What does taking shelter in a storm have to do with being a successful entrepreneur or running a Business? Think about it. What should you take shelter from in order to become as successful as you’d like to become? Let’s take a look at what an ant might have to avoid along his journey of searching for food and protecting the colony. Numero uno would be the bully that is lurking around the corner with a magnifying glass! Another would be a literal rain storm and another might be cold weather. The list could go on and on but how do these things relate?

Here is a list of things that I would avoid, watch out for, or plan to go around if I was looking to create all out success.

1. Avoid negative media! Here’s an amazing statistic: Walmart gets sued every hour! But why? Walmart is a great store! I’ll tell you why. It is because Walmart is a great store and when you are a great store, that means you are a successful company. When you are a successful company, you make lots of money. Now who doesn’t like money? So they sue! Plain and simple, if you are successful, and they are not, they hate you for it! That is the truth.
2. Don’t waste time with the Kings and the Jokers. You are looking for Aces to work with. There are a lot of other prospects, clients, customers, or business partners that will be and look enticing, but they’re not an Ace.
3. Prepare for the Cold Weather, or the down time in your business. This is considered the slow season, if there is any in your industry. This is no secret and you probably already know this, but I will tell you the secret to getting through a slow time in your business. This is it! Are you ready? “There is no slow time!” Did you miss that? It is all belief!
4. Avoid, like the plague, people that bring you down with beliefs of poverty and failure. This one is number one in my book. Take all the people you hang around with, add their income and divide it equally among you. The average is what your income will generally be. Hang out with like-minded and ambitious people.
5. Procrastination! Avoid it, avoid it, avoid it! That is all I have to say about that!

There you have it. The next philosophy of the ant. The best way to take shelter from the storms of business is to just make a ton of friggin’ money and have all out massive success so that when a storm does come along, it will take a heck of a lot of force to knock your mountain of prosperity over! That, my friend, is how it is done!

It’s definitely a girl! The Ultrasound was right I guess. We went into the hospital on Wednesday night at around 8:30pm with Amy’s contractions at around 2 minutes apart. We asked for the epidural, and the dang thing didn’t work until Amy started to push. What a raw deal. I guess those things aren’t 100% proof but I sure wish they were….for Amy’s and my sake. It was hard for me to see her in so much pain. I have to admit also…I did get a little light headed and had to sit down. My mother-in-law stepped in for me until I could gain my composure. Amy did so good though! I was proud of her!

Macy Kay Allred was born at 6:29 AM on Thursday morning here in the Summit Healthcare facilities. She was 6 lbs 4 oz and 19 inches long! You know, not to take away from my little girl, but the name of my business is Summit Point Enterprises. The hospital here was picking a new name for their facilities due to some new renovations, and towards completion, they changed it from the first name they picked to Summit Healthcare. They copied us. I know it! I can’t blame them though. It’s a good name!

This business is so simple. I took 3 days off for this special event and I still made money while in the hospital. My little girls future is secure. I will be here when she takes her first steps, when she starts to crawl, when she says “Dadda” for the first time…..I am home and will not have to worry about working a job again. This opportunity has given me my life. I thought I had a life before this opportunity, but was just fooling myself. There is no comparison!

Just to tell you our story real quick, if you haven’t been on the “About Us” section of this site, this will be helpful. My wife and I have been part of Liberty League International for nearly three years now. We got started on March 31st of 2005. This was the first home based business that we have ever considered being part of. There was something about the people that were in it that inspired us to get started. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the income potential is just insane, and that is why we started looking in the first place, but the community is something else.

Before getting started here with Liberty League we were making about 40k a year with what we were doing. I wasn’t a big CEO of some corporation or anything. I was just a normal guy looking to create some freedom in my life, both with time and money. My wife was actually the one who found this opportunity for us. We had just built and brand new home and had not been on vacation in nearly 2 or 3 years. Well, really, we couldn’t afford it. Disney Land is only an eight hour drive from where we lived and we still couldn’t afford to go.

Since we have been with Liberty League, in the last 3 years, we have been to Puerto Rico, Cancun three times, Sydney Australia, Miami Florida, Hawaii, and all over the United States. We have a trip planned for Rome, Italy at the end of March. We will spend a week or two there. We also have a trip planned to Honolulu Hawaii in July as well and will be taking the whole family there with us. I couldn’t have possibly imagined traveling this much with the way my life used to be. I left the country three times last year. We went to Cancun twice and to Sydney Australia. I am on cloud nine man.

Our best week in the business is $42,000. We own a few homes home here in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona and are grateful everyday for what we stumbled upon. Liberty League International has been our savior for financial freedom. I am now there for my kids. When my first daughter was born I wasn’t even able to take my wife home from the hospital because I had to get back to my JOB. That will never happen again and we are expecting our third daughter in about a week. I can work this business anywhere and will be making money even while I am in the hospital with my wife. I love this business.

