From Business to Lifestyle
Author: James Lillard

Have you ever noticed that writers are also avid readers?
Did you know that musicians who play instruments or sing
also enjoy listening to music? Ever wonder why high powered
CEOs who love the business they are in will read business
journals and other industry specific literature over lunch?
The answer is surprisingly simple: for them their business
and way of making a living has actually become a lifestyle.
More often than not, these individuals are doing what they
love; thus their talents, skills, and interests determined
which profession to choose.

Of course, many others have found jobs that neither reflect
any hobby, talent, and enjoyable activity but are little
more than ways to make money in an effort to feed a family
and provide for personal needs. Even though there is
nothing wrong with this way of earning a living, you will
be able to differentiate these workers by what they do in
their off time. If you do not see the secretary hone her
skills after hours by working to increase her typing speed,
if the nurse after hours does not read up on new medical
advances, and if the cook after hours does not work on
perfecting a new signature dish, then the odds are good
that the job is not so much an extension of them but merely
a necessary activity to be performed in a limited amount of
time.

Interestingly, this is also a great way of differentiating
the successful entrepreneur from the one who will barely
hang on. If you embark on multi level marketing (MLM) or
any other form of network marketing, and do not have the
desire to turn it from business to lifestyle, then you most
likely are not going to become a natural at your given
profession. You may end up being the network marketer who
is constantly changing the magnets and stickers on the car
to reflect the latest and greatest networking opportunity
you have found and who is a barely tolerated guest at
family functions for fear that you will once again break
out into yet another sales pitch for the latest widget you
are selling.

Putting together an effective down line will be like
pulling teeth simply because would-be entrepreneurs are not
drawn to you. Similarly, customers do not see you as the
genuine article and you will have a harder time than most
closing sales. This is not to say that you cannot have a
financially rewarding career in network marketing, not so!
You will, however, have to work a lot harder for your
success and your sale than other who will transcend the
business only attitude and actually turn their job into a
passion that not only governs what they read, but also the
need to join organizations, to network even if there is not
profit involved, and who will seek to further the business
as a whole and not just their own company.

Going from business to lifestyle is only possible if you
believe in the product you are selling and if you are
willing and able to participate in the intricacies of
network marketing in the first place. Those who are not cut
out for this line of work will never have the ability to
make it into a lifestyle. Before becoming a network
marketer, make sure it is in your blood!


About the Author:

James Lillard is an online entrepreneur and uses Web 2.0
technologies and personal branding to help others build
successful home business' and offers guidance and training
for them to meet their financial goals. Find out more about
James and his opportunity at: http://foreverglobal.net .