Richard Bliss Brooke - The Four Year Career: How to Make Your Dreams of Fun and Financial Freedom Come True, or Not...

ON REVOLUTION

"It is in the nature of revolution, the overturning of an existing order, that at its inception a very small number of people are involved. The process in fact, begins with one person and an idea, an idea that persuades a second, then a third and a fourth, and gathers force until the idea is successfully contradicted, absorbed into conventional wisdom, or actually turns the world upside down. A revolution requires not only ammunition, but also weapons and men willing to use them and willing to be slain in the battle. In an intellectual revolution, there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words."

Jude Wanniski, 1936-2005
The Way the World Works, (Touchstone Books, 1978)

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AN INTRODUCTION FROM RICHARD BROOKE

As the author of this book I am biased. In 1977 I had my own four year career under my belt at Foster Farms, the single largest chicken processing plant in the world. With only 36 years to go I changed course and at the age of 22, I joined the ranks of the Network Marketing profession. It took me three years to make a living at it. I quit 100 times my first year and watched thousands quit who joined before, during, and after me.

Then I figured something outand three years later I had 30,000 active partners building the business with me. Sure people still failed and quit but 30,000 people stuck with it. I was earning $40,000 a month in 1983 at the age of 28. I have earned millions since and have coached tens of thousands to earn $500 to $5,000 to $50,000 a month and more.

I figured out how to make Network Marketing work. So have a lot of other people.

Thirty-six years later, I have seen thousands of companies come and go and hundreds of thousands of hopeful Distributors quit before they made it ... or maybe they would have never made it. I have seen our profession dirty its pants with its own greed, selfishness, immaturity and general lack of character within its leaders. I have heard all the rational experiences and factoids about how and why this profession is the scourge of the earth. Many of those perspectives are right on, well deserved and make total sense.

I have also seen that, for those people who "figure it out," their lives are forever enriched financially, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Some would say that those who succeed in Network Marketing is "not fair." I would say that everyone who "takes a look" at Network Marketing as a part-time income or a significant wealth building alternative has the same opportunity to succeed. Life is not fair if you define fairness as "everyone wins." My mentors never promised me life would be fair. They just promised me it would "be." The rest was up to me.

In 2012, I would have been retiring from Foster Farms had I stuck it out. Not a bad thing. I loved the people there and even enjoyed the work. Just different.

Instead, I have traveled to every state in our union at least twice, every province and territory of Canada, over 20 fascinating countries (including Cuba three times), built incredible relationships with thousands of people from all over the world, had incredible successes as well as my share of mind-bending failures. My favorite people in the world are still my high school buddies and my favorite place in the world is still home. I am grateful to be able to clearly make that distinction.

I suppose a person can figure out how something won't work or figure out how it will. Each intention produces a result.

SUCCESS

In March 1992, SUCCESS magazine featured the Network Marketing industry's skyrocketing success as its lead story. It was the first time a mainstream publication had done so in the industry's 50-year history. That is your favorite chicken chopper turned CEO, Richard Bliss Brooke, in the middle picture. (You can read about how they picked him in Mach II With Your Hair On Fire.) It outsold every issue in the 100 year history of the magazine.

Richard Bliss Brooke is a 35-year veteran of the Network Marketing profession, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Direct Selling Association, a senior member of the DSA Ethics Committee and holder of many other accolades, including:

Author of The Four Year Career and Mach II With Your Hair On Fire, The Art of Vision and Self Motivation

Full-time Network Marketing Leader since 1977

Former Member of the DSA Board of Directors

Owner of two Network Marketing companies

Industry Expert and Advocate

Motivational Seminar Leader

Ontological Coach

CHAPTER

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

HELEN KELLER

A FOUR YEAR CAREER VS. A FORTY YEAR CAREER?

The 40/40/40 Plan

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, over 250 years ago, the idea of a career has been to: work 40 hours a week for 40 years for 40% of what was not enough even for the first 40 years.

1. Get a good education ... a four year degree is your ticket.

2. Get a good job with a big company ... lots of benefits.

3. Work it for at least 40 hours a week, for 40 years to retire and enjoy the Golden Years.

Things have changed a lot since then. Your "company" is more likely to file bankruptcy to avoid paying your retirement than it is to honor it. Even states, counties and cities are starting to face the fact that they over promised and can't deliver. And even if the retirement is there ... even if your 401k is not a 201c, there is rarely enough retirement income from this model to have a gay ol' time in your Golden Years. Most people just hunker down and run out the clock. I don't know. Maybe they think this is a trial run and they get another shot at it.

Investing in Your Future

Tech companies today are paying kids ... 1620 year olds, to "pass on college" and get in here and create products with us now.

All things being equal, college is still smarter than no college. But some kids are figuring out if they invest those four full-time years with $50,000$500,000 towards their business ideas and talents, they can end up hiring a lot of college graduates. Think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison.