Hit Hard... Financial Hardship...

I got very sick my whole family did. We have never been so sick as were were all last week. Greg missed the whole week of work. Girls missed the whole week of school. Brandan didn't get sick until Saturday. I dont think I have ever been so sick. I really think living in such a small space together really contributed to how sick and how long we have been sick for. I keep disinfecting everything but it hasnt seemed to work. We really are living on top of each other. Its very small. (We do have a place to live, I am thankful) :)

It was nasty. High fevers, bad colds, body aches. I get really high fevers 104 to 105. I have my whole life. It gets so bad where your head feels like its going to explode the pain is crazy, 2 of my kids are the same, scary.

I am still feeling icky but not deathly like I was. Kids are still sick. I am taking them back to the doctor tomorrow.

Greg went back to work today. Iam trying to get my butt in gear and get myself going again. I need to have a kick ass day tomorrow. I have alot to do in a little time... Pressure is on...

Greg missing a whole week of work and me missing close to it has really put us behind and it will hurt us financially very hard. Not good.

Not So Lucky...

Greg is very sick and now all 3 of my girls are too. I am now feeling sick too. It is starting to hit me hard.

Feeling frustrated and down... I cant stand being sick. I have so much pressure on me and so much to do... I dont need this, argh.....

Brandan only one not sick, thankfully....

Family Starting to Get Sick.... RUN....

Greg and two girls, Jayde and Savannah are sick. This is not good. I can not afford to get sick right now. I am pumping the vitamin c big time right now. I worked all weekend. Things take so much time it drives me crazy. I met with my partner and we worked on several projects together.

We outlined our business plan again and worked on our revenue model again. It is adjusting as our products are adjusting and becoming more clear and defined. I am hoping to have that part completed to a certain extent in the next two weeks.

I will be going to the Dallas Cash Machine in February. I am super excited about that. I am looking forward to sharing my story and sharing what I am currently working on and my progress to date with others.

I continue to be amazed at my mindset today versus six months ago. Loral has changed my life completely. This experience has really changed my family for the better in every way. I cant imagine how awful things would be had we not met Loral and the Dr. Phil Show.

I am blessed and I need to work on remembering that when I am feeling frustrated at my current living situation and all that we have lost and all the hardship we have suffered.

I am praying I will not get sick.. :)

Teachers Meeting, Went Great... Business Meeting, Went Great...

Knock on wood but both my meetings today went great. I first went to the school and met with Brandan and his all his teachers. Other than his Health Teacher from his health journal no one knew what has been going on in our life.

They felt incredible empathetic towards Brandan. They worked out a plan for him to catch up on his school work. He has always been an excellent student almost straight A, this is very unlike him.

I am going to get counseling for him too to help him deal with all the issues that cause him alot of stress.

After lunch I met with a client from the Cash Machine Workshop and we worked together on his Cash Machine. I helped shape his business and outline a marketing strategy. I love it! Great guy, I am extremely excited to be part of his team for his Cash Machine.

Things are good, today!!!

Dr. Phil Show - Possible Update Show Next Month

Today I got a email from the Dr. Phil Show about updating our family before the season ends. This is exciting, this time. It feels much better telling the world good things that are going on. I cant wait to share with the world all the knowledge and mentoring and coaching Loral and the Live Out Loud team have given me.

I want to let the world know, Loral is the "Real" Deal. Things have been very hard on our family and it would be nice to shed a little hope and light on our life and share what I have been up to these past few months.

Kids are excited to be on the show again. Girls are to little of course to really understand. Brandan would like to share the good that is happening. It really reminds me of how incredibly lucky my family and I are to be blessed to have the show and Loral in our life.

What an opportunity. Everyone can have Loral and her team coach them, go check out the current events. Attend one, check out her website, free webinars. Its amazing.

I meet with Brandan's teachers tomorrow morning. Brandan is very glad we are meeting and really wants help in getting back on track. Thankfully he still has another 6 weeks to bring his grades up before the trimester ends...

Studying and Researching...

I have been spending alot of time studying and researching all different avenues of the Internet as far as marketing outlets and opportunities. To be very successful I have to be very good at what I do. I am feeling pretty good right now about the service I can offer a client.

I have found many unique ways to market and advertise on the Internet. My research has helped me alot. I am working on writing them down in a EBook format that will later be on my website for purchase.

The Internet is amazing the possibilities it continues to open for Marketing is crazy...

If you haven't jumped into the Internet world of Marketing your missing a huge opportunity to grow and expand your business.

I am also working on EBooks on several different Marketing Tools. Things are moving forward, things are good!

Family Life Update...

I havent posted about the "Family" life lately. With Greg and I things are impoving. Still hard at times and still alot of stress. We still struggle with time managment. I still find myself staying up most of the night working with very little sleep. Its hard but it wont be forever.

