Leverage is a concept where effort is amplified. Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician, once said, “Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand and I can move the Earth.” Moving the Earth may not be high on your agenda but what about moving your world?

Learning about the right kind of leverage can move your world from barely getting by or worse to one of enjoyment and abundance.

Leverage is used every day. There are only 24 hours in a day. So, if you start a business and you are the only one working it, at most you could get 24 hours of work done each day. If you employed someone, you could get the benefit of their effort as well. If you had an online auction business, you could manage the auctions while they did the packing and shipping.

There is a limit to that kind of leverage since each new employee brings costs. Their contribution must be greater than their costs or it doesn’t make business sense to employ them.

Also, there’s the age old struggle of employees want to do only enough to keep from getting fired and employers want to pay only enough to keep people from quitting.

What if there was a way that each new member of your organization could reap the same types of financial benefits that you do without reducing your profits? Motivational problems aren’t there because they have an interest in the business. After awhile they would build your business with little to no effort from you.

Is this just a fantasy?

This is the world of network marketing. It’s not perfect, it’s just better.

As you work with your company to sell products, you find other like minded people who want to build their own prosperity. Depending on your company, you will get a percentage of the business their business generates. If they find other people who build a business, you will probably get a percentage of their business as well. As your business organization grows, there will be a point where you are receiving more money from other people’s efforts than your own. There is another point, a critical mass, where your organization and income grow exponentially without your effort. This money is called residual income.

This can result in lifestyle freedom where you have the money and the time to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want.

If you would like to know more, you can go to FreeRKCDForYou.com to get a free CD from Robert Kiyosaki called, “The Business of the 21^st Century.”

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I listened to a teleseminar recently about the beliefs of a very successful network marketer. His first belief really resonated with me, “network marketing isn’t perfect, it’s just better if you do it right.” What does he mean by that?

Traditional career roles fall into 5 major categories – blue collar worker, white collar worker, sales, traditional business ownership and investing. I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with any of these. Many good people have spent their entire life in these categories. What I’m saying is that if you want a better life, you might want to look outside of them.

One common trait of these categories is the lack of lifestyle. People that work in these categories earn just enough to keep them from going elsewhere or their constant attention is required. Staycations have become the norm today with Someday Isle being one of the most popular destinations.

Working for someone else is building their dreams, not necessarily yours. Robert Kiyosaki has a quote, “Why would you work so hard at something you will never own?”

Being your own boss is the dream of many people, but in reality, traditional business ownership results in the business owning you. If you go on vacation, so does your income.

Investing can give you what you want but has a high barrier of entry, namely, you have to have the money to make more money.

Why is network marketing better? You can get the benefits of business ownership without the problems. You can build it part time, for very little money, while you have other income. It offers the ability to create lifestyle, having the money and the time to do what you want. It utilizes leveraged residual income to give you the ability to take vacations and have your income increase.

Granted, building any business takes hard work. The advantages are that you own it, you can will it to your kids and it can provide you with income so you can “retire” at any age.

To find out more about what Robert Kiyosaki thinks about about how network marketing can benefit you, go to FreeRKCDForYou.com to get his cd, “The business of the 21^st Century.”

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I watched a video in which Seth Godin, a marketing expert, introduced me to two terms. The first one was, ‘The Forever Recession’ and the second was, ‘The Race To The Bottom.’

He calls the Forever Recession is the result of the end the Industrial Age. The jobs and those skills are going away and not coming back. It’s like horse carriage makers at the beginning of the 20^th Century.  As cars replaced horses, the market for the carriage makers disappeared.

During the last 80 years, people could do as they were told, get paid average to above average wages and retire. That is no longer the case. Layoffs, mergers and shutdowns mean that people can lose their jobs through no fault of their own and it will be very difficult to find the same type of job elsewhere.

The other concept, the Race to the Bottom, has its hand in this as well. It the concept that companies are forced to find ways to cut costs just to stay in business. Their competitors are now global and they have to compete or shutdown. In the process of improving efficiencies, often jobs are shed in the process of automation.

What does this mean to you? The first thing is you either have to be different or the cheapest in order get the work. You can survive and thrive but not by being the cheapest worker out there. Be different.

One of the ways to be different is to create your own business. Having a home based network marketing business is one of the cheapest, most effective ways to do so. With the company’s starter kit, you get a business in a box while they have all the risk in product creation, order fulfillment, systems, training, etc. All that you supply are the customers.

I’m not saying it’s the easiest thing in the world, but, there is no upside limits and it’s under your control. You work with partners that have a vested interest in your being successful so they teach you and support you.

Here’s Seth’s video.

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Are you looking for an economic recovery for yourself? Many people have been subject to a layoff or even a pay reduction in the last couple of years. Even getting a new job often results in a significant pay cut from what you were earning before. This is a familiar pattern in times like these.

A quote attributed to Albert Einstein is “The solution to a problem cannot come from the same level of thinking that created it.” In other words, in order to get a different result, you have to think and do things differently.

Many people have never thought of themselves as anything other than being an employee. People tend to stick to the familiar so when they get laid off at one place, they immediately start looking for another employee position. There are two things that need to be thought about: one is literally millions of other people are competing with you and being an employee gives away your control over your life.

One alternative is to become your own boss with a home based business. Many people often dream of this but lack the courage to actually begin to make this a reality. It has been my experience that you can judge the amount of desire to accomplish a goal by what stops the person from accomplishing that goal. Many let what other people may say about them to stop them in their tracks.

Many opportunities are built on people helping people. In network marketing, we offer training, support and camaraderie. You can earn while you learn. Your paycheck is under your control. The people that sponsor you become successful by helping enough people become successful so they will invest the time, training and advice that you need. You supply the desire and the ability to apply your training.

If you would like to know more, visit DiscoverYourOwnFreedom.com and sign up for the free, no obligation training course. You may just discover your economic recovery plan.

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Recently, I was chaperoning my son’s middle school jazz band during a lunchtime concert that was off campus. They needed some help getting music stands and some of the larger instruments transported to the concert site. I volunteered to help. As I was driving back, I realized that I was building my dreams of spending more time with my sons growing up. In all of my volunteering, I see very few dads that volunteer during the day. They are busy elsewhere I’m sure.

One of my marketing slogans has been, “Do you see more of your boss than your kids?” In my past, that had been a problem. My youngest still remembers “when you would come home after we started eating dinner.” I also had a period of time when a puppy we had for 6 weeks would still treat me like a stranger when I got home. Those were signs my family life was out of balance.

I have taken control of my life because I have built my home based network marketing business. Now, I can do things others can’t.

The bottom line is is you are working for someone else, you are building their dream. It’s your life, build your own.

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