Preface
Double Your Income
Tahitian beer in hand, relaxing on the beach at an exclusive resort in Bora Bora with a dozen great friends, I pulled out my phone to check my e-mail.
“Congratulations, Ty, your $25,000 Fast Track check is being mailed today.”
Then I realized that the $25,000 check was only part of my income for the month, and here I was taking eight days off at one of the most exclusive resorts in the world.
My home for the week was a 1,100-square-foot bungalow sitting over crystal clear turquoise water. I calculated that the bungalow was roughly 200 square feet bigger than the first home my wife and I owned as newlyweds.
Apparently 85-degree weather makes me want to do math because while sitting under the umbrella, gazing across the bluest water I have ever seen, I also calculated that I had worked somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 hours in the previous month. Not 40 hours per week, but 40 hours total for the month.
I was working less but getting paid more in the misunderstood industry of network marketing.
But it wasn’t always like that.
Time seemed to stop for a moment as I reflected on my early struggles in the network marketing industry. My biggest check in my first five years was $1,200, and I spent more than $1,000 that month on seminars and training, leaving me a net, grand total of $200 in my very best month.
I started to think about what separated our success from those who tried and failed, and I realized that it really came down to one thing.
We never ...
