Understanding How "Lag Time" Affects You

Distributors join AdvoCare mostly because they see it as a vehicle that can lead them from where they are to where they would rather be. Distributors quit AdvoCare because they tend to quickly become disillusioned by their lack of results. 

Where are you today? Do you have business and activity momentum established to the extent that you're being swept up by a wave of positive activity, or are you sitting idle - wondering what's wrong and why your business isn't going the way you thought it would? 

Lack of progress is almost always the result of a lack of sustained, consistent <i>activity</i>. But sometimes, you can be very active for what seems like a long period of time and still not get the kind of results that signify progress. That lack of results can grow on you, and undermine your self-confidence, especially when others seem to be making significant progress. When you see people who are brand new to AdvoCare winning bonuses and making major progress, you can get down on yourself, and when that happens you've created a "self-fulfilling prophecy." Most of your thoughts are becoming about "what you are not..." instead of what you can become and what you can do. 

To help you through those times that everyone eventually experiences, you have to understand what "Lag Time" is all about. 

You see, what you do in the way of activity today may very well not produce any results today. What you do this week or this month may not create results for you this week or this month. Results are not necessarily an indicator of your value and they are not necessarily an indicator of what is to come. 

Suppose a farmer - whose cupboards and storehouse was empty - went into his field in the month of March or April to plant his seed. He needs food for his family and for himself right now, so he does what all farmers do - he plants. Now, suppose this farmer went out into the field a week or two later, got down on his knees and started digging into the soil to see how the roots were doing. You can imagine the result. Not only would he find little or nothing going on, but whatever could be going on down there in the soil is going to be disturbed. 

Lag time is what it takes between the effort and the result, and you can't give up because you don't see any activity going on. What's more, you can't compare your "crops" to the farmer next to you. You simply have to believe in the promise that God gives - "You plant the seed and I will make the tree." 

Time eventually turns effort into result. How much time? It's not given to you to know how much time is finally enough. Just keep sowing and just keep believing. Lag time will work its wonder for you just like it does for everyone who just keeps planting and believing.