A Financial Freedom Nightmare

Last night after work you got together with two of your buddies from college. Over a nice dinner you talked about the good times – a weekend road trip to the coast, intramural football, and even staying up all night to get that paper on the national debt complete. It was good fun and a good financial education in the field of business. It doesn’t seem like it was almost twenty years ago. Twenty years. All three of you found good solid careers, and have spent the time making contacts and getting comfortable in the business world. The well-dressed confident men across the table from you look exactly the same as, and yet a world apart from, the guys in T-shirts that you shared an apartment with in college. As the night wore on, you could hear that they felt the same vague dissatisfaction. Nothing was wrong, yet none of you felt like you were having the success that you dreamed of in college.

Maybe it is time for more education, a personal financial education. You hear of people making a mark in one of the hot areas – adsense and internet marketing, ebay stores, affiliate marketing, direct sales etc. You know that you have the ability to join that group, but also know that every business market has dangers. In order to gain confidence, you need a mentor to give you a strong financial education in the principles of launching a new business. Someone that has not only founded a successful business but is able to give you tools to make the right decisions for your personal goals and abilities.

Getting together with your friends made you think of the first six months after graduation from college. You already had accepted a job, and so you got a better place to live, a new car, and a new wardrobe to go along with your new status as a working man. A solid financial education would have been a help then, as that new status ran up a lot of debts. Your salary is certainly good enough to cover those, but imagine what you could have done if you had saved a few thousand dollars. Maybe that would have been enough to start your own home based business on the side.

Getting together with old friends made you realize that you have done well, certainly as well as most people with which you graduated. You have made a lot of good business contacts, and now that little voice inside is urging you to go on. Go on to a life you really want, with more success and time freedom than you can imagine.

Monday morning rolls around and you are back in the office bright and early, as always. You have always been a team player. Loyalty to the company and it ideals have brought you to where you are today. You feel proud, a sense of integrity. There is a knock on your office door. The VP of your department sent his secretary to summon you. He asks you to have a seat and proceeds to tell you that the company you have put your blood, sweat and tears into for the last handful of years, just dropped a stress bomb in your lap. They are merging with a competitor and your position will NOT be eliminated… this quarter… but next quarter your office becomes a telemarketing hub that will tie in with their offices in India. They are glad to have you assist with the transition, but they will not require your services in the long term. They feel that the industry has shifted and that this timing really fits their exit strategy well. They expect you can understand and even though the economy is in a slump, hope you are able to land on your feet.

What did they just say? They expect you will understand… land on your feet? You are now sweating. You are twisting your wedding ring unconsciously. You feel your throat tighten, and your mouth is dry… you feel light headed. Now you have zoned out and you cant even hear the rest of their conversation. All you can think of is the braces that you just put on your children and the 4-year payment plan. You have a luxury car that fits your posh position and makes you feel like a success. Yep, payments on that as well as the SUV your wife drives. You always intended to pay off your own student loans before now, but money was always going in other directions. You took out a second mortgage on the house, to help finance the cabin on the lake. You remember the bonus that helped you make the decision to make the cabin purchase… ugh… You wish you could just give that back to the bank and walk.

You are so stretched financially that you cannot think straight. You have to keep up the health insurance payments because your wife is having an MRI done, and health care costs are ridiculous. Can you even keep the company insurance? How does that even work and what happens when it runs out?

You are starting to come back to your senses. You are now feeling anger that is borderline rage. They cannot do this to you… you were not prepared. You have so much credit card debt that you have been bouncing from zero percent interest, to the next low interest deal. What do they jump the interest rates to if you miss your payments? You remember the horror stories of crazy interest rates like 29% that the guys were talking about at the office.

The door of the rest room slams into the waste paper can as you lunge into the stall. Breakfast, a raisin bagel and cream cheese, comes hurling toward the thrown. You are light headed again. Your eyes are closed so tight it hurts. You feel your head pounding and a ringing in the distance. Is that a fire alarm? No, but it is certainly an alarm. It makes you realize that you have a financial fire that requires an alarm to wake you up. You have been passing time in a financial house of cards and it is crashing around you.

You still hear that noise in the back ground… its almost like a beeping. A constant beeping that will not stop. Your eyes are still not open. You force them to open and at that same moment, your wife nudges you and says with a yawn… “honey, turn off the alarm”. You wake up from what was seemingly a nightmare. Your head clears, and you exhale. Reality sets in and you remember that you purchased a course on responsible financial management and long term investing 7 years ago. You built a financial portfolio over a 4-year period that is worth millions and were able to work from home assisting others as they struggle to avoid the same nightmare from which you just awoke.

As a reader of this story, how do you feel right now after having read this? Are you afraid it is too late for you? Do you even know what can be done in a short period of time? Consider this story your wake up call. The alarm is beeping… turn it off… once and for all.

