“Helping You Write Your Own Paycheck
Using the Power of the Internet…”
Serious Entrepreneurs
Meet Internet Marketing Gurus Jay and Aaron.- Thousands of Entrepreneurs
- 162 Countries
- 41 Languages
- One Community
- One Mission
Everyday people just like you are learning to leverage the power of Internet, writing THEIR OWN PAYCHECKS along the way.
The concept is simple. You are either working for yourself, or for someone else. We have created and empowered thousands of entrepreneurs around the world.
How can we help YOU find, and fulfill your passion?
Click on the button to your right to learn more! >>>>>>>>>>
MISSION:
Create 100 Millionaires by 2012
Possible? We think so. In fact, we KNOW so. Everyday we get a step closer. Click here to see how YOU can be part of our mission to create 100 millionaires by 2012.
It was obvious to us that change was needed, and people were starved to see it begin. We answered this call two years ago.
We began with the usual naysayers and laughter.
Now we are 160 countries strong. A global community of entrepreneurs rewriting their own lives. The inspiration is a shared presence in our community. We work as smart as we do hard. Ordinary people creating a legacy, fulfilling dreams, and reaching goals.
We leverage each other’s success, experience, creativity, and passion. We move closer to our goal with each passing day.
The freedom you want is waiting for you. There is an entrepreneur in all of us. Unlock yours.
Come join us. Let’s do this together!
“The Answer To My Prayers…”: Hope For Your Inner Entrepreneur
My favorite greeting card of all time—received from a friend back in the late 70’s!—said this:
‘You are the ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS!’…(then inside) ‘You aren’t exactly what I prayed for, but apparently you are the answer!‘
Well…LOL!…that one still makes me smile, all these years later. Even more importantly, that message has played back in my mind countless times over the years, when I have found myself “praying for an answer” or solution to a problem, only to find myself looking squarely down the barrel of something entirely different than what I had imagined MIGHT be the answer. This has turned out to be the case more times than I can count.
For instance, not so many months ago, when I —a midlife woman of 50+years—was urgently looking for an answer to how to change my life and leave the “security” of my long-established career in the nonprofit sector (without committing financial suicide), so that I could finally start living a life with more freedom, creativity, and flexibility to set my own priorities, I had NOT imagined the solution that did indeed turn out to be the “answer to my prayers.”
Not only had I not imagined it, I was pretty skeptical (and more than a little snooty in my first reaction to what I was looking at). After all, I was twice the age and had several times the life and work experience (I told myself) of the young “upstarts” whose entrepreneurial success I was reading about.
“Upstarts?” I finally had to admit that young-enough-to-be-my-kids-or-not, these guys had created something (and made millions doing it!) that I had not even come CLOSE to creating in my life…and they were offering to show me exactly how to do it too. REALLY??…Geeeeeshhh. I at least needed to get over myself and pay attention…right? Right.
So I did pay attention. I got off my high horse and listened closely. They earned my respect. What they had to say—and to offer—was getting me excited now. “Is this real?”; “Can this be real for me?”; “Could I apply their system and everything they had to teach me to my own life and career goals, values, and priorities, and build the kind of life I want to live? Even in my mid-50’s?”
Well…the happy, mind-blowing, pinch-me, life-changing short answer is YES! This worked for me and it can work for you. So I urge you to TAKE A LOOK. And remember this: even if—at first glance—this doesn’t seem to be “exactly what you have been praying for”, it JUST MIGHT BE the answer.”
What have you got to lose?
If you have always wanted to own your own successful…
…home-based business, have a personal mentor and coach with a legitimate company, all while being part of an exciting team, this may be for you!
See how you can LEVERAGE my success.
This is NOT a “FREE Work At Home JOB!”
This is NOT MLM (Avon, Herbalife, Xango, etc)
This is NOT Stuffing Envelopes, medical billing, gifting, surveys, “Get Rich Quick,” or a “Money-Game-Tree”!
This is a REAL Business Legitimate Home-based Business for Serious Business-Minded Entrepreneurs.
Serious Inquiries Only PLEASE.
From Employee to Entrepreneur At Midlife: Tickling My Career-Change Funny Bone
I was sitting up in bed this morning, coffee mug to my right, NPR quietly murmuring to my left, and a borrowed copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s Before You Quit Your Job… (Warner Business Books, 2005.) open in front of me. There was a line that so delighted me that I just cracked up—hooted actually—out loud. (…startling both Tucker and Zoee [cats] who have a ritualistic attachment to our morning QUIETude. They left the room with looks that said, “Get a grip and maybe we’ll be back.”)
