I have spent most of my life in either the military or my present profession as a Facilities Manager. Although I have always made enough money to support my family and a good lifestyle, I have always worked part-time to make extra money to pay down debt or take that dream vacation, or buy some luxury I normally wouldn't be able to afford.
I also lived a conservative lifestyle and mostly below my means so I have been lucky and have extra spending capital to use as I please. This comes in handy when someone in your family has a need for money quickly and there is no one else to turn to. It is very rewarding to be able to support your loved ones when needed. My wife and I have always been able to give out of abundance and not worry about when the money would be paid back, if at all.
I have done all sorts of part time work, from working at a gas station, to plumbing, to carpentry. I never worked at a fast food resturaunt for some reason. Not that I wouldn't, but I always found someting else to do. I guess that work ethic has stayed with me from the beginning. I don't think I just wanted more money, I just wanted to have money to spend when I wanted it.
My mother raised six children alone after my father was killed in a car accident so there was never any extra money available unless we worked for it. I never felt a sense of lack in my life. We had the richness of love in our family and I know love will take you a long way unless you needed something material like a new pair of shoes or clothes. Then you had to go out and find some sort of enterprise you could do to make some cash to buy what you needed. I learned very early on that I had to rely on myself if I wanted to improve my lifestyle.
I know money doesn't buy happiness but over time, I also learned that money is a really good down payment to happiness because it takes away financial stress, incidentally one of the major causes of divorce in the US. Financial stress in the home magnifies other issues resulting in the breakdown of commmunication between the family unit. Once communicaton breaks down, the slope is pretty steep from that point. The negative words start to build up and soon, there is nothing left. Love is killed and the relationship dies. I have seen it hundreds of times. That doesn't mean people of great wealth don't have problems, they do. However, most of them are not related to financial issues unless they are irresponsible and living well above their means. It happens to us all if we are not vigilent. That's my take on it anyway.
Sorry for the digression.
So, as I have gotten older, I got tired of the physical labor at a relatively low return for the extra spending money. I was also knocked down by two heart attacks in 1999 and 2001, which caused me to slow down a lot and the recovery from those experiences have taken 12 years. But my desire to make "extra" income has stayed with me, I just had to find a different way to do it.
On Jan 2009 I started working on my health and fitness and as you know, I have been able to change my life dramatically using Beachbody in-home workout programs and following the nutrition guides they provide as well as drinking Shakeology, my favorite. My health has greatly improved and as I was going through my physical transformation (still on that journey by the way) I stumbled across their business opportunity as a Team Beachbody Coach.
When I started using the workout programs, I wanted to do P90X, which I had seen on the TV infomercials many times. But once I took the "Fit Test" I failed it and the company recommended I not purchase that program. So I looked at their "foundation" programs and started with the Power 90 Boot Camp DVDs. That turned out to be a good decision for me personally because I was really out of shape. Once I finished with P90, I moved to the P90 Master Series DVDs to continue to improve my health and fitness. At this time, I started using their Core Nutrition Pack, which was cheaper than the vitamins I was using from GNC, plus I got the Omega 3s and the Calcium for less than the GNC vitamins I was using. Taking it one step further, if I signed up as a coach, I would get my supplements and any other future product at wholesale prices and would be buying from myself instead of some other company. To me this was a "no brainer" since I had already made up my mind to continue the lifestyle anyway.
So, I made a decision to become a Beachbody distributor without being recruited by anyone. This could have been a disaster if you understand the Network Marketing business model. Fortunately, I was assigned to a team of active coaches and have great leaders who reach out and help you build your business. I never thought anything about doing the business to make money, but before I knew it, Beachbody was sending me commission checks every week and it has steadily grown over the past year and a half to a pretty good part-time income. Once I started seeing regular checks coming every Thursday, I decided to take the business a little more seriously.
I decided to at least try to build a "Diamond" business using the Beachbody "Game Plan" that is available to all coaches in the company. It is a step-by-step process for building a business from scratch. It is simple and easy to learn. The hard part is that you have to consistently do the actions the plan spells out for you if you want to make any money. On top of the corporate training, my team leaders are all successful business owners and teach coaches in their network how to do even better with weekly training and web training offered at your convenience. It is just up to me to do the work if I want to make more money. The bottom line is that the company has created millionaires in only 3 years using our business model.
Not all of them are founding members either. Many of them became coaches in the past year or two and have passed the founding members in income and organization size. This is one of the best things about the business model, you can pass your sponsor whenever you want to if you are willing to work harder for yourself than you do on your regular job. I have passed my sponsoring coach and built my Diamond business while she is still working on hers. Not a problem because the more successful I am, the more successful she will be because she bonuses on my effort as I do on the effort of my team. Everyone benefits by the success of the others on the team so it is the most progressive method to make a living than in any business model in existence. Everyone profits from the effort of each other. No one is better than anyone else. The individual can progress as fast or as slow as they want. Your personal results are directly related to your effort.
Think about this. In my present Facility Management career, I am pretty much at the top of my earning potential. Someone literally has to retire or die for me to make more money and then it is very cmpetitive to get the position. By starting my Beachbody business, I was able to give myself a raise of about $12K per year in just over 8 months of effort. Even if I got the promotion in my career, the pay raise would only be about 5 or 6 thousand a year! Plus more responsibility, stress, longer hours, etc. So working for myself has been a better decision for me personally and financially.
I can give myself a pay raise anytime I want. Nobody can fire me. I set my own hours. I can take off and go scuba diving in the Bahamas in May and I will still get paid on the Thursday I am down there! That is a great feeling because I am getting paid that day for the work I have done in the past that keeps repeating and growing over time. You can't find that in the traditional private sector work environment. This is why profit is better than wages!
Your wage, the money you get paid to work like a slave every day, pays your bills. When you make a profit, you are building wealth and finacial security and freedom. You have to work for both of them but profit will always win out over wages because you have all the control over your profit. You can work like a dog all day, every day at your job and never make one penny more. Increasing your profit in your business is directly related to how hard you are willing to work for yourself. You should always work harder for yourself than for someone else. Then you are making a better life for yourself and your family, not the president or owner of the company you work for now.
The bottom line is that network marketing is one of the best, if not THE best ways to build fiancial security for you and your family. There are opportunities in network marketing everywhere! I chose Beachbody as my tool to build my wealth because I know the programs work and I like to help other people realize their full potential. There are hundreds of network marketing companies out there. You should be able to find something you like to do and build your own business. It is the best way to go!
If you would like to find out more about the Beachbody Opportunity, you can either contact me at jimwyatt46@comcast.net or go to my web page and check out the become a coach tab HERE.
To your health and fitness,
jw
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