Proper financial education is missing in our schools and universities. Financial responsibility is a vague term that we are unsure of how to talk about with our children anymore, because we are hypocrites ourselves. Credit card debt is overtaking the middle class and along with other factors will create a two-class economy. Which side of the street will you be on? Don’t doubt this reality, expect it and be prepared.

You have a legacy to build. Take Action and Create a Life by Design.

Greg Six has been a successful entrepreneur for over 15 years. After having owned motels and rental properties, he found success using internet marketing. He now spends his time assisting others as they search through the maze of internet offers to find the piece of the puzzle that is legitimate, and will ultimately allow an individual to create longstanding, stable wealth, without sacrificing integrity and honesty. http://www.LegitimateBusinessFromHome.net/?t=WP.nightmare

Napoleon Hill meets with Andrew Carnegie

The Man, The Myth, The Legend…

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Legitimate Home Business – A Pilots Dream

Picture a huge crystal-clear blue lake. Small enough to be private, and only used by the property owners, but large enough that you cannot make out the people on the shore across the lake. You are standing on a wooden dock, and you notice the nails in the boards, the grain in the wood, and the sun faded, bleached look that makes you wonder how many years the dock has enjoyed the view.

A gentle breeze is blowing your hair and the sun is warm on your face. You are wearing shorts, a light cotton shirt and sandals, the weather could not be more perfect. You notice that you are smiling and can’t really think of why. You look up and notice the mountains on the other side of the lake, and contemplate the distance. It must be many miles but you believe that you could reach out and touch them by simply stretching out your arms.

Briefly, from who knows where, the thought of your old job comes to your mind and all the drama that went with it. It occurs to you that you have caught yourself smiling like that quite often lately. The life of a commercial airline pilot kept you in the air and away from home more than anyone should have to be away from their spouse and children. But that is the past and this is your life now… You smile again. You say to yourself… “What a great decision I made”. Sure, take the credit. You took the responsibility to make the change, while your coworkers chose to be held hostage by the false security of a job.

It brings to mind the night that you first had the thought to consider finding a legitimate business from home. You were sitting on the runway, the jet was full of passengers, and after 30 minutes, you are still waiting on an email to say you are clear to taxi down the runway. Another equipment failure, but regulations state that you must have that information… “Proof”… giving you clearance to take off. It wouldn’t normally be via email, but they are trying to be creative and get the planes in the air.

So there you sit, 11:49 pm and you should have been in the air about 11pm. Your night is all messed up and it’s affecting your personal life. Then after almost an hour of waiting, you get word that the computers at corporate are the problem, and they are not able to print out the email to bring it out to the plane… all planes are grounded until they get the computer fixed. Not the end of the world, but it was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.

You have always thought, or dreamed, of a home business… really being able to create wealth and long term stability from a home based business. Sure you have heard of the scams, and pyramid schemes, get rich quick non sense, and you can smell them a mile away. No, you know that you will know what you are looking for when you find it. That just has not happened yet. But now you are pushed over the edge and you remember making the decision, I will make this happen. Period.

The next day you were looking for that cabin in the mountains of Colorado. You could see your vision… a simple cabin to get away and write… a lake, a dock, a Mountain View, and NO MORE UNIFORM… shorts and sandals and a peaceful breeze off the lake. You wanted to get clear on your vision and dream, before the home business search because you knew that vision would fuel you through the bumps in the road that were sure to come. You found the property, printed it out and put in clear view. You are on a mission and it starts now!

You go to Yahoo! Search. You type the phrase slowly and carefully… “Legitimate Business From Home”… You thought about it, and this is exactly what you are driven to find. You even use quotes around it to refine your search. Sure enough you see a bunch of advertisements, but you are looking for the natural search results that come up on the left. You carefully look down the left side past the three paid advertisements they squeezed in there to bait you, and sure enough, you found what you were looking for in a Legitimate Business Opportunity. You pick up the phone and made the call… this was just the beginning of your journey, but it was that first step that brought you to where you are standing now… on a dock in Colorado, overlooking the lake, mountains, and trees, all with the free time to live life. You think to yourself as you smile again, this is the result of making a decision, taking action, and then expecting the outcome.

You take a deep breath, exhale… and step into the rest of your life, starting right now.

Greg Six has been a successful entrepreneur for over 15 years. After having owned motels and rental properties, he found success using internet marketing. He now spends his time assisting others as they search through the maze of internet offers to find the piece of the puzzle that is legitimate, and will ultimately allow an individual to create longstanding, stable wealth, without sacrificing integrity and honesty. http://www.LegitimateBusinessFromHome.net/?t=WP.PilotsDream

Home Based Business – Ashamed of Playing The Fool?

