In 1944 , during the 2nd world war, a group of Allied prisoners being held in Stalag Luft III () in Poland , embarked upon a bold plan to escape their nazi captors, this has been called ‘The Great Escape” and has been immortalised both in books and film, you see in time of war it is considered a prisoner’s duty to try to escape captivity and return to their own forces so they can continue the fight against oppression or whatever it is they are fighting for, you may well have read stories or seen films based on the exploits of prisoners of war, and may be aware that the punishment meted out both to escapees who were later recaptured and to the other prisoners left behind was harsh to say the least, indeed escapees who were later recaptured often faced the ultimate punishment … death by firing squad.

But despite all the setbacks and misfortune, despite the seemingly insurmountable odds against success and a certainty that anyone recaptured would be put to death, still these brave young souls refused to accept their lot in life as prisoners so with the courage, commitment, perseverance and absolute determination to succeed they kept on working toward their ultimate goal of freedom, some gained that freedom and made it home safe, but many more didn’t , the odds were stacked against them but still they tried anyway, so what on earth has this got to do with starting your own home business that will change your life?

Read the above paragraph again, slowly, do words like “setback”, “insurmountable odds”, “refused to accept their lot in life”, “courage”, “commitment”, “perseverance”, “determination”, “the odds were stacked against them”, “but still they tried anyway”.
So the story is about a group of people who did not like their confinement and loss of freedom, and who decided to do something about it …

compare that with modern life, how it is so expensive to have your own home (rented or owned) to raise a family, to drive a reasonable car, to give your family a decent holiday each year, just raising your family’s standard of living is a constant uphill struggle.
Now I’m sure you have heard many times how you don’t need money to be happy, that material things don’t matter etc, (the only people I have ever heard say those things were either broke (always have been and probably always will be) or monks).

Yes some people can be happy with very little in life, but I know from personal experience how struggling from day to day to pay the bills, put food on the table, keep a roof over our heads, clothe my children, can be very stressful when you realise that yet again we have spent more than we earn because the car needed urgent repairs to get it through its MOT or the toilet became blocked and needed the services of a plumber, or the washing machine packed in and the fridge loses its cool … and so on, so we borrow money, eventually we pay that back, then not long later we borrow again … and so on and so on.

It’s groundhog day, after day, after day, when my employer provides over-time I’m there 7 days a week, the kids miss me, my marriage comes under even more strain …I’ve no way out and no hope of making things better, or have I?
Because one day I became informed of “alternatives, and opportunities”, I started looking into the possibility of working from home, because just like those prisoners of war, I wanted… needed, a way out… does this situation sound familiar to you?.

After More than 2 years of studying, buying products by the bin full, following conflicting information and generally going round in circles I have finally (with a bit of help!) Found my direction, I am just now starting to see the fruit of my labours, no I’m not rolling in cash, but I am starting to make one or 2 sales online, it’s only a trickle of money right now but by holding my course, applying what I have so far learned, and continuing to educate myself about working from home and making money online that trickle will gain momentum and eventually give me the freedom from financial worry, freedom from working 7 days a week and freedom to give my children opportunities in life they might otherwise never have.

And do you know why I have reached this position (notice I say “why” and not how … that comes later) it’s because, like those prisoners of war, I refuse to accept my situation, I refuse to be restricted and dictated to by the hand that life has dealt me, I know that by starting my own online business I can correct the work/reward imbalance which for so long has seen me working like a slave to support my family.
I already have some of the seeds of success in place, now I just need to nurture them as they slowly grow and take shape … the shape of my new life …

Success isn’t given to us on a plate, we have to work for it, earn it, mould and shape it to our own personal requirements, and yes it can be done, I’m on my way now because like those poor unfortunate POWs I absolutely refuse to accept there isn’t a better way, starting your own online business is not that hard if you follow proven methods of people who have already made it or are in the process of making it.

