Excuse for Life

     We all have our vices.  There is always some remnant of temptation that calls out from the past to sink us back into old habits.  For some it is gambling.  Others have problems with drinking.  The issues that I am focusing on are much simpler than that though.  I'm referring to laziness, gluttony, procrastination, and the endless excuses that form to protect those habits. 
     Each day is filled with choices that must be made and many of them are decided on without a second thought.  They have been performed repetitively so often and for so long that the need for conscious thought no longer exists.  It is these actions that plague the society as a whole and it is why success, or the achievement of personal goals, is often left on the side of the road. 
     How many times have you thought "I really need to get in the gym."  This thought starts as a small whisper in the back of your mind while driving to work.  By lunch time, it has grown to a booming voice of excitement and you have decided that it's time and you will start right after work.  When that time comes you find that you are tired and no longer have the energy to carry out the plan so the start date gets moved to Monday.  The intentions are still there and the excitement is still there but the energy to carry out the task has left the building so instead, you retire to your home where you enjoy a nice dinner with a little bowl of ice cream and watch 4 hours of television before bed.  Was the excuse actually a valid one?  If you answer anything other than "no", your wrong.  The same concepts go for food and the idea of healthy eating.  Even work items can fall prey to excuses and procrastination. 
       So the duty of fault recognition and personal development fall on none other than yourself.  Where do you go from here?  The decision is yours but this time, put some thought into it before you jump to the normal routine. 

Inside the Box

                Our minds tend to remain stuck inside the proverbial box.  No matter how often we feel like we are thinking from the outside angle, many times that assumption is wrong.  We always tend to revert back to the training and education that was pounded into our heads from birth and whether we realize it or not, it inhibits our abilities in a major way. 

                The world has changed.  It is no longer the realm of secure jobs and social security retirements.  This change began when the Berlin Wall fell and is within the last days of its metamorphosis as you read this.  We were raised in a reality where our parents drilled us with logic like this:

Go to school and get good grades + Go to college and get a degree = financial and professional success

                Well my friends, that whole mathematic equation is completely wrong.  Each year an average of 17 million people graduate from college.  As awesome as that number is, 54 percent of new college graduates are either unemployed or working for a job outside of their degree, making an average of $23,000 or less annually.  The logic of our parents has succeeded in creating drones for the workforce who are also deep in debt with the US Government for student loans.  Those who know will tell you that interest rates on student loans tend to stack up like no other. 

                Education is important and many career paths require it.  You will never be able to become a doctor or lawyer without school.  Staying at a Holiday Inn Express doesn’t actually qualify you for that.  Personal development and personal education is much more important to today’s job market though.  A person with 4 years of experience working a particular trade will trump the new college grad applying for the same position every time. 

                The world is now based on networking.  Throughout my entire conversation with the DOL Representative, he stressed over and over about the importance of having a network of people.  If you break down his words, he is saying that it isn’t what you know, but who you know and who they know!  If you want to get ahead and be successful, the pursuit of a positive network carries so much power.  How many times have you heard about someone getting a job because his cousin is friends with the owner’s son (or something to that effect)? 

                The network makes everything possible.  So what is networking to you?  Typically, a network is the people around us that we know and work with.  A majority of the population will develop a network while in high school and that will remain the only network in their lives.   The problem with that is everyone wants to make more money and no one understands that a strong network actually makes that possible!  The real issue is the fear that everyone has about stepping outside of the box and doing something new. 

                With such influential people like Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad) and even investors such as Warren Buffet operating in network marketing, why aren’t you considering it?  When the idea of network marketing is thrown out in a room, the words “pyramid scheme”  and “get rich quick scheme” shortly follows.  The truth is, people are scared of the unknown and the idea that making money easier than working 40 hours a week is way outside the box and it scares them.  Fear is the one true obstacle.  If network marketing were a pyramid scheme, then it is a billion dollar a year industry and the government would have shut it down a long time ago.  To add to this, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Rohn, and many other influential people would be in jail right now. 

                To address the idea of getting rich in a hurry I can only say that sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t.  It is not typical and most people involved in the industry will tell you that it isn’t as easy as we all tend to think.  There is serious time and effort that goes into being successful and only those with the determination and drive for the business will truly succeed.  It all starts with a “why”. 

So the question is, what is holding you back from passive income?  If you want to know more about passive income or network marketing, feel free to email me at Dykes.Robert09@gmail.com or check out my websites:

www.YPRevolution.net and www.prostrength.vemma.com   

The Driving Force of Life

It is amazing to me that our energy levels can be influenced so much by the outside world and our perceptions of it. For many people the world is looked at on a daily basis with no real concept of how little time we truly have on this earth. These types of people will live their life in a monotonous circle, doing the same routines until they are forced to change. At that point they adjust to a new routine and carry on as if this is the only way to live.  Tbey never truly discover meaning in their life nor do they even care. Life seems to be a simple list of daily actions to complete.
     The second group of people are those that live in the same routine as the first group but wish to be more. They know that there is more to this world than a routine exercise and they have a small desire to change and see things differently but they lack the courage to step out of the comfort zone and risk something to achieve that dream. They will continue to live this life always wishing but never doing.
      The third group are the successful types. These are the people that are perceived to be lucky in life because they have everything they want and more. The truth to their success is all about risk though and the knowledge that was acquired during the failures that were overcome along the way. These people set the standards for those in the second group and continuously raise that bar.
      We can all be grouped into o e of these categories and many times in our lives we will find ourselves between these three groups but ultimately it comes down to a choice. How will you see the world and what will drive you to achieve higher standards for yourself?  When you find that drive to be better, you will also find that your energy levels are through the roof and nothing in life will ever slow you down.