There is a James Taylor song with lyrics that describe the quiet desperation that many of us are living out in our careers…

“You can play the game and you can act out the part,

Though you know it wasn’t written for you.

But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart,

Ashamed of playing the fool …”

Although this was written with the intentions of urging people to “Shower the people you Love, with Love”, it should make you pause to consider where you are right now. Your job and career are going nowhere, and we both know it. You are just “playing the game”. How long will you continue to “act out the part, though you know it wasn’t written for you”? This isn’t the life you have always dreamed of, yet you stand there depressed and with a broken heart, feeling like a fool because you don’t know how to take control.

Your life is fading by you in a hopeless river of time. Yet you were created to accomplish great things. Keep in mind that “your maker” as well as the rest of us, are waiting for you to take action, and create a life by design. I cannot do it for you and I wouldn’t if I could. It sounds harsh, but it would not do you any good. There is a “you” inside of you, waiting to be set free. You have the key to make this happen. You just have to make the decision to only make decisions that take you in the directions of your goals… even in regard to a home business. They may be hard decisions, or even uncomfortable. But they will propel your life down a path that was intended for you… a path where you don’t have to “act”, you will simply allow life and career to happen based on principles and decisions you made and actions you take that are congruent with a greater life plan.

I do not know the life plan that is right for you, but you will know it as you focus on it and allow it to come to fruition. It was already written for you, you simply stepped off the path when you allowed yourself to be the person you thought others expected you to be. You made decisions that were on the path of least resistance instead of on the path that was intended for you.

Humans hate pain, suffering, trials, guidance, and correction, yet these are the things that try us, and make us strong. These are the things that mold and shape our lives, and build our character. When you take the path of least resistance, you miss these lessons and the character building fire that you were expected to pass through.

Were you afraid? Perhaps afraid of the laughing, or peer pressure, maybe it was laziness, or lack of proper financial education that kept you from attaining that life which was meant to be. And now you find yourself “acting out a part that you know wasn’t written for you”. So, are you going to stand there and be ashamed of being the fool”, or are you going to commit yourself to finding that perfect plan that is meant for you and create a career that is full of hope and future, abundance and gain, momentum and energy?

I look forward to assisting you and having a conversation if you feel it is appropriate. A Legitimate Home Businessis just over the horizon, don’t give up now.

Here’s to your success and a life full of taking action to create a life and career by design.

Greg Six has been a successful entrepreneur for over 15 years. After having owned motels and rental properties, he found success using internet marketing. He now spends his time assisting others as they search through the maze of internet offers to find the piece of the puzzle that is legitimate, and will ultimately allow an individual to create longstanding, stable wealth, without sacrificing integrity and honesty. Email Greg directly for a FREE 30 minute coaching call to discuss your business objectives. http://www.LegitimateBusinessFromHome.net/?t=WP.blog.ashamedofplayingthefool (This article may be reprinted, distributed and published at will, if left completely intact with links in place.)

Who is Greg Six…

Husband, Father, Writer, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Investor. I move with intention, I speak my mind, I bite my tongue, I enjoy meaningful conversation of substance. I am annoyed by “obligatory chit chat”, I tend to see the big picture- the game plan- the strategy-the story, but dont enjoy the details… Although I am a stickler for details, yet recognize my lack of interest so I outsource (or beg, borrow & pressure my wife into the details since she ROCKS at the details – notice the sweet talk… bait for more detail work later… She was born for doing it right, every time, without fail… honey, get me a cold one). I have an undying passion to coax, assist, and entice the Entrepreneur w/in everyone out into the open. I believe that the USA & other countries are in for a huge change over the next couple generations and one best have control and leverage so that they move from an employee, to an entrepreneur, to an investor. This will be the only way to end up on the right side of a two class society.

Corporate “hopping” is not going to be a viable long term game plan for the masses, as it was for our parents and grandparents. People in their 50’s today are already feeling the pain of their careers dissolving beneath them. Get Control – Gain Leverage – Invest Wisely. If you dont know how, ask me.

I have owned 2 motels, a video store, ice cream shop, concession business, rental properties, built a spec house, bought and sold property, I made money then lost it, then made it again, then lost it again, then made more… then figured out why. Its not about making THE MONEY, its about why you do what you do, and what you plan to do as you gain traction. Its about intention, conviction, passion, giving, sharing, insight, understanding, wisdom, gratitude, caring, etc. Its about taking action to assist others in ways they may not be able to assist themselves… or perhaps they do not yet realize they are looking for answers to questions they have not yet asked. That is how I describe my “work”, my calling, my purpose, my passion, my dream, my drive, my focus… and to this end I will speak, write and talk, in an effort to assist.

There ya have it… a piece of Me.