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Another Rainy Day

Posted by grndstf on April 5, 2008

Funny, when I was in the “work world”, as I was for more than 30 years. On a rainy Saturday the last thing I could do would be to relax and just enjoy the rain. I would be out all day running errands. Or, as a manager of a call center, it was not unusal to spend my entire day off at the office finishing up loose ends or just trying to get caught up and putting out fires.

Saturdays were nothing special, in many cases, they were just another day.

But here we are on yet another (the 7th day in a row) of a rainy day. This morning, my husband and I have just sat and watched the rain over the water view, watched the fog come and go with each passing thunderstorm and had some really good conversation.

This is the way we live our lives. They are entirely on purpose. If we choose to relax on any day, we can. So even a rainy day is an absolute pleasure and we are very grateful for them.

Just wanted to pass on this thought. Have a wonderful Saturday.
To your success…

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New Website is Launched

Posted by grndstf on April 1, 2008

For a very long time, I have had the desire to provide my readers with more resources on how to find, build, market and operate a real Home Based Business.

I am very pleased to announce that this is another accomplishment from my dream board. On March 30, 2008 I launched http://www.TheHomeBasedBusinessCenter.com

My new website is still under construction but as it evolves my goal is for it to be a major player in business tools and mentoring. It will be a marriage between sound business principles and personal development principles.

When you visit, you will notice a link on the home page titled: How My I help you? I strongly suggest you use this to let me know what you would like to see on this site. Tell me what tools you need and what information would help you in building your business.

I look forward to hearing from my readers.

To your success…

Click here to see my new website

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Gotta Love My Life!

Posted by grndstf on March 31, 2008

What is the definition of freedom? Go ahead, look it up. But let me tell you what my definition of Freedom is:

“Having no limits, having unlimited options available, not being limited by someone else’s beliefs, being able to make moves, the ability to choose how you spend your time, your money and your energy”.

That is the freedom that we enjoy. When my husband Jerry and I got started with Liberty League International a little over 3 years ago, we had NO FREEDOM. Our employer’s controled everything about our lives, even down to where we went for vacations (when we got them). My employer never wanted me more than a couple of hours away in case they needed me.

Since we got started here, we have moved to where we had always dreamed of living, Emerald Isle, NC. We choose where to live, what to do, when to travel, where to eat out and on and on and on. It is not unusual for us to take off on a shopping trip to Wilmington or Myrtle Beach for the day and end up spending a night or two. That is freedom.

We love our life here. Liberty League has been everything we expected and more. The level of integrity is unmatched with any other company we tried in the past. Everyone with Liberty League works toward the success of every one else. We are a team, a true community of Entrepreneurs who are living our lives in absolute freedom and I am very grateful that it is a part of my life.

To Your Success…

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Introducing My New FREE 7 Day E-Course For Success

Posted by grndstf on March 2, 2008

Sometimes it just takes one of those A-HAAA Moments to make everything come together. Some coaches refer to it as a “Shift” or a “Switch” in your thinking. I refer to it as a OMG moment. It literally will take your breath away when suddenly things just click for you. That is an “Oh My Goodness” Moment!

With my new E-Course for success, my goal is to introduce you to some food for thought. A few nuggets that may assist you in getting that OMG moment.

It’s FREE and there is no obligation of any kind. Simply Click Here to begin receiving the course immediately.
To your success…

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Entrepreneurs Serving Their Community and Growing their Businesses

Posted by grndstf on February 4, 2008

As an entrepreneur, I have found a great way to give back to my community. I started a community based group meeting of Entrepreneurs. I had been a member of Meetup.com for quite some time and then realized that maybe I had something to offer to other Entrepreneurs.

By following the simple step by step system outlined in meetup.com, I established a group called the Emerald Isle Entrepreneurs Meetup, in Emerald Isle NC. We meet the last Thursday of each month (what I call Super Thursday). It is the day that dedicated entrepreneurs from the coastal area come together to learn business stategies, mindset and mastermind to build and grow their companies.

It’s something we all really look forward to. We have genuine open discussions on what strategies work, we support and mentor each other and work together to assure each of us has all the necessary tools to succeed in our businesses.

We welcome anyone who is looking to start a business or owns a business. We have some people who have been self employed for years, and others who are just starting out as members of our group. We have Home Business Owners as well as some who own Brick and Mortar Businesses, every scope of Entrepreneurship.

