So I know I promised to write yesterday, but it was sooo important to me that I start unfolding this information the right way that I had to take an extra day to think about where to start.

First and foremost, I want to tell you to come back to my blog and read my story. It’s pertinent to know where I’ve come from in this industry, and to see where learning from my ups and downs can benefit you. You can read my story in detail in the near future on my “About” page.

But fortunately for you, I am going to speed up this diatribe and get down and dirty!

So let’s get started… Home business, the type I’ve been engrossed in for the past 3 and a half years could also be categorized as Network Marketing.

Sometimes people (I was one of them) like to distinguish a higher ticketed home based business by calling it “Direct Sales”. But all in all, you create a network of people and you market to them… It’s all the same principles whether you’re paying $30/product or $1695/product. Anyone who says otherwise is quite frankly kidding themselves!

We all want to find our identities in this market… Thinking that identities will add an extra boost to our income, or give us more superiority, when in reality it doesn’t. We all want significance.

So do you want to know the raw truth about Network Marketing?

It’s all a huge facade. A ploy to get to you lulled into believing you will achieve your dreams of early retirement or of financial freedom or of time freedom!

The industry sells you your dreams on a silver platter and then asks if you want some champagne with that!

Have you ever pondered the question, why do 95% of the people fail in Network Marketing?

I think it’s evident when you look at the question reworded, how is it that 5% succeed?

The real reason is that the 5% either get into a home business at the conception and ride the wave of growth, meaning they were one of the founding members. Or they are an owner of a Network Marketing company. Or they do 5% more than what the rest of the industry is willing to do.

Whatever the reasons, look at the facts and ask yourself if you’re willing to wait to get that break or are you going to take matters into your own hands?

That’s where my wakeup call was. A few months ago, after switching to yet another “opportunity of a lifetime”, but still not getting the results I truly deserved… I had to STOP.

I asked myself these tough questions:

Where do I want to go?
Will this business get me there?
How long till I get there?
What are my skills?
Am I being paid what I deserve for the skills I have?

All the answers pointed me to a new direction. One of embracing the True Entrepreneur inside myself…

Tomorrow, I will give you my definition of a True Entrepreneur and it may surprise you…

Till then, I hope I pushed some hot buttons… Feel free to comment below.

Sharing home business success,
Mia

So yesterday I told you my inspiration for hitting the reset button in my home business. Today, I’d like to explain where I’m coming from.

Literally for the last 3 and a half years, I have been searching for the right home business. You may still be on this journey, but I can say without a doubt, that I have found my home… and it’s not what you think…

Prior to a couple of months ago, if you had read my old blog, you would’ve read about how great X, Y, and Z business was… because I definitely have been around! Ha!

The home business industry is rife with people like me… wanting their next fix, wanting that next home based business that will be the magic bullet. Wanting the next home business to give them that rush of excitement as you unfold the possibilities of freedom, both financial and time.

But isn’t it interesting when you stop for a moment and truly STOP.

Stop chasing the rainbows. Stop chasing the greener pastures. Stop chasing the better comp plans. Stop trying to find the better “teams”, the better “training”… blah blah blah…

Stop and assess.

Assess your assets, both intellectual and strategic. Assess what you’ve really learned from all that training and mentorship. Assess what value you really have!

(And if you can’t come up with a laundry list of assets that you have, then shame on you! You’ve had a hobby and haven’t been treating your business like a business… but more importantly, you haven’t taken yourself seriously to really see what it takes to be successful.)

Anyway, that’s what I did a couple of months ago. And I’m so grateful that I did.

THAT, my friend, is why burning the ships and letting go of my old blog posts (when the database was lost) was such a sigh of relief.

What a joy it is just to look forward, be grateful for the past, but learn the lessons to apply to the future.

If you’re reading this, then you definitely can feel where I’m coming from.

Tomorrow, I’ll begin giving you one of the many tips that created my online SEO business success. One of the many tips that, when you join me for the journey, just may give you the inspiration and courage to start your own.

Contrary to many Network Marketing Leader’s hype, Freedom isn’t finding a new home business, or joining the right team, or finding the right training. Freedom, be it time or financial, is fought for… And the fight starts with yourself!

Join me and I promise to leave no stone unturned. Just so you know, 2010 is my year to give back. And you just happen to be the recipient.

Till tomorrow…

Sharing home business success,

Mia