What are You Going to do?

It's amazing how many people are not happy with their current situation. Some of it revolves around money, but there are other issues as well. Maybe you don't like your boss. Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you don't like your marriage. Maybe you don't like where you live. It could be anything. The questions is..."What are you going to do about it?"

There are two main responses to this question. The number one response is...nothing. The people who respond by doing nothing, will continue to complain. They will continue to blame everyone and everything around them. The will continue to live in pain. Why? Because they are afraid or because they are lazy and don't consider the reward worth the effort.

The second response is to go into action and change what you don't like. This is definitely the land of opportunity. If you decide that you want to change you boss, or where you live, or how much you make, or the quality of your marriage...you can. It is a matter of mindset.

When I was 19 I had my first child. I wasn't married yet. I was making $72 dollars a week and I had a girlfriend and a child to support. Did I go running home to mom? Did I blame the government and try to make a living off of them? Did I leave and run away from my problems as fast as I could? Absolutely not.

I accepted my responsibility, worked towards trying to get a better job. I married my girlfriend and made her my wife. We have had some trouble along the way with our marriage. Did we give up? Did we blame it on someone else? No, we went to counseling (free counseling as I was still working for peanuts) and we solved the problem. My wife and I have been married for 30 years. Our two daughters are grown up, one is married and has given us a grandson. We are continuing the journey we started over 30 years ago. The bottom line is that we determined that we would make our marriage and lives work and we never gave up or stopped learning and trying. We always believed that what we wanted to accomplish was worth the effort.

When we were young the internet didn't exist. There weren't hundreds of business opportunities that you could start for very little money with a lot of sweat equity. I started and ran three business along they way to where I am today. They all did O.K. but they weren't the opportunity that I was looking for. They all cost some serious money to start and took 16 hour per day effort to keep going. I eventually closed all three down due to lack of a life and not enough money. In all of them I made most of my money back and in two of them I made more than my original investment back, but they weren't really taking me to where I wanted to be. I worked each business for three years before closing them down. So what should I do now? Give up and accept that things are the way they are for me?

No way! I learned from each business experience that I was involved in. Now with the internet there are ways to start and run a business with very little investment. They all take hard work and a belief that success can be obtained. But the opportunity is there.

You probably all know someone who has tried some kind of internet business or multi-level-marketing opportunity. You have all heard the horror stories of endless phone calls, of alienating all your friends, of investing time and money for no return, of being outright scammed. It happens. But how do you respond? Do you give up? Or, do you figure out how to make your opportunity work? The answers are all out there. You just have to be willing to make the effort to find them, implement them, and make them work for you.

I don't buy all the negativity about MLM businesses or other opportunities. I don't buy that I have to accept my lot in life as if some cosmic entity or fate has already decided my life for me and there is nothing that I can do about it. (I most definitly belive, accept, and follow Jesus Christ) I refuse to spend time with people who whine and complain about life. Instead I surround myself with dynamic, successful, upbeat people who have a healthy outlook on life and the opportunities that exist. I learn from them. I try to duplicate their success. I am not afraid to fail, as long as I learn something along the way. I am not afraid to try new things. I always weigh the risk against the potential rewards. I will always move in a positive direction and will keep on trying and changing until I get to where I want to be. The reward is definitely worth the effort.

What are you going to do?