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How would your life change?

Have you ever wondered how your life would change if your income was provided for no matter what time you get out of bed tomorrow? You’re intelligent enough to know that you can’t rely on just a job these days and that your 401K will never be able to keep pace with inflation.

Ever since I left full-time employment behind I have been looking for ways to teach others how to break free from dead-end careers, recession, grueling 80-hour work weeks, and unprofitable small businesses. Millionaires work for nobody. Do you?

Hi, my name is Tiemen. Let me ask you: what do you think it takes to build a successful home business? Thousands have done it, but millions more fail. Certainly there must be an answer if a regular guy like me can pull it off. The big secret to home-based business building is to just get started. Quit talking and thinking about it and start doing! Just by beginning to educate myself on subjects like internet marketing and advertising I got involved with entrepreneurs like “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki and marketing guru Mike Dillard. Make no mistake, the road to riches doesn’t include many short cuts. If you came looking for a quick and easy way to get rich, just close this window and keep looking. There is an abundance of con artists out there that cater to the foolish and lazy, they would be more than happy to take your money.

As you know there are plenty of gimmicks, schemes and outright scams on the internet that pretend to have the answer, but you don’t really believe they will help you build a legitimate home-based business, do you? The child in all of us would love to believe them, but we know better. You might have even tried multilevel marketing in the past and found out a great deal of money later that you will not become wealthy selling vitamins and soap to family and friends. Disillusioned you returned to full-time corporate servitude, convinced that making money from the comfort of home was a fantasy.

Does it take the right system, training, guru, or opportunity? Sure, not all are made equal, but those are still not determining factors. You can buy into those, but they still don’t offer any guarantee; odds are you are living proof because your shelf is adorned with their books and training modules.

So what the heck is it?

It is something intangible that you have to create from the inside out. It is called the entrepreneurial mindset and it means a little more than just being ambitious, creative, and self-motivated. An entrepreneur is setup with different wiring than the average person. They set themselves apart by having the context of an entrepreneur. Without it no marketing books, training manuals, and guru webinars make any sense. This mindset doesn’t limit itself to business either. It’s an all-encompassing outlook on life, people, money, and relationships. It’s also not something some are just born with; it’s something you develop by exposure to education, by trial & error, and by surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals.

To succeed you always need to be growing and learning! A staggering 80% of Americans have not read a book in the past five years. I believe that alone is the reason 97% of home based entrepreneurs are not really making any real money from their business. Most sign up for an “opportunity” and trust some guru will take them down the road to riches. Wake up.

To join the top 3% you need to learn to better leverage everything from financial education, your network, your time, technology, and all the while focus on the results. Set your sights high, millionaires don’t think small. It’s okay if you’ve failed up to this point to break out. It’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility.

Because the subject is so broad I wrote a crash course to entrepreneurship called “Work for Nobody” with the intention to condense this wide variety of knowledge and package it all in an easy-to-read manual. In this 90-page course book I focus on the personal and mental transformation you need to go through in order to carve out a new life of freedom as an entrepreneur. It’s an not an-end-all-be-all book but rather a foundation to start building on. Inside this new book I have compiled the single most important strategies I have used to leave the Rat Race behind in 2006 without ever having to look back. You are going to have to get up close and personal with yourself, but this is the only way to free yourself from the industrial-age mindset that’s holding you back.

There really are secrets to success, but they are available to anyone making an effort to seek them out and willing to learn about them. Start your education today, it’s half the battle. “The Great Recession” should have already taught you that you cannot rely on an employer these days. Getting another one will not solve your problems. Economies don’t come back, they move on. Don’t find yourself left behind, because when the dust settles after this economic meltdown is over it will be a very different world. One with self-reliant entrepreneurs and investors one on side and struggling business owners and corporate slaves on the other. Where are you going to find yourself after the greatest shift in wealth to date is over? That totally depends on what you decide to do now.

