What drives me.

It's 11:00 at night, I started work about 15 hours ago and I will be working for another hour. I need to contact Australia and Singapore before my day is done.

This isn't how it was meant to be.

Residual income was meant to be easy, they told me I would work 10 hours a week and that's all.

Residual income isn't easy, residual income is where you put the work in first and then get the rewards many times over for the work you did. Like writing a book say, you do however many hours writing it then sit back and the money comes in.

Now I'm not interested in writing a novel, they 90% of people are - I was, I did of sorts and that was it. A couple of friends read it, I deleted it and there ended my desire to write.

I do want to do what I do, I want to help people get a better life, a better income. Thats why I am up now waiting to call a guy in Australia to arrange a meeting with a guy in Singapore who wants to earn more money.

Sure I could have sent an email and hoped for the best and that would work sometimes but no matter how many people tell you that there is a new way to run a network marketing business (which is the income stream I am working on this second) the fact is that it is a people business. A relationship business, I am working with people I have never met but to get the numbers I have to be a real person. We have a good lead capture system that we use for us and the team but at the end of the day they want to talk to us. I have soent 3 hours on the phone to South Africa today some people in South Africa may have joined just by emails but not many.

Most people who tell you there is another way have a system to sell. That's how they make their money not by network marketing. Talk to anyone who is making over a $million a year in this industry and they talk to people, or did when they were building their business.

So why don't I work the percentages, do 4 hours a day get maybe 25% of the sign ups I do and settle for that?

This is why - in 2 weeks time I will be a father again. Of all the things I have done in my life being a father to Gemma for the last 16 years has brought me the most pride, pleasure and sense of achievement. Sadly I missed most of Gemma growing up.

That isn't going to happen again.

I reckon I will have about 17-18 hours a day awake (probably more like 23 when Aspen is born!! :-))

I could work 12 hours a week at this and retire in 16 years time or I could work 12 hours a day and retire when Aspen is not yet 3.

I still get to spend 5 hours a day with my family, when I choose. How many dads working for the man trying to keep their family afloat can say that?