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:
