When I was growing up my dad always told me, "Ronald, when you do what you love for a living, it isn't work!"
For the longest time I never grasped the true meaning of what he was trying to teach me. As a matter of fact when I first started my adult life I thought making a lot of money at work was all that matters. Though it didn't take long to realize, even when you are making a lot of money, if you don't like what you are doing for a living eventually the money won't keep you motivated. (My wife and I owned a Carpet Installation Company called First Class Installations in Virginia)
It was 2003 when I first decided to see what the internet could offer me in order to find a way to replace my high consumption lifestyle doing a job I hated, with something that I loved!
You may not be surprised to find out that this really was no easy task. With the internet there is opportunity after opportunity. It can be very overwhelming once you start searching for different ways to make money. For me, it was even more difficult, because I honestly had no clue what I would love to do for a living.
Seriously, since I grew up overweight, I found enjoyment in hard working positions like installing carpet, hauling trees, etc. Any kind of work that felt like exercise, I was all about it. The only problem was after a while your body starts to let you know there is only so much you can take. After seeing other men who were in my particular profession for 15 years plus who could barely walk, I knew there had to be something else, but what?
After reading a couple of different books on Entrepreneurship, my wife Melisa and I knew that what we were looking for needed to be something that we were passionate about. Something that we could do everyday, whether we were paid or not. It had to be in an arena where we could help other people as customer service is a huge strength of ours.
Seeing how I was obese my whole life I remember always wanting to start my own gym. I thought it would be cool to lose all my weight in a way that I could help others do the same. So this at least peeked my interest enough and we began looking into Weight Loss and the Health & Wellness industries. We were told that we should read 2 books by Paul Zane Pilzer such as, "The Next Trillion," and "The Wellness Revolution." Those books really set us off, and now we knew this was the right field.
Of course, then we were finding all of these different companies in an industry called Network Marketing, that had the best weight loss systems which you couldn't buy in stores. Since we never heard of Network Marketing, this led us to researching and studying the MLM industry. A great book we read was, "Business School" by Robert Kiyosaki! As we were learning more about how Networking worked, we also started trying several different products to see which we could be passionate about. After all we couldn't promote something that we weren't also using ourselves! We found some products that were pretty good, however, the results took a long time before they were noticeable, and it was tough to commit long term with these companies.
So, for a couple of years we spent a lot of time in the Personal Growth, Leadership Development, and Affiliate Marketing arenas learning about Search Engine Optimization, Leads Generation, Blogging, People Skills, etc. Until one day we were reading a wellness newspaper and came across an ad about a company called Isagenix. It mentioned a lot about their Cleansing Technology and the immediate results that were noticed by many people regarding weight loss whom have tried the system.
After spending hours watching and reading all the material available on their website, then thinking about it for weeks with my wife, we decided to try the products. They had everything that we had learned you would want in a Network Marketing company, plus the added benefit of products that can help people lose weight, which is what we have been looking for. After both of us lost 12lbs in 11 days on our first 9 day Cleanse and Fat Burning System, both my wife and I were sold that we had found the company we wanted to get involved with and the rest is history.
We absolutely love what we do now. Since I have always operated an at home business, going back to 1999 with our carpet company, the benefits of working from home are truly incredible. Though we have our challenges, as does everyone, building a business that you love is way better than building a business you hate.
In the end it all comes down to one thing. You gotta love what you do!
God bless,
Ron and Melisa Curtis
Independent Isagenix Distributors
"Do what you love and the money will follow." - Marshall Sylver