Now for the bad news … many people who start an online business fail to get anywhere, they fail to make enough sales to justify the outlay, or don’t make any sales at all, some people don’t even get as far as putting up their own website before finding it is just too hard for them and giving up, the sad fact is at least half of these people actually could set up and run a successful business if they only kept trying, refused to give up, refused to even consider failure and just kept on working at it, even more of those “failures” could vastly improve their chances of fulfilling their dreams if only they signed up to a mentoring program, like I did.

But to have any chance of success you must adopt a mentality like those POWs, … you want to change your life, you want true financial freedom, you want to be in a position where you can live life on your terms …
and you can do this, but you must have the desire to change and improve your life, commitment to do whatever it takes to help bring about that change, perseverance to work and work and work until you get it right, determination to never give up regardless of the obstacles, to never give in, to never accept defeat, other people have achieved fantastic success on the Internet, many started from worse positions than me and you, now those people are earning more in a single week than we earn in a year.

Those prisoners of war faced death if they failed, you face groundhog day if you fail,
those prisoners who did not try to escape condemned themselves to captivity till the end of the war, many died in captivity anyway,

If you don’t try to change your life, nothing will change for the better and you will never know true freedom, it’s your choice, fear is just an illusion, and can be conquered with the right mindset, if you tell yourself you can’t do something you have already made it 10 times more difficult than it actually is.

So where do we start?, well you could try clicking on the ‘Free Stuff‘ tab at the top of this page, there you will find a free report which tells some honest truths about succeeding online, a report which some people might find quite shocking, but, if you follow it might just mean the difference between success and failure, also, an ebook which perfectly compliments that report, and again if you follow this it will help you develope the mindset for success.

While your at it why not sign up for my free report on starting a home based business?, it will give you some insight and suggest an excellent and easy way to start with a low cost yet powerful training product which I myself am using.

The French philosopher, Rene descartes, once exclaimed… ‘Cogito Ergo Sum’ or ‘I Think Therefore I am…’
Think about it…

To Your Success…
Pete

Back in 1999 I was a single bloke, I had a mortgage on my house but I was yet to settle down and have kids (Hadn’t met the right girl yet!) I was earning a reasonable wage though nothing spectacular, although two thirds of that went on keeping a roof over my head and general day to day living expenses,  with a bit of overtime each week was able to go out and enjoy a pretty good social life.

Even back then I wanted to improve my financial position and find a better way to earn a living…. I somehow ended up on the mailing list of a british entrepreneur by the name of Andrew Reynolds who was was still quite new to his business at that time, I bought several of his products with the intention of making some money… well my best intentions just did not work out.

I guess the main problem was that I just did not get it, I dont recall these manuals, at least the few that I read, actually having anything resembling clear step by step instructions, what I read seemed too difficult…like there was missing information or something, a lot of it seemed vague to me, perhaps I did not understand enough of it, perhaps I just did not have the ‘Need’. You see if you have the ‘need’ that will feed the ‘desire’ and if you have enough desire then there will be no stopping you, no matter how long it takes or what obstacles you find in your way.

I bought a few products which I did not even fully read through, or in the case of a set of video tapes I watched the first video but then left the other four, it just seemed that life kept getting in the way and like I already said I did not really have the need, just the desire and so was just looking for something easy… and so it continued until late 2000 when I stopped buying info products, having convinced myself it was all a rip-off and none of it could not possibly work for someone like me…

Fast forward to mid 2008, i’d met the right girl several years earlier and settled down, she already had four kids, but we went on to have two of our own, then her two eldest girls had a child each  so there I was settled down with a great family, six kids and two grandkids. I’d rearranged  our finances, increased the mortgage to raise capital so we could improve our family home because it was a bit small for all of us. Everything was fine although I was working long 12 hour shifts on a continental shift system, that brought in a good wage on which everything was based, and then after three years my employer shelved the continental shifts which cut my hours and shift premium, and suddenly we were living on the bread line.

