In these scary, uncertain economic times filled with the specters of layoffs, unemployment and recession, remember that fear itself magnifies the bad things. Many people worry about the pressures on the family budget, how they will pay for college, and being the sandwich generation, how they will they care for their aging parents.

Are these issues real? They can be. They can also be dealt with instead of just feared.

Step 1 is to determine what you want. My goal was lifestyle freedom which includes time freedom and money freedom. Getting to that automatically meant that I had the resources to deal with whatever came up.

Step 2 is determine how you are going to get there. After my research was over, I realized I needed at least one residual income stream. A linear income stream like selling stuff on ebay was not going to make me rich. This also meant starting a home based business. I chose network marketing because it fit my criteria.

Step 3 is implementation. I have chosen the method of online network marketing as my main focus. This allows me to play to my strengths. This is my success formula. I continue to participate in training so that I can help myself and my team succeed.

One benefit that is hardly mentioned in the sales brochures and web sites is the change in your perception of control. If you are fearful, you are automatically placing control outside of yourself. When you start becoming successful in your own business, you automatically start pulling that control within you. This feeling permeates your life. You will feel in control in all other situations as well.

Let others fear, take control now.

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Retirement nowadays is not dictated by age, it’s dictacted by money. Some people will not be able to retire at 65, 68 or 70 because of money.

Others, who have achieved lifestyle freedom, can ‘retire’ at any age, 25,45 or 55. The secret is to get your residual income set up to cover your lifestyle choices. Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, teaches that concept in his games, Cashflow for Kids, Cashflow 101 and Cashflow 202.

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Continuity programs are one of the biggest trends in internet marketing circles now. It addresses one of the biggest flaws of internet marketing – each sale is a one time shot of money. You have to continue to sell different things to keep the income coming in. After all, how many copies of the latest, greatest ebook does the average person need? One!

The way to lifestyle freedom is residual income. This is what the continuity programs, which is another term for membership sites, are looking to provide. Internet marketers have realized that they either change what they are doing or they will be like a rat running on an exercise wheel the rest of their life.

In network marketing, we have been enjoying residual income since the beginning. It’s the main appeal. Plus, the market is bigger than internet marketing since not only can we market online, but offline as well.

We can also retire and have our network marketing business fund our retirement with a renewable source of income. You have to constantly supply a membership site with enough new value to keep people renewing their membership.

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One of the things that dawned on me is that I don’t use the snooze button any more. Now, I’m often excited to get going that I wake up a few minutes before the alarm goes off. I use this time to review my goals and visualize already having them to reinforce their attainment. I often find it a challenge to stay in bed until the alarm goes off.

It wasn’t always like this. I used to be someone that often would shut off the alarm without waking up which would cause me to oversleep. I would have no recollection of the alarm ever going off. I would drag myself out of bed to get ready to go to a job that I did not really enjoy.I was building someone elses dreams.

Lifestyle freedom allows you to do what you want. You rediscover life on your terms. You naturally want to do what you want to do so motivation is not the issue it is with a job.

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Monday morning for most people is probably the most stressful time of the week. It’s when most heart attacks occur. It’s the time most dreaded by people. One phrase is, “It’s the (2nd,3rd,4th) Monday of the week.”

When you have lifestyle freedom, you decide how your Monday goes. The most stressful thing I have to do is to take the kids to school. After that, there’s no traffic in my carpet commute.

Most people just dream of it. Why don’t you do it?

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