Yeah, you guessed it. I got seduced by all the glamour and glitz of money and cars and money-oh yeah I said that already. A better life. Thats what I really wanted. Isn't that what we All want? A better life where you don't have to worry about how your going to make your car payment or go to the grocery store and write that check and PRAY you did the math right and it goes through. Some of you know what I mean. Freedom. That is what Network Marketing is all about. To OWN your own life. No more trading hours for dollars. You know, like most of us do or have done. Work X amount of hours and recieve X amount of dollars. Residual income. Meaning, working today getting paid for it again and again and again until one fine day, you retire and just keep drawing that check. Sounds good huh.

So... I got online, not knowing ANYTHING about network marketing or mlm or affiliate programs or anything. I found out fast that when you put your name and email address on an online form you get LOTS of offers. Be really careful where you put your infomation in at online. My good friend and mentor, Judith told me that she was called not long ago by someone who had purchased leads and was given her name and number. The only problem with that was , she hadn't been looking for an "income opportunity" in 9 YEARS. I'm telling you this for 2 reasons. 1# Those people keep your name literally forever 2# Never buy leads-I'll talk more about that later.

Did your Momma ever tell you that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is? Well, mine did too. I probably should have listened.

Aha.. Now where was I? Oh, my "journey" into Network Marketing. Where does a person start? The beginning? THAT would be way too perdictable. I will get to that in time. Today, I need to vent. Ever feel that away? Sure you have! Some people would just rather spew all that stuff on their unsuspecting spouses. WOW, how would ya like to come home to THAT? So... here I go. The economy. There, I said it. It's what EVERYONE is talking about lately. How about that AIG thing? Let's look at this a minute. 1# Big company in financial trouble 2# big shots go to Washington and beg for money to bail them out 3# Capital Hill gives billions( it is billions isn't it? ) says country's economy will collapse if they don't 4# Leaders of this company take the money and GIVE to each other as bonuses. Is there something WRONG with this picture or what????? Did their Mamas drop them? Businesses are going bankrupt, people are getting laid-off left and right and those CEO's are profiting from their OWN bad managment. That is sooo wrong. I work for a company that did almost the same thing. They filed chapter 11 bankrupcy, or which ever one it is that you just have to "restructure" your business. They then proceeded to close alot of plants around the country, thoughfore laying off hundreds of people. I think maybe ours was saved simply because we are a Union plant. In the plants they kept, everyone that was NOT Union took BIG pay and benefit cuts. Then, like AIG, the CEO got a $4 million dollar bonus the day we emerged from bankrupcy. I know the people that took the big paycuts were MORE than happy to give to to him for the FINE job he did. lol
I said all that to say this. All that did NOT come as some big surprise. We could all see "the writing on the wall" long before the company started to fail. THAT is really when my "Journey" began. I saw the need for a Plan B. Do YOU have a Plan B? A Plan B is your back-up plan. I saw the way things were going at work. They (management) were cutting jobs and adding work to the ones that were left. At the end of the day, you were too tired to really do much else. I got to the point that I thought THERE has GOT to be a better way to make a living without breaking down your body and killing yourself. At that point I started to see ads on the internet. You know what I mean. You all have seen them. Ads that showed BIG houses, Fast cars, and promised more money than you could ever imagine. Yeah.. you know. Guess what I did next!

My Journey.. yeah. Three years ago I started on this incredible journey called "Network Marketing". Some of you have taken this journey also. Only a very few have traveled a smooth, bumpless highway with relative ease. Most of us ,( Statistics say 98% ) have traveled a virtual obstacle course full of blind curves, vertical cliffs , and crater holes to dodge along the way. Not to mention , of course the piranhas swimming around just WAITing to devour you. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, but I KNOW I'm NOT the only one that has struggled with this. So... to all you other 98% -- and I KNOW you're out there, let us go the rest of the way together. I wish to, figuratively speaking , hold the hand of the ones coming up and lead the way, hopefully avoiding the crater holes and cliffs I fell off into along the way.