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Creating More Than A Job

Now that you’ve decided to go into business for yourself, aren’t you ready to create a new lifestyle as well? Stretch beyond just replacing the money you earned while working at a job, and create a huge income stream that will provide for you and your family tenfold.

Up to 90% of all small businesses simply go into business with the intent of creating another job for themselves. They create a lifestyle business that simply pays for the lifestyle they have chosen for themselves.

Sure, it may be better than a job. You can work when you want. Take vacations when you want. But if the business can’t sustain your lifestyle for an indefinite amount of time if you simply don’t work, you’ve created a job.

If your goal is to create more than just a job, and to create wealth that will allow you financial freedom, you’re on the right track.

Start out by reading what I consider to be one of the best lessons on having a job versus creating a business, read Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series. I started out with Robert’s book series 3 years ago, and have learned so much on building businesses from reading his work.

Though there are many quotes I could take from the book to give you ideas on thinking differently, take a look at this:

“Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of accountants who aren’t rich? And bankers, and attorneys, and stockbrokers and real estate brokers. They know a lot, and for the most part are smart people, but most of them are not rich. Since our schools do not teach people what the rich know, we take advice from these people. But one day, you’re driving down the highway, stuck in traffic, struggling to get to work, and you look over to your right and you see your accountant stuck in the same traffic jam. You look to your left and you see your banker. That should tell you something.” (taken from Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”)

The point I want to make with this excerpt is that you are like those around you. If you follow the advice of people that have never achieved success, you will likely end up in the same position.

Everyone needs a starting point. Start by realizing you want change. And go out and get it!