A gentle breeze is blowing your hair and the sun is warm on your face. You are wearing shorts, a light cotton shirt and sandals, the weather could not be more perfect. You notice that you are smiling and can’t really think of why. You look up and notice the mountains on the other side of the lake, and contemplate the distance. It must be many miles but you believe that you could reach out and touch them by simply stretching out your arms.
Briefly, from who knows where, the thought of your old job comes to your mind and all the drama that went with it. It occurs to you that you have caught yourself smiling like that quite often lately. The life of a commercial airline pilot kept you in the air and away from home more than anyone should have to be away from their spouse and children. But that is the past and this is your life now… You smile again. You say to yourself… “What a great decision I made”. Sure, take the credit. You took the responsibility to make the change, while your coworkers chose to be held hostage by the false security of a job.
It brings to mind the night that you first had the thought to consider finding a legitimate business from home. You were sitting on the runway, the jet was full of passengers, and after 30 minutes, you are still waiting on an email to say you are clear to taxi down the runway. Another equipment failure, but regulations state that you must have that information… “Proof”… giving you clearance to take off. It wouldn’t normally be via email, but they are trying to be creative and get the planes in the air.
So there you sit, 11:49 pm and you should have been in the air about 11pm. Your night is all messed up and it’s affecting your personal life. Then after almost an hour of waiting, you get word that the computers at corporate are the problem, and they are not able to print out the email to bring it out to the plane… all planes are grounded until they get the computer fixed. Not the end of the world, but it was the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.
You have always thought, or dreamed, of a home business… really being able to create wealth and long term stability from a home based business. Sure you have heard of the scams, and pyramid schemes, get rich quick non sense, and you can smell them a mile away. No, you know that you will know what you are looking for when you find it. That just has not happened yet. But now you are pushed over the edge and you remember making the decision, I will make this happen. Period.
The next day you were looking for that cabin in the mountains of Colorado. You could see your vision… a simple cabin to get away and write… a lake, a dock, a Mountain View, and NO MORE UNIFORM… shorts and sandals and a peaceful breeze off the lake. You wanted to get clear on your vision and dream, before the home business search because you knew that vision would fuel you through the bumps in the road that were sure to come. You found the property, printed it out and put in clear view. You are on a mission and it starts now!
You go to Yahoo! Search. You type the phrase slowly and carefully… “Legitimate Business From Home”… You thought about it, and this is exactly what you are driven to find. You even use quotes around it to refine your search. Sure enough you see a bunch of advertisements, but you are looking for the natural search results that come up on the left. You carefully look down the left side past the three paid advertisements they squeezed in there to bait you, and sure enough, you found what you were looking for in a Legitimate Business Opportunity. You pick up the phone and made the call… this was just the beginning of your journey, but it was that first step that brought you to where you are standing now… on a dock in Colorado, overlooking the lake, mountains, and trees, all with the free time to live life. You think to yourself as you smile again, this is the result of making a decision, taking action, and then expecting the outcome.
You take a deep breath, exhale… and step into the rest of your life, starting right now.