Well, are you? I’ll share with you a simple 60 second exercise you can do right now to find out.
By the way, this post was inspired by an email I received from a subscriber… she told me about how she works her business for 14 hours a day…and how exhausting it is.
Then she went on to say a few words about how she’s building her MLM and asked if I had any tips for her.
Well, first of all, I appreciate the email, and I have to say that my subscriber certainly sounds like a go-getter and is clearly not afraid to work for what she wants. For that I applaud her.
She also mentioned in her email that she’s experiencing exactly that which I talk about on my websites; in order to find just a few of the right people, one really has to sift through heaps of unqualified prospects.
I don’t think I’m putting words in her mouth when I conclude that she feels like she’s working too hard for too little money.
How about you? Do you ever feel like you are working too hard for too little pay?
Well, surely everyone feels that way from time to time…
But let’s do a quick little exercise together to find out whether this really is so. Whether you really are “underpaid”.
So get out your calculator. Ready? Ok – here we go:
Take your average monthly income for the last 90 days and divide it by the hours you put into your business on average, per month.
For example, say your average monthly income is $700, and you put 14 hours a day into your business for, say, 5 days a week. That’s 70 hours per week. Multiply with 4 weeks to get work hours per month, and that gives you 280.
Now take your average monthly income ($700) and divide it by 280 (work hours per month). That comes out to $2.50.
$2.50…that’s what you’re paying yourself, per hour.
Wow.
Chances are you consider your time to be worth a lot more than $2.50 an hour.
Whatever the hourly rate is that you got from this exercise -whether it be $2.50, more than that, or less – I’d like you to consider this amount for a moment and ask yourself whether you agree that this is, in fact, what your time is worth.
And if the answer is NO, then the next question you need to answer for yourself is why you are settling for so little.
In my case I had been led to believe that this is the way it is with any business in the beginning…that you have to work for basically nothing. And then you get it back later in the form of residuals once you’ve built a big team.
I later discovered that that, in fact, is a bunch of baloney.
You don’t have to slave for peanuts, crossing your fingers and hoping and trusting that “one day you will get it all back”.
You can make money now. Today. Good money. Without burning the candle at both ends:
You can do all this to free up your time so that you can build your business and have a life at the same time (!)
Learning all this takes some work but it’s NOT as time-consuming or difficult as it may look at first glance.
In my opinion, it’s if you are not doing the above, that you’re making it hard to build your MLM – much harder than it needs to be!
Which is likely the reason why you’re exhausted.
Which is likely why you have to work your business every waking moment to see even just a little bit of growth.
Which is why it feels like you’re fighting an up-hill battle, and for every step you move forward you take two back.
So…are you ready to hear what the solution is?
The solution is to learn 1.) Attraction Marketing, and 2.) to automate and leverage your business using the Internet. (The two go hand-in-hand.)
This is what took me from making a couple hundred bucks a month to earning multiple five figures a month.
Give me ONE good reason why it can’t do the same for you…
(The “work with me” link below will give you more information on how you can work directly with, and be coached by, me.)
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If you’ve subscribed to receive email updates from me, and you have “replied” to one of my emails – perhaps with a question or a comment – you know that my email account is set up to deliver an “vacation reply”.
And, if you are receiving information from me via email, you also know that if you want to talk to me – if you want to get me on the phone – you are asked to submit an application first.
Why?! Do I think I’m that important? Am I just a snob?
Or…is there perhaps a different reason?
The video below seeks to answer that question.
Recommended: As soon as the video starts to play, point your curser in the bottom right hand corner and click on the little icon you’ll see there that looks like a video screen. This will open the video in “full-screen” mode.
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Years ago there was a movie made with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan called “Joe Versus the Volcano”…the movie didn’t exactly rule the box office and if you have never heard of it, you don’t need to feel like you’ve missed out.
Anyway… I thought of that movie today when for the second time my flight back to the US from Norway was canceled due to the ashes in the air caused by volcanic eruptions in Iceland…
When I got on the phone with Delta Airlines to see when the next flight was scheduled to leave the city of Kristiansand, and was told there was nothing available until six days later, I felt like I was the character in my own movie. A movie that might very well have been called, “Lena Versus the Volcano”.
And had this course of events in fact been made into a movie, chances are great, I think, that it, too, would have flopped at the box office. Not a very believable story is it? The synopsis would go something like this:
“Sought-after Internet marketer travels from Florida to Norway to spend Easter with her family, and to hold a live workshop for her team in Oslo, only her second time in Norway in close to 15 years – and a volcano erupts in Iceland, filling the air with ashes and keeping her from returning back home by plane to her home in California.
“So there she is, stranded in Grimstad while her assistant Melanie is over in the States researching alternate travel arrangements for her, such as ship, boat or train…as well as the possibility of booking an entirely new flight altogether — namely a last-minute-flight from Oslo. (Flights that are doubling in price by the hour.)”
Right. A pretty unrealistic scenario. Yet it is all true, and it’s my very own little drama that I’m dealing with right now.
Fortunately for me, I don’t have anything that I have to “make it back for”. I can run my business just as well from my sister’s house here in tiny, sleepy, Grimstad, Norway, as I can run it from L.A. or from anywhere else in the world. All I need is a computer and an Internet connection.
I don’t have any clients waiting. I don’t have to make my clients wait because I don’t have to show up at a physical office to meet with them. I don’t have to be at an office to make a living. My office is wherever I happen to be, and with the help of Skype, webinars and other online meeting platforms I can, at any time, talk to anyone anywhere in the world.
My business runs itself whether I’m home or away, stranded, or traveling, awake or asleep. Because the Internet never rests, the Internet never takes time off.
The Internet works for me 24/7 — even when I’m away from my computer.
Is your business, your job, your career mobile? Flexible…? What would happen if you were delayed by a volcano (or an airline strike, or an avalanche, or a hurricane, or an illness, or something else that you have absolutely no control over) and couldn’t get home, back to “take care of business”?
Would your career suffer? Would you lose some deals, would you lose clients, lose money, lose sleep, lose face?
Having the advantage of mobility and flexibility in your work (yet a stable, consistent, much-above-average income) isn’t everything, but in a world of never ending change and unpredictability…well, it’s one less thing to worry about…
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If you know anything about me, you know I’m not someone who usually plasters screen shots and photos of checks and bank statements on my web sites in order to try to impress my readers…
I only do it if it is to prove a particular point, and because sometimes the skeptics need to see tangible proof.
Well, today I received a check in the mail for $11, 269. And that’s not profits off of the primary program that I market – no, it’s for affiliate sales only. It’s in addition to the earnings I make off of my primary opportunity…which obviously is a great deal more.
This is passive income, more or less. $11, 269 in one month. Just extra cash.
Bottom line: you can work hard or you can work smart. I choose the latter: leverage the internet, automate as much of your work as possible, tap into multiple income streams, train qualified individuals to duplicate your success so as to produce a residual income for you…
Lots of planning, lots of smarts, and plenty of sacrifices along the way. But if you do the above, and you do it right, you can retire in 3-5 years.
I certainly intend to.
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