Kids are still struggling with the move. Brandan is really having a hard time. I am pretty worried about him. He is struggling in school. He has a GPA of 3.87 and now for the first time ever has C's and D's.

His teacher called me the other day worried about him. He is not doing his homework and not studying for his tests. He seems down. It has really been a hard road this past year and it has finally catched up with him.

I read Brandan's Health Journal he wrote about 10 stresses in his life for school. It was heart breaking. I feel like I should have protected him better from the financial crisis our family has suffered. At 13 years old I dont know how I could have. He came home to find one of the many notices of foreclosure on our door. That was very frightening to him.

He is worried about alot of things and very few of them are what a normal 13 year should be worried about. Biggest one is money and having a place to live. Divorce is a concern as well. Worried about what his friends think about his family what they think of us losing our home and moving into a apartment.

We live in a very small apartment. The six of us live in 1100 square feet apartment. We are on top of each other. It has been quite the adjustment of life. The kids can no longer go out front and ride their bikes. While I cooked dinner Brandan used to work on his homework and go play football outside. That is gone.

I had a long talk with Brandan. He is struggling to focus with all the distraction in the house with the girls after school. He finds it hard to do his homework and study. I have a meeting with his teachers next week. That should help with coming up with a plan to help Brandan get back on track.

The girls are struggling as well. My youngest daughter is scared to be without me and freaks out when I leave the house. She asks multiple times a day to go back to our old house. It breaks my heart. It hurts to see my kids hurting. That is also my motivation to work my butt off and provide a better life for them.

It will get better and that is all I can do is reassure them. I was telling Brandan yesterday that I know it doesn't seem like it but things are getting better slowing even if he doesn't see it yet. A year ago we had no hope before meeting Loral. We were just barely surviving with no opportunity for things to get better.

Today I have this incredible opportunity with all I have learned from Loral and the Live Out Loud Team. Today I am making new cash and have more control over over future than we had six months ago. Today we have hope. Today I have a Cash Machine that is a budding business.

All you can do is love them and reassure them and try to let them just be kids and not worry about the adult concerns. Be Patient, Brandan things are getting better.... I promise.

My First Major Marketing Client...

I spent the afternoon meeting with my first major marketing client outside of Live Out Loud Community.

I am so excited to say it went Great! I was on my game. I had a couple conference calls which I call my "discovery" calls to learn about their business and their vision. Today I came prepared with a well written proposal and well thought out six month marketing plan.

They loved it and hired me! I was able to use my "out of the box' thinking and my creativity to come up with a very great marketing campaign.

It feels so good!!! This is just the beginning. I can feel the wheels are moving now. I am moving forward and not looking back anymore.

Having positive energy is so vital. Creating Cash is a positive feeling. Its exciting. I feel alive inside. I ha vent felt "happy" in so long and I know I still have a long way to go to get where I want to be personally but I am starting to feel some peace inside.

Economic Crisis, Got You Afraid?

Today I have been working on compiling my task lists short term and long term. I have so much on my plate right now. It is overwhelming I must say but it is very exciting.

I need to also prioritize everything. I am waiting for my voice over editing to get back to me for my webinar. I will feel so relieved and so excited to be able to put my webinar out there. It will open up alot of new business for me.

While working on my task lists today, I have been watching CNN. I have heard so much about the economy and the DOOM that is headed for everyone. Today I can say I feel more hope than I had a year ago. I am so glad I am working on building my Cash Machine, my business now and not a year from now.

Everyday I hear which companies are laying off jobs. Unemployment is at a record pace. I heard a crazy statistic on MSNBC. 11 million people are on unemployment currently and only 2.8 million jobs being offered. A little scary? It doesn't have to be.

Who really has job security today? I wish so badly that I would have found Loral and started a Cash Machine a year or two ago. Think where I would be today? My point is why wait? Who really has job security today? Why wait until you reach a point of having no job and no income coming in to start to build a Cash Machine?

Why not have true security and work on building a Cash Machine today and not live in fear of the tomorrow of possibly losing your job? That is one of the biggest mistakes we made.

It plays in my brain like a broken record. We made two fatal mistakes. First we accustomed our life to making only a certain amount of money. Secondly we didn't prepare and shift for a market that was crashing. I didn't start building my Cash Machine until we had already lost everything.

Don't be afraid of the economic crisis, prepare yourself, build your security with a Cash Machine with Loral Langemeier. There are many upcoming Cash Machine Events. It is truly life changing. I wish I could turn back time and started this a year ago. Knowledge is Power.

Day Two - Live Out Loud - Wealth Building Blitz

One word, Wow! Today was another incredible day. I had such a good time. I drove home tonight really reflecting upon this whole experience. I really want to share what I am learning and what I am experiencing with others. I am so grateful for this opportunity to be a part of something so amazing.

