Posted by
Icarus on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:11:06 PM
I have no patience for jealousy. I was listening to Michael Medved's show; the topic was the economy and a caller comes on complaining that he isn't paid enough, that corporate fat cats make too much money to run companies into the ground, that minimum wage should be $70/hour. The guy's attitude just screamed victimhood, which fed a poisonous jealousy.
A few months ago I decided that I was going to take control of my life and embark on the Entrepreneurial Path. Some people don't see Network Marketing as an entrepreneurial enterprise (and if you're one of them, I'd love to hear from you only after you watch "
Brilliant Compensation"), but when you take on this work you will discover that it is a business and has to be worked like a business.
I got into this work because I no longer want my time leveraged so someone else can get wealthy. What does that mean: 'leverage'? When you invest money in your 401k (or is it a 201k these days?) you are leveraging your money; you are making your money work for you. When you took your job, the company owner hired you in order to leverage your time. In other words, he makes money off both your time and his time. In other words, you get paid for the time you give your employer. Your employer gets paid for everyone's time. You're trading hours for dollars, and there are only so many hours in a day. The beauty of Network Marketing is that everyone is able to leverage everyone else's time. Everyone is a business owner, just without the headaches of employees, overhead, etc. Have you heard the joke: 1 employee is a headache, 100 employees is an adult day care center.
There is a term commonly bandied about, when I was a liberal, that, at the time, I knee-jerkedly reacted against. I did not want to think that I was one of these people. Now, however, that I've broken away from the corporate life I see that it is very, very applicable. The term is "Wage Slave". Maybe you think that term makes me anti-business. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I love business. I want everyone to have their own business, to be able to truly live the Declaration of Indepence, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness." That phrase inspired me to developing a blog seperate from Townhall.com, which currently has "Health, Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness" as its working title.
I wish I could sit down with everyone who stops by my blog and talk about becoming an entrepreneur. Anyone can do it. If you think you can't, I here to tell you: Yes, You Can! You can take control of your life. If, however, you continue to think you cannot be your own boss, run your own business, than someone else will always be telling you when you can take a vacation, when you will get a raise, when you can see your kids, where you will live, etc,. etc., etc.
Before you jump into the comments to tell me what a fool I am, take a deep breath, sigh on the exhale and honestly ask and answer this question: Are you getting everything you want in life? If the answer is no, think about what I've written, think about taking some steps toward true freedom. The life you save just might be your own.