How Do You Become Wealthy?
Wouldn't you like to be in a situation where you had an ongoing income large enough for you to forget about basic survival, and were able to utilise your time and excess income to follow your dream or assist the rest of mankind?

The first step then is to find a passion, throw yourself into it and look for ways to convert your skills into money earning potential.

Not everyone dislikes their job, and many people make their 9 to 5 job their passion. This is not the way to wealth. It may or may not give them job satisfaction but it won't bring wealth. As long as you are being paid a fixed wage, or an hourly rate, you will probably never save enough money to join the ranks of the wealthy.

If you are already one of these wage earners, the next question of course is how do you find the time in amongst earning a regular income to refocus your life and follow a passion. Those of us who realised this at school age and were able to head down the path of following their passion and developing the relevant skills to the exclusion of most other things probably don't have this problem, as they wouldn't have been caught up in the bind of working in a 9 to 5 job that they didn't particularly like. The rest of us need to start following on a part time basis a passion which has the potential to become full time when it gets going. It is important to realise that this is a step of faith, and often needs great determination to accept that our lives need to be refocussed and we will be much better off in the long term for taking up this challenge. Your passion needs to be one which will provide an income stream which is r esidual ie, the money continues to flow in after you have stopped working. Examples of this are an author who writes a book and receives royalties forever more, or an inventor who does likewise. The author earns nothing while he is writing the book, but establishes a future income stream which continues forever more. Likewise the inventor earns nothing while he is developing the invention, and may spend quite a bit of his own money doing so, but has the foresight and determination to see it through to its conclusion.

What if we don't have these abilities'? Is there another way we can achieve the aim of owning our own business without risking any capital, without having to worry about employees and which provides a residual income stream in the same way as an author or inventor?

The answer is yes. It is the relationship marketing system which has become known as network marketing. Unfortunately network marketing received a bad name in many quarters as it came through its developmental phases over the past forty years, but with our current level of computer technology and the Internet revolution, the industry has changed dramatically and has become a highly sophisticated industry. It is well worth a closer look for anyone who isn't yet an author, an inventor or a highly paid celebrity, as the way to achieving that residual income stream discussed above.

Read on to find out more about marketing in the 21st century.