My youngest son recently started 7^th grade. It’s a time for most kids where they start to feel unsure of themselves. They are really making the transition from child to teen and they have a whole bunch of hormones that are kicking in to make things even more different.

At the end of the first day, my son came out to the van and related something to me that really validated my choice to work for myself. Part of my son’s classroom introductions in one class had to include what they liked about their parents. He told me that what he liked about his parents is that they both work at home so they could spend more time him.

The fact that he has picked up on that without us telling him that really made my day!

I realized just after he was born that he would never be that young again. If I wanted him to have memories of me being in his life, I was going to have to make him a priority.

I was like a lot of people, too scared to really strike out on my own. Then one day, I was pushed. In twenty minutes, I went from being a manager to carrying a box of my personal belongings out the door as part of a corporate cost cutting measure.

It was now or never at that point to get my home based business going strong enough to make a living. It hasn’t always been easy. But that one statement meant that it’s been worth it.

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My oldest son just started a new phase in his life. He is a freshman at a major university, living away from the family environment he has known. He’s starting to find out how to live life on his own.

He is going back to a formal school to learn how to make money as an adult. He will attend classes with teachers that have no vested interest in his success. In fact, many of the classes he will take will be “weed out” classes which are designed to eliminate people from that course of study who do not have the aptitude nor the strong enough desire to pass.

Maybe you should go back to “school” yourself to learn a new way to make money for yourself.

One of the big advantages of network marketing with a reputable company is that the “teachers” do have a vested interest in your succeeding. They only become successful by helping other people become successful in their home based business. They target their training to the common person because as Abraham Lincoln said, there are so many of them.

In my company, the most successful people come from backgrounds that you would never have guessed. One lady was a divorced, single mother of 5 children with only a high school education. One guy is a former carpet layer who had to quit that line of work due to a pinched nerve. Another person is a former pizza delivery guy.

What was the ingredient that led them to become the successes they are now? They had a desire that kept them going. Just like with my son, there will be “weed out” periods in a home based business. It takes a strong desire to get through those times. But it’s worth it!

When you become successful, you will be in charge of how much you receive, when you go on vacation, take time off, and where you want to work.

Go ahead, go back to money school for a whole new life!

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