What Is My Business?

      What is my business? If you cannot answer this question you do not have a business.  You don’t have a commitment. You don’t have a vision. You don’t have a plan. You don’t feel a responsibility or have a belief in yourself to endeavor and you don’t have a dream. Even though this business is a relatively new business model, it is a business. This business, network marketing, has many of the hall marks of any traditional business. Failure rates are about the same for any new business. You have to invest money, time, sweat, worry, self education, mistakes and undeniable feelings of doubt. You know people that just don’t believe that this business will ever go anywhere or make enough money to have you quit work and fire your boss. Most of them will be family and friends who will doubt your abilities to cope, to become someone different, someone stronger and confident, someone richer in life and wealth.

Why is the network marketing business more difficult than traditional business to become successful? Answer: It isn’t. Not by a long shot. Network marketing is all about you and your commitment to yourself, your family and your dream. As long as you find the right supplier, an ethical company whose goods are desirable and consumable for repeat business and an ethical network marketing company that the business plan is focused on the training and success of every new prospect with front end earnings and back end earnings (residual). The huge difference between opening a business like an auto repair shop and a network business is in a repair shop there are no coaches, no training, and no one concerned if you fail or not. In network marketing there is ton of training, great coaches and many people concerned with your success.

In The Freedom Project, I should say, especially in the Freedom Project you are afforded free training and lifetime free training! Where could you possibly receive free training, coaching, advice or mentoring for the lifetime of your traditional business? No where! You would have to pay for all of your advice and who might you be asking for this advice? Are they in the same business as you with the same commitment to the same business as you? Not likely because those are your competitors. Or are they in business with a commitment to make money from you and not with you?

In baseball, hitting is always the same. Your initial batting stance maybe be different than others (I will call it their personality) but when the pitchers start their motion to throw, the batters hands come down to the proper hitting position and all the mechanics to hit a baseball is the same in all batters. The only difference in the batters is their talent. From the time a professional baseball player starts playing Little League baseball and all the way through to his professional career he is taught to duplicate the mechanics of hitting. The Freedom Project teaches duplication. From the family who is making half a million dollars a year to the brand new prospect. Each person is taught to duplicate the business. You are taught to duplicate a winning process.

Okay Gene, if it is so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it? Well there are a lot of answers to that question. First is all of us were raised and taught to be employees. Get a good education, get a good job, work hard, save money and retire with your savings. Well that model has Phds’ going broke as they try to live on savings lost by the economy and social security. But for us rookies in the Freedom Project my thoughts are you do not believe the Freedom Project with our supplier is a true business. You feel safer with a job and benefits. I felt safe for twenty five years with a job and benefits. I still have nothing, I lost my job ( it wasn’t really mine because I could not take it with me or sell it), I lost my benefits and anything I have saved in the company retirement plans are gone. We rookies and others that have struggled for a while have to look in the mirror and tell the truth to ourselves. Do we treat this network marketing Freedom Project as our own business? If you do you would have a commitment, a vision, a plan, belief in yourself to endeavor and you would have a dream.

What is my business? This is my business to coach and teach the Freedom Project duplication process. I am in it for the long run. I am a Freedom Project builder.

Just a little note

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Hello Friends and fellow business partners, 

I will be writing articles on EzineArticles.com It will include some of the blogs I have on my FreedomProject blog.

So please visit and share with your friends and family.I will continue writing for this blog.

Thanks,

Gene Johnson
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A Valuable Phone Call

Yesterday, I was speaking to Peggy Allen on the phone. Just a casual conversation. The note worthy thing about this conversation is how much you learn listening. There is a few subjects I want to write about but the first one is the most important. I caught myself several times speaking over Peggy’s conversation. What did I have to say that was so very important that I could miss what this woman of twenty eight years in Shaklee and a professional teacher in the personal improvement was saying? Nothing, of course, absolutely nothing. My goal now is to listen with intention to understand, and to ask more questions. Obviously I cannot learn when I am speaking but I will learn if I listen with intention to understand what is being said and to ask questions to clarify what is being said. I have so many resources in The Freedom Project, that are so valuable, that it is time to take my arrogance out of the equation to learn from people like Peggy, Carol, Glenna, the Freedom Mama and Papa.

The second subject I learned in the conversation with Peggy was how she was able through experience, knowledge and enthusiasm was to clarify and fine tune  my dreams. She is guiding me through dreaming of the life I want. Maybe as child it was very simple to dream and wonder, but as an adult it is a difficult task to dream and wonder. Peggy let me tell her about my dreams. She did not laugh at me but laughed with me as she helped me tighten my dream. My vague dream is to speak in front of a large audience with conviction, confidence and having fun with the audience while having fun myself. Peggy said I will do that and dreamed with me. Now my dream has Peggy introducing me in Anaheim at one the Shaklee’s conventions. But she helped me more by giving me more freedom to dream. Now I am speaking to my downline in conventions around the world. So here it is, Peggy has given me a right to dream, a right I always had but through the complications of life and the negativity of others, dreaming and wondering went into hibernation. How exciting is it to dream things that where in my mind impossible? Dreaming was shackled in a dark dungeon in my brain. Peggy and The Freedom Project gave my dreams a little light and a hacksaw to break free. Dreaming is now part of my personality.

