Initial Motivations or "Why I do what I do"

  Written by Ron Forrester on Feb 3, 2010 6:09 am

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My name is Ron Forrester, and I have been in the home based business industry for 29 years, 25 of them full time. I actually got started in this industry wanting $500 more per month to purchase an automobile instead of a car, I wanted a Jaguar.  I am a registered Pharmacist and even though my income from Pharmacy was substantial I really could not justify taking the car payment from the family cash flow.  Why not? Because the Jaguar was going to be my toy.

At the time I reasoned I could earn the extra $500 in a spare time business and not feel I was taking money away from the household and family needs.

Three years later my spare time business was earning three (3) times what my pharmacy income was, and I retired from corporate America!

Best decision I could have made, because my income has only increased over the years, but more so because I have met some incredible people (have 1000's of friends all over the world!); have traveled all over the world; done more with my family than most ever get to do; have the time freedom to experience more of life than most ever get to do; don't worry about where the next dollar is coming from because I earn more in a month than many earn in a year; and I have never driven a "car" since my corporate retirement date....only an automobile!

Hard to imagine all those accomplishments for a deep South tenant farmers son, huh?

I owe it all to wonderful parents who instilled in me the knowledge I could do anything I wanted, if I believed I could.  And, an incredibly agressive ambition to have a better life than I had while growing up.  Don't misunderstand, I never lacked for what I needed, but rarely had what I wanted, and believe me, what you want will motivate you far more than what you need!

Of course, one of the biggest motivations I had came as a result of watching my parents and how they worked day to day.

As I said we were tenant farmers on a beef cattle farm beginning when I was five years old. Prior to that we lived in a "mill village" which was nothing more than a neighborhood built to house textile workers in a small town in North Carolina, population 4,017. It was about 1100 square feet with 3 bedrooms housing me, my holdest sister, my brother, my mom and my dad.  (my youngest sister was not born until I was 9).  The only good thing about this house was it backed up to a little league baseball field for the neighborhood. Only thing is, no-one could play ball on it due to the holes in the playing field, especially the infield. Which is another story!

The little town I grew up in is located in a mineral rich area in North Carolina, and that baseball field had one of the biggest veins of crystal quartz running through it you have ever seen! Beautiful, clear, double terminated (looked like diamonds!) crystals and massive globs of crystals were found all over it, and some of us actually dug deep pits to find the best specimens.  This was the start of a lifelong pursuit of mine, rockhounding and that led to my endeavor of the art of faceting gemstones. More on this later, if you want.

Anyway, at the tender age of 5 we moved to the farm and my work life began. It didn't take me long to realize I was destined to labor all my life if I didn't do something about it. At 9 I established my first business....I hired myself out to the women in the neighborhood....Yep, at age 9!

I cut their grass on Saturdays, mopped and waxed their floors on Wednesday, Vacuumed their houses on Friday.  My wife tells me it was time well spent, because I can vacuum a house better than anyone she has ever seen...!  LOL......

From 9 years old I have bought my own clothes, shoes and whatever I wanted that I could afford.  The freedom to do that instilled a real "want" in me....the want to be my own boss, earning my own money and not be tied down by being an employee!

So I guess it was inevitable that I would establish my own pharmacy, which I did and it was a wildly successful one in its first month! HOWEVER, I still had to go to work, stay there 10 hours a day, carry inventory, have all kinds of insurances, pay employees, hire and fire employees, work in their place when they didn't show up, ....essentially be the jack of all trades.....and I DID NOT LIKE IT!

My spare time business was so successful that it freed me from that life of labor, life of drudgery and the grindstone of getting up, going to work, coming home, eating, watching television, going to bed, getting up, going to work, coming home, eating, watching television and then going to bed in just three years!

I was extremely fortunate because I was introduced to the home based business industry by a man who knew what he was doing, being a veteran of 15 years and he taught me the proper methods and systems to grow my business. Duplication by establishing leaders that will grow their business and therefore grow mine. He taught me to be a servant leader.

Unfortunately, too many people that enter this industry only have their sights set on what is best for them, and forget this business is built through the efforts of others. Too many entice a person to just get in and then leave them to their own devices and if the new person makes it, fine; if not, then they were "duds" anyway.

Now after many years of successful endeavor.....only 6 companies in 29 years of which I was the number 1 field associate in 3, in the top 5 in two, and in the top 200 in the first one....when someone asked me what it takes I tell them,"a number of factors are important...since everyone has the same opportunity, has the same product, is paid under the same compensation plan, has the same tools, has the same market to present to..then there are only two factors that really matter...You (the individual) and who you are associated with in the company.  If you have the desire, are teachable, are wanting success and you have a sponsor who can teach you the systems, then you will be successful if you just keep at it."

That is basically what separates me from the general field....I know how to build a business successfully and how to teach you to build a business successfully.  Now, when I enroll someone I am telling them they will be successful if they can follow a simple plan.

In my 29 years I have never seen the opportunity that is available through PTN.  This is the best online business I have seen. There is a very simple reason besides the fact it is so unique....PTN is appealing to the "want" for entertainment combined with the "want" to participate in a sport  (representative of our desire to "belong" in/to something bigger than ourselves), Poker.  Never have I seen a company tap into the "want" market with a double motivation!  This is going to be huge because of that!  Simple.

Would you like to know the plan? The success formula? Then get involved and contact me.  Simple.

Ron Forrester

281-806-0395

lmann2009@yahoo.com

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