| So we unwrapped a new board game for Christmas | | | | back to win 1. That was the only one, as she quickly |
| and aside from the fun we had, it showed the | | | | extinguished any hopes I had of making a miraculous |
| importance of listening and asking questions. This 2 | | | | comeback and won 3 more in a row. |
| player game has 3 sets of cards. Each set has 24 | | | | I let her go first, my first lesson; he who goes first is in |
| different monsters. Each player has a board and | | | | control. The questions I asked were always in reaction |
| receives one set of character cards that are placed | | | | to what she was doing. I was off balance and trying to |
| on their board standing up facing them. The third set of | | | | feel where she was going. She had a formula to her |
| cards is shuffled and each player draws a card and | | | | questions; there was a simple pattern that she |
| places it on their board. The object of the game is to | | | | followed. She asked the same questions and just |
| find out which monster the other person has by asking | | | | mixed up the order. She obviously had a plan before |
| a question to which the answer is a "yes" or a "no". | | | | she started. So have a plan before you start. Prepare |
| They ask questions in turn to eliminate monsters and | | | | yourself to win. |
| through that process of elimination find out who the | | | | Here's a plan to follow. First and foremost have a |
| other players monster is before they find out yours. I | | | | prospecting plan. What do you need to find out to see |
| had only played the game a few times before I | | | | if what you have to offer is a good fit for your |
| realized how this applied to Network Marketing. | | | | prospective partner? What type of questions do you |
| It revealed the importance of asking the right types of | | | | need to ask? Are they looking? Do they have desire? |
| questions, questions that let you quickly sort through | | | | What do they want to accomplish? Do they have |
| the monsters to find the right one. Five or six questions | | | | timenecessary to invest in their success? Do they |
| and you were done. My daughter seemed to have | | | | have start up capital? |
| developed a formula very quickly. The next day we | | | | Life is full of lessons and the more we listen and ask |
| played the best of 5. She won the first 2 and I battled | | | | questions the shorter the climb to success for all of us. |