Looking for a way to change your career & to get of the Rat Race?  You must be as you are taking time to read this article, I can bet you must have read a great many articles. Articles promising a great and profitable online business, a quick buck and something for free?  Well as we all know you never get something for nothing.

It takes hard work and smart work to make a success story. So, I am not offering you a quick fix or to show you how to become ridiculously rich overnight.  And… so if you want something for no effort on your behalf  please stop wasting your time here. What I am offering is the opportunity to retrain yourself so that you can have a legitimate & successful online business. You will need to get yourself up to date on the latest internet marketing tools, learn how to use the internet to its full potential, learn to use a system that leverages your time to its maximum worth and potential. A system that helps you to work smarter.

So, where to start?

Firstly when you choose a course you want to know you have a good mentor, someone who is already there right where you want to be.  Someone  worthy of your trust.  Right here at www.BrigitteMehr.com  you not only have a knowledgeable mentor but also have access to a whole community who are eager to share their secrets & help you succeed. Nothing breeds success like success.

Secondly you want a dynamic upto date marketing education platform that can hold you by the hand & guide you through all facets of online marketing. You will also want ongoing training that keeps you up to date with all the latest developments, before they become mainstream. Again access a community of on-line ‘do-ers’ with all the answers to your questions.

The internet is the place to be & quite honestly if you are not there taking advantage of what it has to offer you WILL miss the boat.  The internet  provides a perfect business platform to a world market & it allows you to work 24/7 even whilst you sleep or do other things because of the related technology – it allows leverage and this is what lets you work smarter not harder. When you learn how to do marketing ‘properly’what you decide to sell is almost irrelevant because you will be able to sell anything. Learn ‘how’ to sell first & learn to ‘brand’ yourself first. Take Virgin for example. They provide many different services under the same Virgin banner. We trust Virgin & Richard Branson. So the company is a success.

You have to become someone people can trust & follow with a strong market presence by adding value first. So, is it time you invested in yourself to become the best you possibly can to be able to offer help to others?  Start here by joining us on a Monday evening for our FREE Master Marketing Mondays webinar http://www.thelifewewant.com  then sign up for the FREE 7 day Social Media bootcamp at http://www.Brigittemehr.com and get yourself started with your new life.

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I was with one of my oldest friends just the other day – she called me because she wanted to talk as she had come to a very important realisation.  On the surface she has it all, great job with a good salary, the recognition and respect from her colleagues, manager and company, a good career progression and great prospects.  But, and this is the biggie – She realised that in having the great job/career with a good salary etc. that her employer just about owned her life.  She was a fully paid up member of the rat race and now she realised this she wanted out.

She no longer felt she had control over what happened in her life & because she was working such long hours she felt like she lived at work.  She no longer had the time or energy to enjoy her money, she did not get to spend quality time at home being just herself or even with her family.  She was expected to not only do her own job but then had to often cover for colleagues, or had to drive long distances to attend meetings (in her own time) or ended up spending the precious time she managed to get at home planning something else for ‘work’. 

In short the money she earned very quickly began to look like a pretty duff deal for all the hours she spent working jolly hard.  This realisation did not happen overnight it was more like a slow dawning then one day she saw the big picture.  When she did see it she felt submerged a bit like she was drowning and did not know how to swim to the surface because of the weight of the water on top of her and the weights were pulling down at her feet. This was the point she knew she had to change & she said to me ‘I am ready to change because this is my life & I want to begin to enjoy it and own it as mine!’.

I know that this is no isolated case as every single week I speak to people who are now ready to move their lives to a place where they ‘own’ it & ‘enjoy’ it – they want to quit the rat race.  By taking that first decision to change the hardest part has been done because the mindset has been changed at a very deep level and the energy to commit to change is now there. Once the realisation hits then there is no going back and you just cannot wait to move forwards to the change and all that it brings with it.

Brigitte Mehr is an internet Marketing success coach specialising in Marketing Training & Education

Quitting the rat race was never an option for my parents generation.  My father worked for the same company for over 40 years and this was not unusual.  In their day people stayed loyal to the same company and worked seemingly happily for many years.  The fact that someone else seemed to own their life was an accepted fact of life. They knew what was expected of them and they happily complied.  After the years of the war with all the scarcity and lack this created they were grateful for a good steady job, a salary and 20 days paid holiday per year.  They and so many others felt a genuine loyalty to the company that provided them with this bounty that their parents never had.  

I never remember hearing either my parents or their friends talking about  being ‘sick of the rat race’ or wanting to leave the rat race they just talked about years of service and genuinely looked forward to the pension at the end.

However, each generation moves on from the last and what was the norm for our parents now looks positively prehistoric to us.  Our generation has been limping on the tail end of this system for a number of years. 

We have broken free of the constraints that our parents gratefully accepted. Yet growing beneath this ‘freedom’ has still been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction, a feeling of a lack of fulfilment that slowly germinating and growing.  It is not necessarily a feeling that can be identified and ‘labelled’ but a slow and insidious movement gathering momentum. 

It begins as a feeling of knowing that there has to be more to our lives but at the same time a feeling of helplessness because we know changes need to be made but have no idea how or where and this creates  fear.  A fear because we earn money from  ‘jobs’ to pay  bills and support our loved ones and the very thought of not being able to honour these commitments is often enough to send us scurrying back to the office on Monday morning banishing all thoughts of change – for a while at least.  Then the feeling returns and each time the voice gets a little bit louder and a bit louder until one day it is shouting in your ear and you can no longer ignore it.  

The rat race is a controlling machine creating a population who are generally too fearful and too exhausted and too dependent on it to find the energy and courage to break free. However, let’s not forget that some people would not want to break free as they feel comfortable and safe in their lives and routine.

However, the recession we are currently experiencing has become a catalyst for thousands of people  to actually break those rat race bonds.  Admittedly the initial decision to break the bonds may not have been theirs.  However, this can be seen as the golden opportunity to assess their lives and look at what they truly do want to be doing with their lives.  They were probably sitting wishing they could leave the rat race when they were employed and now this has been forced upon them it feels scary and out of control which is understandable as by being a victim of the recession the decision was made for them.  Now they get the time to sit and really think, and ask themselves the question do they really want to go back into the dependence, routine, drudgery  of a 9 to 5 job again or is this the chance they had been praying for to sick of the rat race forever. 

Golden opportunities are not always initially presented as this in the first instance, sometimes we need to look at the situation we find ourselves in and find the opportunity sitting there waiting to be discovered.  This is the opportunity they deep down wanted where they could actually take the reins and take control for what may actually be the very first time?

Taking back that responsibility for you own life and fortunes is the first step to becoming an entrepreneur.  The rat race is no longer accepted to be the norm because the age of the entrepreneur and free enterprise is here. 

There are now more people than at any other time searching for a way to earn their own living.  Home based businesses are booming and with the age of the internet and the online global market place it has never been easier to take back control and create your own life.  Working 9 to 5 in an office is rapidly being replaced by flexible and part time hours working from home. 

There is no recession on the internet because that is the preserve of the big stupid companies that we allowed to control our lives for far too long.  The internet is alive, dynamic and constantly evolving in a way old fashioned dinosaur companies never could. 

The opportunity to create the life you maybe dreamed about whilst sitting in your rat race office is here and you only have to take action to claim it as yours.