I like to think of the push to do DIQ as a "2nd Recruiting" in MK. They have the host of persuasions to get you to sign up, but there is a whole set of new recruiting tactics and arguments to get people to pursue Directorship. There's the overall push to directorship - the fawning over directors, making it seem so glamourous, showing the big (cough) *love* checks, the diamonds, trips, etc. But there's also a tailored personal push, where they look at you the individual, find out what buttons to push to get you to want it and actually do it, then stick with it - much like recruiting you into the business.

For me, I wasn't interested in directorship initially, then after I started working towards earning my car, my director started to push directorship. Not pushy at first (cause that would just push me away), but she knew by then what buttons to push with me. I still remember the meeting where after everyone had left, she sat me down with one of my team members and was basically doing an "interview" but for directorship (though I didn't realize that's what it was at the time!). I remember her telling me that if I didn't like classes and selling, that all I had to do was become a director and I didn't have to do it anymore. Then I was a manager and would have the upper level position I deserved, and I didn't have to work all those hours and could even quit my job. My husband and I had started talking about when to have kids, and this idea appealed to me. Especially the "no selling" part (what a crock). And, I was good at recruiting, which I found much easier than selling and she pitched it as that would be my only job, but I didn't even have to find women myself - I just had to do inteviews for my unit members (HA!!!!! What unit members? What interviews? They ran from that like the plague!).

So anyway, that's what attracted me to do it, and then of course once I was "in" there's all the lures to keep you there, but that's another topic. So for now, my question is, what attracted YOU to directorship?

My director was very close to NIQ.  Another consultant and I were the next ones in line for directorship as far as personal team size was concerned. 

I wanted directorship with a passion because one time at Seminar another director who I thought was a pretty good friend invited me to go along with the directors in our almost-national area to the mall.  I wanted to change into some "walking" shoes so I told her great, I'd be right back.   I went to my room to change my shoes and went back to the meeting place in the lobby.  They were all gone.  I felt so disheartened and embarrassed.  I felt like the geek at highschool.    

When I saw them all later that night at our area meeting one of the other directors in our almost-area just laughed in my face and said, "Sorry NMG, you're not one of the big girls yet!"  I will NEVER forget her words or the cackling sound in her "laugh". 

That was my resolve to make it to directorship.  Then, when my director told me that we were so close to becoming a national area I was so excited and felt so wonderful that she had confided that to me.  Then she told me I and so-and-so were the next ones in line for directorship and if we could get through DIQ, she would be in NIQ and we would be ready to rock.  Then she told me that the average income for a first year director is $30,000.  To me and my hubby that was sweet music to our ears.

So, I guess to answer in short form:
a) A sense of belonging
b) A sense of being "needed" and a way to contribute to something BIG
c) The idea of $30,000 a year setting my own hours and having time to go to my kids' activities

WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT!

That just makes me so mad.

I think I was lured by the promise of more money and the prestige. From the minute she recruited me, I think my SSD had in mind that I was going to be a director. I was leaving my job at the time I was recruited and starting my own new business. My SSD 'sold' me on MK as a back up plan. Then I had a couple of good selling and recruiting months, and she really started pusihing me into the next level. I really wasn't sure I wanted to do DIQ because my other business was picking up, but my SSD convinced me that I would never have to work as hard in MK and I would earn far more as a director. What a crock! My SSS is nearing NIQ and she really 'sold the sizzle' on how great it would be to be one of her first line directors. I just fell for the whole package, hook, line and sinker!