In this book, Kiyosaki describes the essential and defining differences between entrepreneurs and employees. A key difference lies in the entrepreneur’s intrepid (my word) quest for FREEDOM vs. the employee’s just-as-determined quest for SECURITY.
I have had my own experiences (as I can imagine you have as well) in each of those quests (for security and for freedom). Sometimes they have seemed clearly separated and distinct; more often I have experienced them as jumbled up and confusing. Each time, I have ultimately—eventually—come to grips with my own truth, which comes down on the side of choosing freedom; ergo, an entrepreneurial life. For me, that is where my authenticity lies. I can, however, deeply and poignantly relate to the perspective of the person attached to Employee (security) mode. More people, in fact, choose this.
Kiyosaki talks about the employee mindset as being one of buying into a management structure where those “above” say “JUMP” and those “below”…well…JUMP. (Let’s be clear that even “those above”—managers, Directors, CEO’s, etc.—are still employees and they too are expected to JUMP on command.)
So here’s the line that cracked me up: “If you say, ‘Jump’ to an entrepreneur, he or she usually responds with some rude comment or gesture.”
Okay…so it might not be hysterically funny; it grabbed me for its raw brilliance and the “That’s it!”-moment it gave me. I had new imagery for defining a key difference between those who are true employees and those who are true entrepreneurs. It suggested a kind of “princess-and-the-pea” litmus test for authenticity. (Too many metaphors?) This is what I mean:
I happen to know—as you do too—that plenty of employees keep their skills up in the “rude comment or gesture” category. And plenty of entrepreneurs would not dream of (or bother with) actually making an anti-social public display. So it isn’t actually the matter of the gesture-comment; it’s the mindset; the worldview; the guiding frame of reference behind the mindset—that either accepts or rejects the “power over” relationship as reason for “jumping.” Employees accept it (even if they don’t like it); entrepreneurs simply reject it (for themselves). They don’t need it because they aren’t looking for security at any cost. They’re after freedom!
Entrepreneurs see action and opportunity differently—more cooperatively, more collaboratively, more creatively. Because their quest is for FREEDOM, not security, they have no need to strive for the artifacts of security—job retention, salary, promotion, tenure, etc— at any cost.
To be sure, entrepreneurship—valuing freedom above security—is not for everyone. How about you?
What have been your experiences around the goals of freedom vs. security? If you have a comment or story, please share it!
Home Business Entrepreneurship
Two Normal Guys.
One Simple Mission:
“Helping You Write Your Own Paycheck
Using the Power of the Internet…”
Serious Entrepreneurs
- 162 Countries
- 41 Languages
- One Community
- One Mission
Everyday people just like you are learning to leverage the power of Internet, writing THEIR OWN PAYCHECKS along the way.
The concept is simple. You are either working for yourself, or for someone else. We have created and empowered thousands of entrepreneurs around the world.
How can we help YOU find, and fulfill your passion?
Click on the button to your right to learn more! >>>>>>>>>>
MISSION:
Create 100 Millionaires by 2012
Possible? We think so. In fact, we KNOW so. Everyday we get a step closer. Click here to see how YOU can be part of our mission to create 100 millionaires by 2012.
We began with the usual naysayers and laughter.
Now we are 160 countries strong. A global community of entrepreneurs rewriting their own lives. The inspiration is a shared presence in our community. We work as smart as we do hard. Ordinary people creating a legacy, fulfilling dreams, and reaching goals.
We leverage each other’s success, experience, creativity, and passion. We move closer to our goal with each passing day.
The freedom you want is waiting for you. There is an entrepreneur in all of us. Unlock yours.
Come join us. Let’s do this together!
“The Answer To My Prayers…”: Hope For Your Inner Entrepreneur
My favorite greeting card of all time—received from a friend back in the late 70’s!—said this:
‘You are the ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS!’…(then inside) ‘You aren’t exactly what I prayed for, but apparently you are the answer!‘
Well…LOL!…that one still makes me smile, all these years later. Even more importantly, that message has played back in my mind countless times over the years, when I have found myself “praying for an answer” or solution to a problem, only to find myself looking squarely down the barrel of something entirely different than what I had imagined MIGHT be the answer. This has turned out to be the case more times than I can count.
