An old man happened upon a branch which had fallen from a tree. Attached to the branch was a cocoon. The old man bent over to pick up the branch and noticed the cocoon. Marvelling at the workmanship of Mother GOD, the old man sat and examined the cocoon and all of its intricacies. What a masterpiece he thought to himself.

While examining the branch and it's companion, a little boy came by and watched what the old man was doing. He too became interested.

What are you looking at the little boy asked of the old man?

This is a cocoon said the old man.

What is a cocoon the little boy quickly asked?

A cocoon in where a butterfly sleeps until it is ready to grace this place with it's beauty.

A butterfly is inside there the little boy responded with great excitement? Can I see it as he moved closer to the old man and the stick he was holding? I don't see nothing said the little boy. Where is the butterfly?

The old man explained that the butterfly was inside the cocoon, resting and growing. He told the little boy that as time past the cocoon would become more and more transparent and he would be able to see thru the cocoon and watch the butterfly prepare to leave the cocoon.

The little boy was totally absorbed by what he was being told. How much longer do we have to wait before that will happen? Will it happen today? Can I sit here and watch with you? The little boys inquisitiveness and enthusiasm was bubbly at the thought of watching the butterfly hatch.

Then the old man gave him the bad news. The butterfly is not ready yet. It will take a few more days, maybe even a week before it is ready to hatch.

What will happen to the stick if you just leave it here until then ask the little boy? Something might happen to it. No, I will take it home with me and take care of it until it hatch replied the old man. Can I take it home and take care of it asked the little boy?

The old man pondered the thought and looked at the little boy. Are you sure you will take good care of it he asked? I promise, I promise, I promise I will take good care of it the little boy enthusiastically repeated himself.

Ok said the old man, you can take it home. The little boy leaped to his feet and reached for the stick containing the cocoon. The old man retracted his arm as the little boy reached for the stick and looked the little boy in the eye.

Did you change your mind asked the little boy? I promise I will take good care of the cocoon he said. The old man looked at him intently and said you must make one more promise before I give this to you. Okay said the little boy. What else must I promise to do?

You must promise me that when the butterfly is ready to hatch and begins to flap its wings in the cocoon, no matter how hard it may appear that it is struggling and will not break free, you must not help it.

I won't help it the little boy promised. So the old man gave the little boy the stick and the cocoon. Remember, you are not to help the butterfly break out of the cocoon the old man reminded the little boy. You must let the butterfly break free from the cocoon on it own. I'll remember said the little boy and off he went holding the stick with the cocoon attached.

When the little boy arrived home he took the stick into his room and with great care he placed it on his desk near a window in a place where it would not be disturbed. Then he began to watch it.

Day after day he'd sit and watch. A few days past. Then a week past. The cocoon sat in the yolk of the branch. There was no movement. There was no change.

The little boy continued to watch it, day after day. Then the second week past. A little restless now, but still interested, the little boy started examining the cocoon closer. He even touched it a few times.

During the third day of the second week, the little boy noticed that he could faintly see something inside the cocoon.

With each passing day, the image inside became more and more clear. There was a butterfly in side. Finally the butterfly begin to flutter its wings and the cocoon's outer skin begin to move.

It would try for a while then it would rest. The next day the butterfly tried again to break free. Flapping it's wings furiously, again and again, but it did not break free. When will the butterfly break free thought the little boy. Can't he get out? It's taking much longer than the old man said it would. Maybe it needs some help he reasoned.

On day four the butterfly again resumed it's ritual of trying to break free from its' cocoon. The outer skin of the cocoon erupt violently as the butterfly frantically flagged it wings in an attempt to break free.

Anxious to see the butterfly free, emotions of sympathy swelled with in the little boy. He decided he would help the butterfly because the struggle appeared to be to much for it.

The little boy made a small tear in the cocoon. After a few more feverish attempts, it still was not able to break free. After resting for a while the butterfly again sent forth all of its efforts to break free of the confining walls of its cocoon, all to no avail.

What if it can't get out, thought the little boy. It may die in there. Again, the little boy reasoned his assistance was needed and made another small opening in the cocoon.

The next day the struggle for freedom resumed and no command of effort the butterfly could muster appeared to be enough to enable it to break free of the confines of its' cocoon.

Disparate to see the butterfly free and alleviate its obvious painful struggle, the little boy offered a little more of his assistance. Another opening was made on the cocoon. This one larger than the previous openings he had made. Again the butterfly fought violently to hatch itself.

This time the struggles appeared to be paying off. The butterfly was winning the battle. The cocoon began splitting. First a little. Then a little more. Finally the butterfly broke free of the cocoon and begin flying around the little boys room.

It was beautiful. It was free.

The butterfly danced in flight around the little boys room. Landing on item after item. Desiring to see the butterfly stay a flight longer the little boy pushed and shoo at it whenever it landed. After a few minutes of constant flight the butterfly fell to the floor.

The little boy rushed to pick it up, tossed it in the air and after a few more flutters of its wings it fell to the floor again. The little boy repeated his last action. This time the butterfly just fell to the floor.

