It's a very interesting experience being a business owner. The fact that it's a home business has its pros and cons. One con being the fact that it's a 'home' business. They are often easy to start up with low entry fees and low overheads. They tend not to feel like a 'business', more like a hobby. I found myself in this very boat. I don't have to pre-stock or warehouse any product, I don't ship or warehouse anything and the business is explained to my potential business partners by a top income earner in the business. I'm not even involved in the sale. Simple, right? Totally. And right there was my inital downfall on two levels.
Level One, coming from a corporate background it was too easy. Surely there is more to it. There's a secret that the top income earners aren't sharing. Maybe there's some magic pixie dust that I need to find? Maybe if I re-route the tachion emissions through the warp coil, it would sling shot me out of orbit? (The Trekkies may laugh there.) Evolutionary wise, humans are problem solving creatures, if there isn't one there, we'll make it up. We love crosswords and puzzels and making things fit so that when something as straightforward as this comes along, we look to throw something else in. The truth is that this system, exactly the way it was designed, was work prefectly before I came along! All I had to do was follow it.
Level Two, because I didn't have to produce invoices or ship or pay rent or wages, I treated it like a hobby. And so I got hobby results, ziiiiiiiiip! To be honest, there were times I nearly quit, convinced that it just wouldn't work for me. What kept me going was 1) the evidence that this was working for thousands of people around the world, so why not me and 2) that story in Think And Grow Rich about being three feet from gold.
Well, I'm glad I stuck it out. My life, both financially and personally as changed beyond recognition. The Beyond Freedon Evolution program has taken me to a level that I never though possible. It's given me a confidence, a happiness and a re-written self image, a self image written by me, not by what I thought people thought of me. I started to make my own decisions and took responsibility for those choices. I started to grow from within and I am still growning. Thanks to the Polaris Global business opportunity, I'm doing thiongs that I thought would never be 'my lot in life'. And the game of life is not about the hand you're dealt, it's about how you play that hand.
And let me be clear here, my company is The Path I Choose and I distribute these products that I am so passionate about. It's one of those great decisions that I've made that I'm talking about!
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Yesterday, I died
Yesterday (April 5th 2010), I died. In the early hours of that morning, a doctor told me that these would be my last 24hours. I should prioritize my day accordlingly. And so I sent about my day with this on my mind. I would do the things that were important to me and anything else would have to be subordinated. What a day that turned out to be.
By now, you may have twigged that I'm not actually dead. I'm writing this in the first person and in the present tense. So what I describe above is something of my own choosing. I chose yesterday to be "my last 24 hours" and to act accordingly. What was revealed to me was something unexpected. I had no "bucket list" (101 things you'd like to do before you die). There was nothing that I felt that was missing in my life through want or desire. Want or desire.
Without thinking, we often project onto objects and situations. We see them as we are, not as they occurr or exist. "If I had that new car, my life would be so much better." "If I won the lottery, my life would be sorted." And when they don't come good for us our excitement turns to anger. "It didn't do what it promised to do!" (It didn't do what we expected it to do.) And in that moment, we surrendered our ability to be happy to some external object, project, event. How silly does that look when you write it down logically? But that's another story.
For me, to be present in every moment with the people I loved was what shone forth. I dressed and fed my little boy. I listened to his nonsensical outburts of noise as he attempted to master the art of speech wuth me or the video on the computer that he was watching over breakfast. He is only 15 months old. That was me once. I was that age once and unable to communicate through speech. Was I really? I must have been. Then I took him to the swings, his favourite outdoor activity so far. He just loved the sensation of going to and from me. His face lit up with the broadest of smiles and so did my heart.
At home, his mother, eight-and-a-half months pregnant was having a very well deserved sleep. Through this whole pregnancy she has been amazing. I didn't tell her about my "news". I just wanted her to know how much I love her and wonderful I think she is. She thought I had done something wrong!
I won't go through the whole day so I'll fast forward to end... As I lay down to sleep I again told my wife how much I love her and I started to take my final breaths. How had I spent my day? The funny thing was, I hadn't spent it doing the things that I liked, I had spent it making those close to me happy. My happiness was in my ability (ALL our abilities) to make someone else happy. Wow. Each one of us can choose to exercise that ability, the ability to put a smile on someone's face, ANYone's face. There is that power, there in our own hands. I don't have to wait for some one, thing or event to come to me to make me happy, it is in me all the time. I was at peace.
As a consequence of "dying" I woke up feeling slightly down. And then slowly but surely the realisations came in to my head. Because I had "died", there was really nothing left to fear. All fear eventually come down to death if we pursue the "And then what?" line of questioning. What power now does the world now have over me? Unhappy people that shout at you, people trying to feel surperior to you, people trying to get one up on you, recession, politcal corruption? When you look in their eyes and think to yourself "I know what's importnat in my life because I have already died", what impact do you think they will have on your life?
If you choose to do this exercise, I'd really love to hear from you about your "last 24 hours".
By now, you may have twigged that I'm not actually dead. I'm writing this in the first person and in the present tense. So what I describe above is something of my own choosing. I chose yesterday to be "my last 24 hours" and to act accordingly. What was revealed to me was something unexpected. I had no "bucket list" (101 things you'd like to do before you die). There was nothing that I felt that was missing in my life through want or desire. Want or desire.
Without thinking, we often project onto objects and situations. We see them as we are, not as they occurr or exist. "If I had that new car, my life would be so much better." "If I won the lottery, my life would be sorted." And when they don't come good for us our excitement turns to anger. "It didn't do what it promised to do!" (It didn't do what we expected it to do.) And in that moment, we surrendered our ability to be happy to some external object, project, event. How silly does that look when you write it down logically? But that's another story.
For me, to be present in every moment with the people I loved was what shone forth. I dressed and fed my little boy. I listened to his nonsensical outburts of noise as he attempted to master the art of speech wuth me or the video on the computer that he was watching over breakfast. He is only 15 months old. That was me once. I was that age once and unable to communicate through speech. Was I really? I must have been. Then I took him to the swings, his favourite outdoor activity so far. He just loved the sensation of going to and from me. His face lit up with the broadest of smiles and so did my heart.
At home, his mother, eight-and-a-half months pregnant was having a very well deserved sleep. Through this whole pregnancy she has been amazing. I didn't tell her about my "news". I just wanted her to know how much I love her and wonderful I think she is. She thought I had done something wrong!
I won't go through the whole day so I'll fast forward to end... As I lay down to sleep I again told my wife how much I love her and I started to take my final breaths. How had I spent my day? The funny thing was, I hadn't spent it doing the things that I liked, I had spent it making those close to me happy. My happiness was in my ability (ALL our abilities) to make someone else happy. Wow. Each one of us can choose to exercise that ability, the ability to put a smile on someone's face, ANYone's face. There is that power, there in our own hands. I don't have to wait for some one, thing or event to come to me to make me happy, it is in me all the time. I was at peace.
As a consequence of "dying" I woke up feeling slightly down. And then slowly but surely the realisations came in to my head. Because I had "died", there was really nothing left to fear. All fear eventually come down to death if we pursue the "And then what?" line of questioning. What power now does the world now have over me? Unhappy people that shout at you, people trying to feel surperior to you, people trying to get one up on you, recession, politcal corruption? When you look in their eyes and think to yourself "I know what's importnat in my life because I have already died", what impact do you think they will have on your life?
If you choose to do this exercise, I'd really love to hear from you about your "last 24 hours".
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