What You Must Do to Achieve Real Financial Freedom

One of the greatest challenges people face in life is inability to meet their financial commitments when they become due. This has become an age long problem especially when employment, a one time source of secure income, is no longer secure due to several huge economic downturns in the world economy. This has resulted in major corporations going out of business and the few that survived the recessions have used all kinds of strategies ranging from down-sizing, right-sizing and rationalization in an attempt to salvage their organizations from collapsing.

I have been a victim of organizational strategic alliances in the past and I can remember how frustrating it was a dedicated employee to be asked by Management to leave his employment for reasons of company's economic justification. When an organization embarks on a staff rationalization arrangement as a strategy to rescue the company from failing, there is usually no guarantee that the best employee would be retained. Guess who usually gets downsized, right-sized and rationalized at these times... YOU!

When I was growing up, the trend of life was usually to go to college, get good grades and get a JOB! Employment was seen as the best way of securing financial security and freedom since most companies would offer contributory pension schemes towards their employee's retirement. With this kind of counseling and advice from parents, most people went to college with a hope to graduate, get a job, make contribution towards pensions and retire. Nobody advised that I could actually establish a business or invest in existing businesses as a better way of securing my financial future.

What does it take to become financially free?

The general idea is that it takes money to make money. Another school of thought says that it takes a good formal education, probably a college degree to become wealthy. In my honest opinion, none of these is capable of creating wealth. If you look at the history of wealthy men around the world, you will discover that majority of them did something different. These include individuals like Ted Turner, founder of CNN; Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer; Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft; Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company and Thomas Edison, founder of General Electric. Some of them left school without a college degree and those that obtained college degrees could testify that their wealth has nothing to do with their college training. This is not to say that it is not good to go to college and obtain a degree, but a college certificate is mostly useful for a traditional profession.

The traditional school does not teach you how to become financially free. To achieve financial freedom you have to have a goal and dream which you must personally develop, pursue and achieve. To succeed, it takes a lot of determination and willingness to learn and apply new principles very quickly. Of course, you must be patient, allow yourself time and wait until the combination of your learning and application of new principles begins to produce visible results.

Everybody wants to be wealthy but the difference between those that have achieved wealth and all others lies in the different ways both the wealthy and poor respond to their beliefs, fears, doubts, strengths and weaknesses. The reason you are poor and average is because you usually fall back when things go in the direction you did not expect; that is when the fear of loosing money steps in; and what do you do? The commonest thing average people do at this time is to seek for security. This is not a winning mentality, and if you must switch from your present state of financial insecurity you must chose freedom and pay the price. It is at this point that most people fail because they are usually faced with the urge to go back to their comfort zone; usually their jobs.

If you want to take control of what you do today in order to change your financial standpoint tomorrow, you need to review your present financial position and draw up a plan of action to help you reach your financial destiny. The following considerations may guide you in reviewing your circumstance.

1. Is your present source of finance guaranteed up to 5 years from now?
2. Going by your present circumstances, are you able to adequately provide for yourself
and family in 5 years?
3. Does your income source allow you to live a lifestyle you have dreamt for?
4. Do you spend quality time with your family?

If you have answered 'No' to any of the above questions, you should consider taking immediate action towards investing in your life towards building sustainable income streams for yourself. You must decide on what type of investment opportunities that would become the right vehicle for you to achieve this. I would strongly recommend that you invest in a Business System, and below are the three common ones with a brief description of what each of them entails.

1. A Corporation
2. Franchise
3. Network Marketing

Corporation
This is the most traditional and risky way of developing your own business system. It requires a lot of hard work and commitment to develop and many times than expected fails because of lack of experience on your part. It is common that you may lose 2 to 3 companies before you successfully build one that stands for you.

Franchise
This term is synonymous with McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Burger King or Pizza Hut. It is a system which has already been developed for investors who do not want to, or know how to build their own systems from scratch. Franchising is a good way of starting a business with a 'tested and proven' system. The whole idea of franchising removes an important risk variable from you because even the bank recognizes the importance of a system and are prepared to support it. If you invest in a franchise, you would concern yourself with developing the team that will help you to run the system. However, the cost of buying into a franchise runs into hundreds of thousand Dollars.

Network Marketing
This is sometimes called Multi-Level Marketing or Home Based Business. It is the newest of the three and most suspected by the public due largely to ignorance. Network Marketing System impacts tremendously on people's lives and financial future. All you need to do is buying into an existing system with initial once and for all entry fees as low as between $200 to $300 and start building your business right away. It is designed for you to operate part-time from the comfort of your home, so your cost of running the business in terms of office space, office furniture and office equipment are removed.

I have discovered that in addition to being a sure way to creating sustainable wealth and financial freedom, Network Marketing is a business model that really impacts the lives and finance of people all over the world. In fact, I recommend that you start your journey to financial freedom with a Network Marketing System.

Some of the systems are designed to depend so much on the power of information technology so you do not have to worry about paper work, recording of sales transactions and invoicing. The headaches of calculation of commission and bonuses or processing of orders and delivering of products are removed from the first day of joining. With a little training to get you started by your leaders, you are already in business of making sales.

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