1. Passion is the key to resolve. You must know why you are starting your home-based business. You must know exactly what you want and what price you are willing pay to get it.
2. Resolve simply means doing whatever it takes to be successful and sticking with it even after your initial enthusiasm has worn away. Knowing why you are doing your business is the ky to passion, and the only way to maintain your resolve.
3. Self-discipline is extremely important in your new business. The #1 reason for not achieving success in any business is a lack of self-discipline. No matter what business you choose to pursue you will have to take daily action if you want to build a large and profitable business. If you do a little each day, you may be surprised at how much you can accomplish and how easy it really is to succeed.
4. Patience is a must. Rome wasn’t built in a day! While we are able to make money quickly with our opportunities, the big money that comes with teaching, training and mentoring others will take time. It is important to realize that, from time to time, not all things will happen as you expect. Some things will happen more quickly and some more slowly. Success WILL happen if you are patient and persistent. When it does, it will come so quickly you will wonder where it has always been!
5. Persistence is the most important overall key to success. If you are frustrated because things you have tried in the past didn’t work, don’t be. You need to remember that success is a process!

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Because there has never been a better time to get involved in a home business.

Throughout history you will find that the foundations for creating wealth have often occurred during very bad economies. One of the main pieces of the equation in creating wealth is growth. Growth is what creates wealth. When you have and industry or a company within an industry that is growing during a bad economy, those people who got positioned and build their foundation with that company saw their growth magnified and multiplied by the growth of the economy when it picked up again.

Right now we are in the worst economy globally ever. There’s never been a time where people suffered more financially, when there were more foreclosures, more businesses closing down, more layoffs, etc., than right now. If you take a look back at times when the economy didn’t do so well you will find that during those times the network marketing industry started to grow more rapidly.

History is a great predictor of the future.

With the economy where it is right now there are a lot of people out there who not only want to make some extra money they absolutely need a way to make money.

Introducing: The best kept secret in the network marketing, home based business industry.

When you take a look at all the home based business opportunities out there that exist, between nutritional, skin care, waterfilter, juices and energy drinks, candle or insurance companies, everything that’s out there for the most part are items that cost a fair amount of money. And for the most part are items that are not necessities.

Remember, we were talking about getting involved with a company that is growing inside a growing industry. This company is 5 years old.

2004 -$200,000 in sales
2005 – 2.4 million in sales
2006 – 10 million in sales
2007 – 24 million in sales
2008 – 41 million in sales
2009 projected – 90 million in sales

_ The first network marketing company in their niche

_ Saves people money

_ Saves people time

_ Multiple industries combined,

_ No single mlm competitor

_ No serious competitors outside that are non-mlm companies

_ Cornered the market in the multi-level industry

The company is called Send Out Cards. The first network marketing company in their niche, greeting cards.

When times get tough people will drop their juice autoship or buy less expensives vitamins or skin care. They may even drop their insurance and for sure don’t buy anything they don’t absolutely need. But, unless they have absolutely zero money, when a birthday comes around or a holiday and even if they can’t buy a gift, they will still send a card to their grandkids, nieces, nephews or spouses. And if they could send a card for 62 cents instead of $3.50 they would be delighted. Who doesn’t like to save money.

Send Out Cards is exhibiting great growth in a down economy and when the economy comes out of it’s down cycle it will experience great momentum. Where will you be?

Check us out and send a FREE card!

Enjoy!

This landed in my inbox this morning and reminded me how blessed I am to have a home based business so every day is a Saturday for me. I wanted to share this beautiful story with you today.

3,900 Saturdays

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday morning. Perhaps it’s the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about “a thousand marbles.” I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say.

“Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you’re busy with your job. I’m sure they pay you well but it’s a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. It’s too bad you missed your daughter’s dance recital,” he continued; “Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities.” And that’s when he began to explain his theory of a “thousand marbles.”

“You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.

Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I’m getting to the important part.

It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail,” he went on, “and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1,000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear.

Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.

There’s nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.

Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.

It was nice to meet you Tom. I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. This is a 75 year old man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!”

You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.

Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. “C’mon honey, I’m taking you and the kids to breakfast.”

“What brought this on?” she asked with a smile.

“Oh, nothing special, it’s just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. And hey, can we stop at a toy store while we’re out? I need to buy some marbles.”

This is a story from the book “Charging the Human Battery.” You can get it at SimpleTruth.com