Positivity Will Change The World

      We never realize how much our words actually mean until we lay them on a person that takes those few syllables to heart.  Positive words can do so much good when someone is willing to listen, while negative words seem to cut through all positivity and strike at a person's very soul.  It takes ten times as many positive words to overcome the negative aspect and this is all because of how we are trained from childhood. 
      Gossip.  The one aspect of life that we could all do without but it is and will continue to be the start of conversations all over the world.  Assumptions only add to that spinning snowball creating something larger than and more negative.  It is amazing how something so small as an assumption can lead to the destruction of someone's self esteem.  Whether or not this gossip is true is of no concern and the words will continue to be passed from one person to the next without giving a single thought as to how it might affect the subject of discussion.  Why do we do this to each other? 
      Positive actions, words, and thoughts are becoming the new currency of this world.  With each passing day, these things become less relevant to the modern day person and they are slowly beginning to disappear.  The reason I call this a new currency is simple.  The words of a positive person WILL change lives for the better.  A positive person becomes a light to those that only see darkness and those that live in the negative will unknowingly begin to change because of the simple, small, but enormously positive words of one person. 
      The world that we have created tends to focus on the negative and for the most part, those people caught up in negativity don't even realize that they are swimming in this black hole that drains their will and hope.  If they would only stop saying "I can't do that" once and reconsider, the world around them would change.  All of a sudden, they would be able focus more on the one simple reason why "I can" instead of the fifty million reasons that they can't.  The light of hope would become unsheathed and for once, dreams would be possible.  Not because an opportunity opened up, but because they found a way to get up off of ground and continue to push, no matter how many times they are bombarded with negative words and actions of others. 

      Take the time to consider all the choices that you made today.  How many times did you decide "I can't" over "I can"?  How many times did you make a choice solely on the idea that others might not choose the same as you?  We live in a world of conformity but what we don't know is that those that conform never reach true success.  Only those that step outside of their own comfort zone, those that stand up and push back when someone says "it will never work" or "you just can't do that", will ever reach true success.  Make a change in your own life.  Preach positivity to yourself as well as those around you.  You will find friction and resistance, but eventually all those that oppose you will fall to the wayside or fall in behind you.  The idea is to live for yourself, not for everyone else.  Build your own dream and don't fall into the trap of working to build someone else's.  If you don't have a dream and a plan, then you unconsciously allow others to make your plan for you and trust me when I say that it isn't that great. 

The New Face Of The Economy

     As most have noticed, I have been lacking in my posts.  Thankfully, it isn't because of complacency and I will soon be able to resume my frequent updates.  For this post, I would like to talk about the world economy and where it is headed.  Much of this was inspired by the works of great entrepreneurs like Robert Kiyosaki. 

     News from around the world reports daily on the status of the world economy and what is current, but they don't cover where the world economy is going.  For those that do not already see it, I will make it clear.  The tides have changed and the finances of the world are headed downward.  The speed at which this is happening accelerates every day.  Not only are people in America headed towards a depression like never before, but the world is following right along with us.  The markets of each country may be completely different but they are all tethered together and where one goes, the rest will surely follow.  Unless........
      Everyone has heard the phrase that the rich continue to get richer while the poor get poorer.  The sad truth is that it is 100% correct.  As the economy spirals downwards, the rich only seem to make more money and the reason is so simple but we fail to recognize it.  For that reason there is 3% of the world population that controls 97% of the world's wealth.  A staggering statistic if there ever was one.  The average American is a middle or lower class citizen that works as an employee until they retire and only if they are able to afford retirement.  They work a job from the time they are able until the time they can no longer complete the task.  On top of their hard work, the government taxes these employees at about 40%.  For the average American though, it is normal to live in this manner.  It was how their parents did it, and how their parents before them lived as well.  WHY!! 
     From the very beginning we are taught that you go to school to learn.  Why?  So that you can one day get a good job.  Why do you want a good job?  So that you can make money.  What happens when you fail at school?  You get punished.  Our school teaches us from day one that we are an employee.  That is how the world works and failure is not an option, even though failure is our best teacher!  What they don't teach us is the one piece of knowledge that we need the most to succeed.  MONEY.  One more staggering fact for you.  Each year, about 17 million people graduate from college and enter the job market only to find themselves averaging $28,000 a year or less.  Do I have your attention?  Welcome to the rat race, now get on the hamster wheel. 
      What people don't realize is that there has been a major shift in the world economy and how business is conducted.  The rich have realized this and they have used this rat race to make themselves even richer and they will continue to do so because we have engrained this idea of how the world works in ourselves and in our children.  It's time for a major change!  The entrepreneur now leads the way.

      Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone and see what is really going on in the world?  If you really are tired of living in the status quo and you are willing to put down all the reasons that say you can't so that you can pick up the one reason that says you can, let me know.  I have a whole new world of freedom to show you.

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The Bottomless Money Pit

      Rock bottom strikes each and every person no matter what.  It always starts off slow and easy with something simple.  Maybe an unexpected bill.  It seems simple enough but before you realize it, the snowball has grown out of control and you are now over your head and trying to tread debt in order to stay afloat.  Solutions are everywhere and nowhere at the same time.  "Call us for your free loan consultation." Maybe you've heard this one, "bankruptcy can actually improve your credit!"  Which options do you go with?  Is there any way to actually make it through this and get ahead of the game? 
      Every person has their own feelings about the options that are presented.  I have considered them all and I continue to reconsider them daily.  Each one has its own appeal but it also has cons that accompany them.  Each month I struggle to cover all of my bills and I always find myself with more month left at the end of my pay.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Each paycheck comes and goes without even touching my hands or passing before my eyes.  It has become a sick joke that someone plays by depositing my pay in one door and sending out the back door.  It's time to step off the hamster wheel and get into a nice new BMW.  I'm done wasting my time and working for the benefit of the big boss.
      The proverbial belt is getting tighter each month as I cut out the pointless expenditures.  Think about this; when was the last time you profited from watching tv?  What about the fitness benefits of cable television?  I would say that the answer for almost everyone would be never.  When was the last time a soda, Monster, or alcohol helped you to reach your fitness goals?  Again, the answer is never.  While the dollar amount may seem small in nature, it adds up quickly.  Think about drinking one soda a day for a month.  I will even round down on the price for easier math.  $1 a day times 30 days is $30.  Simple and small as far as value is concerned, but $30 is just about perfect for the cost of a gym membership.  The price of gas is another needless expenditure on many occasions.  I've known people to get in their cars and drive 3 blocks to a friend's house.  While the amount of gas used is small, it also adds up.  Try walking or riding a bicycle.  I know I am.
      All of the cutbacks add up and help in their own way, but it will never be enough.  With the choice to better myself, I have found a group of people that wish to do the same.  Now we work together to bring others into our circle and do the same.  Our numbers brings strength, positivity, knowledge, and also profit.  Vemma is the company, Verrve is the product, and YOU are the business.  That's how we work, that's who we are.  With a team and a positive energy that outweighs ANYTHING negative in our lives, we are overcoming barriers and reaching success.  I will make my life better and Vemma is the vessel that I am going to use to get me there.       

Do You Dream?

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            Success.  It is a word of power and prestige.  It is a word that will never cease to conjure images of money, life-long vacations, and fame.  With everyone knowing what this word means and wanting to reach that point in life, why is it that only 3% of the world population controls 97% of the wealth?  Have you ever thought about that?  Maybe you should.

            The answer is very simple.  People are not empowered from within.  The drive to accomplish feats necessary for the attainment of success is just not contained in the spirit of the populous.  Part of it comes from our formal education and the other comes from a long line of personal traits that are passed from parent to child.  A family that lives in the 9-5 routine, running the rat race, will always be in that race until a true change is made.  

            We all dream of reaching the big time.  The day when we can sit back on a beach and do nothing while our cash stacks up in the bank is a wish that every person on this planet makes but it will never come true for 99% of them.  If they do not possess the drive and they allow negativity to push them backwards then they can expect to live out their lives in the rat race.  Think about it on more simplistic terms.  Have you ever told someone “you can’t do that.”?  Have you ever had an idea but decided that it wasn’t worth the trouble?  Have you ever decided to do something, a workout program for instance, but quit because you didn’t have time?  This is all negativity, plain and simple.  It comes about because you don’t have a real reason that holds deep within yourself.  You don’t want success like you think that you do. 

            I lived that life for the longest time.  Up until the last 6 months, I didn’t know that another way even existed.  It was the way that I grew up.  With one simple push from an outside force, I now have a completely new direction in life.  I have a reason.  My goals expanded exponentially. At first I wanted to live a simple and happy life, with a consistent paycheck.  Now, I want to live life as I choose, instead of working through life as my boss tells me that I should.  Who are they to choose my life for me?  The question should have been “who am I to have let someone else choose my life for me?”  

            I have found my driving force and I have found my vehicle that will take me into the future of my choice.  I will achieve every goal that I have ever set for myself and I will do it with ease because I want success just as much as I want to breathe.  Where do you stand?  What is your goal and what is your driving force?  Is it strong?  Show me your goals and I will get you there, if you truly want it bad enough.  Here’s to SUCCESS.

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