Why You Shouldn’t “Worry” About Pay Points”

Plexus pays Ambassadors every month based upon the total point value of products sold for the previous month. Out of the 11 ways we get paid, this is arguably the most exciting part of the Plexus commission structure. The more revenue per commission qualified ambassador, the more each point is worth. Obviously, as Ambassadors, we want those points to be worth as much as possible. If the point value is $3.00, then an Ambassador who has 100 points will be paid $300. If the points are worth $3.50, that Ambassador would make an additional $50 with the same 100 points.

Me

So, why should we not “worry" about the pay points? When I first started in Plexus, like most Ambassadors, I had no idea what a pay point was, and certainly no idea how they were calculated. I did know that I was feeling much better physically than I had in years, I had lost some weight, and that if I shared the products with other people, they might experience the same thing as me, and I would make a commission from the sale of those products (this is another way that Plexus Ambassadors get paid). It was simple, and it was easy. When family members began to see the benefits of using the Plexus products, losing weight, getting off of medications, feeling more energized, feeling much less pain from inflammation and such, my passion for the Plexus products grew. I continued to share, and our paycheck continued to increase.

There are guidelines that we learned along the way, and of course we became more educated in how to run our business, and how the Plexus system worked. But, the bottom line never changed. Plexus is about helping people get healthy, and there has to be passion behind that. 

I never would have believed that Plexus would be our sole income. I was so grateful back when we were making $500 a month with Plexus because I had no expectation of that. With Ambassadors moving up into higher and higher ranks, it’s easy to start to get anxious and wonder "why not me?” I’ve been a Senior Ruby Ambassador for several months. Some people have blown right past me. But that’s when I have to remember, I’m not supposed to be here. I’m not supposed to have lost 42 lbs. by drinking a drink. I’m not supposed to be able to say that my mother-in-law got her life back after years of struggling with pain and crippling symptoms from her disease. I’m not supposed to have friends upon friends who have gotten their health under control, and been freed from their medications. I am certainly not supposed to be enjoying my work this much.

There are many Bible stories that I learned as a child that illustrate that people have a tendency to forget how far they have come and what good they have received. When we do this, we start to focus on what we don’t have, instead of all the good that we do have, then we start to worry.

Worry can be paralyzing and create self fulfilling prophecies, where instead of helping ourselves to improve, we actually sabotage ourselves. That is why I go back to where I started, to the point in my mind when I didn’t have any of this. To the point where I weight 250 lbs. and I struggled to pay my bills without any hope of help from anything else. It helps me to be thankful and it defeats my worry. It gives me my passion. By myself, I cannot increase the pay points, but with passion for the products that have made possible what I now possess, I already have what I need. The points will take care of themselves.