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On January 24, 2000 I left!

I packed my mini van with as much stuff as I could carry and I left my job, my 6 year old daughter; my new wife, and my two young stepsons. Never will I forget the feeling of pure terror of leaving my entire life behind me as I drove away to a place I had never been, in a different country! Nor shall I ever forget the expression on my new wife's face as I backed my van out of the driveway while she watched from the front door; her eyes filled with tears and her hand over her mouth. There are no words to describe the level of fear, panic and uncertainty that I felt at that moment. I drove away carrying the faces of my wife and 6-year-old daughter in my mind.

You may be wondering why I would do this...well, in the next 5 minutes, if you keep reading; you will know the whole story! In fact, later on when you and I chat in person, I will tell you some amazing secrets that are not even covered here

At the time, I was earning $50,000 per year as a computer skills instructor. Now, here's the thing; $50,000 sounds like a good healthy income, right? Do you know what kind of a lifestyle a family of 5 can enjoy on $50,000 per year in Canada? (Remember; OVER 46% of that goes to TAXES). The answer is...not a very good lifestyle. We lived in an average town house in a part of town where gang activity was growing rampant and violence in the community was a nightly event.

Steve Lowell

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We were not completely broke, but our kids did wear the cheapest clothes we could find, we bought the discount foods, drove old and unreliable vehicles, had more debt than income and we were going another $300 to $500 MORE in debt every single month! We were only about 3 months from bankruptcy.

One day at 5 in the afternoon as I was pulling into my driveway all of the children in the neighbourhood witnessed a gang fight in the middle of our street where 5 teenagers beat the life out of this one other teenager with beer bottles, clubs and knives and left him beaten, bloody and dying on the lawn...I didn't want to live there any more, but there was nothing I could do! Half of my annual $50K salary went to the government and the other half went to food and debts! So, I left!

So, why would I leave my entire life behind??

Now, it's not what you're thinking...I left because after 2 years of studying, exams, 18-hour workdays and a whole year of relentless marketing, phone calls and interviews I FINALLY got my first consulting job. On THAT day I went from making $50,000 per year as an over worked and under paid computer skills instructor to $187,000 per year as a consultant. THAT'S a QUANTUM LEAP!

The contract was in Jackson Michigan, which is about an 11-hour drive south west of our home in Ottawa Canada. So, I rented an apartment, worked in Jackson through the week and flew home to my family every other weekend. I did this for exactly one year and in that year I made $187,000. I then secured another contract in my hometown of Ottawa, so I moved back home to my family.

Within the next six months I moved my family to a $300,000 executive level home in one of the most prestigious parts of town. We drove two brand new vehicles, our kids had the best of everything in life and I enjoyed 2 separate trips to Africa while my wife dripped with fine custom made jewellery...life was good!!

Now, here's the thing...as a consultant, I traded hours for money. I got paid for every hour that I worked, which meant that I DIDN'T get paid for any hour that I DIDN'T work.

I also have no company sponsored pension plan, no medical or dental coverage, no vacation pay, and no workers compensation or unemployment benefits.

A whole new set of fears set in! What happens if I get sick and can't work? What happens if my contract ends suddenly? What happens when I don't WANT to work anymore?

Like most people, my wife and I are not good money savers...we have been very successful at adjusting our spending requirements to accommodate the available funds, which means that we, once again, were living one step above our means.

In addition, while I was away that first year my wife became ill. In fact, she was ill for quite a while before that, but while I was away; that was when it really took hold of her.  She suffered from several mental and emotional illnesses that ultimately resulted in wiping out our financial life and ALMOST resulted in her death.  It's an AMAZING story!

Since then, She and I have embarked on a project to help other families who struggle with depression and anxiety.  We understand the devastation that can result, and we continue to work on new programs.  Feel free to go to take a look at our website at www.aPathtoHealing.com

Anyway, back to the story...debt started to rack up again, I got behind in my taxes...WAY behind! So, I had to start working more hours, take less time off, cancel vacations, spend less on food, buy cheaper cloths...see where this is going?? Something had to change; and I realized that working harder to make more money was NOT the answer. I could make more money by working even more hours, but then I would be right back where I started...a slave to my job.

How to NOT be a slave to your job

I did some soul searching; revisiting different stages of my life.

Over the years I had done many things; I was with the Dale Carnegie organization for 3 years as a professional speaker and I did some training as well, I had been a professional entertainer for most of my life, I had been in and out of network marketing for 20 years; had some great successes and some miserable failures with that. As I reflected, I was not quite sure what I was looking for but then I started to see a pattern to my life. Several things started to make sense:

1. I was on a perpetual mission to change where I was in life. Always working to get OUT of something or AWAY from something; almost always, that thing was DEBT! I had not spent much of my life working TOWARDS anything specific!
2. Whenever I was able to get away from debt, it was only for a VERY short time, because I always ended up right back where I started...just at a different level! Higher income = more debt!
3. I rarely asked for help with anything. I always thought that I could do it all on my own. The problem with this is that the only thing I had to rely on was my own thought patterns, which did not serve me because they kept getting me back under mountains of debt.
4. The only time in my life where I did not have to work myself silly to earn a living was during the times when I was working successfully in network marketing.