You know, I fear to imagine what my life would be like if we had not made the decision to get started here with this great company. So, let’s not even think about it. Don’t hesitate, get started here. You will be grateful you did!

I once heard of a story of a young boy who one day went to his mother and said, “Mom, from this point on, I want to forfeit my allowance and start getting paid by commission.” Now, the little boy was making $7 a week for his allowance. That equals $1 a day. He had heard somewhere that a person could make a lot more money from commission based work rather than getting paid for your time. So, he came up with this great idea that he would switch from daily pay to commission pay.

The little boy then set the commission he would receive per job. The commission was 0.25 cents. So, he cleaned his room, folded and put away his clothes, took out the trash, and made his bed. The little boy made $1 his first day. Then the second day came along and he realized that the trash did not need to be taken out, his room was still clean, and he didn’t have any clean clothes to fold and put away. But he did help his Dad clean the garage for a while. So he made a quarter the second day.

He started to think to himself that maybe this was not such a good idea. So he want back to his Mom and asked if he could switch back to his regular weekly allowance. The mother told him no. He had set the terms and they made a deal. The little boy had to find a way to make it profitable for him. The little boy thought and thought of how to make this way of earning more profitable than a fixed amount. He then started to get creative around the house. He thought of dusting, carrying in the groceries, helping with the dishes, feeding his little sister, organizing the book shelf, vacuuming, and so on and so on. The boy found jobs that he could do everyday that were new and creative. He increased his earnings to twice the amount he used to make with his old allowance. He had to be creative, but it paid off.

I use this story to make a point. If you are working a job or in a business that pays you for your time, instead of for your results, you will never create as much wealth as the person who gets paid for results. Commission based business is the most lucrative way of earning. A chiropractor can only get paid for so many hours of his time, because he only has 24 in a day. Where a business card business can print millions of cards a day or more if needed, because he has a machine that does most of the work, and gets paid for results.

Find a business opportunity that can leverage your time and earn you profits while you sleep. That is true leverage and where true wealth begins.

Just a quick post to wish everyone a happy new year and assume that everyone had a blast last night! We spent the evening at the movie theater with just our family watching Alvin and the Chipmunks. Our kids barely made it through the movie and were passed out in the car before we were 5 minutes down the road. Slackers! No discipline. We had about 45minutes to wait once we arrived home, kissed each other and went to bed at aroun 12:30am. The important part, is that I have not worked since the Friday before Christmas eve. Through the holidays I have seen fathers and mothers alike having to go back to work during the holidays. I am just grateful that I have the option to choose for myself, being self-employed, whether or not to work. It is a great freedom that I will never take for granted.

So with this new year here, it important to set some lofty goals for myself and for my family. Of course, my goal is to make seven-figures by this time 2009. I intend on assisting as many like-minded entrepreneurs in doing the same as well. I had great success last year, received an award, assisted many people in this business, but it will not hold a candle to this years results. If you are ready for wealth, abundance, and freedom in your life, jump on the train. I am going places in this business and am determined to assist as many people in board as I possible can.

So, enjoy the day and Happy New Year to you all!

I believe that over 80% of all businesses started in the US never make it past their 3rd year in business. Now, I have no idea why the failure rate is so high. I am sure it is many different reasons and factors that play into each failure. For one it may be that they were under capitolized, or maybe lack of advertising, maybe a bad location, or maybe just a bad product or service. Who knows.

Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone business succeeded? Wouldn’t it be comforting to know that if you decided to start a business today, that you would succeed and that everyone else that started a business would succeed? How prosperous would our world as we know it be? There would be no risk involved because your chances of succeeding are 100%! As nice as this may seem, it cannot happen and it must not happen.

It has to be this way. There has to be failure to offset success. To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Come on, we have all heard of this. To have joy, you must know and have experienced sadness. To feel good you have to have felt bad. Becoming an entrepreneur, succeeding at business and becoming successful is not an easy thing, otherwise, everyone would be doing it.

There is risk is starting a business. You could go out of business, you could lose your shirt, you could blow your life savings, or you could have no life and be married to your business. You could stay at your dead end job and have someone else run your life for you. On the other hand, you could strike it big, become wealthy, live your ultimate lifestyle, take charge and become the CEO of your life! Free enterprise is the only way to truly enjoy your life to the fullest. Leverage your time, increase your profits, and live your life. Risk is measured only by the way you view your own potential to accomplish the task at hand. Confidence is everything. You create your own risk by lack of confidence in yourself and in your business.

Here is a stat for you….90% of bussiness without a system fail. 90% of businesses with a system, succeed! I have succeeded in business due to the system that was already in place. I avoided a huge stumbling block by starting this business opportunity. Make it easier to succeed in business by starting a business that is already proven to work.