This may seem like an odd question, but have you ever figured out how much it is really costing you to work for someone else? Think about it…There’s the time you commute, gas, stress, the wear and tear on your vehicle, lunches out, work clothes, business suites, child care, traffic tolls, maybe even traffic tickets…You get the picture! It is expensive to have a job in more ways than just mentioned.

Other than just the dollars…what else is it costing you? Your health? Your sanity? Your family? Your Time? There is some more food for thought! How many times have you worked that highly stressful 12 hour day? After a week of that, have you gotten much sleep? Are you stress free? Have you spent any time with your family. Have you done anything productive for yourself? No! Most likely you had very little sleep due to the stress, you got angry at your kids and your wife when you got home for no reason and barely had time to say “hi” to them before they went to sleep. For what? For your boss? You must really love him to sacrifice all that you are!

Do you know the real definition of J.O.B? J.O.B. = Just Over Broke! According to the latest statistics, the average US family income is $31,000. I used to live off of 36k and could barely afford to go to the movies and buy popcorn at the same time. I was renting, I had one car, and was not living a life of luxury. That is scraping by!

I am not in any way down playing a job or employees. We need them as employers and entrepreneurs. There is a very small percentage of individuals that really get to live their dreams. I believe it is less than 3%! How pathetic is that? What category are you in….the 97% or the 3%? How much is your job costing you? It’s really costing you your life!

I was having a conversation with a gentleman today about this business opportunity, and he said something that is so true. I will tell you what he said in a minute. First, let me ask you a question. What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? Is it difficult? Is it easy? Does it require you to change a little?

Let me give a story as an example really quick. The once lived a bum, or a guy without a job or a home to live in. He was broke, but he did have one thing going for him, at least in his world it was a good as it gets. He had claim on the busiest corner in his town. That meant more profits for him in the form of donations. He was doing well in the land of the bums.

Now one day a guy comes along and feels inspired to assist this bum in getting his life back together. So he goes and offers the bum a job, room and board, and even a car to drive to a from work in. The pay would be good and it would give this bum an opportunity to set things straight and to have a normal life. Well, the bum got all excited at first but then came a worried look across his face. He looked up at the guy who had offered him all these great things and asked, “Well, what will happen to my corner? Someone will get my corner if I leave!”

It was once said that it is easier for a bum to transition into being an employee than for an employee to transition into an entrepreneur. Why? What is the gap there and what is so difficult about making that transition?

Think about the mentality of both the employee and then an entrepreneur. An employee is used to being the guy behind the scenes instead of being the director. He is used to structure. He is conditioned not to make big decisions, but to leave that to his employer, the entrepreneur. Risk taking is non-existent in the employees life. He is used to getting that paycheck every other week. So to make that shift from exactly opposite of everything he is conditioned with, is difficult for a lot of people. When you make the transition from employee to entrepreneur you make the shift from being told what to do by someone else to telling yourself what to do.

Do you have the self-confidence and qualities of leadership to be effective as an entrepreneur? To you have what it takes to play all out? Do you have what it takes to take risks that may involve sacrifice? Are you willing to step away from the bi-weekly paycheck?

The gentleman I spoke to today said that he had the itch, the entrepreneur itch. He is just waiting to take the next risk because he thrives on it. It is part of his make-up and who he is. He has the spirit of Entrepreneuralism. Then he said, “You take the risk, you give it your all, and hey, if it doesn’t work out…you can always go back to diggin’ ditches! But who wants to do that anyway?” That is exactly why he will succeed. He knows what else is out there. The only way to living his perfect lifestyle, is by becoming an entrepreneur.

So if you feel as if you are unfulfilled, unchallenged, underpaid, and looking to create some freedom in your life….chances are, you have the spirit of an entrepreneur!

There are literally thousands of ways for anyone, with little or no experience, to make money from home. The only difference between all these different opportunities is of course, the business model, products, and most important, how much money you make. So depending on what your financial goals are, there are all types and kinds of businesses to fit your bugdet and desired income. There are some that work better than others and others that just don’t work very well at all. It is imperative that you choose a business that has a proven track history of success, testimonials from individuals who have succeeded and continue to succeed, and a stand-alone product. If the product cannot hold it’s value in the marketplace, then the opportunity won’t be around for long. For example, I have seen opportunities that are marketing a product that anyone can buy at Walmart, and for less!