Peggy during the conversation was teaching me, solid," how to things." She was telling me how Shaklee set up this wonderful compensation plan. Peggy has a definite plan to help me through my personal problems but she has her own personal problems and one is with her eyes. But what I did not hear from Peggy was more important. Very important. Her enthusiasm and can do attitude never wavered. Peggy is a powerful life force with enough enthusiasm and can do spirit to power a thousand rocket ships through the universe and she was giving all of that to me during this phone call. It is a if God tapped me on the shoulder and told this angel to help me. Alright, so I will listen with intention to learn and understand, ask questions to clarify and remember to listen to what is not being said verbally. This will make me a stronger, more confident person as I move through the Freedom Project.

You Are A Loser!

In The Freedom Project, almost all new people will immediately find that the people around them (i.e. family and friends) will not be as enthusiastic as you are when you decide to embark on a new endeavor, especially in network marketing. Some of the people that are in your life may even hope that you fail. That is OKAY! You must remind yourself that you are changing the way you think, the way you act, the way you look at life, the way you feel about yourself and the way you see everything in your world. Feelings of anxiousness, insecurity, fear, and doubt will be with you because you are doing something against what you have been taught is normal. You are going against the grain.

In my life I have someone that not only would like me to fail but labeled me a loser for trying something different. “It is a scam!” she shouts with wild abandon. “Give me the money you will lose on the scam, you loser!” she exhorts. She continues to explode with many other well worn expletives and rants about all her exhausting research she has done through the years on network marketing. So I think she must be wrong! She convinces me with all her knowledge about network marketing that I am right to continue to do this business. She is so persuasive. I am glad she is in my life otherwise I might not have continued on with network marketing.

What did you see in the program that gave you thought that Freedom Project might work? Did you think that this is something you could do? The program the builder presented you, the premise seemed simple and easy to understand. The numbers looked extremely possible. What was it that made you think and feel that this business was for you? Maybe you did some homework on it and found some very influential people in the business like Warren Buffet and Donald Trump. Or people like President Bill Clinton and Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame promoting network marketing as the best educational tool and business the average person should consider buying into. Let’s look at some of the things we are taught by our parents, schools, friends, family, and people we work for:

1) Go to school and get a good education and then go get a good job.

I would never say not to go to school and receive a good education. You should. But what is your education teaching you? It is teaching you to get a job. A job in which you will never build equity so you can sell your job in case you decide to quit, retire or you get laid off or fired. Our educational system does not teach people about how to acquire money and invest it or better yet, teach you make a residual income for you (financial education).

2) When you have a job you are able to invest into the company’s 401(K) plans and you can start an IRA account so you will have enough money to retire on.

I should give you research on this matter but let us just kick it. Unless you have been hiding under a rock the last few years, you know many people who lost their jobs. So they stop making monthly contributions into the 401(k) plans and IRA accounts. If you were one of the fortunate ones to keep your job, your retirement accounts just don’t look so hot with the financial markets failing. On top of all that great news, social security will effectively make you poor if you decide to retire and live entirely on those benefits.

3) Your parents and teachers said become a professional like a doctor, lawyer, CPA, etc.

These people make lots of money, yes they do. Some even become fabulously rich. But most don’t. They may open their own offices, pay employees, pay insurance, and everything else they need for their professional practice. But when they retire there goes their income, they will have to rely entirely on their investments. Some retired professionals will do well in retirement, many will not. They will either keep working or live in a standard of living that is less than what they are accustom to.

Okay, how will I change from the old ways, get a good education and then get a good job and then invest in the company’s retirement plans or become a professional and make lots of money. Simple but not easy - start a business. Start a business that you could develop a good income but more importantly a residual income. A residual income that continues paying you whether you work or not and will always keep up with inflation. How does residual income keep up with inflation as opposed to investing in the market? In the stock market your investments may out perform the inflation rate but because the market is cyclical in nature, the market will suffer a let down and you could lose so much of what you have earned through mutual funds, stocks, etc. Residual income, which is the services or goods that are produced by your supplier, is sold at current market rates. This is where you derive your residual income.

The question remains, am I a loser? I could be a loser even with the Freedom Project. To win at anything you need to put your armor on. You need to strengthen your defenses and you do this by learning everything you can about what you want to be. Then when someone calls you a loser you will look at them and see that they are the ones that are losing. You’re winning because you educated yourself to what the answers are. Your education supports your beliefs, desires and wants. Your education gives you answers that are stuck in your head and heart and gives you confidence to know the blowhard is wrong.

Coming in Gold!

Now I am an official distributor!

The best thing is I don't  sell any products,just use them. All I have to do is teach others what I do! They duplicate what I do and they teach others to duplicate themselves! No home meetings,no product parties,no door to door. I won't tell you how we do the business but I'll invite you to click on my business website. Watch the movie,fill out the submission form if you want to know more. It will not cost you a nickle to learn and evaluate.