Someone asked me what my WHY was Back in Nov of 2018. My why? Family of course! You see at the time I was looking for a legitimate way to work from home. I have always been a homebody and never liked working for other people. Mainly because you never knew when and if you would have a job when you went into work or not. My thinking at the time was to have a secure income maker career. I am an X-ray technologist by trade and I am pretty good at it. I also make a decent salary, but I still do not have the “FREEDOM” to do what I would like to do! Being in a single-income household is kind of tough.
Let me give you some background. My roots are planted in the Middle East just like Mr. Kosta Gara. Yes, I am from Iran as well although I was a bit luckier in my path than he was. My childhood was pretty nice. I was athletic and liked to play and run. However, I was painfully shy so if someone did not come and ask me I never volunteered. Being popular in school mainly because of sports I was easy to talk to. But I did not have an easy time talking to others.
Dreaming of being rich does not really give you a why!
I dreamt of being filthy rich. I had fantasies as a child, to live in big mansions, get married, and have children to care for. Well, I can tell you that never came to fruition. Actually none of it. I was pretty ignorant of what was happening in my country at that time. My parents had sheltered me from all the things happening in the news. I fully grasped the seriousness of the situation when I was gone on a school trip to Switzerland. You see we were there when we heard about the burning of the Rex Cinema in August of 1978 killing 420 people alive. Thus starting the revolution and putting many of us on an unplanned and unwanted path.
They closed my school and because I did not know any Arabic they were going to hold me back two years! Of course, they closed down my school anyway. Remind you I was probably twelve and a half at the time. Right at the cusp of being a teenager. For most of us, our entire world rocked and crumpled. Parents were scrambling to save their children either from the regime or the system. If you have read Mr. Gara’s book I can attest to the fact that all he says is true during that time.
We thought I was saved when we received an invitation from my school to join them in Spain and continue my studies there. We made arrangements for the whole family to go to Spain and see if we could salvage anything out of this disaster. Everything was left behind but two suitcases each. My parents sacrificed so much at that time and I was just oblivious to it. Call it fear, call it ignorance, I do not know but I was not ready to be separated from them.
My Why? Family of course and Regrets might change your why!
I have so many regrets and this right here is my biggest one. Have you ever heard of the story of the blue and the red pill? Is it the blue pill you take one and you go back to your pivotal moment but you keep all your knowledge? I would take the blue pill in a heartbeat. I would then go back and make the decision to stay there by myself. This would allow my parents to live the life they were meant to live without all their sacrifices. Maybe I would have found the RRR family sooner.
This was the pivotal moment when my parents marriage went downhill. Oh they stayed together for many more years, but really not worth it because of the toll it took on the two of them and my brother and I. My mother was always angry and blamed everyone and my Dad was always sad and depressed. He came here to the United States in 1982 and had to start from scratch. My Dad was the Director of Accounting for a branch of NIOC at the time and he had to come here and get a job in a Waffle House for pete’s sake.
From that time till now my why has been family of course. Make enough to be able to retire and not have to work so I could take care of my family. I am still working on that and along the way some other why’s have been added. My years in Spain were pretty hard. A teenager in a new setting with no knowledge of the language trying to fit in the groups that had been formed years before. By the time I started to get my footing we were leaving again!!! Maybe why I cannot form a solid relationship!
Sixteen and moving country to country. My why? Still my family of course.
Now imagine at the age of sixteen and a half moving country to country again, this time senior year of high school. Yup I did not have any friends at all this time. Anyway went to college and got my BS in computer science with a minor in Spanish. A lot of good that did for me. During this time my parents separated and all I could do was to just pass the exams and get the degree so I would have something to show for.
Ended up getting jobs in data entry. With automation catching on those jobs started to dry up too. Decided to get a quick degree in something medical so I could be secure and not be laid off every time something more modern came around. Radiologic Technology degree was it. I finished an associate degree and have been doing that since 1996.
Along the way, my mom left us. Oh we are still in touch and I try to see her every day, but our dynamics are broken a bit. We decided to adopt a dog around that time and that is when my love for dogs and most animals blossomed. So did my WHY just a bit.
My why just expanded to include Fur Babies too! Again my why? Family of course!
I was never able to form a relationship and or have children. Oh I tried, but I guess it was not meant to be. So my fur babies became my children. My why is to work from where ever I want to. I do not want to have to forgo an air conditioning system for two years because more important expenses came about. Or not be able to go on vacation for 5 years at a time because it is not in the budget.
My why is to be able to take better care of my parents in their own home the best I can and not have them want for nothing. Even though the family has been negative the entire time. When your dad who you idolize tells you that nobody will buy your wine or your brother tells you that I do not believe in anything you promote is kind of disheartening. And so to the final why is to be able to foster, adopt or help whatever or whichever animal charity I choose to help with no repercussions to the budget. I WANT FREEDOM OF LIFESTYLE and FREEDOM OF CHOICE and FREEDOM to say it is my money and not your business what I spend it on!!! Because right now I have no CHOICE but to scrimp and save to pay someone else gets rich.
My why has never changed! Family of course
NOW back to this venture that I took on in 2018. I truly believe it is possible to make all my dreams come true. Rory and Tanya have built a family of online friends and instructors to help each other and make it happen. As we like to say it is a system not a suggestion and it truly is that. It is a proven system of marketing that Rory has perfected in his many years of entrepreneurship.
If he can do it why not me? This is the only thing I found on the net where they provide you with leads and instructional webinars 5 nights out of 7. They even have instructors ready to answer any question at a drop of a hat. He has constructed multiple streams of income, from Wine to Weightloss to Brain supplements, all relevant in any time period or place. Any idea what that means? You will never run out of ideas or ways to make an income!!! Where are you going to find that? Now if only I could get over my shyness and develop a silver tongue I have everything at my fingertips to make this happen.
I also highly recommend you read his book and get an insight into who he is and how he is paying it forward!!!