When choosing an income opportunity, decide how much you would like to make. There are certain business opportunities that are only looking for very ambitious entrepreneurs. That is what I look for in someone when taking them on as a student. They have to have a strong desire to succeed, lofty financial goals, and the ability to be coachable and trainable. Other opportunities may take anyone who wants to get started.

If you would like to make a few hundred a month, you may want to look into typing from home, data entry or an MLM company. Most of those opportunities have very little start-up and can make you a few extra bucks. On the other hand, if you are looking for real wealth generation, creating time freedom, retiring yourself from your job, or starting a business to replace your current 6 figure income, direct sales is what you are looking for.

Now, I don’t have any recommendations for anyone who is looking to make an extra couple hundred a month. I do have a suggestion for someone who is looking to become wealthy. I am very successful at what I do, which is teaching entrepreneur minded people a very simple and lucrative system. I assist those who are capable of making quick and intelligent decisions to dupicate my results, or in other words, follow the system. It’s a lot like a franchise, plug and play! I am one of the top income earners in this business opportunity and also in all of direct sales and am more than qualified to lead you to success.

So there you have it! Find what you are looking for, don’t hesitate to get started, and make it happen. Your goals are only one decision away.

Have you ever heard of the metaphor of the cows and Rhinos? Or maybe a more familiar term would be an employee or an entrepreneur? Whatever it might be, the comparison between the two is what i would like you to take a look at. What do cows do? They follow the leader, they stay within the fence, they graze all day and are content with that life. Rhinos on the other hand are the opposite, they are leaders, they stray away from the heard, they are independent, they are free and wild animals.

Employees are the same as cows in most circumstances. They are told what to do, kept within boundaries, follow the leader, and most of the time,feel they are stuck and may be content with that kind of a life. Entrepreneurs on the other hand, complete opposite. Anyway, you get the point. Cows may want to be Rhinos, but they can’t, because they are cows. People, on the other hand, are not creatures of habit. You can do whatever you want. That is what makes us special and unique.

Take a look at this picture. I would like to use this as an example of my point. Look at this Ponderosa Pine in the midst of all the Juniper trees. Do you see how the Pine is trying to fit in. It knows it should be growing huge and tall but wants to look like the rest of the trees it is surrounded with. So instead it is getting wider instead of taller like it should.

Now, look at the potential of the Ponderosa Pine. It is one of the largest trees in the forest. I have seen them grow to widths of 6-8 feet growing over 80 feet tall, yet, this one tree living amongst the Junipers is barely 30 ft tall. It goes to prove, if you hang around the Junipers, you will become a Juniper. If you hang around the Ponderosa Pines, you will reach your full potential. You become who you hang around with. If you desire to be wealthy and successful, hang around those that are wealthy and successful. It isn’t rocket science folks. Get out of the limiting environment you may be in, get into a business opportunity and be mentored by those who are what you want to become. Start living your life the way you want to live it. Realize what your full potential is and take action.

An unemployed man is desperate to support his Family of a wife and three kids.

He applies for a janitor’s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test. The human resources manager tells him, “You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day.”  Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, “You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day.”

Stunned, the man leaves not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers’ market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.

Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.

At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him.

By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard.

Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato company’s payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed over one million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.

Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn’t have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned,
“What, you don’t have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you’d had all of that five years ago!”

“Ha!” snorts the man. “If I’d had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour.”

Which brings us to the moral of the story:

If you had gotten this through email, you would probably be closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.

I am here to help those who can help themselves. I am not here to carry the world on my shoulders and hold hands with needy people. We all have needs. But what separates the ones that get what they need and the ones that don’t, is will power to do so. I only mentor leaders and in the process of looking for the great ones, I have to sort through the ones that aren’t willing to make decisions or who aren’t ready.

There is a saying and is known as the four W’s. Some Will, some Won’t, so What, someone is Waiting. Not to say that I don’t care if someone is successful or unhappy. But I can not wait around until someone is ready to help themselves by moving forward in their lives with confidence and ambition. I present an opportunity to qualified individuals who are ready for a change. If you are reading through my website right now then something in your life, career, family, etc is not going as planned. Something needs to change or add to what you are currently doing. And you know what, you won’t make that change until you are so sick and tired. Sick of living a life of mediocrity.

So, if you feel you are a strong willed, ambitious leader, then you deserve to take a look at this business, get started and begin living a life of abundance and prosperity.