How We Experience Money

Dear friends,
A member of my organization came over the other day. We had a really interesting conversation about how we make money in network marketing. After 9 years in this business my residual income was comparable to her salary at the job she just left behind. She was not impressed with the "mere" low-6-figure income I was making after all this time. I explained to her that my lifestyle was a dream, not because I was a top earner with my company, USANA Health Sciences, but because I experienced freedom. Let's call it a cool one-hundred-thousand dollars per year. When that income has to be worked for day in and day out, with a few weeks of vacation per year, it is one number. When it comes in automatically, it is a very different number. It reminds me of a question that was asked on a math test when I was in 4th grade. "Is an hour in the dentist chair longer, shorter or the same as an hour playing your favorite game?" According to the teacher, my answer, "longer", was wrong.

To this day I think an hour in the dentist chair is longer than an hour playing my favorite game, but this evaluation depends on what criteria you are using.

It took me 9 years to build up this passive income. If this amount enables me to feel free and happy then one could say it is a king's ransom. For my colleague, this amount was unimpressive, but then she had never had it delivered to her in the form in which it was delivered to me.

I am now officially working on my second hundred thousand. I can't say for sure how long it will take. If history repeats itself, than the answer will probably be longer than I expected, or longer than I had hoped. But what does this matter if I feel as if I have already gotten the golden ring? Unlike my friend, this income is mine to keep. What a gorgeous concept that is. Along the way to creating the second hundred thousand, I will make friends, grow like a weed, make a difference, practice patience and tolerance, and be rewarded for holding fast to a dream.

I made the same amount of money, approximately, in my previous career. But like the hour in the dentist chair versus the hour playing, it was not the same as the same amount my business generates now.

Rosie Spiegel, founder Manifesting Vision International
rosie@manifestingvision.com
http://manifestingvison.com