Synchronicity, serendipity and synergy.
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I felt compelled to use that as a title as the alliteration was too much of a temptation. Synchronicity means an appropriate time for events to happen, serendipities are unsought events that lead to a blessing and synergies are bringing the power of a team together to achieve a better outcome than could have been achieved as an individual or group of individuals acting alone.
We recently experienced all three in our Network 21 business which is run alongside our Bed & Breakfast business. When I first saw ‘the plan’ as Amway people call it, I looked for holes, turning it upside down and every which way, but could not find any. I then did what everyone does, telling others how good it was, only to find that they did not seem to think so. This slowed us down quite a bit, almost to a stop; nothing like a bit of stiff rejection to get you to doubt yourself. Still, we kept going, only to struggle with little success.
Suddenly things have seemed to come together for us. Pam gave out a couple for free samples of SA8 laundry powder to her hairdresser and others and they seemed to like it, so she went around the other hairdressers in the locality and they seemed to like it too, and the orders for SA8 have started to come in. Hairdressers always have a lot of towels to wash and they say the 3 kg. pack is ideal. I always intended to make Amway products a cornerstone of the Bed & Breakfast as I could see from first hand experience how good the products were. Pam was prepared to take the rejection more and so got her serendipities; I felt safer writing about it from behind a computer screen but hope that has helped with the synergy of working together.
It is worth considering local businesses like hairdressers who seem to have the washing machine running a lot of the time as well as other Bed & Breakfasts to develop a co-operative for supplying these products. Two businesses running side by side are better than one for synchronicity, serendipity and synergy.