Rich Dad comes knocking

It was the summer of 2008 and I was sitting in Rich Dad-author Robert Kiyosaki’s office. Admittedly star-struck when the Big Kahuna walked in I must have felt a little like Robert did when he was 9 and started learning about business from his best friend’s father, his rich dad. I suddenly felt immensely privileged to be there. I became acutely aware of what I stood to learn from this point on. A new world just opened up in front of me. The Rich Dad team suggested I ought to start a Cashflow Club based on Robert’s Game Cashflow 101.

Robert and Kim Kiyosaki created the game in 1996 and his book “Rich Dad Poor Dad” actually started out as a guide for the game. The book went on to become a NYT best seller and the game faded to the background and was realy only played by investors and entrepreneurs with their families. Robert and Kim recognize the current state of our country as large due to the financial ineptitude of its population. The Cashflow Game is the tip of the sword in their crusade against false beliefs about money and lack of financial education. Realizing the opportunity to learn from a world class entrepreneur I seized the opportunity and moved forward to found the Rich Dad Cashflow Club.

So how did I end up here? Was it the so-called law of attraction? Maybe. Back in the fall of 2007 I first read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and from that moment on I was hooked on the idea of passive income. Here I was in the office of the entrepreneur that taught thousands around the world how to stop trading time for dollars.

I had already left full time employment a year earlier thanks to a successful eBay business my wife and I started in 2004, but the business still required a lot of attention. The money was great and we were independent, but our income was still earned and not passive.

So in order to put Rich Dad’s advice to work I started to look into something Robert recommended: network marketing. Why? The startup costs are low, the business plan is simple, and the products are already created for you. Whenever Robert is asked what he recommends someone should do starting out, he replies: “enhance your financial IQ, build a business, and learn to invest.” So off I went.

I first dove into the M.L.M side of the industry with an overpriced juice product and probably spent $15.000 on finding out this is not a great place to look for stability and great ROI. Serious prospects were few and far in between and I wasted plenty of time and money on tire kickers and employee-minded cowards.

During my stint in this branch I came across an internet marketer named Mike Dillard. His copy writing skills were genius and his book Magnetic Sponsoring really struck a chord with me. At a seminar in Mike’s home town of Austin I finally got to meet the guy and his co-conspirators, among which Fernando “Ferny” Ceballos and Raymond Fong, creators of Attraction Marketing Formula.

It was at this “Traffic Formula Live” event that I was introduced to a couple of associates of the Rich Dad company who invited me to come play Cashflow at Rich Dad HQ… which was apparently located only 20 minutes from my home. I know… I couldn’t have made it up either. One thing lead to another and before I knew it I was working with the Rich Dad Franchise to lead a Cashflow Club in the Phoenix Metro area where I teach others the Rich Dad way of doing business. Funny where these things can lead, isn’t it?

Lessons learned

So meanwhile I was still attempting to mix juice with internet marketing and just didn’t work. It was like trying to fit a square peg through a round hole. Once I started talking to some folks in Mike Dillard’s inner circle I quickly found out that these guys were equally turned off by old school ML.M opportunities. So what did they do that was so different? They were not signing people up for an opportunity, no, they had a much bigger vision and I was about to discover what set them apart from the “dabblers”.

We had no problem recruiting distributors for our business, but we found hardly any of them duplicating or making any real sales. Despite making myself and a host of resources available, most of these recruits didn’t seem to have the drive and conviction required to make it. They lacked an entrepreneurial mindset and could not stomach the invest of time and resources it takes to make it work. Opportunities are always presented as something “everyone can do”. Well, that needs a little subtitle: everyone can do it if armed with the right education, connections, motivation, and a couple of ad dollars.

It didn’t take long to figure out that not everyone is your prospect, much in contrast to what industry heavy-weights will tell you. The majority of opportunity seekers is simply not qualified to be business owners, the rest needs a little re-wire. Some of them will come to realize that simply being in “an opportunity” does not make them an entrepreneur. I wrote Work for Nobody for that small group… those who have experienced the time and money constraints of the Rat Race but don’t know how to morph into that entrepreneur they know they have inside. That is why this website is here today.

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