From Employees to Business Owners

When Claudia and I started our life together, I was working for the largest Internet Service Provider in Romania, as an IT network engineer, and she was in her final year as a student. I was an Employee, while she was still learning on how to become an Employee.

Like "normal" people, we had "normal" talks about life, nature, sports, partying and all the stuff that we liked doing. We also talked about our plans for the future, about what we want to be in life. I was 26 and she was 23. But, still, Claudia knew that she did not want to work for an employer and I knew I wanted to change my life and make more money. The problem was: we had no idea on how to do that. Nobody never taught us how money works and how you can make more money, other than being an employee.

Suddenly, in January 2007, one of my friends and neighbors called me and asked: "- Do you want to make more money?". The answer was obvious and so, our Network Marketing adventure begun. 3 Days later we were present on the first presentation of a network marketing company, that we ever saw. It made our head spin, our imaginations started running free in our minds. They said: "It's time to clear the dust from your dreams and let them come out!!" We have, then, realized that we had more dreams than we knew of. Days later we joined the company and started learning about the industry. It was a fantastic breakthrough for us, because we loved the idea of helping others see and fell what we saw and felt when we saw that presentation. The first people, we were thinking of showing this fantastic opportunity, were our families and our closest friends. We had our first sponsored representative and it was the moment when we started to realize and feel the incredible income possibility from this industry.

9 months later, we were active in another network marketing company - it was our second time when we joined a network marketing company without checking if the company, or the products were right for us. This was our big mistake, number 2 - we didn't knew if this company really is for us, but we saw the opportunity and knew that we'll make money with it.

Anyway, somebody recommended us to read Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". He instantly become our role model. After we've read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", we realized our lives are changed forever. We understood that what we have learned, until that moment, was not setting us free, but it imprisoned us. It imprisoned us to work for an employer, to work for the Government, to work for the banks. We were captive in JOBs - and Robert Kiyosaki gave a very interesting translation for JOB - Just Over Broke - and that was exactly where we were. The mission of Robert Kiyosaki is to elevate the financial well-being of humanity. According to him, the best way to get rich is to start your own business. We started thinking of business opportunities, but still we could not see that the best business opportunity was joining a network marketing company. And we were members of such a company.

In "The Business School", Robert Kiyosaki said that "the richest people build networks" and that building a business in this industry is a low cost - high income opportunity.

Another very important lesson of Robert Kiyosaki is about the Cashflow Quadrant, a diagram drawn by his rich dad to teach him, when he was 9 years old, about the 4 types of people and the 4 types of income. We'll soon expand this topic. I'm saying that this is a very important lesson because it allows us to call ourselves business owners, even if we don't own a conventional business, but a network marketing business.

After reading some of the books from the Rich Dad collection and started playing Cashflow, a game which we recommend to you all, we begun understanding more about life, from the financial point of view, and also about investments: real estates and stock market.

One day, when we were present on a convention of the network marketing company that we worked with, one of the members showed us a new concept called Forex Market and a company called FreedomRocks. For the 4th time, we joined another network marketing company and, this time, we decided to make everything to achieve our goals and become financially free.

This time we have studied the company, the products, the market niche, the compensation plan, the costs involved and the potential return of investment and we have joined it. We consider it to be the first company that is for the AVERAGE person and all of its members are working to create wealth for them and their families.

We'll soon add a post about The Cashflow Quadrant and we'll explain why we consider ourselves Business owners and Investors (B and I Quadrant), just because we are members of this great company called FreedomRocks.