Prior to the Dr. Phil show, I had never heard of Loral or Live Out Loud. I had heard of one of her books but knew nothing of it. I came into this as a guest of the Dr. Phil show not as a customer of Loral's. I think that is important part to understand where my view point is coming from. I have always been skeptical of seminars and workshops and spending any money on anything like this.

This is something so different. It truly is amazing. Loral is teaching a completely different way of thinking and it makes complete sense. She is not a Dave Ramsey or Suze Orman. This is not about focusing on debt and limiting yourself. It is about believing in yourself and giving yourself the chance, the opportunity to have more, to live your dream, to Live Out Loud....

Live your potential. Giving you the tools to succeed and have financial freedom. The Live Out Loud team is unbelievable. I am talking about everyone who is a part of this. It is about supporting each other. You look to your Live Out Loud community first. People wanting to help people. I really think it is driven like that because of the way Loral is. You can see Loral walking around at lunch or breaks talking with everyone. She is so approachable. She acts nothing like what you think a multi best selling author and multi millionaire would. It truly is surprising and amazing to me. It is refreshing to see someone of her stature mingling with everyone.

It is an overwhelming feeling of "family" that happens in 2,3 short days. I have a whole community I can turn to for information, resources, etc. For example if I need a photographer, a writer or an artist I know where I can turn. If I am struggling or stuck on something I can always go to my coach. I can also post a problem in the community. To put it simply, it is people helping people to achieve more with Loral as the Captain leading the ship.

I firmly believe things happen for a reason. This has changed my life so much. I know I would have never purchased anything from Live Out Loud or any other financial mentor prior to the Dr. Phil Show. I have always been to skeptical and not open to the possibility. I cant encourage someone more to do so after my experience.

I went into this not knowing what to expect. I got so much more than I could have expected.
I am very thankful for the Dr. Phil Show for bringing Loral and her Live Out Loud team into our lives. I really had no hope at that time. I remember the first time I met Loral standing in my kitchen with tears in my eyes telling her it is such mess, we were beyond help. She looked me directly in my eyes and told me not to worry, that she was here to help and that she was 100% positive she could. She was going to give us a plan and the tools we needed to dig ourselves out of the mess we were in and get us building wealth for future. Look where I am at today and where I am heading tomorrow!

One Word, WOW!

Day One --- Live Out Loud --- Wealth Building Blitz ---

Today I attended the Live Out Loud Wealth Building Blitz. It was incredible! I learned so much . I feel like I gained a years worth of information in a day. From entities to learning how to forecast to the different types of wealth accounts. I learned so much about tax strategies and business protection and lazy assets. Loral constructed a team of vendors who are the best in their field to give presentations and answer questions. Knowledge is power. Having this knowledge is priceless.

I also got the chance to see many people I met at the Cash Machine back in November. The Cash Machine was such an amazing experience to go thru that it felt like we were a bonded group of people. If you have never gone it is really hard to sum up the experience into words.

It was really nice getting to catch up with everyone from the Cash Machine. I heard so many incredible stories of success. Everyone I spoke with was moving forward and building their Cash Machine. It was Exciting!

I also made a lot of new contacts and friends. Everyone was so excited about making money, it is fun. Loral continues to amaze me. She is brilliant. She is so genuine and sincere and it shows with the way she interacts with people.

What a great day, I cant wait to go back in the morning!

Learning Lessons... Give Yourself a Chance to Live the Life You Want!

The past few weeks, Greg and I both have been working really hard. Greg has put in some really long days and weekends. With the interest rates so low, Greg has been really busy. Which is great he is getting a lot of loans in the pipeline. I should be so excited, right? Wrong. It is becoming more clear by the day that Greg will never make a lot of money working for someone else. Greg works as a mortgage consultant for a major bank.

Loral's words keeping coming back to me. Wealthy people are all entrepreneurs. What is clear is that no matter how hard Greg works he will never achieve the income we produced as we did when we owned our own company and were self employed.

So many people don't see it or they are too scared to see it. Loral's coaching is ringing in my ears. She is so right, it is scary. Why be a slave to a job and work 80 hours a week for something that will never get you where you desire to be?

I am shifting every day. I am in such a different mind set then I was five months ago. Five months ago all I wanted was for Greg and I to go get a w-2 job with a consistent income. A income where we knew exactly how much we are going to get and when. I see friends of mine in this rut trying to dig out of debt. They are unhappy. All their focus is on a negative, debt and being a slave to a job that will never get them the life they desire. Creating new cash is exciting, it is positive energy!

