The life you were meant to live

We all live busy lives.

Each and everyday, we wake up to appointments, commutes and our jobs.

We fill our time up with activities, but are they fulfilling?

Are we spending our time the way we’d like to?

Many of us work jobs that we feel trapped in. We’re limited in how high we can climb the career ladder and have little time left at the end of the day to think about our direction in life.

We dream about being wealthy and managing our most valuable resource: time.

But we can’t because we have those appointments, commutes and jobs dictating our time.

And many of us dream of financial freedom that will allow us to manage our time. Some of us may even have ideas that we’d like to pursue. Deep down, we all wish to have control of our time and outcomes.

Unfortunately, the career ladder wasn’t built this way.

True wealth and freedom comes through following our passions.

And beyond having special skills or cool product, I had to learn the hard way that to pursue one’s passion, it takes so much more then just a product. It takes many skills combined - not just one.

Business is an eco-system of systems. Like in the rainforest, where thousands of species rely on one another for survival, pursuing an idea and creating a business requires an intricate web of systems.

And just as it’s impossible for us to comprehend all the complexities of a rainforest eco-system, we’re also at a loss when it comes to understanding how all the business systems come together.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t harness their potential. The key lies in building relationships and finding the right people to manage each system. For example, hire an accountant to do your books.

You don’t need to be a certified accountant, lawyer or tax auditor to assemble teams and systems.

So what’s the first step in taking action and building these systems?

The easiest way is to join an existing eco-system, so to speak. Join a network-marketing group or a company that offers affiliate commission positions. These companies have systems and products in place already. Think of them as your first set of training wheels on your “business bike”.

Learn to balance and peddle, before cruising down mountains.

It’s one of the best ways to learn the ropes of a business from the inside. Most have little risk and don’t require huge amounts of time. You can do most from the comfort of your own home, weeknights and weekends.

As the finance masters Donald J. Trump and Robert T. Kiyosaki say in their book Why We Want You to be Rich:

“when people ask me what's the first thing they should do if they want to be entrepreneur, I recommend they learn how to sell... Donald Trump and I recommend and support the network marketing or directs sales industry primarily because of the education aspect of the industry. Not only do most of these businesses focus on the training people to be business owners, many of these businesses also have great personal development and sales-training programs”

The most important part of starting down this path to controlling your time and resources is taking action.

The path has emerged before you, now walk it.