The 3 Big Lies You're Being Told About Making Enough Money to Live Your Dream ...
Part 2 - How the Happiest People I Know Earn Enough to Live Their Dreams
by Mark Joyner As you discovered in Part I, we basically all have the same dream: get enough money so we can have enough freedom to live our lives the way we want. And we've all been fed the same line of BS about how to do it. To recap - here is the hard truth: 1. "Being your own boss" is not what it's cracked up to be. Remember, you are the toughest boss you'll ever have. 2. "Selling your own product" is not the only way to make real money. In fact if you sell a product of your own, you may in fact gross more money in overall sales, but your overhead will be much higher (overhead = hard costs + stress). Remember, it's not about "grossing" a large dollar figure - it's about earning enough to get the freedom you need to live your dream. So easily we forget that ... 3. Having employees does not make your life easier. I love and respect every employee I now have or have ever had, but as my team grew larger so did my stress. Ask anyone else with employees ... If they tell you that having employees has made their life easier, ask them if the number of hours they've had to work has changed. If they are honest, they will most likely tell you that they are working more hours after hiring people. "So, what are you telling me, Mark? To get a job?" Well, yes and no ... (more on that in a minute) I'm about to show you a path - a path that will allow you to achieve that dream as long as you're willing to accept that it will take a healthy dose of honesty, common sense, and hard work. To understand the path, you have to understand the goal. The goal is to achieve freedom and happiness, right? To achieve that for yourself, why not model people who are truly free and happy? Our Model: The Happiest People I Have Ever Met The truth is, after being in business for nearly a decade, I've found the happiest people I've worked with were people successfully promoting products for other companies (via network marketing or affiliate programs). Who am I talking about? I'm talking about successful: a. Network Marketers b. Investors These are the "free agents". These are the guys who have mastered the art of promoting and selling products for network marketing companies (or leveraging invested money) to the point that they have quit their day jobs. They create their own schedules. They don't have business overhead. They work as much as they like. (But an interesting note is: most work a lot because they know the more they work, the more they will make. However, none seem to mind it at all. They enjoy it. Funny how working without stress on your own terms doesn't seem like work anymore. They know they can quit at any time once they've made enough ...) |
The problem is, it takes time to reach this "free-agent" status. There are a number of things you have to do first (hint: the path starts ): 1. Start from a position of stability (financial, physical, and mental). If you quit your job today and think you're going to become a free-agent overnight you're wrong. You need to be able to operate from a position of stability so that you can build yourself to free agent status without any sense of desperation. If you're desperate, people will know and they won't want to do business with you. You need to keep your physical, mental, and financial health. If you have a job now, keep it. if you're in a desperate situation right now, accept it and know that it will take time to get out of it. Get yourself stabilized first before moving on. Take care of your body and learn how to deal with stress. Either way, move on to step 2, no matter what ... 2. Stop the bleeding. Get your spending habits under control. If you can't afford your current lifestyle, downgrade a bit. Swallow your pride. Getting deeper in debt because you think your friends won't respect you unless you own a Lexus is not the path to financial freedom. 3. Wait ... I'm not going to show you Step 3 yet. Don't worry, I'm not going to hit you up with some sales pitch. When I first wrote this article in April of 2003 it got the single most response to any article I had ever written (even more than my famous post 9-11 newsletter). The response was so overwhelming that I was inspired to create a 100% free website dedicated to this concept called "The Free Agent Path." The Free Agent Path is now a fully developed "Step-by-Step Path That Leads to True Financial Freedom." It's grown beyond being a simple website to becoming a full-fledged movement. In the first week of it's launch it's already one of the Top 500 most visited sites in the world. Start your own step-by-step path to true financial freedom today (it's 100% free) and find out why this movement is sweeping the globe at an astonishing rate. It free, easy, fun, and you'll make a heap of friends in the process! All the best, Mark Mark Joyner
#1 Best-Selling Author, "MindControlMarketing.com" |