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For most of us – a job means spending our
precious days, slaving away for someone else….

How would you like to lose the shackles, and learn how to become your own boss?

You can gain freedom from your job by creating income avenues that will cover what you are making today and more.

Most of the time our jobs make us miserable. But most of us have grown up on an outdated path for our lives which goes something like this: grow up, graduate high school, go to college, get a job, have a family, put your kids through school, and retire.

It is not necessarily a bad path, but is it the right one for you?
Have you ever thought about your alternatives?

When your employed by someone else, you only get paid for the amount of time that you work. X amount of work = Y amount of dollars. Unlike a residual income, where you get paid over and over for what you do.

Now if you think X is a fair trade for Y, then by all means – keep your job, but if not keep reading

A job only serves to make other people wealthy.
If you were free from your job, your efforts would go to lining your own pockets.

But we keep hearing the comment “Job Security” over and over again.

If the events of the past few years – where the housing market tanked and major corporations are going under leaving 1000s jobless isn’t enough to convince you that job security is a thing of the past, then really there is no convincing you.

The alternative to getting a job is to not get one. Instead become an entrepreneur. Learn how to create streams of income that can support you and your family in the lifestyle you deserve.

Learn how to become pink slip proof!

This is easier than you think, because we were all born with the natural ability to be entrepreneurs. You simply need to find something you enjoy doing, become an expert in that niche and then help others do the same.

The idea that we can love our work, and that we should choose experiences that make us feel good in life, was a pretty unconventional idea 20 years ago. These days, however, it’s an ideal that most of us believe in and want to live by.

Being your own boss does not limit you to only one income stream either, you can create as many as you want to. This is what ultimately creates true freedom for you – from having to have a job.

I want to encourage you to set yourself free,
find something that you love doing,
and follow your passion!


~ Sharlene Stevens ~

A wealthy man was about to die, so he called his twin sons to his bedside. The boys began to cry as they heard their father speak about his approaching death, but with a wave of his hand the father silenced them.

“I am leaving you both with a gift,” he told his boys. “I want you to enjoy the same happiness I had during my long life. Which gift you choose is up to you.”

The man reached into a beautiful box on his bedside table and held out two gifts. One gift was a thousand $1,000-dollar bills…a million dollars in cash. The other gift was a single, shiny copper penny.

“You both have the same choice–either one million or one penny. If you choose the million, it will be deposited in my bank in town and you can use it however you want. If you choose the penny, I will double the pennies you have every day for the next thirty-one days. Now, go rest and think. Comeback tomorrow morning and tell me your choices.”

He kissed them both and sent them on their way. Late that night the first boy lay in bed thinking, “Why is our father giving us this choice? Which should I take?” He was unable to sleep. But the more he thought about his father’s choices, the more he was sure about taking the penny.

The second son didn’t lose any sleep. He had made his decision the moment his father had held out that sheaf of thousand-dollar bills. he was going to take the million dollars and he was already making big plans about what he was going to do with the money.

The next day the two boys went to see their father. The first son took the penny, and the second son took the million dollars.

A few days later, the boy decided to visit his brother, to see what he was doing with his penny.

“As father promised,” the first son said, “my pennies have been doubling every day. On the second day, I had two pennies. On the third day, I had four pennies. On the fourth day, there were eight.” The second son wasn’t impressed. After all, he already had a million dollars and was sure to make a lot more.

Over the next weeks, the second son visited his brother every day and listened to him describe how his pennies were piling up. On day 5, he had sixteen pennies; on Day 6, thirty-two; by week’s end the boy had 64 cents. And by the end of the second week, he had $81.92.

A few days into the third week, the first son’s pennies had grown to $655.35. But the second son was still not impressed.

On day 28, the first boy’s pennies had passed the million-dollar mark. On day 29, he passed the two-and-a-half-million mark. On day 30, his pennies totaled five million. And on day 31, he had $10,737,418.24.

The boy who chose the penny had discovered the extraordinary power of compound interest–how money, even a very small amount of money–can grow over time.

The first son also understood that their father was giving them more than money.

The true gift was wisdom in knowing how to respect and use money.

The choice the wealthy man offered his two sons is the same choice the world offers you every day:

Let’s compare the story to the choice we have of working for ourselves or working for someone else.

When you work for an employer, you pretty much have a set amount of money that you can earn over the course of your life. And if you do get a raise, it’s eaten up by taxes and inflation.

Now compare that to the Network Marketing opportunity: It’s definitely more like the penny. You share it with one person and you now have two. You both share it with one person, you now have four, and so on and so on.

And like the story of the penny, It might not seem like your pennies are growing very fast in the beginning, but as time passes the amount that doubles becomes larger, and Larger, and LARGER.

Now….your in control of your income, not someone else:-)

Small actions compound over time into big results.

The actions you take today, whether it’s about money, friendships, or your health, can have a huge impact on your life over time.

So think carefully……Are you making the right choice?

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There are plenty of people who put a lot of time, energy, and hard work into growing their business….until things get tough. They become discouraged and discontent when their results don’t immediately match their misguided expectations. They just give up! They quit before they’ve allowed enough time for the seeds they planted to be able to grow and flourish.

Most of us prevent ourselves from succeeding by simply quitting to soon or by giving up. Many times things look the most bleak just before they begin to turn around. We give up on our dreams only to find that if we would have waited a few more weeks, or a few more months, or even a year, our time and effort would begin to pay off. Read the rest of this entry »

If you lost your job tomorrow and you couldn’t find work for two months, six months, or even a year, would you have enough money to survive?


Remember when you used to work hard for an employer, saved as much money as possible, and retired with security. Today young and old alike are realizing that their dream of having a job with a company forever is an illusion.


You can start a home based business with little or no capital investment, no business experience, and it can be done on a part-time basis while still holding on to your regular job. Direct selling companies have grown more than 91 percent in the last 10 years.
Instead of paying millions of dollars for TV, radio and print advertising, direct selling companies take that money and compensate their sales force.
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