As a college education becomes more and more important for success, it also becomes more and more expensive. The cost of a college education has increased by double the inflation rate every year for the past 10 years.

How to finance a college education is becoming more and more of a challenge.

Using a direct sales or home party business is an overlooked system of financing a college degree.

Would having an extra $100, $500 or even $3000 per month make it easier to
save for your child’s college education?

How about paying 10%, 20% or even 50% less taxes during the student’s high
school years to save for the college years?

Does that sound good?

Owning a business opens up literally hundreds of income tax reduction options not
available to the employee going to work every day.

In addition to the often-discussed home office deduction, there is also the ability to “hire”
your children to do tasks that relate to your home office, thus diverting money from your
“high” tax bracket to their “low or zero” tax bracket.

Children between the ages of 8-18 (or those still in college) of business owners may be
paid up to $6000 per year for assisting in business duties. If a home business-owner
parent “pays” their child $4500 in a year, they would save $1350 in tax dollars in a year.

Taking advantage of this strategy accomplishes several things. Your teen child learns
business ethics, the benefits of saving and you are creating a college fund in his/her name
to save money for college AND you are getting a reduction in income tax liability.

Another often-overlooked opportunity to finance college is to set up your child in a home
party or direct sales business so that they can be earning income through their own direct
sales endeavors, while attending college.

This will create income in two ways. You, the recruiter, will receive over rides on his/her
sales, which could be put aside to pay college bills. The student will also earn a regular
paycheck through the direct sales or MLM business. Your student daughter or son will be learning
business skills, creating income, and setting themselves up for more than one source of income after graduation.
As we move into the 21st century, everyone will have multiple streams of income to assure financial freedom.

Owning a business offers many ways to create income legally which are not always
obvious to the non-business owner. These hidden streams of income from a home
business can be a powerful recruiting tool.

Share with your potential consultants or at your shows not only about the opportunity
to make money from commissionable sales but also from other income tax-reduction
strategies that generate spare cash.

Deb Bixler is a home party plan educator who provides tools, training and resources on
how to start a home party business that creates the financial solutions that your family
deserves.

Self Awareness & Success in 3 Easy Steps by Holly Riley

Success is a result of Self-Awareness. Reaching goals of abundance, health, love, or creativity are the
natural result of true desire. Become aware of the focus of your attention and you will become the
master of manifesting dreams!

 
Step 1
CATCH YOURSELF when focusing on problems. Notice habits of resistance (dread, anger, resentment, blame, judgement). Tell the whole truth! Have the courage to admit where you are emotionally.
Stop pretending to like things you don’t. Catch yourself playfully, without self blame. This is the
game of becoming more aware. Notice when you are dwelling on what’s ‘wrong’ with life or habitually
thinking about what upsets you. Check in with your feelings often to see what you have your attention
on. Make “noticing an all day commitment. As you wake in the morning, pay attention to the first
words you utter, notice the first feelings or ideas you focus on. Say “STOP” to your mind’s urge to
mull over a painful story or upset. Say “STOP” as often as necessary and don’t give up. Be patient as
you would with an unruly child that you adore. This works!

NOTE – Don’t ever make yourself wrong for your habitual thoughts, quite the opposite. Celebrate
every time you catch yourself. You will become more response-able. Rather than wasting a drop of
precious attention on blaming self, acknowledge that you are becoming more alert. Be kind, this is a
process. If you have a cronic emotion or upset take a moment and feel it on purpose instead of as a
default reaction. Look it in the eye and own it so it can release. Feelings come from inside.

Step 2
DECIDE where to place your attention! The more you do this, the easier it gets. Practice moving your
focus toward what you want at home, driving, eating, at work, when you look in the mirror, etc. Use
your will and much like strengthening a muscle, it gets STRONG. Create a list of doable actions you
can use to shift your attention from resistance to desire. Be outrageous, dream big, and consider where
and who you want to be in one year. Pay attention to how good it feels when you move your awareness
from “don’t want” over to “want!” Solutions appear, intuition kicks in, life blossoms. Use the power of
your imagination and contemplate how delightful success will feel as you develop the skill to flow
energy and attention into actions YOU choose to engage. Begin your day with this practice and with
one week of determination you will feel different. You will become increasingly aware of how powerful you are with your intentions. Get good at DECIDING what you will give your energy to!

