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If You're Not Online, Where Are You?
Professionals Transitioning to Self Business:

You're talented, successful, and driven and wouldn't be caught dead in an mlm (multi-level marketing) business. And yet you see the internet as an escape from 9 to 5. You don't need to be convinced. You understand the concept of leverage, and yet all the bruhaha isn't enough to give you a road map out of the mire. You're not afraid of hard work...but the point is all that human resource can be used for the boss or you, the boss. For the corporation with someone else at the top, or...you get the picture :)

Seems to me, you in the hardest hit sector of the economic crunch (financial and business), have been on the planet long enough to know a thing or two. You've had to be strong, relentless and diplomatic at the same time. You are the driver, the provider, the anchor for the home base. You are straddling concerns of school for your kids, hoping to see them married off properly with your own need for a healthy lifestyle. To relate to me well, you're Christian and a calculated risk-taker. And you're in a sandwich between aging parents and children that are using the front part of the brain now (the youngest, not so much). You know what? If you're really in my tribe, your friends are rather high-powered.

You're a boomer, you're intense, a team-player, and people act like they need to take the power away from you because, well, you've just got too much of it :) And let's face it, you've got the brass to go after what you want. Like my friend who spent years wining and dining clients, flogging financial software internationally and getting sand in his swimming trunks (life is so hard)...then gives it all up to follow his passion and puts together a project, and although a reservist, gets in with the big boys in the defense department for less pay to get endorsement there to take it to the private sector to make the really big bucks. His friend owns a jet.

...or my other friend who I yacht with and was my flying instructor...he flies all over the world for a huge corporation to have food adventures and attend conventions where all booths sell their wares using pretty women. Professional photographer, flying instructor teaching leadership skills to troubled teens, humanist--hugely talented humour writer, in my opinion.

...or anther friend, who helped me sell my condo, a wealthy Messianic Jewish man: sharp, fun-loving--completely self-made businessman in plastic business cards. All these men are optimistic and generous...their income is assured (pretty much)...they don't seem at all like they're slowing down. But now, 3 out of 12 Americans are out of work. And the biggest industry to take a hit is the financial and business sector. So you're in good company.

Biggest fear, if you're honest, is where do you end up when you're old? Intelligence dictates making a living will, registering it, indicating where it can be found. You wouldn't make content and then hide it, would you? My hope is that every person is proactive in their legal affairs, and especially in their healthy lifestyle. But what do you do with all that energy when the competition for that position is fierce and you're still out of work? After all, it's still supply and demand. Ah, but that's not where the security is. While everything else is down, internet commerce is up 34%.

The problem is you've overcome so much, you're on a different plane and you can't hide that experience on the resume...you must honestly present who you are. And the challenges you face...how do you reinvent yourself now and transfer hard-won skills to the online world? It takes courage to face your mortality square on and make plans for the last part of life. Yes, life. Still lots to do, arrangements to make. You appreciate so much more, look for the beauty and think on these things.

You want to leave a legacy, but even the kids won't listen...don't have time to listen, life is so busy, and they still expect a high level lifestyle. Boomers woke up one day and realized life doesn't need to center around the next conquest...just maybe you can work smarter, and since money's not based on the gold standard since 1973, currency has to keep moving to be worth something.

So, now where is your identity in all of this...slave of 9 to 5 existence, working your schedule around your holidays? Or something so new that even you don't recognize yourself. This business person, that you are.
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You want to know how to get from here to there. Your parents said "get a job" and you've done that, but now what? Is that all there is? Now that you've done stuff at the foundational level, you want to be on top. You know there's more. Life-long learning means it's a great big classroom. You trust your "vehicle" will get you there, on brain power and words. But what if you need a little help and you come up against a roadblock...then what? Maybe I'm the guy at the gas station that knows exactly where you need to turn and where to go.

And when you work hard, get help, make your mini-empire online, then you can be the guy at the gas station.

Sign up for your smart start CLICK HERE, with training and a change of mindset. Spend some an online system CLICK HERE. Actually, it was months before I threw away my names list. But the day I did was the day that I started on the right path, with the new attraction model...away from the old model that didn't work. You may not understand yet, but you will benefit from exploring your options.

We all like to buy things, yes? STOP buying expensive for now...or signing up for endless free courses that you're going to drown in. Focus on one thing at a time, and really learn it. There comes a time when you've got to take yourself off most of the email subscriptions because it's taking too much of your precious time. Pick someone you can relate to, and stick with the training for a time. When you're ready, learn a new skill that will ramp it up a notch. Results will come!
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Review of book: Making The Jump ~ Business 101 for the New Business Owner

Cold hard reality is that owning and running your business is not a walk in the park. Grasp the idea that you'll work harder than in your day job to get things set up. This decision is sobering and will affect your life, family and friends. Everything in life that you've learned so far about stress management, work / life balance must come into play.

Your keen insight developed as it is from your corporate business days will come into play, with all the new opportunities available. The rules have changed that you operate by...no boss to frame your days. Remember the boss? You may have days that you long for the familiar offices and halls, but pull yourself back and focus.

This success of yours in an online business will not come overnight. The resources available, including file management are there and will take a bit of getting used to. Remember the secretary...she used to work her magic and keep everything up-to-date and organized, field your calls? There will be ways to leverage the beginning process of pre-qualifying before sales are made, which drastically cuts down on time-wasters and drains on your soul. Then the fun begins...you cultivate these prime contacts one-on-one, one at a time.
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