Life Is So Precious So Keep Business Simple

Wow! What an amazing 5 days I have just experienced. On New Year's Eve, our younger daughter, Jessica, gave birth to her firstborn. Liam was born at 5:34 AM at home in a pool of water. Jessica's strength and determination were wonderful to behold. Liam was not small - he weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces. Everyone is healthy and thriving. His cord fell off a short while ago and I have been blessed to be here to cook, clean, walk the dog, encourage, and answer questions. These are good tasks for a Nana.

Pregnancy and childbirth are very complicated from a physiological standpoint. But from a personal standpoint, they are amazingly simple. God created our bodies to reproduce so they do. And he created us to breastfeed our babies so that too happens without our having to think about it or make it happen. It happens naturally because we are made for it to happen. It's only when we start second guessing ourselves and the process that things stop working simply. We somehow think that our bodies are different than all the millions of others in the world. We think that we won't be able to give birth or to produce milk. When you look at this objectively, it is ridiculous. So why do we do it to ourselves?

The same goes for entrepreneurship. Ours is the most simple business in the world. We have a proven 3 step system that everyone follows. We have 3 products that the company handles for us. We have pre-written ads. We have training and mentoring that is superior to any I have ever seen or heard of. Yet, many people are somehow afraid they won't be able to succeed. Never mind the numbers of people who make 6 and 7 figure incomes. Somehow they want to complicate it. So they start focusing on why it won't work for them - marketing and lead generation is diffiicult. They don't have any money to get started. They heard of someone who "tried" a home business and failed.

So like Jessica and childbirth, we can draw our strength and confidence from the vast numbers who have succeeded. We can approach our business positive of success and it will happen. In giving birth, failure is not an option. The baby will be born. This is how I approach my business everyday. I know I have the answer. I have been doing this for 3 1/2 years. I have succeeded and have lots of friends who have succeeded. Whether anyone else believes they can succeed or not is their decision. Success is my daily experience.

I know this business and lifestyle work for me. I know that I didn't have to ask any boss' permission to drive 4 hours to be with my daughter when she went into labor. I didn't have to ask anyone how long I could stay (except my daughter and son-in-law!). I have continued to work when I choose with my cell phone and laptop. And I can come back for a visit anytime I choose. We all deserve this kind of freedom. When did we as Americans decide we had to work for a corporation until we're old or dead?

My time and my life are too precious. This business is too simple for me not to do it.