I have learned a lot over the past month about a certain little company called Amway. I don’t want to dredge up WHY I learned a lot about Amway, but there have been some frightening comparisons drawn between them and Mary Kay, and while I feel I can refute most of them (they are nowhere near alike), it’s disturbing to hear that some of the Amway lingo, when it was at its peak, is so similar to some of the things I’ve heard (and said myself) in Mary Kay.
Bottom line, I have no problem with encouraging people to think positively–about life, about their business, about basically everything. Not in such a way that you deny reality, not in a self-duping manner, but in a way that allows you to still function even when you experience setbacks or obstacles or frustrations. If I had thrown in the towel any time things got rough in my business over the past two-ish years, I’d have quit long ago. And if I’d quit, I’d never have experienced what I am experiencing now, which is great satisfaction and decent financial compensation.
Because, bottom line, one is very influenced by a) the thoughts and opinions of others and b) one’s own thoughts and opinions. I know we like to think that we don’t care if others say mean things about us or the things we care about, but let me tell you–I came across some scathing websites about Mary Kay and it really put me in a funk. Not because I believed them (I believed their stories, of course, but not their conclusions that MK as a whole sucks the big one), but because I was so sad that those stories even existed.
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