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Are You A Talker Or a Doer?

Like it or not, the world is composed of two types of people – talkers and doers. Which one are you?

About 10 years ago, a friend of mine made a life-altering decision. She had been presented with an opportunity to spend one year as an exchange student in Europe, in several different countries. Now, she didn’t exactly come from a family of world travelers, nor were her parents wealthy enough to send her overseas for an extended amount of time. Come to think of it, no one in her poor neighborhood had even dreamed of doing such a thing – they were to busy struggling with their day-to-day existence.

The temptation to not consider it any further was certainly very strong. She had no idea what she might be getting into; She didn’t know any foreign languages. Going overseas for a year meant not working, spending lots of her hard-earned savings (and in her neighborhood, that meant a lot!) and leaving behind family and friends, something that she had never done before. More importantly, when she would come back, she’d come back broke.

She went back and forth for quite a while. In then end, she said, “what the heck – the worst that can happen is that I hate it and come home early. Who knows when I’ll have this kind of time again?” Her curiosity was getting the best of her. She called her school counselor. “Sign me up”, she said.

Needless to say, her family thought she was crazy and didn’t believe she was actually going until she scraped together her meager savings and left for the airport two months later.

Lessons Learned
Initially, the trip across the pond was a total disaster. To begin with, the airline bumped her entire group – 50 people – leaving her to find other airlines to get to Europe. With her luck, she ended up on the later flight. Then, she ended up spending 10 hours in the airport before she finally left. She was thinking that she probably should have listened to all the people that told her she was crazy to go. She arrived, exhausted and with a mean case of jetlag in Europe the next day; she got to her apartment and passed out.

A funny thing happened the next day. After getting out and exploring a bit, she discovered that she actually liked Europe. It was so easy to travel and get around. She found her way to the nearest travel agency and bought a train pass.

The next week, she traveled to a few countries – all on her own, because several students were too afraid to travel outside the “base” country. This isn’t to say that she wasn’t apprehensive, because she was; however, she made a conscious decision to overcome her fear because she wanted to find out what else was out there. She wanted to know what was beyond the sheltered world that she had once known. She discovered that train travel across Europe was quite easy and safe, if one just used common sense. After the first week, she traveled, alone, to a different country every week. She felt a newfound sense of independence, freedom, accomplishment and success that she had never felt before, and it felt great!

Her year in Europe was a real eye opener for her. It exposed her to things that she would never have experienced otherwise. She would never have experienced different cultures, systems, met as many new people or learned that she had a very adventurous spirit and thirst for knowledge. And she would have never met her future husband. They ended up running his restaurant together, quite successfully, in Berlin for another year, before they both returned to the States. She was not as broke as she had imagined she would be!

What’s the lesson from all this? Don’t let fear hold you back – nothing great is ever accomplished without some risk. Fear is what keeps 99% of people from becoming successful in life. Don’t let that happen to you – know what you want and go for it!

What You Need To Know

Attaining success in life is completely up to you. Sure, there are some factors that you just can’t control. The answer? Don’t worry about them – worry about factors that you can control – you and your actions and your thinking.

Points To Remember:

Be open to all possbilities. Don’t discount an idea just because it seems new to you.

• Don’t let fear of failure dominate you, although it can be very powerful. Fear is what stops 99% of people from being successful.

• Recognize that sometimes you have to take a risk – successfully negotiating risk-taking is what makes one successful in the long run.

• Always keep an eye out for new opportunities.

Success in life is about finding inner peace, satisfaction and emotional stability. You can’t achieve that until you change your thinking, start thinking out of the box and take some risk. This applies to business as well as to your personal life.

You’ve got to be able to step out of your “comfort zone”.

Some Of The Pillars Of Success:

• Plan your work, and work your plan!
• Strive for excellence. Set your own goals – don’t try to reach the goals of others
• Make a commitment and stick to it!
• Accept that disappointments are a fact of life. Instead of allowing them to hold you back, overcome them and you will become stronger.
• Turn every experience, whether good or bad, into a learning experience.
• Live each day as if it were your last; have no regrets.

Some Final Words…..

There are more talkers than doers in our society. Which one are you? Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen? If you think that things will happen for you if you just think about it and fail to take action, I have bad news for you. They won’t. The only thing worse than procrastinating for a day is procrastinating for a day and a minute.

It’s time to stop thinking about making a change to ensure your future success and time to do something about it. Starting a home based business if the first step that you need to be willing to take – for your financial independence, your financial security and that of your family.