The only spare money came from the overtime I was able to work each week, fortunately that is something that is normally plentyful where I work,

You can only work six and seven day weeks for so long before something starts to give, the constant tiredness starts to take it’s toll, your relationship suffers, and your kids start to miss having time with you and wonder why daddy never has time or is too tired to play with them… for me the realisation that something had to change came when I got irritated one day at my daughter, only two and a half years old at the time, who was asking yet again if I could watch tv with her for a bit… when I said no because I was about to go to work (early for some extra overtime) the look of pure disappointment in her face stopped me in my tracks…. she did not complain just looked down at the floor said ‘okay daddy’   and shuffled off to sit on her own in the lounge in front of the tv… and it dawned on me this had become a daily occurance,  it was either tv or read a book or play with the toys, she wanted my attention every day but I wasn’t giving it, and then I  thought hang on i’m hardly spending any time with my kid and here I am getting irritated… some dad i’m turning out to be!, something had to change, I had to find a way to earn more money so I could cut my hours and stop being such a disapointment to my daughter.

And so shortly after, another one of those home biz op letters came through my door… perhaps it was the inner realisation that  I had to start looking for another way to earn more money in fewer hours, or maybe it was just really clever copy writing that caught my attention… or maybe at a basic level I realised I had a very big need… which would fuel my desire to make changes to our lives… whatever it was a light went on inside my head and I found myself once again looking at the possibility of a home business opportunity… so I signed up for what was a series of physical products with master resale licenses. A few weeks later I received an invitation to the 2008 entrepreneurs bootcamp, a three day event that could surely rock even the most skeptical person into believing that an ordinary person really can become successful and make a lot of money in information publishing and marketing, enough to completely change their lives forever.

But and there is always a but isn’t there, I took a few wrong turns….bought products I didn’t really need, procrastinated at times, there were occasions when I would have to do something which would take my focus off learning this business for a few weeks, then when I went back I would have to spend time catching up. Sometimes I would reach a sticking point, and when I couldn’t figure it out I would move onto something else I thought was similar thinking I could make a breakthrough there and then backtrack to the other bit I was stuck on. During this time I amassed quite a collection of info products many with varying levels of resell rights.

I should have stuck to one thing and stayed with it until I achieved results, instead I flittered from one thing to another and that is why I have not started making money yet, I have still been moving forward and learning… but in a meandering and haphazard way.

It has now been a year and a half that I have been struggling to make a start in this business, and I have to point out that I have learned a heck of a lot about how it all works in that time… although I have products and websites in place and ready to take orders, and a squeeze page with opt-in form   ready to begin collecting subscriber email addresses, and an auto-responder set to send out a sequence of emails  to start building my list and start making sales, but I have yet to join the last few dots so to speak andI have not at this time launched my home business properly, but one thing I do know is that some day soon I will take that final step that will start the wheels turning, and how do I know this? because I will never give up, I will never accept defeat… there is only one way to go and that is forward and up! nothing else is acceptable… because this is my new hope, hell it is my only hope of seriously improving mine and my family’s lives, and just to make absolutely sure I steer a steady course and know in which order to join the dots i’ve done something I should have done a year ago… i’ve taken out a little insurance policy in the form of a mentoring program, John Thornhill’s marketing masterclass.

Now I know I will succeed in this business regardless, it might take weeks, or months or even another year or two before I’m earning on-line, but this way, on J.T’s program I’m taking a learning by numbers approach, no detours no wrong turns or silly mistakes just everything I need to learn to become a successful marketer delivered in managable chunks week after week, and so far after just two weeks I have already expanded my knowledge and skills and am feeling a sense of excitement and anticipation, like i’ve started on the home run after being on a long  journey for what feels like forever.

So I’m now going to drink a toast to a brighter future…and I look forward to the day where I’ll be able to give something back by  helping other people to make it on-line…

To everyones future success… cheers!

Pete Chapman.