Step 3
REPEAT STEPS 1 & 2 and NEVER GIVE UP! Yes, the above practice is a challenge and stopping
an old habit can require tenacity and perseverence. What could possibley be more important than
acquiring a skill that will lead you, and those near and dear, to peace, health, and more joy? Will it take
time? Yes. Can you do it? Definately! Will you have moments of discouragement in the human game?
Without question. Will you get back on the horse a gazillion times? YES! Will you become a master
equestrian if you are determined? Absolutely! There is no possibility of failure once you decide to take
responsibility for where you find yourself.
Points to ponder…
If you Blame someone for what you are feeling you have to wait for them to change so you can feel
better.
Responsibility is the abilityt to respond in the present moment without blame.
How you treat yourself creates an instruction to the world to treat you the same way. Be kind and compassionatte with your process. Be as caring toward yourself as you would a dear friend you adore.
Watch the magic as the world copies you.
Resist and watch it grow – Allow and watch it go.
You are never alone, we are all in this together. Every thought, intention, and idea you have matters.

Thank you so much for every moment of your kindness, it goes forward with all of us into the next
moment.
love always,
holly

Copyright 2012 by Holly Riley, Author of Allowing
A Portrait of Forgiving and Letting Life Love You.

www.HollyRiley.com
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When we are in struggle or don’t have the level of abundance we desire, it is easy to fall into the trap of doing more, working harder and pushing to make something happen. But abundance is not solely a result of action. If it were we could all do the exact same things and get the exact same results. But, that’s simply not what happens. Time and again, we see peolple using the exact same concepts and business models yet getting wildly different results. Why is this? It all begins with Alignment.

My own personal definition of abundance is “the experience I am having of myself in relationship to my finances and business revenue as well as my time and material belongings.” Notice the emphasis here on it being an experience. Take a moment to connect with your own current experience of abundance.

In this day and age we are most often referring to money when we refer to abundance. But money is simply feedback from the universe as to whether or not you are in alignment with your true self and what you were meant to do in the world. If money is flowing in your life, you are on the right track. If it’s not, it may be time to check in with where you may be  out of alignment.

As our careers and businesses are the primary avenue by which we receive money, let’s look at how this pertains to your alignment and thereby your abundance. Most often when we are choosing what to do for a living, people begin with “What can I make money at” or “what will work.“ We have conversation with ourselves such as “I know how to ……..” “I have connections in…….” “I went to school or have been trained for….”

You’ve seen it. You may have even experienced it. Yet, as a whole we continue to primarily use logical external criteria for making these choices rather than meaning, purpose and alignment. Your abundance does not lie in what you “could” do or what “might” work but on fully aligning with the truth of who you really are and then choosing what to do to share you contribution.

This alignment is what draws abundance to us. Specifically, alignment with your true self and highest purpose as expressed in your career or business. You see, each of us was designed to express and experience a specific set of energies. These energies represent the truest essence of you. They are literally a compass for your authentic self. This compass will direct you to the truest essence of YOU. The closer you are aligned to the truth of who you are the easier it is for the universe to find you. And it wants to find you!

Your abundance is waiting for you. It just can’t show up while you are being anything other than completely yourself. When we aren’t being true to ourselves; when we are too focused on what other people think; when we are living a life of “have-to’s” and “shoulds” or choosing how to spend our precious moments doing something for pay that we don’t love, we are out of alignment and that feels like struggle and lack.

The key to receiving all the abundance that is waiting for you, is aligning with The Business in Your Soul(TM). This is the partnering of yourunique energies, your gifts and talents and the difference you are most meant to make. It is the divine work that you were put on this earth to do and share with the world. When you do that your reward is abundance and so much more.

Ronda Wada has been called a modern day mystic with “Xray vision for your soul.” She is the creator of Your Divine Navigation System™and The Business in Your Soul™. To get your free copy of “ The 3 Keys to Finding the Business in Your Soul and Living the Life of Your Dreams” visit www.RondaWada.com

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Wallace Delois Wattles was a man born on a small farm in Illinois in the mid 1800’s during the war between the states. His father was a gardener and his mother was a housewife. Times were difficult and bleak, and his family didn’t have much wealth.

Wallace received very little formal education. He began his young working life as a farm laborer in the Nunda Township of McHenry Count. Certain that he could do more, he traveled to Chicago.

In Chicago, Wallace struggled as an author. He experienced failure after failure. For years his life was cursed by poverty and the fear of poverty.