Everyone has something unique to contribute, and everyone is welcome. The group is open to anyone in the Emerald Isle area, and is free to join.
The Emerald Isle Entrepreneurs group meets monthly. (For details, go here)

As for why I bring this up on my blog. It is very important for everyone to give to their community. Of course we all know the value of giving financially to powerful causes, but it is equally valuable to give of our expertise and our time.

I started these meetings with the idea of giving, but have been amazed at the level of recieving I have experienced. We have very powerful and authentic people in our group. I have made friendships that will last forever and have at my fingertips a group of like minded individuals who support each other unconditionally.

This is what entrepreneurship is all about. I encourage everyone to utilize the tools available at meetup.com to find a group to share in your successes and mentor you to greater success.

To your success…

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Jet Fuel for Home Business Success

Posted by grndstf on January 30, 2008

My goal is to always provide my readers with indepth “how to succeed” information. Working a home business should be fun and very gratifying, never stressful. The reason we quit our dead end jobs is so we can be home with our families and work when we choose to work, not to be worried about paying bills and making ends meet.

But too often, we let the worry of succeeding overtake the reason we left our jobs to begin with. We let the day to day stress of what to do next control us and not allow ourselves the success we deserve without the stress. So what will help to alleviate the worry and add real “jet fuel” to our level of success in our businesses?

This may sound too simple, but a great place to start is GRATITUDE. Those of us who work from home, anytime we choose and live life on our own terms have so much to be grateful for. We are home with our families, travel without a bosses approval, go to the beach anytime we want and live our life in freedom. But then again, doesn’t everyone have much to be grateful for?

We go through the process of setting our goals, using positive affirmations, visualization of our goals and then we work our business, expecting it to bring to us everything we envision. Why does this not always transpire as we expect? Why would there be anything less than outright success?

It is a very simple question with a very simple answer. We can’t possibly expect to have more when we are not grateful for what we currently have? Sure, we have all heard this, but just what is the hidden meaning inside of that question? Why do so many people say “but I am grateful for what I have and still not getting what I want”?

The answer is very simple also. Gratitude is an action, a state of being, a way of life, the way you start your day and the way you live your day and that brings you absolute happiness. It is not something you just happen to get, it is something you must feel from the heart, feel from within and truly experience.

Gratitude starts with knowing there is a reason for everything you have experienced in life. First of all, they are history and a part of the journey we encounter while finding our true and authentic selves. You must start by being grateful for anything that might be an adversity and know those are just part of your journey.

Then, just live in thanks and gratitude. Be thankful for the penny you find, for the toast that did not burn, for the coffee maker that actually came on before you got out of bed. Be grateful and truly thankful for everything. Also, understand that gratitude creates an air around you which attracts more success into your life.

A grateful heart is not something we can turn on, it is something we must nurture and develop. An easy way to do this is to start your day with a gratitude journal. Write down everything you are grateful for “today”.

Then here is the jet fuel, after listing everything you are grateful for today, list everything you are grateful for tomorrow! In other words, through gratitude, make your goals and plans known. But when writing out these intentions, list them as though you already have them, i.e. “thank you for the donation of $5000 to Make a Wish Foundation”.

Afterall, once you ask for something, through faith you should know it is done, so be grateful for it in advance.

Simply said, start your day in absolute gratitude for where you are and where you are going. It is the jet fuel to success in all areas of life and in your Home Based Business and don’t procrastinate… do it today!

To your success…

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The Decision to Have Financial Freedom is Always Within Your Grasp

Posted by grndstf on January 20, 2008

Too often, people use excuses for why they are where they are in life. Either it is someone else’s fault, the economy’s fault, the company’s fault or the government’s fault. But the truth is, it is ALWAYS Their OWN Fault. We are always where we are due to decisions we made. Period!

Regardless of the circumstances in life, the decision to accept those circumstances or to fight them by changing direction, is entirely up to you. When did our society convince us that we had to accept what we were handed in life? We were all created with the ability to control our future, so when did we give that control over to other people?

This is especially true when it comes to finances. If you feel you do not have control over your finances, then take a very hard look at where your money comes from. If you are selling your time for money, or in other words, you work for someone else. Then you may not feel you have a lot of control. But get this; you chose to work where ever you work and you have chosen to accept the income you receive. If you want to change that, then you must choose better and make changes in the direction you are going.

Personally, I know many self made millionaires who literally were in the same place at some point in their lives. They just realized they would never get anywhere relying on someone else to determine their worth.