If you don’t look out for you, who will? I have the answer – no one. If you are ready to take control of your destiny then now is the time to start. I can show you the way – but it is up to you to make the decision to change your life for the better and take that first step. Remember, you’re not alone – we are with you! Take the time to fill out the form on the main page to get started on your new path to success today – because time isn’t going to wait for you to make up your mind.

So, you’ve decided to start a home-based business?

Good for you!

You’ve just joined the ranks of 79 million North Americans who are expected to start their own home based business in the next 3 to 5 years according to Forbes Magazine.

You may be juggling a full time job, a part time job and family life. You know that there are many things you need to do in order to successfully start your business and work from home.

Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking its going to be easy. It can be simple but it won’t be easy. If it were easy everyone would be rich working from home.

How are you going to fit your business project into your daily commitments?

It’s easy to become overwhelmed and lose focus. Losing focus will cause you to take no action. Action is essential to moving on from where you are now, to where you want to go.

Here are 5 critical tips for staying focused and razor sharp when starting your home business enterprise…

1. Break It Down:
If you have a large task to tackle, it is always easier when you break it down into smaller components. You’ll find it easier to focus because you won’t feel as overwhelmed. For example, ‘Register a business name’ can be broken down into: ‘Think of five business name ideas’, ‘Find out how to register a business name’, ‘Get registration form’ and so on.

2. Keep A ‘To Do’ List:
Once you’ve broken down major tasks into smaller ones, make and keep a ‘to do’ list. Always keep a note pad and pen with you so that you can jot down any new ideas as they arise.

3. Schedule Your Time:
Every evening, decide on three to five tasks on your ‘to do’ list that you wish to accomplish the following day. Stay focused on these tasks and only move on to the next tasks on your list once these have been completed.

4. Set Goals:
This is critical. There is nothing that will keep you more focused than setting goals and writing out your goals. Visualize exactly where you want to be in a month, six months and a year.

In a month’s time, do you want to have registered a business name and have a fully functional home office set up? In three months time, how many clients or team members do you want? How much revenue do you want to generate in a six month’s time?

5. Say No:
Be assertive and carve out more time for your home business. Saying ‘no’ to that extra demand by your boss every once in a while can get you home one hour earlier a couple of days a week.

How about cutting back on the amount of housework that you do? How about watching less TV? Thats a BIG time zapper. Imagine how you could channel that extra time into your home business enterprise…

If you put these 5 tips into practice, you’ll definitely find it easier to focus and stay razor sharp so you can achieve your ultimate goal of working from home and putting more LifeStyle back in your life.

P.S. Pay particular attention to Tip # 3 above. As a Home Business Owner and Entrepreneur, once you gain control of your time you will eventually have all the time you will ever need…

We hear it all the time: “You must be willing to fail in order to win.” Sadly, most are not. They fear what others may think…which brings me to an incredibly important message…

I came across some very powerful information last week that I’m happy to share with you this week. Short and sweet but very, very powerful.

Let’s dive in…

Most people are blinded by their goals. By their own internal measures, they judge themselves a success or failure. But failure cannot happen to you — you do it to yourself. When you miss the mark, you can choose to call what you got feedback. You fail only when you give up believing in yourself. There is no other failure in the world.

A breakthrough strategy was developed at the Palo Alto Brief Therapy Clinic by Dr. Paul Watzlawick for life-long learning that makes subsequent goal achievement surprisingly simple.

Pay close attention…

Although your actions may not always accomplish your goals, they always produce an outcome. If you know how to accept what your actions produce, you can use every outcome you produce to guide you toward your goal. “Whatever course of action you take,” says Dr. Watzlawick, “I am going to ask that you report any small concrete indicator of success, any movement in the direction of your goal.”

When you observe the effects of your actions, you open yourself to pereceiving progress toward and away from your goals. Therefore, the only feedback is — “I have not arrived yet.”

The point of this strategy is to recognize movement. We experience success in the direction of our goals without having to achieve the goal just yet. When we take the pressure off ourselves, we maintain our balance, enjoy the journey, and keep learning all the time.

Here is the ultimate lesson…

If you value and integrate the feedback from your actions, ALL outcomes you produce can lead to learning — NOT frustration like it does for those who do not know what you now do…

This may be one of the most important lessons I’ve seen in some time. I train literally hundred of Entrepreneurs and Home Business Owners week in and week out in the Direct Sales and Marketing industry and many of them are frustrated…

…frustrated for exactly the reasons mentioned here — they often view their actions as failures instead of feedback along the way to their destination.

