When we were inside the Amway
cult we were told to stick pictures of new cars, dream homes, and other
material possessions on the refrigerator.
First of all I don’t like stuff stuck on my fridge. I’ve chucked out my fair
share of tacky fridge magnets over the years.
Second even if I did like shit stuck all over my fridge it would be photos of
my family not pictures of things I covet.
It just stinks of greed to stick photos of sailboats, Ferraris, and Hearst
Castle on the fridge. Do these photos really help IBO’s achieve these dreams or
do they serve as a sad reminder that their bank accounts are diminishing while
they grasp for the dreams their upline has brainwashed them into believing they’ll
own one day?
Amway: the cult of greed.
Back in the days before computers and phones with online calendars I used to
buy a day planner each year to keep our lives organized. At the front of the
planner is a place to write down goals and a target date. Sometimes I’d have to
carry them over from the previous year. Then I was supposed to slot time in my
planner daily or weekly to spend time accomplishing these goals. Somewhere in
my past I remember hearing that if people write their goals down they have a
higher success rate of achieving them than those who don’t write them down and
this is why I wrote down my goals. And sure enough as the year came to a close
and I was switching off planners I’d see that I’d either accomplished my goals
or was on the way to doing so.
Mostly the goals were bettering myself professionally or personally but one
year I did have something on my list that was an object - a red car I wanted.
It didn’t happen that year so I carried that goal over into the next year and
that’s when I did buy the car. Different color so I didn’t quite meet my goal.
I changed my mind on the color I wanted when I was at the dealership. But I
never had a picture of that car stuck on my fridge.
Can you imagine what an Amway ambot writes in their goals: Go Diamond! Freedom!
Flush that stinking job!
So why does the upline want you to play greedy Gretchen and stick photos on the
fridge of the things you dream about owning?
That’s just how life is when you get sucked into this scam. Amway: the cult of
greed.
The business about having photos of stuff on your fridge is a clue to how Amway works. In any MLM scheme, the main engine is ENTHUSIASM. You (as an up-line) have to keep your down-line IBOs revved up and active. So you urge them to have pictures of what they dream about everywhere in the house -- the fridge, the kitchen, the toilet, the closets, etc. This way they are constantly reminded of the need to be in a state of hyped-up excitement all the time, pushing the Amway products and looking for potential recruits.
ReplyDeleteYour practice of making notes in you daily planner about what you have to do or what you want to buy is a sane and intellectually respectable way to remind yourself of goals and duties. But Amway is a CULT, and it is not sane or intellectual. It's motivating force is imagination, not thinking. And therefore Amway IBOs are the type to depend on pictures and images.
This is why, at the various "functions," there are always film clips and slide shows about all the fancy possessions that the Diamonds enjoy. It's a visual display, designed to stir up emotions.
Hi Anonymous. Yup, a lot of stuff that goes on in ScAmway is visual To create motivation and hype up the ambots. It could be pictures stuck on the fridge, going to the upline’s house and seeing pictures everywhere of their greedy pursuits. And the same with all those slideshows at major functions. Gotta keep those Amway losers motivated and hyped up about all the things they can get if they believe the Amway fairy take.
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