By Rosie Spiegel, Ruby Director and Independent Distributor for USANA Health Sciences
http://manifestingvision.com

Recently a good friend of mine was forced by circumstances to vacate a home that she loved in order to move closer to where she worked. She knew no one in the community where she worked and all of her friends were on the other side of the bridge from where her office was. Unfortunately, her work demands and the ungodly commute where she had been living, dictated her having to relocate.

A neighbor in my beautiful town of Foster City confided in me recently that her husband had gotten laid off. She was terribly concerned because the only job he was able to find required that he travel for about 3 weeks out, leaving her to deal with their two small boys on her own.

A hair-dresser mentioned that she absolutely adores her job, but that she often has too much hand pain to hold a scissors. She swears she loves the craft of styling hair, but she admitted that sometimes she just hates knowing that she has to go to work because she cannot afford to take time off, even if it means to mend her hands that are suffering from inflammation.

Do you know anyone who lives and works under such circumstances? I daresay that we all do. This is the lifestyle of the stressed, overworked, underpaid, financially handicapped worker, who unfortunately is not such a great minority in our communities. How would these stories be told any differently had these individuals made different choices along the way, and if they had been encouraged to work for freedom in addition to a pay check? The answer: very different, indeed. Let’s imagine.

In our first example, let’s call her Sue. Five years ago, Sue had the chance to join a network marketing organization. She loved her job at the time, but wondered if she could ever carve enough time out of her busy life. It was explained to her that the business can be built slowly as long as she kept up about 7 – 10 hours per week on the average to advance her organization. Now, looking back, Sue has the option to stay in the home that she loves and focus on some consulting work in her field, and enjoy the freedom of choice she worked to earn over time.

Let’s call the neighbor Samantha. Now Samantha has her network marketing income firmly established, she was able to help her husband say no to the job that would have completely disrupted their family life. His getting laid off is the best thing that could ever have happened to this family. Now he gets to help her with her marketing business, and has even enrolled some of the people from his job who also got laid off.

You know that hair dresser? She is thrilled with the freedom that network marketing has given her. She says that she can do the work that she loves at a pace that does not cause her hands to become painfully inflamed. Plus, she is doubly leveraged at work now because her story is so compelling: all of her clients want to know what she has done to feel so fantastic!

Can you relate to any of these stories? Do you own your life, or does it feel like the circumstances in your life own you? Maybe you have been approached by someone in network marketing and you thought that they were trying to get something from you. (Less mature practitioners do make this mistake. More seasoned professionals know that their job is to help you get what you want.)

If you are on the outside of a networking organization looking in, take your time to mentally weigh the benefit to you to call the shots. To say no to a move and yes where you want to live. To be able to release a job knowing that you will land on your feet because of your passive income and never have to haul your family across the country, or leave them for weeks at a time just to make money. Or that job you love: would you be happier to do it at a saner pace? Or how about just for the love of it?

Work/life balance: it’s there for the “good” stuff, like being able to make your kids dance lessons a priority in your schedule and your budget. And it’s there for the “bad” things, like being able to care for an aging parent because you don’t have to go to work. We encourage you to consider these ideas. By pointing your ship in the direction of living a balanced life, everything starts to fall into place. You cannot put a price tag on this freedom or the value of having made this choice.

Copyright © 2007 Rosie Spiegel


http://www.manifestingvision.com

rosie@manifestingvision.com