Read this again and again. Print it out. Don’t take it lightly.

Job Security is a thing of the past. What can you do to protect yourself from this?

If you’re like most people, then you want job security. That steady paycheck and ability to count on income in the future helps you sleep at night knowing that the bills are going to be paid. But long term reliable employment is getting harder to come by. Job security, once taken for granted as a part of American life, is declining, and in recent years job markets have continued to shift under people’s feet.

Your seniority at a job won’t protect you from job cuts.

Seniority can actually hurt you because older workers tend to be paid more and companies have many creative ways of removing older workers from their ranks. The “golden handshake” is the nicest way of losing a job, but sometimes a company will just close an office or plant that has an older workforce and that’s the end of it.

You may not enjoy thinking about these uncertainties, but deep down you know that you need a plan for maintaining your income in the future instead just relying on companies to employ you. Expecting to find a well-paying job that will be there for you until retirement is just not a realistic idea anymore.

Manufacturing jobs that used to be the pillar of well-paid secure employment are disappearing. The headlines always tell the same story. For example, Ford Motor Company, whose founder Henry Ford made sure his workers earned enough to actually buy one of his cars, has started massive job cuts.

In the coming years, Ford will shut down 14 factories in North America and it has already started laying off workers. It plans to shed 25,000 to 30,000 jobs before it’s done. These shocking job cuts include white collar workers as well.

Overall, in the years from 2000 to 2003, the United States lost almost 3 million manufacturing jobs according to the Economic Policy Institute. There is no sign that this trend is going to change.

You can also be leery of getting one of those “good union jobs.”

Tied in with the crumbling of manufacturing is the decline of union membership. Compared to 1945 when nearly one third of Americans were union members, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only 12.5% of wage and salary workers were in unions in 2005. Unions that used to command high wages and protect jobs are fast becoming a thing of the past.

Then there is “offshore outsourcing” in which your job can be transferred to someone in India or Mexico who will make 15% of what you earn. Outsourcing doesn’t just happen to factory workers whose plant is moved overseas. It happens to software developers and it happens to administrative support jobs and to medical service jobs.

Why does this happen? The greatest factor motivating employers to scale back on secure employment is cost. Companies want to make money, and well-paid full time employees in America aren’t cheap. That is why companies look for ways to switch to lower cost employees in other countries or use non-union, lower paid, or part time workers here. And, because major employers tend to be very large multi-national companies, it is easy for them to play musical chairs with jobs among different countries.

This logically leaves you asking: “What can I do to be financially secure?”

As the above statistics show, looking to the job market is not going to get you what it used to in the past. You’ll need to take charge of your future and start making your own secure income. When you are the boss, there is no one to lay you off or cut your hours. Fortunately, there is an exciting home business opportunity that offers you a way to create your own safety net.

Security and financial success can finally be in your hands – not someone else’s.

Yes, it is tempting to keep putting all of your eggs into one basket and believing that your good job will last – or believing that you will find a good job for years to come. You hear about job growth and new jobs, but they are not the same jobs that are being lost. The new jobs are lumped into the category “service industry” – that means working in sectors like retail or customer service. These service industry jobs are notoriously unreliable in the amount of hours given and they pay less than the old manufacturing jobs.

White collar workers are feeling the pinch too. The stereotypical laid-off steel worker has a lot of company these days. In 2002, the technology sector dumped 150,000 jobs in the software sector. And computer chip maker Intel just announced in September 2006 that it will be cutting over 10,000 jobs in the next few months.

These technology jobs have been touted by politicians as the future for the American worker, but it is not a secure future. Those secure jobs from a bygone era when you could count on a company being around and taking care of you just are not reality anymore. This means that you have to start looking out for number one because no one else will. Your first step toward security is getting information about starting your own home based business.

America might be hard on workers, but it loves business!

Internet access and a telephone are all that you will need to build a successful business, and our team of trained professionals will educate you and help guide you down the path to success. It is amazing to think that you can so easily change an uncertain future, and begin to look forward to the lifestyle you always hoped for.

It is time to stop worrying how you are going to afford to live the rest of your life, and instead, take the first step towards securing your financial future. If you are ready to learn how you can begin to generate a substantial income right away that can continue to provide for you and your family, then you are at the right place. Fill out the form on the main page for additional information. You deserve the security and success.