A little more than a decade ago, before MLM changed my life, I was driving an ugly green Ford Probe with more than 100,000 miles and bald tires. I actually thought it was a cool car when I bought it, but that's another story.
I had been in Chicago doing a meeting with the owners of our MLM company (I was the MC) and I got this crazy idea to expand my business in Chicago. Sound familiar? You get caught up in all the excitement that you just want to dive in. You start making plans that you'll never actually do anything about.
In all the excitement of this meeting it sounded like a good idea, but you see I live in Dallas and I didn't have the money to fly to Chicago. The reality of my sad financial situation hit me like a ton of bricks.
Well so much for that idea. I don't have the money, perhaps the biggest excuse that MLM failures will ever use. When you don't have the money, you don't have the money right? Wrong!
Instead of thinking you can't afford it, start asking yourself how you we afford it. Then it hit me I'll just drive to Chicago in an ugly car with more than 100,000 miles and bald tires! But I don't have the money to stay even one night in a hotel! SO I guess I can't go right? Wrong.
I'll just drive by myself for 22 hours straight. Sounds crazy doesn't it? If i need to sleep I can just stop in a rest area. How bad do you want MLM success and what are you willing to do to get it? Then another obstacle popped up. Where am I going to stay when I get to Chicago?
I met a really nice lady in Chicago and she said that Chicago needed somebody like me (I was in the "fake it till you make it" mode at that time, I was really really broke, but at least I thought I knew what I was doing) and she offered to let me stay with her.
When I called this really nice woman to take her up on her offer she said "can't you find somebody else to stay with?" Not exactly what you would call a warm welcome now was it? Well I guess I can't afford to go to Chicago right? Wrong.
I didn't let that stop me, and so I was on my way to stay with a total stranger, a 60 year old woman on the south side of Chicago, that I had just met and had talked with for only 5 minutes!
Some people might call me bold, some might call me crazy and some might say that I'm stupid! Wait till you hear the whole story before you pass judgment. On that trip I recruited one guy and only one guy. Sounds like a waste of time and money that one guy has become massively successful, earning more than $100,000 a year for himself and in the process has made me somewhere around $750,000! Now who's laughing?
I'm sure that I'm not the only person in the history of MLM to drive nonstop for more than 21 hours in a broken down ugly car with 100,000 miles and bald tires and stay with a woman they had just met to work in a city where they didn't have a single appointment on the hopes that it would payoff!
Yeah I know that was one long sentence but hey when you want something bad enough you're willing to break a few rules to get it, right?
Most people won't drive 30 or 40 minutes to grow their MLM business because although they may say they want to become successful, how bad do they really want it? Are you one of those people? How far is to far to drive if it will change your life forever?
So how bad do you want it? If you truly desire life changing MLM success, then you will do whatever it takes. We've already made $750,000 because I wanted success so bad that I could taste it. The rest of the story? That one trip will probably pay us MILLIONS over the lifetime of our relationship with just one person.
That trip to Chicago more than a decade ago has altered the course of my life and the lives of the people that I am closest to. What if? What if the thought of driving 986 miles nonstop was too much and I never went to Chicago. How many lives would have been affected?
By the way this doesn't mean that you have to drive an ugly car with bald tires and more than 100,000 miles across the country to become successful in MLM, but it helps. Broke people typically stay broke because they have a broke persons mindset. What's your mindset right now?
When you want what you have never had you must be willing to do what you have never done! So be honest with yourself, how bad do you really want MLM success?
Surely, all of us want to someday enjoy a wealthy retirement. Although the thought of retirement may give you images of being able to chill out, relax, and sleep without calls and emails, it may not be as easy if you do not have the financial capacity to back you up. This is why really planning for your retirement is always an essential thing to consider.
These days, more and more people are finding themselves looking for ways wherein they can better prepare for retirement. Some companies easily make this available as a benefit to their employees. They can help automate the process of saving by collecting from the employees' salaries and then give it to them as retirement period kicks in.
Although there certainly are various available programs being offered in planning for retirement, you should not just blindly join or sign up with any of these programs without first studying very eagerly the details and process involved within any particular program.
However, simply saving money or joining a retirement plan program will not be enough to reach your goal of someday enjoying a wealthy retirement. The true secret in retiring wealthy is having more than enough money to sustain your day to day needs. Meaning, you have more than enough resources for yourself that you even have extra resources to share with others and possibly be of big help to their needs as well, most particularly in the financial aspect.
So then, what better options are there available in planning for a wealthy retirement aside from saving and joining retirement programs?
The best solution so far in planning to retire wealthy is to be able to establish your own business. Having a stable business gives you so much potential in increasing your financial resources not only during that time while waiting for your retirement age to arrive, but also during your retirement period itself. Remember if you are allotting just a fraction of your time with your business now then just imagine how much profit will you be making when you allot your full time in managing your business come your retirement period.
Another great solution in achieving a truly wealthy retirement is by placing your money on highly valuable investments. One good advice is investing on real estate properties. Real estates are considered to be extremely good investments for the reason that real estates' value appreciates continuously overtime. And there are various other options on how to wisely create and manage investments. You just have to do a careful study before coming up with a final decision.
The challenge of achieving a truly wealthy retirement
There is only one thing you need to consider when planning to someday enjoy a wealthy retirement - and that is the fact that it is no ordinary goal to successfully accomplish. However, if you have that strong desire and faith coupled with strong persistence in putting your plans into action then really, you have everything that you need already into making this goal an actual reality.
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