For instance, not so many months ago, when I —a midlife woman of 50+years—was urgently looking for an answer to how to change my life and leave the “security” of my long-established career in the nonprofit sector (without committing financial suicide), so that I could finally start living a life with more freedom, creativity, and flexibility to set my own priorities, I had NOT imagined the solution that did indeed turn out to be the “answer to my prayers.”
Not only had I not imagined it, I was pretty skeptical (and more than a little snooty in my first reaction to what I was looking at). After all, I was twice the age and had several times the life and work experience (I told myself) of the young “upstarts” whose entrepreneurial success I was reading about.
“Upstarts?” I finally had to admit that young-enough-to-be-my-kids-or-not, these guys had created something (and made millions doing it!) that I had not even come CLOSE to creating in my life…and they were offering to show me exactly how to do it too. REALLY??…Geeeeeshhh. I at least needed to get over myself and pay attention…right? Right.
So I did pay attention. I got off my high horse and listened closely. They earned my respect. What they had to say—and to offer—was getting me excited now. “Is this real?”; “Can this be real for me?”; “Could I apply their system and everything they had to teach me to my own life and career goals, values, and priorities, and build the kind of life I want to live? Even in my mid-50’s?”
Well…the happy, mind-blowing, pinch-me, life-changing short answer is YES! This worked for me and it can work for you. So I urge you to TAKE A LOOK. And remember this: even if—at first glance—this doesn’t seem to be “exactly what you have been praying for”, it JUST MIGHT BE the answer.”
What have you got to lose?
If you have always wanted to own your own successful…
…home-based business, have a personal mentor and coach with a legitimate company, all while being part of an exciting team, this may be for you!
From Employee to Entrepreneur At Midlife: Tickling My Career-Change Funny Bone
I was sitting up in bed this morning, coffee mug to my right, NPR quietly murmuring to my left, and a borrowed copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s Before You Quit Your Job… (Warner Business Books, 2005.) open in front of me. There was a line that so delighted me that I just cracked up—hooted actually—out loud. (…startling both Tucker and Zoee [cats] who have a ritualistic attachment to our morning QUIETude. They left the room with looks that said, “Get a grip and maybe we’ll be back.”)
In this book, Kiyosaki describes the essential and defining differences between entrepreneurs and employees. A key difference lies in the entrepreneur’s intrepid (my word) quest for FREEDOM vs. the employee’s just-as-determined quest for SECURITY.
I have had my own experiences (as I can imagine you have as well) in each of those quests (for security and for freedom). Sometimes they have seemed clearly separated and distinct; more often I have experienced them as jumbled up and confusing. Each time, I have ultimately—eventually—come to grips with my own truth, which comes down on the side of choosing freedom; ergo, an entrepreneurial life. For me, that is where my authenticity lies. I can, however, deeply and poignantly relate to the perspective of the person attached to Employee (security) mode. More people, in fact, choose this.
Kiyosaki talks about the employee mindset as being one of buying into a management structure where those “above” say “JUMP” and those “below”…well…JUMP. (Let’s be clear that even “those above”—managers, Directors, CEO’s, etc.—are still employees and they too are expected to JUMP on command.)
So here’s the line that cracked me up: “If you say, ‘Jump’ to an entrepreneur, he or she usually responds with some rude comment or gesture.”
Okay…so it might not be hysterically funny; it grabbed me for its raw brilliance and the “That’s it!”-moment it gave me. I had new imagery for defining a key difference between those who are true employees and those who are true entrepreneurs. It suggested a kind of “princess-and-the-pea” litmus test for authenticity. (Too many metaphors?) This is what I mean:
I happen to know—as you do too—that plenty of employees keep their skills up in the “rude comment or gesture” category. And plenty of entrepreneurs would not dream of (or bother with) actually making an anti-social public display. So it isn’t actually the matter of the gesture-comment; it’s the mindset; the worldview; the guiding frame of reference behind the mindset—that either accepts or rejects the “power over” relationship as reason for “jumping.” Employees accept it (even if they don’t like it); entrepreneurs simply reject it (for themselves). They don’t need it because they aren’t looking for security at any cost. They’re after freedom!
Entrepreneurs see action and opportunity differently—more cooperatively, more collaboratively, more creatively. Because their quest is for FREEDOM, not security, they have no need to strive for the artifacts of security—job retention, salary, promotion, tenure, etc— at any cost.
To be sure, entrepreneurship—valuing freedom above security—is not for everyone. How about you?
What have been your experiences around the goals of freedom vs. security? If you have a comment or story, please share it!