One of my favourite pastimes has always been 'people watching', and I cannot think of a better place to be doing this than from the Starbucks found in the foyer of a local hotel.

Hmmm, I can hear you thinking – what is really so fascinating about Starbucks on a Wednesday morning?

Well, you see the place right now is heaving with reps/business people who are wearing suits and busy on their lap tops or with their mobile glued to their ears. Their entire world at this moment being their 'job'.

As I glance around me right now I can see 'important' meetings, management appraisals, business phone calls, frantic emailing…

No one is sitting back enjoying the coffee or reading the paper or taking 5 to relax – except me, yet I am still 'working'.

I am struggling to find more than 1 smiling face – everyone else being earnestly serious (yet probably thinking what a crock this all really is)

Everyone is busy and engrossed dancing to the tune of someone else.  That someone else probably being their employer who is buying their invaluable time.

I took a decision 3 years ago to start dancing to my own tune because I was sick of being at the beck and call of someone else.  I no longer wanted someone else having a call on my time and my life.  I wanted to be my own boss and work from my home or Starbucks.

I wanted to do something that I really enjoyed and that gave me the opportunity to work when I wanted, where I wanted and with whom I wanted AND earning more money than I ever did before

So, I did something about it, I got up off my butt and took action because no one else was going to do this for me.  I made it happen.

So, here I am in Starbucks on a Wednesday morning just relaxing and watching the world go by thinking – I am so glad I am here by choice  

What do you choose?

How stressful is your school summer vacation?

When I had a 'job' I used to dread the school vacations because I knew that they would create childcare issues that were either difficult to arrange or just very expensive. 

If you have children you know how it is.  You either have to take turns to take your own vacation from work to look after them or you have to shell out huge sums of hard earned $$ to pay someone else to do this for you.

Yet, all the while you wish that it were easy to be at home to enjoy being with your family doing the fun things you really wanted to be doing.  After all this is what having children is all about.

All you really want to be doing is being the proud parent who gets to see their children learn to ride their new bike properly and to take them to the park for picnics – the little things that kids love to do but that as an adult we tend to forget about or take for granted.

Since becoming an Internet Marketer I have no longer needed to worry about any of these issues simply because I now work from my home full time earning 6 figures per year.   In fact I am often not even at home at all because I now have the flexibility to work from where ever I am.

So far this summer I have been working from London, the Lake District, my back garden, the park, as well as the usual home office.

Next week I shall be working from the beach in Menorca…

So….. instead of sitting there and wishing your life were less stressful and complicated what are YOU doing about it to make it fun and as it should be?  I ask this because if you are looking to change where you are at right now there is only YOU who can change things and until you actually get off the fence and actually do something about it then nothing will change and your life will continue as it is right now.

I am now in the enviable position to be able to help others to get off the treadmill of 9 to 5.

I can only help those who make a concious decision to change their lives and who decide to roll up their sleeves to get to work to make this happen.

I made it happen for me and there is no reason why you cannot do the same if you really do want to at a deep down level.

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Work from home opportunities – this very phrase will either create fear or anticipation.  It rarely creates no reaction at all.  We have all heard the stories of people working from home and succeeding beyond their wildest dreams and these are the people we desperately want to become like. We have also heard the horror stories of people being ‘scammed’ and robbed of their money and dreams. 

In the home business industry thousands of people spend hours stuffing envelopes, filling out surveys or doing typing jobs.  And yes, these are legitimate work from home ‘jobs’ that thousands of people do very well  & they often earn more money than they would at a traditional 9 to 5 job. However, they usually require a good deal of hard work and do not use the internet to its true potential as they only use the effort of 1 person to generate the income. They do not use the concept of leverage.

However, the work from home industry is now truly coming into its own and is gaining recognition as a serious way to quit the rat race and take back control of your life.  In the current economic climate today there are millions who are looking for a way to change the way they live or looking for a way to come back from redundancy or looking for a less stressful and more fulfilling way of earning a living.  People are conciously looking for a way to enhance the quality of their lives yet in doing this they are also looking to increase their income.  In short the legitimate work from home industry is booming as never before – even in the middle of a so called recession.  So, how do you decide from the thousands on online business opportunities which one to choose?

First and foremost you need to determine your goals.  Whatever these goals are set to will determine which type of business model will suit you best. So, what are your income goals, what are your lifestyle goals? If you are looking to generate just a couple of hundred dollars per month to cover some of the bills then take your pick of the vitamins, ebooks and potions available – there are hundreds to choose from. The start up costs are low but the work required to maintain a decent level of business can be high as can the drop off rates. Keeping a consistent level of sales can be very hard work.

However, if you looking to generate $10K+ per month (which equates to a six figure income) then you need to start looking for a top tier business model. This is generally in direct sales and will usually attract the serious entrepreneurs as the start up costs will scare away those who do not have the necessary commitment both in terms of financr and effort.  Consider buying a bricks and mortar franchise where you would not only have the franchise start up costs but also inventory,rent, rates, staff, overheads etc.  With an online business you probably only have the initial start up cost and then monthly renewals. You are already more profitable by what overheads you are saving on. Any serious online business will require investment in time and money and any serious prospect will understand this and will be preapred for this.

