Fall has finally arrived. As someone living in near Dallas, it was a very welcome change. This summer we broke our record of the number of triple digit temperature days in a year. We even had a last gasp of summer on the 29^th of September with 102.

With the change in seasons comes a change in thinking. Instead of trying to avoid the heat, people around here are looking forward to the State Fair, crisp mornings and Halloween with Thanksgiving around the corner.

This could be a season to change how you think about your life. Many people look towards others for the major requirements in their life. A job, either having one or looking for one, to pay for the things you want gives your power to other people. This is especially acute when you are looking for a job in these times. Like Blanche DuBois, you are dependent on the kindness of strangers.

This dependency shrinks your dreams. You shrink them to fit your income. You take a “staycation” instead of a memory making vacation with loved ones.  You drive a car that fit your budget, not your fancy. Your living accommodations are “cozy” instead of breath taking. All the while, you rationalize to yourself that it will get better “someday”.

I challenge you to change your thinking. Expanding your income to fit your dreams is not only possible but so much more rewarding. You can be your own boss. You can have a carpet commute. You take back your power and control. If you want a raise, you can give it to yourself.

Look at starting a profitable home based business. You can do so for relatively little. Even in down times, people can be successful in business. In fact, down times often force people to come up with ways to be successful because of the lack of alternatives.

Some of the things it has brought me are the two most important things to people at the end of their lives – memories and relationships. Many parents feel they are sending a stranger off to college because they don’t know who their child has become. I have been involved with my sons’ lives especially during their critical teen years. Before that, I was working much too long hours. My youngest still remembers when I would come home when they were finishing dinner.

I have chaperoned a choir trip to Walt Disney World. I have chaperoned band trips. I am often the only dad that’s chaperoning. I have been there dropping them off at school and more importantly, picking them up afterwards. I have confidence in my son’s driving because I had the time to teach him and log the required 20 hours before he got his license.

I have built relationships with my sons and provided foundations for having great relationships with them as they mature into adulthood because I had control of my time and my life. That’s often called time freedom and lifestyle freedom.

I am urging you with the change of seasons to change your thinking. Interrupt the “get a good job” mantra and take control of you life.

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This weekend is a a major holiday that most people receive Monday off to give them a 3 day weekend. They look forward to it and make major plans for the extra long weekend. What if every weekend was a 3 day weekend?

That’s an idea that probably doesn’t seem real to most people. In their mind the only way to do it would be to become a “part time” employee and take a cut in pay.

I’m here to say that there is a legitimate way to not only take every Monday off but increase your pay as well.

When you are the boss in your own network marketing business, you can achieve time freedom as well as money freedom. Simply put, you have the time and the money at the same time to enjoy what you want when you want.

It takes effort and persistence to obtain this level. A good friend tells a story that you have to go through the jungle with all its problems, setbacks and dangers to get to the Land of Paradise. In the end, the successful journeyer gets a call from someone who says, “I wish I had.” The journeyer replies, “I’m glad I did.”

If you want to get started on your journey, I have a little mini course at DiscoverYourOwnFreedom.com where you can find out more. I will help you on your journey.

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Self Improvement success is something that a lot of people are looking for. If you go to any major bookstore, you will see an entire section called self improvement. People are searching to make their lives better. I have a fairly sizable self improvement library myself.

It’s one thing to read about self improvement, it’s another to put that self improvement theory you read about into practice.

Network marketing is life compressed. What I mean by that is that it compresses events in your life into a a relatively short time. You can experience a lifetime of rejection, pain and growth in 1 to 2 years of putting yourself out there. It also gives you a lifetime of feedback as well. You know very quickly where you are good and where you need improvement.

Many have described network marketing as a self improvement course where you get paid to learn. Self improvement success results from the successful implementation of the coaching, techniques and theories you learn along the way.

What do you get as a reward for achieving self improvement success? How about time freedom, money freedom, a lifetime residual income stream lots of great relationships. When was the last time you got something like that for making your life better?

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When most people go to restuarants, they let the right side of the menu determine what they order. In other words, they order what they think they can afford based on the price. They scan the prices on the right side until they find some that are acceptable and then look on the left side to see the description. If they do happen to see an item that they like, they make the final determination with the price.

This is an example of shrinking your dreams to fit your budget.

Lifestyle freedom is about expanding your budget to fit your dreams. It really doesn’t matter what the economic climate is, you can always find ways to make more. Many old fortunes were lost in the Great Depression of the 1930′s, but also, many fortunes were made.

Lifestyle freedom includes both time freedom and money freedom. If you have one but not the other, you’re not really free.

By utilizing leveraged, residual income such as a home based network marketing business, you can build your freedom. Many people do it within 2 to 5 years. Some faster, some slower. If you would like to see if this is possibly for you, get a free CD by Robert Kiyosaki called “The Perfect Business” at FreeRKCDForYou.com.

Lifestyle freedom is living life on the left side of the menu.

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Most people are castaways on Someday Isle. They keep saying, “Someday, I’ll…” I know people who have been meaning to go to Walt Disney World for several years. They still haven’t stopped and said, “I am going to WDW on …” and made their reservations.

Most people keep putting things off that they know they should be doing but they keep putting it off. In this time of uncertain economic times, the time to get started in your own business is right now. If you are looking at an opportunity that is a member of the Direct Selling Association (DSA), you have 30 days to evaluate it and get a full refund. There is no risk.

Here are a few of my resources you can look at. You can get a free CD from Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Cashflow Quadrant, called “The Perfect Business” at www.FreeRKCDForYou.com.

You can also take a look at the opportunity that has been chosen as the #1 opportunity for over 10 years in a row by MLM Insider Magazine, an industry publication. Go to www.DiscoverYourOwnFreedom.com.

To be your own boss, achieve time freedom as well as money freedom, you need to take action. Escape from Someday Isle and take action today!

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