Moved to tears

I was presenting in Port Harcourt about a
beautiful opportunity and platform called
A2W. It is an opportunity with significant
prospects, but not for the lily livered. As I
was presenting, I was told that a group of
people wanted to present me with a gift,
that I should please give them the
opportunity to present it to me. I had
noticed them the previous day, and my
heart went out to them. They all sat
together in one place, and were
coordinated by a middle aged lady. They
were the most quiet people in the
meeting, not uttering as much as a word,
but their eyes were glued to another
direction separate from me the speaker. If
you haven't guessed by now, they were
what people erroneously call "deaf and
dumb". I think they are deaf, but far from
dumb!
I obliged them by recognizing them by
sharing the story of why I decided to take
Network Marketing and A2W as a
consequence seriously. It happened for
me in Malaysia in a Network Marketing
Company's 6,000 participants conference.
Three testimonies back to back, knocked
me out and turned me into jelly. First it
was a lady who had built her business for
6 years, become a leader and her greatest
handicap was that she was shy. In 6yrs
she was standing in front of 6,000 people
boldly sharing her story, the business had
cured her of shyness. Then a man came
to speak, one of the highest earners from
Sudan, and his greatest handicap he had
overcome was that, he couldn't speak
English back then, but right now he has
become fluent. I listened to these guys,
and said to myself, "I don't have any of
these challenges". Then the third guy
came, and he was the one that got me
crying, sorry, I meant weeping. I could
not control myself. This guy was deaf, he
was broke when he started, took a loan
from his wife to start, and without being
able to speak, he had built a successful
team of team members, and had flown
from India to Malaysia, paid for the
conference, but unlike me, he flew down
with 20 of his team members to the
conference, he pointed at them - they
were also "deaf and dumb"! That day I
cried because I realized that I had no
excuse in life, yet I was not making the
most of my life. I cried because I
wondered what my options would be if I
could not speak! I cried because I was
touched by courage and moved by people
rising beyond their limitations. I cried
because that was my spot, moving against
all odds, and inspiring others to do the
same.
As the leader of this group - A deaf guy,
came up to present their gift, he came
with an interpreter, and we engaged in a
little discussion. Apparently, their
interpreter had informed them of my
little history with sign language, and my
desire to know more. So they got me a
book, that will make signing easier for
me. That way, I'll be able to communicate
better with them. Their story was also
shared by their upline, how their leader
was not marketed into A2W. He saw a
flier, which he insisted he wanted to see,
but the upline hid from him, and refused
to show him, saying it's not something it
can do. He got access to the website
written on the flier, went to a cybercafé to
find out what it was about, and got back
to the upline that she was a wicked
person, for trying to hide an opportunity
from him. To cut a long story short, he
insisted that he had seen what it was all
about, the services, the products for
distribution and so much more, but that
what he wants to do is the network
marketing part of getting others signed
up and involved. In a few weeks, he has
become a bronze distributor and is well
on his way to becoming Silver.
I saw the teary eyes, and I understood
with them. Those who rise above their
limitations challenge the world around
them to rise up above theirs. What's your
excuse for not making progress? What's
your excuse for not being involved in
Network Marketing? Your previous
experience? Your inability to speak? Your
poor self esteem? Or is it your "I am
better than this", over inflated self
esteem? Rise above it, we all have
limitations we rose above, some in our
flesh, others in our beliefs.
Who have you helped to succeed? Can
you point at 4 people whose lives are
radically different and eternally
transformed because of you? Even if not
for yourself, do it for others. Giving
people stipends won't help them, it will
only make them dependent on you. Get
blessed and be a blessing to others.
Don't let the write up move you to tears,
let it move you to action.
Culled form www.deoluakinyemi.com