All of this boiled down to three major things which together, would help me to not be a slave to my job any longer:

1.     I had to find a way to generate a passive income again. Income that would be self-generating 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

2.     I had to change my THINKING in order to break the self-destructive patterns of always ending up in debt.

3.     I needed to find the right people to help me do these things

How did things roll out from there?

I researched on the Internet for a passive income program. I knew from my past experience with network marketing that most MLM "opportunities" are complete crap and that there are only a few really good ones with reliable products, a solid company background and a good compensation plan. But, I had been out of the loop for a while and I had no experience with working network marketing on-line. When I did t, it was the old fashioned way...one on one, live and in person. But, I wanted to learn how it was done on-line. which I eventually did.

Then, out of the blue, an old friend and mentor of mine named Anil Agrawal just happened to pop back into my life and point me into the direction of an on-line business. Anil was a long time business mentor and one of the most successful business people I had known, so I was very pleased to follow his lead on this.

Anil introduced me to someone who had combined on line business with a system whereby anyone could generate a perpetual income on line, and she offered a free training and mentorship program.

Wow! Right out of the blue, as if on demand, Anil comes back into my life and hooks me up with an on-line marketing wizard who says that she will mentor me for nothing! My first objective was met; a passive income business and the right person to teach me. I was able to set up my own home business and get to work!

• I set up my on-line marketing system

• I purchased leads...thousands of them!

• I followed up on those leads with e-mails...thousands of them!

• I made long distance phone calls...hundreds of them!

• Every time I saw anyone on the internet who might have the slightest interest, I told them all about our company, our product and our compensation plan

• I contacted everyone I knew and told them about our company, our product and our compensation plan

• I went to the web pages of other network marketers and pitched our company, our product and our compensation plan

• I dove in head first and gave it all I had...for many months!!

How did THAT work out?

In a word...miserably!!

After about 9 months of endless hours and thousands of dollars I learned several things:

1. MOST of the leads that are for sale on-line are not really leads at all.  They are people who have been given a gift of some sort to fill out a survey and then their names and e-mail addresses are sold over and over again to other people who try and sell them something.  By the time I reached most of the leads those poor people were so sick and tired of being harassed that the results were pathetic

2. Very few people with whom I spoke...in fact, NO ONE with whom I spoke was actually making any money doing things the way I was doing them...but that's how everyone was doing it!

3. I kept getting the exact same objections that I used to get years ago..."Is this a pyramid thing??", "I'm not a sales person", "I'm just not interested...period!" or just plain click.

The system that we were using was an eye catching system...no doubt about it!  The problem was that it did not help alleviate the most common challenges faced by network marketers; how does one find people with real life potential who are committed to doing what it takes to build a solid business WITHOUT begging people, spamming people or selling people?

As for my friend, Anil; he found that his passion for on-line business was overshadowed by more personal passions which he is now pursuing.

Then, as if by magic, this guy named Bob Dignard-Fung sends me an email. It turns out that Bob was an upline member of one of the many on-line businesses that I had investigated. I researched Bob a little and found out that he ALSO happens to be one of the world's top network marketers and trainers. The Internet is full of articles, press releases and stories about him!

So, Bob and I became friends and I participated in his on-line training program that he had devised. It was all about how Network Marketing is really done, and also about how to adjust your thinking in order to maximize the results.

It was truly amazing...it really was!! 

I have seen so many programs which make the same claim, the difference is that this one really worked for me. 

BINGO!!!

Those illusive results FINALLY started pouring in!  Guess what...everything I was doing was completely backwards!  Now I look back and I can so clearly see what I was doing wrong...which was everything I was doing!

So now I had it...the "magic formula" to Network Marketing success.

As if THAT was not enough

After knowing Bob for a few months, Bob introduced me to one of his mentors, and my wife and I were privileged enough to spend a weekend with Bob and his mentor in Montreal.  Bob's mentor is none other than John Assaraf; one of the world's most successful businessmen and top success coaches.  You may have seen him on Larry King Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show or in the world wide phenomenon movie "The Secret".  John's focus is on how to train the subconscious mind to develop a new and PERMANENT belief system by leveraging 7 universal laws.

One of john's businesses earns in excess of $4 BILLION per year! I mean these two guys are WAY up there. And now they are personal friends of mine!! Who would have thought?? 

By the way, between Bob Dignard-Fung's "Magnetic Thinking Symposium", and John Assaraf's "Cloning of Success" program, they very literally saved our marriage and my wife's life!  This is not at all an exaggeration! 

The Law of Attraction

Do you see what has happened here?? Are you getting this?? Remember that I needed to do 3 things??

