby.