"All you have to do is know where you're going.
The answers will come to you of their own accord."

— Earl Nightingale: American motivational speaker and author 

What comes to your mind when you read this quote by Mr Nightingale?  I am not sure about you but I can tell you this!  I believe this statement 100% TRUE and here's why. In July of 2010, nearly four years ago,  I took a GIANT leap of faith to start my own business from home. My focus at that time was to build a business big enough to do three things. 

1) Be able to take care of myself.

2) Be able take care of my family.

3) Hire at least 5 to 10 people.

    Being totally honest my initial thought  was on making money and living a very nice life style. Not anything too extravagant. Just enough money  to be able to have a house paid for( only have to pay  taxes and utility bills,no car note and little to no credit card debt). I want my wife and I to have very nice cars and live in a nice upstanding community, be able to travel. I will have no money  issues(a positive cash flow of ten thousand per month). Only issues I wanted with money was where to invest it and how to make it grow. I also wanted my kids to be on the right track financially and show them how to make enough money for them to take care of themselves as well. I also believe my company will live by the  parable" Give a Man or Woman a Fish and they eat for a day~ Teach them to fish and they can eat for a lifetime". Personally my initial concept of having a business has changed. In the beginning I only wanted to make money and get paid. I didn't realize that a business has two main goals. One to serve the people and the other to solve a problem. It's one thing to want a business but it's another to actually make it happen. You have to be willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to become the person that is able to live the lifestyle you truly desire.To have my your  own successful business I needed to make some changes. I needed to know some things:

1) What business do I want and will I  have a product or service. What problems am I  willing to solve for others? 

2) What type of business? Will it be a sole proprietor, partnership, LLC or something else?

3) Who will be my customers?

4) Why do I  want to start this a business?

 Now for the truth. The success rate in any business is very low and failure rate very high and here's why? Most will start a business based on Money alone. Once they get involved and see that it will take some real sacrifice in the  area of time, money and resources. They may even become discouraged when they realize what it  really takes.  It may take the better part of 5 years to even know if your business will be on life support or will your business stand the test of time and be what you always dreamed of. Success in business is not always determined by money. Success in business may even change your entire perspective about life. It will change who you are. I cannot move forward and stay the same. I cannot take the same path while moving in a new direction. To get a new place in life  it will take time(T.hingsI.M.ustE.xperience). If I plant a seed of corn in the ground, water and fertilize it , I expect a stalk of corn to grow. I don't expect  the seed to stay the same in the ground. If I expect nothing to change why plant a seed. My business is that seed of corn that is planted. It may take some time to grow. I must water my business each and every day no matter how it looks or how I feel.

I truly believe in the before mentioned quote"All you have to do is know where you're going.The answers will come to you of their own accord." In order to get any where in life we have to have a  plan and know where we want to go.The fun part is discovering who you've become as a result of where you want to go. The only way to learn about what to do, is to do. Experience is the best teacher. We teach what we learn. Life is a journey to be discovered on my way to learn how to live or to be in business. No one has all the answers. God will only give me the answers after I start to take the test.

 

10 Inspirational Quotes

Thanks for all you do. I value the time in takes for you to stop by. I have been working from home since 2010 on a full time basis. Sometimes I love this industry and sometimes I want to say TMI( TooMuchInfo) You can get inundated with so much information  you can become "Burned Out"

                                                           

  The object is not to get turned out from the burn out. Well what do I mean?  I mean take a break, breathe, take a walk,don't respond to every email, don't spread yourself too thin, find a mentor/guide,don't get involved with too many programs, brand yourself, help the new people coming into the business and above all do this one thing and Never Ever Quit.Read one the quotes below every day. Not all the Quotes just one a day? Try our Quote a day  for 30 days and at the end of 30 days if you don't start to feel more encouraged and inspired then  go back to what you were doing 60 days ago. Only you can determine if a quote a day is working for you.It's definitely been working for me. What are you doing right now to make a difference in your life? 

                                             

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

— Deepak Chopra: is an authority in the field of mind-body healing.

"Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy."

— Maxwell Maltz: was a motivational author and creator
of the Psycho-Cybernetics 

"When we forget to use visualization and imagination, it is like not using our minds."

— Jose Silva: was a American parapsychologist and author

"As long as you have certain desires about 
how it ought to be you can't see how it is."
— Ram Dass: Spiritual Teacher

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
— Norman Vincent Peale: Protestant preacher and author

"Everything you see happening is the 
consequence of that which you are."
— Dr. David Hawkins: Psychiatrist, physician, spiritual teacher, and lecturer

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. 
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
— Dr. Stephen Covey: Best-selling author and professor

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
— Joseph Campbell: Was a mythologist, author, and lecturer

"A non-doer is very often a critic—that is, someone who sits 
back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically 
about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, 
but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."
— Wayne Dyer: Self-help lecturer and author

"The successful person has the habit of doing
the things failures don't like to do."

—Thomas Edison: American inventor and businessman

Whether we agree with this statement or not. There is a lot truth to this. If we examine ourselves our success will be linked or to what we do daily. If consider all of the famous people around the world they all have one thing in common. The started and and never quit. They kept going others said stop and had some support from friends and family. What are your thoughts?

"Vision without action is daydream.
Action without vision is nightmare."

—Japanese Proverb 

Are you living in a nightmare or not? Are you happy? Are you making enough money or are you being noticed or respected at work or at home for your thoughts or are you just celebrated for the money or the  assets that you have. When was the last time you did something for thee first time? 

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!"
-Jonathan Winters: American comedian, actor, author, and artist

Man what great advice and sage wisdom is this. Another one I heard was don't be at the airport waiting for your ship to come in. I like the Jonathan Winters puts it. I feel this speaks to the get off you you know what and make it happen and talk is cheap. Be a person of action. When things are't happening be the one to start the process.

"If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull."
-Zig Ziglar: Motivational author and speaker

Ahh... Can we say momentum:) I am a huge fan of sports. I've seen so many games where one team starts to dominate the entire 3 quarters or most all of a sudden on play happens an  Viola'. The team that looks defeated never quits and in the end pulls out they kept pushing , never gave up the fight just kept to that final bell or play happens. It's not over till it's over. Having enough push when can be difference never quitting and staying focused to the final play. Having a strong enough push will always be stronger than pull resistance you get in any situation. \

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