Hi again. Thanks so much for visiting my Blog and taking the time to read it.

I always write long Blogs because I am not able to write every day, and also because I love writing and expressing through the written word.

That is a great achievement for me as I am really quite a shy person. Many, many years went by and I really did not share much. However, I did in the classroom when teaching the children. In fact, I was very relaxed there.

It was only a few years ago I realised I was able to express myself  fairly well really,  and was now able to also achieve that with the written word.  This became fabulous to be able to express myself, and share information.

I do write long Blogs because, lol , “I am practising my skills for future Sales CopyWriting”, which requires long explanations.

Now, I will continue from where I was up to in my last Blog posting.

I think I have already conveyed I was an Executive Primary School Teacher for 29 years.  I was very passionate about my career.

I loved working with children, seeing them blossoming and growing, and knowing I was playing a small, but extremely important  part in that growth. I had a wonderful poem I placed above  the doorway leading to my classroom about a potter and his clay. This clearly showed my total belief in how important each imprint we make, and have,  upon children is, and, for that matter, also upon ourselves and others, when we have the gift of the opportunity to have an influence in part of their growth.

The Sculptor

I took a piece of plastic clay
And idly fashioned it, one day,
And as my fingers pressed it, still
It moved and yielded to my will.

I came again when days were passed,
That bit of clay, was hard at last,
The form I gave it, still it bore,
And I could change that form no more.

Then I took a piece of living clay
And gently formed it, day by day,
And moulded with my power and art,
A young child’s soft and yielding heart.

I came again when years were gone,
It was a man I looked upon,
He still that early impress bore,
And I could change it nevermore.

Author Unknown

A Potter Thumping His Wet Clay

I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to have been involved in many curriculum, teaching, education, management and learning areas during my teaching career, in the School, District, Region and State.  I also taught 1/2 of my teaching career in the Infants, and 1/2 in the Primary and tutored for many years, quite a few subject areas from early Learning right through to Year 12.  This gave me a wide range of experiences I will always be very grateful to have had.

I ran several committees, musicals, music festivals, school choral groups and choirs, as well as District ones.  I ran, and trained each instrument for the School Band, Recorder Group, trained the Dance Group and many other areas that covered a wide range of subject areas, as well as also being  involved in, and leading, many Management and Leadership areas.

I loved them all.  I will always fondly remember these experiences and opportunities and be grateful for them.

I had earned a few scholarships at the end of High School, including one to become a Lawyer, and another to be a High School Maths and Music Teacher. However, I had always wanted to be a teacher  in a Primary School, and, even now, I am extremely grateful I had the opportunity to teach children for so many years. It was extremely rewarding and holds many wonderful memories I will treasure always.

Sadly, one day, in my 29th year of teaching, I had that  freak accident, whilst at school, that was to take away this wonderful career.

It is amazing how one’s life can just change over night, mind you, just in an instant.

However, I was to learn, one door closes and another opens.  It is all for a purpose.

I have learned so much during this journey and treasure very much my family, friends and those who saw me through those times.

What was to follow was 44 anaesthetics, hundreds of canulas, portacaths, 3 major surgeries, 3 major life-threatening blood infections, many chest wall injections, 7, some almost fatal,  overdoses (not by me), strong medications etc.

I was to spend the majority of the next 6 years more in hospital than out.  The resulting condition, as a  result of the accident, was very rare, with rare side effects, and required special pain management, which I was to get from the leading specialist in his field in Australia, and for which required long hospitalisations.  It was a very tough time.  But, I will always be extremely grateful to the wonderful medical people, clergy, family and friends who supported me, and our family, during this time.

Almost overnight my secure income disappeared and we were instantly a 1 income family with 2 children to put through High School, a mortgage to pay, bills to pay, and my mother had also just come to live with us.  Our children were only 11 and 13 at the time of the accident.

During  those years I truly never gave up.  I had wonderful support.  Sometimes it was extremely scary.  Sometimes it would have probably been much easier to give up.

During this time, I also wanted to find a way to be able to help my husband out financially.  He virtually was a single parent trying to hold the fort and bring up the children, pay all the bills from his wage, and be there for me, the children and my mum.  He is truly extremely special.

