Home Based Entrepreneur

 

 

 

“Like wildflowers…. You must allow yourself to grow in places people never thought you would.”

I was just messaging one of our leaders and now dear friend last night, and we were sharing our feelings about the incredible feeling of freedom we are both experiencing right now….

I feel like all of the grinding I’ve been doing every day for the last two years is really starting to feel more like flow than grind….

I’ve been consistent…
I don’t blame…
I’ve been optimistic even on the bad days…
I’ve been enjoying my work…
I’ve learned how to work anywhere and everywhere…
I’ve learned how to lead leaders and attract them..
I’ve learned how to love people where they are…
I’ve learned how to care about myself…
I’ve learned how to be relaxed in my work and in my life, while still being incredibly productive…
I’ve learned to turn every bad moment into a positive one…

I’ve truly learned how to attract great things into my life! Don’t get me wrong… some days are challenging for sure… but my optimism serves me so well, and my perspective on challenges make it so much easier to turn grind into flow.

AND because I’ve been working hard on these things… I’ve found a sense of peace and freedom.

To some it may look like I’m working all of the time… because I am.

To some it might look like it’s hard to do what I do… because it’s not easy.

To some it might look easier to do something else other than followups, reach outs, and phone calls… because it is.

But to me these action steps which are the life blood of my business, look and feel like freedom… like there is a light right in front of me shining so brightly, and I can feel it growing every single day! When you hear someone say “laser focused”… to me the days I create are what represent that idea.

My life… my future…. my destiny is so hopeful, so beautiful, simply because I am consistent and working my business every day… allowing it to flow.

I want everyone to feel how I feel, as I sit in my back yard writing love letters to my team and to all of you who want more for your life…
I want this feeling of freedom from obligation, other than the promise that I made to myself and my family, that we are worthy of any dream… to be your reality too!

I keep hearing the word GRIND and some days sure feel like I’m grinding…. but a few months back I changed the way I visualized my GRIND to look and feel more like FLOW.

Most Network marketing companies break down their sales force into levels or categories, and mine is no different. My company is broken into levels based on monthly numbers. So I broke down each level into what FLOW looks like at each phase. This is what I shared with my team…

The River

Driving the other day, I began visualizing the flow of my business. I started to think about the chaos that seems to fill the final days of the month, and how that always feels a bit like a storm…. not a quiet storm either, more like an unpredictable, albeit determined, storm. I started to think about the power of visualizing and having more control over that month end storm of hail, fire, and crazy intentions…. We always (or at least 90% of the time) make goals happen, but then as the new month starts there is a calm again until we have to create the next storm.

So I started to think…. What if the month looked more like a River… an easy, steady river, flowing the way it should… in its own steady but intentional way?

Then I broke it down further into terms I understood …. it has a flow, and an ease about it… I visualized what each level in my business feels like.  My company has 5 levels in it so I broke down the FLOW of those 5. 

Level 1 is a bubbling brook…. bubbling up and bubbling down…. sometimes the level 1 brook dries out a bit… and it feels muddy… confusing and scary…. it needs rain, love, and nurturing to get it to bubble up again… it needs to be taught leadership… it needs to be taught fearlessness. It needs intention… it needs a reason why it should even exist….

I see level 2 as a river flowing… it narrows at times but it has a more constant flow… its coming into its leadership it knows why it exists… it’s making mistakes, but it flows by trying new things… it has a few strong followers… and a few brooks flowing into it….It starts to look more like a lifestyle worth pursuing…

Level 3 is a wider river….

It has a greater reach and it twists and turns with new players who are trying to flow with it, but sadly some don’t make it… it relies on new rain…. new movement…. with more bubbling brooks and other rivers flowing into it… it starts to feel forceful and pushing… it has ups and downs but yet it still flows daily…. it works hard to get larger… it gives in to allowing the river to just flow and stop depending on old bubbling brooks and looks for more moving rivers to add to its force…

Level 4 is similar to Level 3 but it’s flow feels more like rapids…. Level 4 is a mindset and a determination…. it’s filled with hope that the rapids are merely an increase in the numbers of brooks, and rivers that are flowing into and within it…. it’s like a promise that the flow is heading somewhere…. it’s a beautiful moment in time when opportunity meets hard work and flow… it’s the moment when the rapids can allow leaders to lead leaders, and new leaders are created every single day… Level 4 is a rapid moving path to the original dream…. Level 4 is the result of a bubbling brook that was fearless and knew if it worked hard enough and had enough rain it could be a great and moving force…

Level 5 is the top level and it is a beautiful waterfall…. it’s a moment and a perfect flow of all of the work that the bubbling brooks, the rivers, and the rapids have together created…. A waterfall is the perfect flow of a team moving together as one incredible and unstoppable force… Level 5 a reflection of all of it….

As I drove and visualized the perfection of each step of the journey…. I pictured each of you with your bubbling brooks and your rivers… I pictured each of you with an easy and constant flow finding your path and your people from the most giving hearts and the best intentions for others…

You are being given your chance to take your bubbling brook and create a river, a rapids, and finally after all of the daily work feeding and fueling your river finding your waterfall…

Each day can be an easy and moving flow so each months end feels as easy as the flow you’ve created each and every day…

Wishing each and EVERY one of you an easy, constant, steady flow of daily intentions of creating the life you deserve… Sending you all much FLOW, less GRIND… and lots of LOVE.

