Monday, July 9, 2007

Wake UP to Success - BOGO FREE {Free Enterprise}

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Freedom and Free Enterprise

Liberty League International is in the business of creating Freedom with the most powerful form of free enterprise on the planet.

We live in a country in which we are afforded certain liberties just by right of being a citizen; for example, the average American has a great deal of political freedom (generally speaking as long as you’re not imposing on the rights of others); but time and financial freedom are not something that most Americans can enjoy. And because of the two dominate issues (lack of time and financial freedom), most people also have very little emotional and spiritual freedom; the time to be able to really engage in the things that make a person feel complete as a human being.

We all know the routine well:

  • a man and women wake up in the morning, kisses someone good-bye, puts the kids in the back seat, then puts them in the arms of strangers or day care, then they go to a job where they’re selling their time and productivity to somebody else at whole sale prices, then pick up the kids, go to the drive through and pick up a bucket of fast food, everyone eats and after watching a couple of hours of television, everyone goes to sleep to get up and do it all over again the next day.

That’s the lives of many many many people.

  • There’s a Dad right now sitting somewhere thinking about how his little girl just graduated high school and is going to college shortly and he spent the best years of her life absence, having to work long hours so she could have what she needed. And yes he did it and deserves a pat on the back for doing what he had to do to help his family survive, but here’s the thing…..emotionally at what cost? Would he give anything to have those years back? There are plenty of single moms that are working two jobs to come up for extra cash to pay for necessities.

You can bear witness to the lack of time and financial freedom anywhere you go. And the two combined has created an even bigger problem, which is the emotional cost of not being connected to the people we love.

  • There’s a Dad out there trying to figure out how he’s going to pay for his daughters wedding and the only option he has is to go out and take a loan to pay for his daughters wedding.

And most of these emotional problems (lack of freedom and split emotional families) are connected to how the people in our society have chosen to make money.

  • In 1931, a young college student from Britain came to the United States on a traveling scholarship and was shocked and amazed that in the land of so much opportunity so many Americans wanted to work for companies instead of working for themselves. So when he returned to England he wrote a paper on “Why in a free enterprise economy would a worker voluntarily submit to direction by a corporation instead of selling his or her own output or service directly to a consumer in the marketplace.” That student was Ronald Coase, 1991 Nobel Laureate in Economics

A man received a Nobel Prize for asking the same question we’ve all asked ourselves - “Why on earth would I want to work for someone else?”

JOB ??? who wants a job? It’s probably the worse way to make a living. Could you make more money if you did something on your own?

Did you know the word “job” did not mean what it means today?

  • A hundred years ago a blacksmith would go out and get jobs...….Farmer Brown wants me to shoe his horse and Farmer Green wants me to make him some axes.

A job was something a self employed person would do. Then the industrial revolution/assembly line came along and companies started coming to people saying to them:

  • “If you’ll come down to our factory and punch this clock we’ll give you regularity of pay and you won’t have to worry about the weeks when Farmer Brown doesn’t need you to shoe his horse. You don’t have to do anything but show up and do what we tell you and we’ll give you a raise every now and then and we’ll make sure that your family is provided for because we’re going to give you a job."

And that’s where the word “job” shifted in meaning. And just like that the citizen gave away all his earning power by choosing to let someone else tell him what his time and productivity was worth.

It worked for a long while, companies flourished and people were happy, but not any more, that system hasn’t worked in 40 years. The idea, that a company is responsible for giving an employee lifetime employment, is a financial fairytale. That hasn’t worked since the 1950’s and the problem is that most people growing up today are basically taking financial advice from their parents who grew up in a totally different economy then we do today. So it’s amazing on how many people still buy into the idea that the secret to financial success is to go to college, get your degree and get a job at a big company and retire with a pension.

You and I both know that’s not happening, but I shared it with you so you know the difference where the American citizen basically traded their earning power for a bowl of company portage and why the word job is going extinct. Because people who are savvy, people who understand how money works are going back to where we were a hundred years ago, saying “hey let me be responsible for my own earnings.” “I don’t want anyone telling me how much money I could make.”

So this is the DEAL…..Free Enterprise is where it’s at!!
Profits are better then Wages

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE INVOLVED IN FREE ENTERPRISE

Profits are the money that you can earn by providing service to others.


And that’s what we’re about here at Liberty League, the service we provide is:
- an incredible product that is worth far more then it’s price tag
- the leadership we offer
- and the community to plug into

When people chose to commit to the product and be involved with the community it’s the greatest value that they will ever have in any other area of their life.

It’s the business that will let the single mom breathe easy, and be home with her child(ren) when the school bus drops off the kids. It’s the kind of business that will allow a broke piano player/assistant manager for a retail store to come in and make more in a month then they did in a year.

YES, Free Enterprise is where it’s at!! And underneath all the money is the FREEDOM…..the ability to finally have enough money flowing in your life so you can do whatever you want to do, when you want to do it with the people you’re in love with.

That’s what freedom is, that’s what I’m about and that’s what Liberty League is all about; providing people the opportunity to create freedom through free enterprise.