I was not able to help at all really for the first few years, but then I started to dabble around looking for things for me to be able to do via the internet.   There were so many things out there – thousands, and there still are, but I was not sure what was legitimate and what was not.  I saved many possible sites for future viewing, for when I would once again feel better.  I would get to go through these later in my journey, a few at a time when I was feeling better but many, in the manner they were presented, did not appear to be trustworthy to follow.

In my 6th year, whilst still mostly in hospital, I was to be introduced to Network Marketing MLM Multi Level Marketing.

In between, I had purchased a few products that promised to help me earn money from home, but many I could not understand, or I’d get so far and come across stumbling blocks only to find there was no support of any kind offered to you from the experienced people who had produced these products, that would help me get through those hurdles.  So these products, for me, would go in the “It doesn’t work”, “the too hard” basket, “the I just don’t understand it” basket or the “they just wanted my money” basket.

I really studied the Network Marketing MLM Company that was presented to me, and it came up trumps, from all angles.  I was impressed with the fact it offered brilliant products that would help people with their health, and the products really did help me.  I had tried so many vitamins etc whilst in hospital, and on my medications but none really seemed to benefit me. I was really impressed with their vitamin and mineral products. They were created by a man who really understood the living cell and what it needed for nourishment.

I was also impressed with the promise of a residual income that would help our circumstances and that also could be willed to family.

It was quite expensive for us to join, but I was totally believing of what had been presented to me, comfortable in the knowledge of my total commitment to work at things, the knowledge also that I definitely have determination, self-motivation and drive, the fact that I really wanted to succeed, and believed what I had been told that by following their system, with my input, and not giving up, I would succeed.

I went very well and in a 2 year period became a Silver Director.  However, the week I turned Silver, the very well-earned, hard-earned, fairly substantial cheque I received, and was excited about, resulted in my extra points, of which there were thousands,  being taken from me, and sent back up to the company.   I then went back to zero points, which now meant I had to go through the whole building points to earn process again.  We were back at zero income.  I began to question how difficult, time consuming and expensive it had been to get to this point.

Quite a few of my team were disillusioned too now, as they had seen I was able to build the business fairly well, and even though I spent much time training and working with them, holding weekly Conference calls, Webinars, Meetings, Home Meetings etc, their businesses were not growing as mine was.  They were not receiving money for their input of time nor outlay on the products each month.  They were spending more than they were earning, and so was I, yet I was working at the business many, many hours a week.

I was to meet what was to be my 2nd Network Marketing Company through a friend who had been in the previous company I just spoke about, but who had been in a leadership role with 2 of the top Australian people in the world in this company.  They had all decided to leave for their own reasons, and move in to this fairly new company that had only 1 product, but with this company moving ahead in leaps and bounds, showing rapid growth not really seen before in the industry.

I was not looking for a move, had just had laser eye surgery and was at home recuperating when, my soon to be sponsor, came to visit me at my house near Sydney NSW, having flown all the way from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to try to get me to join. She really wanted me in her team.

PS:  Laser eye surgery was one of the bravest things I had ever done and I had the surgery on Friday 13th March and never chickened out.  It is great though.  I have one eye one vision and the other the other vision.  I can see 10 times better now.

I explained to her, on her visit,  that I was not interested at all in changing companies.  However, she was to show me the payment plan, and take me to a meeting the company leaders from America were running in Sydney NSW.  The payment plan appeared much more lucrative than the previous MLM Network Marketing Company, and appeared much easier for everyone to be able to achieve an income from, and, there was only 1 product.  This company was on the move, and was proving to be one of the fastest growing companies in this Network Marketing MLM Industry ever.

I began taking this product almost immediately, as did my family and I also gave it to my Mum. It really assisted my mother’s Alzheimer’s well. I still use this product to this day for Mum, my husband and me, as the children have moved away from home now.  It is an amazing product and has really helped.

Mum had lived with us for several years, until she, sadly, in 2003 had to go in to a Nursing Home.  However, this product, (once I joined this company and, with her Drs support), I started her on, and it was to help her immensely, as it still does today.