There was no motion in it. Even its antennas lay flat. It was dead.

Sadden, the little boy picked the butterfly up, placed it in a box and took it off to bury it.

While traveling to the area he was going to bury the butterfly, the little boy passed by the old man's house. Standing at his window the old man saw the little boy as he passed by. He noticed the sad look on his face and spoke to him.

How are you today little boy he asked? How is the butterfly? Why do you have such a sad face today he queried?

The little boy approached the window and opened the little box to show the old man its content.

Is that our butterfly he asked?

The little boy shook his head in confirmation as tears swelled in his eyes.

You helped him hatch from the cocoon didn't you, inquired the old man?

Yes the little boy said and he dropped his head and cried.

You were not suppose to help the butterfly hatch itself from its cocoon the old man said sternly to the little boy. The help you gave it, although done with a good heart and good intentions only handicapped it.

The struggling to break free from its cocoon is part of its conditioning. Part of its development. Part of its training. The butterfly needs that struggle in order to survive.

The struggle strengthens it wings and muscles. It teaches the butterfly endurance and gives it stamina. The struggle to break free from the cocoon is its school of hard knocks so to speak. The struggle prepares the butterfly so that it can successfully compete in the world it encounters once it hatched from the cocoon.

The help you thought you were giving it was not really help at all. By weakening the cocoon you reduced the butterfly's struggles. The reduced struggles created a weak butterfly...What you thought was help was actually a handicap for the butterfly.....

As an entrepreneur I have found that I too have handicapped some of the individuals who have participated with me in affiliate networks, network marketing down lines, and joint venture partnership.

By offering them to much help. By doing things for them which they should have done themselves. By not allowing them to fail...I weaken their cocoons and reducing the struggles they needed to encounter on there road to business success.

Like the butterfly in the little boy's room, when they broke free, initially they glided around on there own, for a while, then they fell flat. Few of them ever got up on their own and took flight again. I helped them too much.

As hard as it may be to believe, nothing prepares you for success like failure. The failures, the obstacles you encounter, the mistakes you make? These are your conditioning exercises. Your muscle builders. It is as necessary a part of your education as the success you achieve.

How can you help some one too much you are probably asking? Remember when you were learning how to ride a two wheel bicycle? Remember how some one held the bicycle up for you while you got accustom to the pedal and how they worked and the handlebar and what part they played in riding the bicycle.

But the must important part of learning was balancing on the two wheels.

Your teacher would tell you you had to balance yourself. Using words like "sit straight up", "don't lean", "sit in the center of the bike". Your instructor had difficulty explaining to you how you balance yourself on a bicycle.

The only true way to get you to learn how to balance was to hold you up for a while, then let you go so that you learned to balance on your own. Sometimes you fell down. But if you were determined to learn, you got right back up and tried it again. This time with an experience of what not to do. The accumulated experience of what not to do taught you what to do.

Imagine if they had never let go of the bicycle.

You would have never learn to balance your self. You would always be dependent on someone to hold you up. That is too much help.

You receive so much help, so much assistance, so much instruction that you never become independent. You are never able to do it on your own (no that should be re-phrased) you won't trust yourself to do it on your own. You have weak faith in your abilities.

With many of the individuals who partnered with me in network marketing and affiliate programs, I coddle them. I hand held with them. I spoon fed them. Writing their ads. Making their calls. Doing their follow ups. Doing all of the physical or mental work, leaving them only to have to push a button or lick a stamp.

I would do practically every thing for them to get them started and help maintain them. (this was in the beginning when I first started building my businesses) I wanted to see them succeed.

Although I learned to succeed from the school of hard knocks, I would not let my new partner, or new down line member or new affiliate associate learn the same way. Like a new parent protecting their offspring, I became over protective.

What I later discovered is that this was wrong. I was not helping them. I was handicapping them.

In almost every case, when left on their own, without my coddling and instruction with every step, after their first experience of defeat, they quit. They would not get back up on the bicycle.

Haven't you experienced similar situation with those that you have helped too much?

When designing 10001press-Ebook Club, I remembered those experiences. I wanted to make sure that I did not repeat the same mistakes. I want all of the affiliate who participate to succeed, but not at the cost of making them dependent on me and 10001press staff.

We want to and will be here to help you as much as possible, but you have to do your own work.

You have sales letters, banner ads, ezine ads and e-courses to get you started and assist you to promote this opportunity and its products. You get a number of FREE downloadable e-books that you can use as promotions to get prospects to visit your site. You are offering information products that are in high demand and will have other new products monthly to promote, which encourage repeat visits, additional sales, and builds customer relationships.

We have in the past and will continue to mail your affiliate commission payments out to you on time. Currently we offer 40% commission on the sales generated by you. We will be changing to a two tier commission structure soon.

This will means large commission checks for you if you market and promote this program.

We are not going to handicap you by doing too much for you. We will provide all of the best tools and training available to help you to be the best you can be. Your ultimate success hinges on what you do with what is provided.

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