TELL IT LIKE IT IS!!!! NEED FAMILY SUPPORT!!!! This is a topic that hits home with so many people. However, it is also a very touchy subject. Why? Because sometimes it is hard to determine when a family is being supportive and when a family is being enabling. But I want to let everyone know that this page is not speaking to anyone specific but just a general overall analysis of how most families interact with each other. If you would like to support my family in our endeavors, we would most certainly appreciate it. Check us out on facebook at #shopwithmamachief or #greeneyedlum.
Moral support
Moral support is something we all would love to have from your family and friends. Sometimes we don’t always have it. Even though our family and friends claim to have our backs, we sometimes cannot see it. Here is an example.
You decide that you need to lose a few pounds. You tell your family that you are really going to do it this time. In the past, you have struggled with weight and nothing seems to work. Now let’s tell it like it is. We really haven’t given it a good go at it. Our actions haven’t proven our talk.
However, you have found an amazing program that is working for you. You tell your family and friends about. They say, good job or good luck, great work. Then, you post on your social media before and after pictures. You are getting results. You ask your family to help you in this new program by trying the product with you. Telling their friends that need to lose weight about the product, but they never do. There are no comments on your social media from them or encouraging words. An emoji just isn’t the same as the written word or action.
Here is a little hint to the family and friends…WE NEED FAMILY SUPPORT!!! Our family is our lifeline. We should be able to count on them when everyone else makes fun of you, turns you down and tells you that it won’t work. We depend on your family to help us make those sales, get over the hump, spread the word and show us a little support and love.
LOVE A STRANGER OVER FAMILY – TELL IT LIKE IT IS
Did you know that most family and friends will most likely purchase something from a stranger than a friend or other family member? Why is that? You have this amazing product or program that is getting great results, has lots of doctor backing and scientific proof that it works, but you cannot even give away a sample!!! They take it and a week later, you check up on them and they cannot even find where they put it!!!
Have you heard this before? When you make some money with that, I’ll check it out. How are you going to feel about that? To me, that tells me that my friends and family have no confidence in me. I have no encouragement from them. Yet, they will see a similar product or supplement in a store or on TV or online and purchase it without hesitation. I just don’t understand this concept. Shouldn’t you want to support your family?! Especially if they are trying to better themselves, try something new and get out of the rut? Where is the family support system?! I am just telling it like it is, at least from my point of view and research I have done. Support your family and friends guys. They truly need you in their corner!!!
Emotional Support – Tell It Like It Is
Our emotions can sometimes be like a roller coaster ride. We have our good days and our bad days. I know that my husband and I love to sit down in the evenings and just reconnect. He is truly still my best friend, always there for me and supports me in everything that I do. He is my rock and my encourager. If there is anything that I want to do, he is the first one to help me figure out a way to do it. When I am upset, he is there with a shoulder to cry on. He doesn’t say I told you so, laugh or criticize but helps me figure out what went wrong.
I am also there for him. When he has had a rough day at work, I am there to listen. He doesn’t have to worry about if the kids are taken care of, do we have food, house in order or if he has clean clothes. He even gets to hold the remote for the TV!!! I want my husband to feel like his home is his peaceful place. There he can rest and be himself. I support him in all that he does by going to his ballgames, helping him clean the yard, taking care of the dog and even helping him work on his Mustang. We are a true partnership. After 31 years together, we have finally got it figured out.
Not All Is Rosy
Unfortunately, not everyone has that. Remember, your family should be your shelter. Your family unit should be one. Anything you tell your immediate family should be held in the strictest of confidence. Advise given with sound judgement and logic and not being judgmental and condescending. If we make a mistake, you as our family and loved ones, should not want to rub it in our faces, say “I told you so”, or be negative. We are looking for love and understanding. We get the negative from the world and the people around us. Our family should be our safe haven, our comfort and healing place.
Financial Support
Financial support, well that can be tricky. To tell it like it is, this is the one place that you can be an enabler more that a help. However, that doesn’t mean that you don’t help financially if at all possible. If you see that your family member or friend truly is doing all in their power to take care of something and just cannot get ends to meet, then if they ask and you are able, why not help them?
Sometimes helping out financially is not always with money. It may be that they want you to support them in their road to financial freedom. Maybe they would like you to invest in their program or product. Shop at their store versus the competition. Talk about what they are doing to your close friends and acquaintances. Do some advertising for them. Actually buy and try their goods and services so that you can actually tell others about it!!! Be an advocate for them. After all THEY ARE YOU FAMILY!!! If they cannot count on you, who can they count on?
Conclusion
My page Tell It Like It is – Need Family Support is not a page to bash families. It is a page I felt lead to write based on those people out there who truly are trying to make a difference in a non-traditional way and really need their family to believe in them, be there for them emotionally, give them moral support and financial backing by buying their goods and services. If the family supports them, it will boost their confidence in themselves to go out there and get all the other no’s and negativity. They will have something to battle with, THEIR FAMILIES SUPPORT!!!
So if you have an entrepreneur in your family, then support them with more than a like on Facebook or social media. Actually purchase their product, goods or services. Then tell others about it. Help them with your backing as their family. Show the world that you believe in them and then watch them soar!!!