Being financially free does not have a magic formula. It does however take making a decision to make better decisions. Once you have decided you deserve more, then you change the way you are thinking in order to make better decisions.

Also, realize that no one ever became financially free without taking some risks. Oh my, there is the kicker! So many people do not want to knowingly risk anything these days. But, by choosing not to take chances, they take risks unknowingly. Think about that. By choosing to not take chances, they unknowingly take chances every day. They leave their financial future in the hands of others, assuming the other person will make wise choices for them.

Look how many times Donald Trump lost everything, only to come back stronger, richer and faster than before. He was willing to take chances for what he wanted, what he knew he deserved.

So, you want to know what it takes to have Financial Freedom? Here it is:

1) If you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep getting what you are getting. In other words, you MUST do something else.

2) Decide exactly how much money it will take to be financially free.

3) Find a business model that supports your goals. If you want to become a millionaire, then find a business model that allows you to accomplish that goal quickly (not in 20 years).

4) Mentor with people who have what you are looking for. They did it, and will normally tell you what decisions they had to make to accomplish it.

5) Be willing to take a chance. Worst case scenario, stuff is easily replaceable. What I have found is you normally get to replace stuff with better stuff anyway.

6) Just do it. Follow what your mentors advise you to do.

7) Believe in yourself. You have everything you need inside you to accomplish your greatest desires. You just have to tap into that by believing.

To your success…

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Working From Home – Is it Too Good to Be True?

Posted by grndstf on January 19, 2008

I pinch myself every day. I wake up when I want (and yes, I still get up early by choice), I lounge around most of the morning reading, writing, listening to music and talking on the telephone. I then make a few business calls, plug into my companies morning wake up conference call. Then I am off to walk on the beach or just hang at the local coffee shop for a while.

The rest of my day is about the same, working about 3 or 4 hours total for the day and enjoying my life the rest of the time.

So, does this sound too good to be true. Fact is, it probably sounds boring to many people, but it is exactly what my life looks like. Why, because I choose to work from home.

I had a career in the Corporate World for many years, but just realized I was living in a trap. A trap totally controlled by other people. They decided when I worked, how long I worked, how much time I spent with my family and even how much I was worth. And, on top of that, they frequently decided I was paid too much and cut that dramatically.

Walking away from that world, which is what my husband and I both did very suddenly, was not hard at all. One might think it was difficult to do, but once we made the decision to do it, it was easy to just say goodbye. Not long afterwards, we chose to move to the coast and even that wasn’t hard to do. We just did it.

Of course it helped that we had already started our Home Based Business. Three months later, we were free of our jobs and pinching ourselves. So how did we make it happen so quickly?

We found a business with a very powerful compensation model. One that allowed us to make a very good income quickly and without a large number of sales.

Then, we followed the system the company had in place. No need to reinvent the wheel here. It was a simple system, just plug and play, that is what we did.

And the third thing, we burned the boats. We took any other option off the table. We decided not to just put our toe in the water, but to commit to our own success. We jumped in and then reaped the benefits.

Often I hear people who say, “That business just sounds too good to be true”. Well, I am sorry, but that is just too funny to me. I always ask “So, are you looking for something bad enough to be real?”

Think about it:

Too good to be true or bad enough to be real? Personally, I find the too good to be true the best option here. Something that sounds really good, certainly has a better chance of being good than something that sounds bad.

What it comes down to is that people too often are looking for an escape route before they even begin the journey. They do not want to commit to their own success, or do what it takes to be successful, so it is much easier to just say it was “too good to be true”. On the other hand, if they go with something that does not sound good to begin with, then chances are no one will notice when they fail.

Odd to me that people try harder to fail than they do to succeed.

So, working from home is wonderful and of course there are some challenges. But, most of the time, it is just too good to be true to the outside world. Especially when those of us who work from home, normally have a higher income that the person who is still under the control of a boss.

No, my business is not too good to be true, it is Truly as Good as it Gets!

To your success…

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Working From Home – Creating Your Future

Posted by grndstf on January 17, 2008

It is a fact, the Home Based Business arena is the fastest growing segment of our economy. Being an entrepreneur and a Home Business Owner, funny how when people ask what I do, they immediately think I am going to recruit them into “one of those” things. I have to laugh.

There was a time when I thought the same thing. That was before I realized the majority of new millionaires in the USA were from Home Based Businesses. And now, I know many of them myself. People who “got it”. People who understand about free enterprise and how to create their future.

