What Network Marketers Can Learn From Julius Caesar's War in Gaul

Every seasoned network marketer knows the importance of maintaining momentum. It is not enough to simply achieve the next position within your company; you must do so with momentum. The combination of positive and passionate emotion, belief in the company, belief in your leader, a non-negotiable attitude and all out action create a psychological synergy that leads to productive momentum. The network marketers who experience high productivity within their teams as a result of this heightened psychological state can only describe it with the phrase, "We seem to be in the zone this month."

When momentum truly takes hold of your team, everything seems to become effortless. Closing distributers into your business becomes a daily routine. Acquiring new customers for your products or services seems as easy as taking candy from a baby. Getting people to follow you to your company's national training event no longer seems like pulling teeth. All of this takes place not because the company has changed; not because the products have changed; and not because the price to join your business has changed. The only thing that has changed is the mental state of you and your team members. Momentum is the result of the mental synergy created by the factors I mentioned earlier.

But what happens when your team loses momentum? How do you recreate that mental synergy within your team in order to give them that winning edge again? Let's take a peak back in history in order to find the answer.

From 58 B.C. to 51 B.C., Rome fought a series of wars with Gaul (modern day France) known as the Gallic Wars. The Roman forces were commanded by Julius Caesar, and the confederation of Gallic tribes was commanded by the legendary chieftain Vercingetorix. The Gallic wars were long, bloody and taxing for both sides. However, the issue would finally be decided once and for all at the Battle of Alesia.

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