But he was always working to attain the abundant for himself and for his family. It was then that he began to study an emerging New Thought and soon discovered the truth about the laws that govern the process of acquiring riches…

He Discovered That Getting Rich Is The Result of Doing Certain Things In A Certain Way…

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In our attempts to have it all, we can sometimes find ourselves shifting our focus from one thing to another, dedicating spurts of energy and effort on certain areas of our lives at a time. We may work a great deal and not pay as much attention to our family, or work on our physical wellness while not taking time for spiritual growth. The great thing about finding your five passions is that you can create a way of living that keeps you focused on those top five easily. As we often say…

“Your passions are like breadcrumbs, leading you on to fulfill your life’s purpose”

Often times you may not conscious of where you are placing your attention. Thoughts come and go, without much notice. In order to consistently live your life aligned with your passions and have it all you need to create habits that support your vision for a purposeful life. Just like any other habits, it takes repetition to cement these ways of being into our lives.

Review your top five passions and create small routine practices that you can integrate into your daily life. Here are some examples of cultivating success habits, can you think of more?

Success Habits

• Taking time daily to review your top five passions
• Choosing in favor of your passions whenever you’re faced with a decision
• Taking responsibility for the life you’ve created
• Getting regular exercise
• Getting adequate rest
• Charitable giving on a regular basis
• Eating healthy foods that support clarity
• Speaking positively and uplifting others through your speech
• Choosing friends who share your positive energy

Now we are not expecting you to keep your attention on all of these at the same time, every day. Choose to create one new habit and commit to it for twenty-one days, master it and then move on to another one.

Having it all involves making conscious decisions and keeping focused attention on what you want. If you do, it will grow stronger in your life.

Did you have another one in mind that we did not mention above? Share it with us by writing it in the comment section below.

Have questions about The Passion Test or what it takes to live a passionate life?

If it has been a while since you took the free Passion Test Profile, or if you have never taken it, now’s the time. Invest 3 minutes to find out how passionate you are, where you are blocked and what you need to do next.

23 years ago, Steve Farber and I started out in the training business together. We were both teaching writing workshops to employees at AT&T (believe it or not!) and counseling each other on the potential directions of our respective careers.

A short time later, I met my mentor, Jack Canfield, and Steve met his-management guru and business legend, Tom Peters, of In Search of Excellence fame. And our lives and careers took off on different-though parallel-tracks.

In time, I went on to speak and write in the self-development field, while Steve focused his attention on the hardcore world of business.

So, isn’t it interesting that we’ve ended up today in a similar place: my work is about Love for No Reasonas a way of life, and Steve’s work is about Love as the foundation for business and what he calls,Extreme Leadership (which he’s written about extensively in his remarkable books, The Radical Leap Re-Energized and Greater Than Yourself.

The Extreme Leader’s Credo, Steve says, is “Do What You Love in the Service of People Who Love What You Do.”

“It’s simple, really,” Steve told me. “Good business starts with your own personal connection to the work you do everyday: are you doing what you love?”

Good question!

Here are Steve’s 4 Steps to Finding the Love in Your Work. Use these to light your fire at work:

1.    Remember Why You Took this Job: Think back over the course of your career so far and recount the events, jobs, projects etc. that led up to your beginning your current work. Then write your answer to these questions: Why did I take this job/start this company/enlist in this program? Are the ideals that I started with still in place today? If not, how can I re-enliven them?

2.    List Every Aspect of Your Current Work/Job/Career: Make a quick inventory of all the various aspects of your work: tasks, projects, roles, responsibilities, colleagues, higher-ups, employees, customers, clients, underlying values, etc.  Write it however works best for you. Categorize if you’d like; or don’t. However you do it, you should be able to look at the finished product and see all the aspects of your work life at the present time.

3.    Highlight What and Whom You’re Grateful For: Use a highlighter to emphasize the items on your list that really resonate with you-those things you love doing, the people you truly care about, the values that you strive to live by-and make coming to work worthwhile.  As for the items that don’t get highlighted, well, that’s life.  We all have to do things that we don’t love doing in order to do the overall work that we love. (I, for example, don’t love waiting in airports, making sales calls, and tracking expenses). We have a technical term for doing those things anyway. It’s called, “being an adult.”

4.    Review Your Highlights Everyday: Once a day-ideally in the morning before things get rolling-review your list and focus on the highlights. Allow yourself to feel genuine gratitude for the things, activities, and people that populate your working experience. That one simple, reflective practice should help to stoke or re-kindle the love in your heart for the work you do.

Experiment with these steps for the next few days and see if it gets you closer to that ideal of Doing What You Love in the Service of People Who Love What You Do.

With Love for No Reason and Every Reason,

Marci

Learn more about the extraordinary Marci Shimoff at: http://marcishimoffblog.com/

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