I decided to move in to this company, and much of my team decided to move with me because we were a team of friends and colleagues, and they were also impressed with this company  too.  I did not ask them to move with me.  They merely asked where I was going and why, took a look at the company and payment plan and liked it, wanted to continue to work with me, and so many moved too.  I felt honoured by their faith in me.  I believed not only that my family and I were going to be able to build a good income but so would my team be able to.

I was to learn how wrong I was as it is a business of bringing other people in to the business, and even though I was truly passionate about the company, its product, the payment plan, my team etc and worked many, many hours training, demonstrating etc it is really up to each individual person to have their own commitment and passion and share that with their own people.  I was recruiting but no matter how I showed others most were not able to duplicate.  I was to learn it was a business only a few people could succeed in.

Within a year I had risen several levels and had brought 175 extra people personally in to my business, all over the phone with cold called leads I had purchased.  I trained these new people, continued to build a team, held weekly Webinars, worked with the team, had weekly conference calls, held meetings etc.

I was loving this company too, but, suddenly 1 day, I turned around and realised I was actually working from early in the morning until late at night and almost all weekend to build the business.  I had helped the rest of the team by placing people in their businesses too, but many, once again, were not receiving the income for the input they were putting in time wise and financially, nor were they finding their own people to share the benefits of this company, its product, the payment plan etc..

I suddenly turned around and realised I was not earning anywhere near the amount of money I should be for the time I was outlaying, for the cost of the many, many phone calls I was making, the leads I was purchasing which were expensive overall,  and the amount of product I was buying.  The bank balance was going down rather than up.  This was a wake up call.

I still earn a moderate monthly income from this company, still use the product, but am no longer building the business.

Some other negative things occurred during these times, which there is no need to go in to, but, with almost feeling like a sledgehammer had hit me, I suddenly realised there had to be a better way for me, and the team, to earn money that did not entail all that work for not much return, having to recruit people, and, as well, on top of all of this, there were way, way too many costs.

Just a little over a year ago, our circumstances had become extremely grim because of the past medical bills, legal fees, the costs of trying to feed, clothe, etc 5 adult family members, the cost of putting teenagers through High School etc.  Mum, also through these years, sadly, had developed Alzheimer’s, which had slowly crept up on her.

I am not the sort of person to sit down and feel sorry for myself, that is for sure, or we to feel sorry for ourselves.  I am a problem solver, and so started to look around for something else that may be able to answer our prayers.   “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again.” ”Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and get moving again” are life flags for me.

Internet Marketing was now really beginning to appeal more and more to me, as, with my conditions, I am only able to work from home. I also love working with the computer, so that was a plus.

I did not know how difficult, time consuming, and expensive  a journey having this interest area was going to be.  There are quite a number of “shonksters” out there, and I  have been taken for an expensive ride through this time, even though I had the occasion sometimes to explain our circumstances up front to people.  Some people are really callous and it appears some really don’t care about others as long as they get the money in their pocket, with no care of what damage it does to others when the product(s) they have sold do not follow through as stated.  We mortgaged our home believing in them, only to lose out. But that’s part of life and part of our particular learning curve.

I realise though that not everyone out there in the big, wide world is a shonkster.  There are genuine people out there too, thank heavens.  You just have to keep searching for them. They really do turn up.

Where is this leading me?  I have found 3 or 4 to trust.  I am going with them.

After much time, much loss of money etc I am so glad recently I found John Thornhill’s Coaching Program , BiddingBuzz eBay Course , Avril Harper and The System G Formula – The ULTIMATE Make Money Online Video Course!

It may be too late to save our home, but home is where the heart is and I really mean that. However, I am going to work very hard each day to make sure that does not happen, as my wonderful husband already does.

I get up excited each day that I have found systems to work with that I know I can achieve with because of the step-by-step training approach these people use, the systems they have in place for all to be able to achieve, how professionally they present everything, and the amazing support they offer to people.  You just can’t go wrong.

Please take a look over on the right hand side at the Recommended places heading.

I will keep you updated on what happens on my journey because I know I am going to get there, 1 step at a time, learning, taking ACTION and by NEVER giving up.

You know, I believe Earth is a school.  I call it the Earth school.  I believe we are here to love and be loved, learn and share what we learn with others.

Please have a great rest of the day!  Speak to you again soon!