Motivation & Motive Part II -- What's your dream?

Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world, but an investment to be used in the world. – Anonymous

That one sentence could sum up what we’re trying to do. We’re teaching folks how to leverage time and money to regain their freedom (ie. do what they want when they want – legally, morally, and ethically, of course!) so that they can then focus on what’s truly important. All too often, people either have time and no money, or money and no time.

What’s important to you? Taking care of Family? Staying home with your kids? Sending your kids to private school or an Ivy League school or Templeton Honors College? What’s important to a person is also their motive for doing what they do.

What’s your dream? Helping out someone else financially, like a family member with humongous medical bills? Giving your time to a worthy cause? How about sending your kids to college without college loans? Earning an extra couple of hundred (or thousands) a month? Do you need to replace your car? How about retiring early? (That could be 50 for some and as young as 21 for others. I kid you not!) Your dreams are your motivation to keep going, and you can only achieve as much as the size of your dream.

I dream about my husband and I being 2 full-time parents. I dream about the eco-efficient/-friendly house that we will one day have. I dream about tithing $10,000 a month. I dream about my Cobalt Blue 806-HP Koenigsegg CCX. I dream about treating our entire family (ourselves and our kids, our siblings and their kids, our parents – biological and “adopted”) to an all-expense paid 2 week-long vacation. I dream about helping out the family who is so desperately struggling to put food on the table. I dream about adopting kids to give them a great future. I dream about supporting communities worldwide with numerous simple things like digging a well for the village or buying cattle so that they can support themselves (like the “gifts” you can buy at World Vision), and so on and so forth. I dream about helping other families leave great legacies for future generations. I dream about having homes in different places in the world so that we can throw the keys to someone dear and bless them with a place to stay for a vacation. I dream about taking friends out to awesome events and buying them things they dream of but can’t ever afford. I dream about seeing friends having the freedom to stay home with their families and do what’s important to them because the financial stuff is taken care of (because they built the same business we’re building). I dream about sending deserving students to college when there is no sane way for them to afford it. I dream about being able to finally open that clean and dry nightclub where young people (and the young-at-heart) can hang out so that they're off the streets and not getting into trouble. I dream about getting to know those youngsters and impacting them to leave good legacies of their own.

My dreams go on and on and on. Many of them are material. Yet the material bring about experiences that are priceless. What’s the look on the family’s faces as they’re skiing down the Swiss Alps on a Tuesday? Or the laugh of the kids while we’re at Peter Island? (How about having that trip paid by the company??) Imagine this: “Honey, I think I want to experience living in the Netherlands for a month, Germany for 2 months, and maybe Greece and Spain for another couple of months? The kids could easily pick up half a dozen languages in as many months.”

My dreams keep me motivated in building this business; I am spending my life helping other people create additional and residual income so that they can know freedom, so that they can impact other people and exponentially increase the amount of good that we can do. Just think: How much good can you do if you could take all that time that you now spend working to help someone else? What happens when you throw money into that equation?

So, there’s Motive and Motivation. I might come back and revisit this in the future, but for now, I leave you with this: What’s your life – are you wreckage needing to be saved or are you an investment? If you need saving, email me -- I'm not the answer but I can point you in the right direction.

What’s important to you? What’s your dream? I hope it's big.