But this is not something we are taught. We are taught, go to school, get good grades, get a good job, do as you are told and retire with a good pension. Yeah, Right! First of all, I tried that only to be fired with 28 years on the good job and no benefits or income.

So what did I do, I got real mad. Mad at myself, for not taking control of the situation earlier in my life and creating my own future.So now, looking back over the past few years, comparing where I was to where I am, it is mind boggling how far I, we have come.

Now we live where we want to live, we travel when we want, we sleep in if we choose (cold winter days), or get up early just to play on the beach any day we choose. We are free. Our phone does not ring in the middle of the night any longer and I do not have to plan my vacation based on when my boss wants me to go. Life is wonderful.

But getting to this point in life takes a few things.

1) It takes a decisionThings don’t just happen, they are created. You must decide what you are going to create
2) It takes actionYou have to move forward and action is what creates results
3) It takes knowing WhyYou must know why you do what you do. You must have somethingdriving you, something all consuming, something bigger than yourself
4) It takes clarity on your goalsIf you do not know where you are going, you will never get there. Becrystal clear on your goals.
5) And it takes a vehicleTo live free, you must have an excellent income. Make sure you have a business model which supports your goals. If your goal is to make $50k per month, make sure you have a business capable of producing that level of income very quickly.
6) It takes commitmentTo yourself, to your why and to your goals
7) And it takes good mentoringFind people who have accomplished what you are looking for and follow them. Stay close, observe and take on their habits and their posture.

So just go for it. Anyone can be free to work from home and create an amazing and abundant life. But you have to put all the pieces together. If you miss any of the pieces listed above, you will never completely reach your goal, you will end up settling.

Never settle, never give up and remember. If you are not on the right path now, change the course and go another path. But YOU have to do it, no one will do it for you.

Oh, and one more thing. Make sure to take direction only from those who have accomplished what you want.

To your success…

PS for a business model which provides the potential of a huge income very quickly, visit http://www.prosperitylifestyles.com

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Working From Home – Creating Your Future

Posted by grndstf on January 17, 2008

It is a fact, the Home Based Business arena is the fastest growing segment of our economy. Being an entrepreneur and a Home Business Owner, funny how when people ask what I do, they immediately think I am going to recruit them into “one of those” things. I have to laugh.

There was a time when I thought the same thing. That was before I realized the majority of new millionaires in the USA were from Home Based Businesses. And now, I know many of them myself. People who “got it”. People who understand about free enterprise and how to create their future.

But this is not something we are taught. We are taught, go to school, get good grades, get a good job, do as you are told and retire with a good pension. Yeah, Right! First of all, I tried that only to be fired with 28 years on the good job and no benefits or income. So what did I do, I got real mad. Mad at myself, for not taking control of the situation earlier in my life and creating my own future.

So now, looking back over the past few years, comparing where I was to where I am, it is mind boggling how far I, we have come. Now we live where we want to live, we travel when we want, we sleep in if we choose (cold winter days), or get up early just to play on the beach any day we choose. We are free. Our phone does not ring in the middle of the night any longer and I do not have to plan my vacation based on when my boss wants me to go. Life is wonderful.

But getting to this point in life takes a few things.

1) It takes a decision
Things don’t just happen, they are created. You must decide what you are going to create
2) It takes action
You have to move forward and action is what creates results
3) It takes knowing Why
You must know why you do what you do. You must have something
driving you, something all consuming, something bigger than yourself
4) It takes clarity on your goals
If you do not know where you are going, you will never get there. Be
crystal clear on your goals.
5) And it takes a vehicle
To live free, you must have an excellent income. Make sure you have a business model which supports your goals. If your goal is to make $50k per month, make sure you have a business capable of producing that level of income very quickly.
6) It takes commitment
To yourself, to your why and to your goals
7) And it takes good mentoring
Find people who have accomplished what you are looking for and follow them. Stay close, observe and take on their habits and their posture.

So just go for it. Anyone can be free to work from home and create an amazing and abundant life. But you have to put all the pieces together. If you miss any of the pieces listed above, you will never completely reach your goal, you will end up settling.

Never settle, never give up and remember. If you are not on the right path now, change the course and go another path. But YOU have to do it, no one will do it for you.

Oh, and one more thing. Make sure to take direction only from those who have accomplished what you want.

To your success…

PS for a business model which provides the potential of a huge income very quickly, visit http://www.prosperitylifestyles.com

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