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Secret of Happiness in Life
and Business
By Terry Dean
Let me begin by telling you a story...
In Indiana, there lives a woman who works
8 hour days
6 days a week at a local computer company.
We will
call her "Barbara" for the sake
of this article.
Barbara dreads getting up in the morning. She dreads
getting ready for work. She dreads driving
to work.
She dreads clocking in. She absolutely
hates her job.
She has a degree in computer science, but she can
barely stand the sight of a computer anymore.
Everything
in her miserable life has become a drudgery
to her. She
can barely stand herself. The most important
thing to
her is that wonderful clock that chimes
5 p.m. when it
is time for her to go home.
She rushes to her car...Drives as fast as the law allows
home...and then immediately rushes into
her house as fast
as she can to the noise of overexcited
door greeters.
Both them and her have waited all day for
this moment.
Now, she can relax.
She sits down on the couch...collects up her pets (2
dogs and a cat) and gives each of them
the attention she
knows that they crave. She turns on "Animal
Planet" on
the television set and sits back breathing
a sigh of
relief that she lived through another day.
Every day this same process occurs. Sometimes she makes
a stop by the library and gets a collection
of books on
"Dog Care" and on "Dog Training." On her day off (that
wonderful day), her and her dogs go and
spend the entire
day at the local park. All of them wait
all week for
that wonderful event.
Because of the drudgery of her job and the desire she
has to be constantly free from it, she
decided to check
into starting her own home business. Her
friends sell
Avon. As a matter of fact, one of them
even makes enough
money to do it full-time.
Barbara envies this woman...She gets up and works when she
wants at her own business which she loves.
She always seems
to have a spring in her step and a smile
on her face.
Then, one day her friend invites Barbara to join her.
Excitement overflows inside of Barbara...She
will be able
to be in control of her own destiny. She
can be in
business for herself.
Barbara jumps at the chance...besides it is only $25 she
says to herself..."What do I have
to lose?" She is
absolutely on fire with this new possibility...She
can
work for herself and make her own life.
She quickly begins to do everything her sponsor told her
to do...She makes up lists of contacts.
She begins
contacting them all one by one. She does
everything
necessary to get started as fast as possible.
Barbara begins making a little money...(It always starts
out small in your own home business), but
something is
missing. She stills has her job...She has
her new home
business and is beginning to make a little
income doing
it...BUT she has even less time than before
to do the
things she loves.
Her day off came and went...She had meetings to attend in
her new business. Her dogs stayed home
staring longingly
at their leashes wondering what was wrong.
Barbara is
making more money now, but is no more free
time than ever
before.
Now, after the excitement of her new business has worn
off, that telephone is getting pretty heavy
to use. It
is getting pretty tiring to come home from
work every day
and have to work this second job...even
though it is hers.
One day, her sponsor quits and she has no one to help her
stay motivated anymore. That was the final
straw. She
can't do it any more. She goes back to
the old routine
feeling guilty that she "failed" in her home business
venture.
Later on down the road, this same process occurs. She joins
another home business "opportunity" only to later give up
and quit because she just can't take it
anymore. Dozens of
times this happens. Every time she feels
more guilty that
she just doesn't have what it takes to
make it in her own
home business.
Every time this occurs she ends up exhausted on her couch.
The funny thing is that the answer to her
problem has been
right under her nose all of the time. It
happens to be
staring up at her lovingly right this moment
holding it's
leash.
Her problem has been that she works a job she hates. She
wants a way out and others are promising
her a solution
that just isn't suited to her. They make
money doing it
because they love it. She makes a little
at it and quits
because she can't stand that JOB either.
For them, it is a way of life and a passion. For her, it
is just another JOB, yet with less starting
salary. Her
passion is for her pets, but she spends
time trying to work
up passion for other people's desires.
I will let you off the hook and tell you...Barbara's
problem is that she is trying the WRONG
home business for
her. She should be starting a business
where her passion
is at. Instead, she just tries to imitate
others who have
completely different desires.
I wonder if that is your problem? If you can't wait to
get off your job and get out to the golf
course, but you
are trying to sell health products, it
won't work. If
you only want to garden all of the time,
but sell make-up,
you are dead in the water before you ever
start.
The Best Way to Produce A Lifestyle You Enjoy is By
Doing What You Love!
Take off the blinders...Take off the limitations. What
do you love doing? What are your hobbies?
What is it
that you think about every time you get
a spare moment?
That is the BUSINESS for you to be in...Don't tell me
it can't be done. I will just tell you
to figure out how
to do it.
Let's go back to Barbara...What should she be doing?
How about being a pet sitter, dog walker,
pet day care,
pet groomer, or dog trainer? She could
write books on
pet training, animal grooming, etc. That
could be an
information business. It could be a service
business.
Don't put limitations on yourself or others.
Don't tell me it can't be done! On TV, I just heard about
a DOG BAKERY which only sells gourmet dog
treats. They
have over a million in sales and 20,000
mail order clients
besides what they have in their little
shop. If you
love it, you will find a way once you make
up your mind!
For many of you reading this, you may be in the wrong
business. You are making money (Or you
aren't making
money it doesn't matter), but you just
aren't happy.
Well, now you have it. Somebody was finally
willing to
tell you the truth of the matter.
Find your LOVE and you will find success. Yes, it will
be hard starting out. It is in any business
you get
started in. If your business is also your
passion and
your hobby though, YOU WILL make it through
and won't
quit when it gets hard, because you LOVE
it.
Do You Dread Getting Out of Bed Every Morning?
Do you constantly wish you could obtain freedom in your
life somehow?
Have you tried a home business before and failed?
Do you wonder if there is any purpose to your life?
Do you wish you could spend more time at your hobby
than at your job?
If you answered "YES" to any of those questions, you
have some thinking ahead of you. If you
answered "YES"
to all of them, you better do something
in a hurry!
The Best Way to Produce A Lifestyle You
Enjoy is By
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