With this top level of investment and commitment you need to be certain that you get the level of education, training and support required.  Earning a 6 or even 7 figure income takes hard work and a certain degree of skill and you will need help with this.  You need to be mentored and trained by someone who is already successful and be shown by them exactly how they have created their success.  You need to be sure that systems are in place that make it easy for you to carbon copy their success.  You need to know that even if you begin as a total newbie that there is a marketing training program in place that caters for your level of experience and that constantly develops you.  The majority of home business opportunities will not take advantage of one very important factor – leverage.  With the age of the internet we now have the opportunity as never before to use the phenomenal power of leverage.  Today we have web sites, autoresponders, video marketing, social networking and all these serve to save human time and hours. Technology advances faster than we can even keep up with and the systems are constantly evolving into better and more sophisticated applications. We can now use leverage to the extent that human intervention and involvement can be to an absolute minimum.  We can set up web pages and sites that give the prospect information and it qualifies them.  They then get led to information which will give them more details and not only that but given information which is useful and valuable. The age of having to spend hours on the phone talking to prospects is long gone – old school MLM methods were never using leverage and they have no place in the new models used today.  By the time a prospect talks on the phone to a consultant they have been qualified several times over and will be ready to buy – there is no time for timewasters and tyre kickers. Using leverage is what allows us to create our dream life as it frees up our time.

The whole idea of working from home online is not only to escape 9 to 5 but also to create time so that we can spend our lives doing the things we truly want to be doing not working for a living at a ‘job’.  By using the internet and using leverage and by having a successful top tier home based business we can achieve this – the new way to live is by your own rules from home and the vehicle to make this happen is the internet. Those who are prepared to step up and take action and make this happen are the entrepreneurs of today and tomorrow and these are the internet businesses that will succeed in the new economy emerging right now. Work from home opportunities are now in the business of lifestyle design.

In the uncertain times of todays economic climate there are millions of people looking for a way to make their lives more secure. With the reality of redundancy, bankruptcy, short time hours & total uncertainty more people than ever are looking for ‘another’ way of earning money.

The one place at the moment where there is no recession is on the internet & this is one of the reasons why millions are turning to this as a place to earn money. Not only to earn money but as a way of reclaiming their lives. For far too long we have been slaves to corporate America/UK. Most people spend the majority of their time earning money to buy their home yet they spend so little time in it. We have spent far too long and far too much of our time on the 9 to 5 corporate treadmill, we now see this and have decided that enough is enough!

I came to this conclusion 18 months ago and found my way to the web and have never looked back. I do not miss the daily stress of making profits for someone else whilst they try & succeed to control my life and my time. I now get up, take my daughter to school then come home and start working for ME. The change in attitude this created for me has been revolutionary, I no longer resent working, I am happy, I feel like I am back in the driving seat of my own life, I take total responsibility for my ultimate success or failure – no one else can take the blame. I probably work longer hours but that is my own choice, I have the flexibility to work when it is convenient to me. Working for myself in this way has been totally empowering and do you know what? It feels pretty good!

Making that decision to change is the hardest part – once taken you have got over that biggest first hurdle the rest is purely mechanics of what you are going to do. There are thousands of different home business opportunites out there on the internet and making the choice can be very overwhelming but a decision has to be made for you to move and progress.

I would recommend that you do your due dilligence after you have sat down and written your goals and objectives. How much do you want to be earning in 6 months time? How much time per week do you want to be spending doing this? Do you want the flexibility of hours to suit you? How much do you have to initially invest? How much experience do you have of using the internet? If you have very little you need to find a mentor who can help and support and coach you.

The products you will be selling are secondary to finding the right help and mentor. For you to get to the place you need to be in you need to find someone who is already there who is prepared to share their experience and expertise to help you. I searched until I found a mentor and business that specialises in internet marketing training – I can now sell anything I like with this knowledge, however I wanted to also have products that were real and useful and meaningful. I actually unknowingly at that time hit the jackpot big time as I not only got to be trained and coached but the products are now some of the most sought after as they are financial education! If we had all had this type of education at school then the world might not be in the state it is right now.
I now spend a proportion of my time helping others to achieve the same as me so that they too can do the same for others – the more I can enrich others lives the richer mine becomes.

So, if you are looking to make that life changing decision make sure that you set your goals down clearly in black and white and do your due dilligence. Find a mentor who will help you to get there with training to support you. Find products that are real, meaningful and can genuinely help & where the compensation is realistic in terms of your income goals & the effort required to earn it. Find a system that leverages the true power of the internet thus saving your time and energy you have already wasted enough of your life reinventing the wheel. The whole idea of a home based business is to free you up to be doing more important things so make sure that the system supports this.

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I now have my life where I want it to be how many people can admit that?

Last week was half term so instead of stressing out over childcare arrangements whilst I had to be working for someone else we took off as a family to the Lake District over here in the UK. I took my computer and for a few hours did some work and for the rest of the time we had a wonderful time enjoying the beautiful scenery, fantastic weather and just the fact of being together as a family. Children are not small for very long and enjoying that time is why we do what we do. I count my blessings every day that I now do exactly what I want to do & not only help myself but help others to do the same.

Is your time & life that valuable that you need to start claiming it back as yours? Mine was!