Looking back I cant believe I felt that way. Today I am so excited about starting my company and building my cash machine, marketinginpower.com. While there are many stressful days not knowing when income is coming in. I look at it differently today. I am so lucky to be able to have the knowledge that Loral has taught me over the last few months. Today I am working hard and giving myself a chance to achieve the success and life I desire and make the money I desire to have.

With only a w-2 job you are not even giving yourself a chance to achieve more. You are limiting yourself to all that your are capable of creating. Eliminating the chance to have your dream and make the money you want to have!

Today I have hope, I have a vision of the life and the dream I desire to have. I am giving myself the chance and the opportunity to achieve it all! Deep down in my soul, my core, I know I can and deep down I know I will... That is powerful......

Thank you, Loral....

Good Week... Generating Income... Webinar is Almost Done!

I have had a great week. I have been working really hard. I have all the power point presentations completed for my webinar and I am in the finishing stages of writing out the script and then recording it. I am so excited to get this on the market and out to my clients!

It is extremely informative and I know it will be a valuable tool for creating marketing success and helping you grow your business. I am very proud of it. I have worked really hard on it. It will be on my website to purchase at marketinginpower.com

My website is also almost done. It should be up in the next two weeks. I am also working on taking the bullet points in my webinar and making them into Ebooks for purchase. They will also be on my website.

Things are really coming together and moving forward. The progression I have made in the last three weeks has been huge. I just really needed to get moved out of our house and start a new year. It was so negative and only bringing me down and taking to much energy away from creating new cash, new wealth.

I feel so pumped today about my company, Marketing In Power. I am really excited about the upcoming Wealth Building Blitz with Loral. It is only a week away! I am excited and anxious to continue to grow and learn from Loral and take the next steps in building my cash machine!

She inspires people, she brings hope and vision to those who have lost it or maybe never have had it. That is Exciting! One week to go, I cant wait to share with her my progress!!!

TEAM.... My Favorite Word... Pieces Are Coming Together!

The pieces are starting to really come together on my Cash Machine. I have been really focusing on building my TEAM. Loral really stresses the importance of TEAM. This has been such a learning process. Going to the Cash Machine was so incredible. Overtime I am learning that there were things that many tools in the Cash Machine that only now I am fully understanding and able to put into action. You take in so much information in those three days.

You leave the Cash Machine with an abundance of information at your fingertips. I have been reviewing all the information I was given at the Cash Machine. I was feeling so overwhelmed at times that I realized I needed to review everything and map out a plan and get things done. Time management is key, especially with having four kids.

I have found an incredible partner, Robert Gather. I am really excited to have him on board and be a part of my company, Marking In Power. Rob brings a incredible amount of experience to the table. Rob has been part of a team that from scratch started and built a company that quickly became a six million dollar company in three years. He has a very impressive resume. We share the same vision and drive along with the same values.

I also have partnered with a very experienced web designer, Doug Styles. Doug also comes with alot of experience. Doug has extensive knowledge and and experience building and constructing a website with impressive graphic designs with flash tailored for the clients needs.

Another important part of our Marketing In Power TEAM is an attorney, Jean Dunn. Jean will be an important part of our team to help with all the legal questions and concerns that come our way. She has over ten years experience.

I am also working on finding a administrative assistant to help me with the administrative end of Marketing In Power.

Pieces are coming together. I am currently working on a slogan for my company Marketing In Power. I need to get my business cards designed and made.

I have really learned that TEAM is one of the most important parts of any Cash Machine. Loral voices it over and over. The Lone Rangers are a thing of the past. Building my team and seeing all the knowledge and experience they bring to the table makes me extremely excited. I see the power of having a TEAM, it will make Marketing In Power stronger.

I am really excited. I know 2009 is going to be great! My vision is becoming clearer and clearer by the day. I know I would not be here without Loral Langemeier and the whole Live Out Loud TEAM... She has masterfully built an incredible TEAM that reflects and shares her vision and her dream for all of us!

Happy New Year! This is a New Year in Every Way... Ready to get Rocking!

I am so excited about starting a New Year! I am more than ready to put 2008 behind me and move forward.

I am ready to start getting my Cash Machine rocking! In the past month I have been working on building my team. I have a pretty good team of great people put together. My website should be up and running in a couple weeks. My webinar is in its finals stages and will be delivered and available to purchase on my website, marketingwithpower.com very soon.

I have been back in contact with my Live Out Loud coach with consistent coaching calls, which is extremely beneficial. It gives me the direction and guidance I need to succeed. I am learning when I stray from the calls I lose my momentum and my focus and drive. I need to have accountability.

As this has been such a learning process, I am learning that I will always have obstacles come up in my life, that is the importance of what Loral means by TEAM and not getting stuck. I once was told TEAM stood for Together Everyone Achieves More....

I am so excited about 2009. I am currently working on my goals for the New Year. Stay tuned, I will be posting them soon!