July Fourth 2016, my company was running a great special for new Promoters.
I was on my first family vacation in 4 years…. and things at my business at home were not going well. I have been in the time consuming, and demanding industry of horse showing for over 28 years, and getting away for any personal reason is nearly impossible, as is any business that requires you to BE there because it’s your business. Entrepreneurs know that they are tied to their store front and it’s a downfall to having such a business, especially when live animals are involved.

While on my precious vacation, I was getting phone calls every couple of hours from a client who was upset because I wasn’t there with her while her horse was ill. Although I had called in a team of the best vets, my staff, and other trainers to support her… it wasn’t going to stop her from calling on me and making me feel guilty all weekend long.

I remember talking to my father and him asking me why I allow people to treat me like that… why I put up with so much.

The truth was because I knew no other way… I only knew a life tied to my business. Not only physically being present, but emotionally being told that if I didn’t provide exactly what they wanted that they would not stay.

In the horse business, you can have the world at your feet one moment, and the next moment the entire barn empties out and you have to rebuild and hope you can sustain yourself. I always had the fear of having to go and get a J.O.B… This is an awful word for a life long entrepreneur. But the truth was I had no life… no freedom…no way out…

I seriously envisioned myself standing in an arena teaching lessons in a walker, because I saw no financial freedom to ever be able to afford to retire either.  I LOVE horses, and coaching riders, and I’m good at it. But do I seriously want to be 70 years old and still in the grind? Or would I rather like to own a few horses for my husband to ride, be able to retire our wonderful horses Sara and Sokko, and live on a beautiful farm in Florida?

Hmmmmm…. well I guess I found the one business on earth that could afford me the opportunity to make anything I want to happen! I found a business that allows me to create a great life simply by attracting others to do the same. A great product that works, and a company that compensates its newest Promoters better than any Network Marketing company on the planet is my vehicle to ultimate freedom just by helping others with an incredible limitless industry.

I tell you this story because it’s a story of what ifs?
What if my friend who introduced me to this product had taken the 4th of July off and didn’t think to reach out to me because I was on vacation?
What if I had not had an open mind to the possibility, and the fire in my gut to turn this into something really huge for myself?

Where on earth would I be right now?.?

… my guess is I would be exactly in that same desperate place…unsure of the future… definitely working a 9-5 of some sort… I would still be in physical and financial trouble… I wouldn’t know the feeling of FREEDOM that I now feel two years later…

When I think about that girl… the girl who said yes… I think about the fact that it’s my RESPONSIBILITY to share this product and this opportunity with every single person I know… that’s where it ends…. I don’t have to convince them… I just have to show and let see myself in them! I just have to share my story…the good…. the raw…and the truth… My life and my future are so bright because I am fearless in my pursuit to help others live the lives they deserve… this product is A GIFT… this business is their ticket to FREEDOM and that’s what the 4th of July is all about for me!

Thank you to my friend who shared this with me for the gift of Freedom!!! I love you with all of my heart…. You never know who’s life YOU might change today!

I hope you all had a beautiful 4th of July! I know that every year as this thing grows and provides more and more freedom for my life, the lives of my family, and the lives of my friends who join me… I will have much to celebrate!!!

 

Today focus on believing in yourself! There are a lot of people out there who will, as one of our incredible leaders puts it, “try to pour cold water on your fire…”

It’s easy for me to say don’t let them do that, but it’s all in how you look at and tackle your self doubt, because of their doubt in you, or in the product line you sell, or in the industry, and often it’s a reflection of their own self doubt too.  Don’t we often mirror our fears onto others?

When I told my dad that I wanted to attend The University of Michigan he said, “Yes, and I want to go to the moon, but that doesn’t mean anything…” and we smiled that “are you freaking kidding me” smile that he was so great at.

Okay, so my academic track record wasn’t so hot, I had no proof that I could go to a top ten university… I had surely made other lofty claims and didn’t follow through (many young Entrepreneurial spirits do)…  So what was so different about this one?

The difference was that somewhere in my “I can do anything I choose to do” heart, I took his disbelief and used it to my advantage. His thinking my dreams were impossible made me so mad…but instead of wilting, agreeing with him and quitting, I set out to prove him oh so very wrong! (Bingo!!! There’s the gut reaction I needed to drive me forward)

I took the steps, I set myself up to succeed, and I graduated from that school… I decided that there was nothing and no one who could or would push my dreams away.  It wasn’t a perfect road, it was messy, and not  road that success is generally built upon. I wasn’t a great student, but my will to get it done was so far greater than the number of times I failed that I persevered my rocky road to graduation!

You see I understood somehow in my youth that I had a choice…I could take the easy route and believe him…or I could actually do what I said I was going to do.

You guys… this business is no different… no one believed me when I said I was going to the top of this company… no one really thought I would.
They still aren’t certain, but I can tell you I am certain! I’m almost there… and believe me it’s been similar to the rocky roads of college… I’ve made a ton of mistakes, and I’ve heard a lot of rejection, but none of that is going to break my entrepreneurial spirit. It actually drives me to work harder!

How certain are you that you are getting to the top of your company? Do you take life lessons from life lessons and utilize them? Do the nay sayers in your world get to be right…. Or do you go and kick ass in life and prove them wrong?

Think about that today… who do you believe in… Them? Or YOU??!?

I know who I choose….

Have a fantastic day today and let no one crush your dreams! You are whoever you think you are! ❤️

Here is the link to the Facebook LIVE I did on the topic of Self Belief featuring this story! Enjoy!