Is VMdirect a scam?  Of course not.  But some may think differently… more on this in a moment.

I was doing some research on a few popular search engines and saw that the term, “VMdirect Scam” is an actual term that people are searching for. 

I was a little shocked about that, so I decided to dig a little deeper.  What shocked me even more was that no matter what Network Marketing company I searched for, I saw that people were searching for their name + scam!

Now do people think that VMdirect or any other Network Marketing (MLM) company is a scam, or do they think that Network Marketing in general is a scam?  Wouldn’t you know that people also search for “Network Marketing Scams” and “MLM Scams”?

I dove even deeper.  I found that people are searching for scams in nearly every industry and every product.  People even search for “McDonalds scams” and even the computer maker Dell has searches for “Dell Scams”.

It seems that there is a common thread here.  Are the people who search for these types of scams have the mentality that everyone is out to get them? 

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that those who are searching for “VMdirect Scam” or any other scam are also the people who search for things like, “McDonalds scam”, “Target scam”, “Business Opportunity scams”, “work from home scams”, and many other “scam” searches in a variety of industries.

Are people and companies really out to get you?  Is the entire Network Marketing industry and every single MLM company a scam?  Based on my five or so years as a full-time Network Marketer, I’ve seen a lot of people come and go into the business.  For many, life just gets in the way and they do not have time to properly work the business.  But for a few, they fail to work the business and in turn, they fail the business. 

It’s that simple.  However for some, instead of looking in the mirror for their source of failure, they start pointing fingers at the company that they were involved with and start yelling, “SCAM!”  I remember one gentleman that I worked with a few years ago who was a VMdirect Affiliate who ended up leaving the business because he was not seeing success as fast as he thought he would.  No matter what I told him, he was firm on his mindset that he would be able to replace his current income in three months.

I explained that is very, very rare for that to happen and not to count on it.  I explained that this was a real business and he needed to develop the mindset of a business owner, not a ‘get rich quick’ junkie.  Nothing worked.  Neither did he, and he quit a few months later.

The next thing I knew, he was out bashing VMdirect saying that it was a scam.  He then got involved in a company that well, let’s just say was not legit thinking he found his path to get rich quick.  Within three months the company was shut down because they were… well, a true scam.  They were not operating legally.

Funny thing is that I didn’t see him bash the other company at all.  Think about that.  He had a great excuse… the company failed.  Not him in his mind.

People are quick to blame others for their failures.  Because he failed at VMdirect and because they are still going strong, he felt the need to put the blame elsewhere for his failure - instead of on himself.  He’s stuck in an endless circle that he’ll be trapped in for the rest of his life until he finally looks in the mirror and realizes that he is the failure, and then finally decides to do something about it.

I have zero problems writing about this or these scam-searching and bashing types of people because I used to be one.  For years I thought that Network Marketing and all Network Marketing companies were scams.  I thought that they took advantage of people.  I thought that they took your money.  I thought the same things about myself that the scam-searchers of today do.

However, I finally woke up.  I realized that I was the one who needed to look in the mirror and was the core of my countless failures.  It was not all of the companies I had worked for.  It wasn’t the thousands of businesses that I looked into or tried.  I was the true scam.  I was scamming myself out of the true success that I wanted and deserved.

From the moment that I took responsibility for my actions, decisions, and mindset, was the very moment that I started to see true success for the first time.It’s all how we look at things.  It’s all in our mindset. 

If you think that everyone is out to get you, then events will happen in your life that will make what you believe seem true.  However, if you change the way you think and realize that the world aligns people, places, and things in your life that are there to help you get to where you want to go, life becomes much more enjoyable.

Again, this is coming from one who used to think the world was against me, and I thought that every MLM company was a scam.  I’m glad that I finally woke up… I just hope for the sake of many others, they do too.

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