1.      I had to find a way to generate a passive income again. Income that would be self-generating 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

2.      I had to change my thinking in order to break the self-destructive patterns of always ending up in debt.

3.      I needed to find the right people to help me do these things

Isn't it incredible how all of this just appeared right when I needed it most?? In the space of about nine months:

1.      I reconnect with my old friend and mentor; Anil Agrawal

2.      He introduced me to the on-line business concept

3.      I meet two of the world's top success coaches; Bob Dignard-Fung and John Assaraf and they both become good friends and mentors

4.      I finally set up my own PROFITABLE on-line business.

this is a Law of Attraction at work.  I have since learned that we attract the things that come to us, good or bad, through one of the universal laws; the law of attraction.  To find out more about this and other universal laws which directly affect our lives, sign up for my news letter; “The Quantum Leap” at the bottom of this page!

So, back to the story...Because I have such a passion for personal development, I stopped everything else that I was doing and I joined Bob and his organization that he was building along with a partner of his.  By implementing what Bob had taught me about Network Marketing, it wasn't long before I had built a team of people from around the globe who were just like me...passionate about our business, professionally trained and mentored and who then began to build and mentor their own teams!

Within just a few months I became a the leader in that organization because I implemented the system correctly and I dedicated myself to that business.  I attended every event, conducted training sessions, information sessions, personal coaching; even for people who were not part of my personal organization. 

I even  began mentoring people who had read this web site and were not part of our business at all.  I became an ambassador to the Network Marketing business as a whole because I KNEW that I had found the way to make it work, and I knew that if I could help enough people, they would eventually want to be on my team...and they did!

I was 150% committed and my business was booming...then...it happened...the same thing that happens to 95% of all new businesses...it all came crumbling down.

Back to square one

Something fell apart at the management level of this great new business and the whole thing fell apart.  I have not asked upper management what went wrong...it ended up in allot of finger pointing, laying blame, broken promises, unpaid commissions and it all dropped like a stone!

I didn't blame anyone because I didn't really care who was to blame.  In fact, I still remain friends with the management of that business.  Anyways, I was back to square one and I needed to start rebuilding yet again, so I decided to focus on that instead.

But this time it was different...this time I KNEW what to do to rebuild.  I knew that it wasn't Network Marketing that had failed, it was the company that had failed.  All I had to do was find a new company, so based on some of the lessons I had learned, here was what I looked for...

1. I looked for a company that has been around for at least three years.  Some people say it should be five, but I felt that three would be enough of a history, provided the company had a solid reputation and strong documented sales growth.

2. I wanted a simple offering...not a company that sold an entire flea market of products.  This was important because I understood the critical element of duplication, so, for me, the product had to be easy to understand.

3. Of course, the product had to be good...so I researched many, and read countless testimonials, I purchased some products from various companies and tried them myself, had friends try some and got feedback from them.

4. The compensation plan had to be simple.  If I couldn't understand the comp plan in 5 minutes, I couldn't expect anyone else to either.

During the whole fiasco with the previous company, I had built up a solid personal reputation within the membership, and many of them kept coming to me for help with their own rebuilding. So I decided to try and help other people who struggle in Network Marketing by putting together a forum where Network Marketing professionals could come together a share their expertise without fear of anyone trying to recruit them. I called it the "MLM Executive Roundtable" and it was an on-line conferencing forum where we held training sessions a couple of times per month.  It was very well received by those who attended each week.

The challenge I had with the MLM Executive Roundtable, was getting my members to invite their downlines to attend...I guess there was still some fear that others in the session would try to recruit, even though it was very much against the rules.

In order to try and increase attendance at the round table sessions, I created a little "giveaway" called "The MLM Daily Meeting Minute".  It's a 30 day audio program which is delivered one session per day in your e-mail.  each session is one or two minutes long and it covers some basic strategies and ideas for Network Marketers to help them build their business.  You can get it at www.MLMRoundTable.com and it's free.

I have had hundreds of people subscribe to the MLM Daily Meeting Minute, and I am currently in the process of re-designing the MLM Executive Roundtable.  The live round table sessions have been suspended until I get the new format up and running. Subscribers to the MLM Daily Meeting Minute will be notified by e-mail when we are back on line again.

Almost every single day I get several e-mails from visitors to this site telling me about their company, their product or their compensation plan...trying to recruit me into a new business.  If you are thinking of doing that, my reading friend, I would welcome your e-mail out of courtesy, but allow me to suggest this...instead of  trying to generate business by sending unsolicited e-mails hoping for some magical results, why not take advantage of the opportunity to learn from some of the people I have learned from?

Here is my proposition to you:

Instead of e-mailing me your opportunity, why not instead request that I share with you some of the business building tools which have changed my business, and my life!  You can apply these things to your current business and start seeing results right now!  I invite you to click here and request this information and I will follow up with you personally.  I will not be trying to lure you away from your current MLM business, nor will I be trying to "recruit" you into a new one.  I will share with you some tools that I use and that are working for me, and there is no fee for this information.

Why would I do this?...simple...if you decide to use the tools I use, I receive a commission on that.  Your business grows, my business grows and everyone wins!

I'll watch for your request!  Until then, I wish you all the best that life has to offer!

Warmest Regards,

Steve

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