Grace’s Blog

I work from home.  This week as storm after storm has passed through our area, I again appreciated the benefits of having a home-based business.

When it is cold and snowy, I can sit in the comfort of my home office.  I can email, hold conference calls, or have on-line meetings.  I can visit on the phone with my associates, place orders or do research.

I don’t have to get up before the sun, get into a cold car and drive on icy roads to work.

My heart goes out to parents who have to get up early, bundle up their precious little people and drop them off at a day care center.

Would they want it differently?  Maybe.  Choosing and operating a home-based business could be intimidating.

My home-based business has many other benefits. I don’t have to produce, test, distribute or deliver products.  That is done for me.  I get paid for advertising.

I have a customized, search engine optimized web site complete with a shopping cart.  It even has Google Analytics.

Could what I do be for you?  Most certainly if you decided to.

You  may ask who’s going to let you? You should ask who’s going to stop you?  Either way, that person may be you.

Explore the Infinite Possibilities of my home-based business opportunity.

Shaklee Independent Distsributor

Having a home based business never was part of my plan.  Being a wife and mother was the most important career I could have.

So when a friend pestered me to the point I could no longer avoid her, I agreed to attend a meeting.  I had already started using one of the products she promoted and I really liked it.

What harm would it be to attend a meeting?

Remembering our experience with bras and girdles, Andy bowed out.  If I wanted to get involved, he said, go but don’t include him.

Long story short, I learned about nutrition, a new business model and I could make money and be at home with my kids.

Sounded good.  Since I was experiencing very low energy (which my Dr. said there was nothing wrong with me),  I decided to try the nutritional products. 

My energy soon returned.  I shared all I knew about this new business with friends and family. 

 Without knowing what I was doing, I soon had a home based business going.

Our business boomed, then tragedy struck.  Our 10 year-old son died in a car accident.  Our world changed.  My business, which was now “our” business, moved to the back burner.

We moved from our family home, then moved again.  Almost 10 years went by without us actively working our business.

But something interesting and amazing kept happening.  We continued to receive residual earnings checks from our “business.”

We had shared our products with so many friends and family who loved them as we did, and they continued to use them.  So had we.

One day Andy asked me why I didn’t go out and get a job to keep me busy.  By this time our youngest son was a senior in high school. 

I thought about it, but the idea of being on someone else’s time schedule, getting up early, going to work in a snow storm, or not having the luxury of being home baking cookies or reading a good book did not appeal to me.

Besides, by bonus check was about the same amount as someone working full time.  Why would I want to go to work?

That is when I realized what a wonderful gift my friend had shared with me so many years before.

The products have kept us healthy, living “green” and making money.  Our little home based business had provided for us during lean times.  It took us on vacations and helped pay the bills.

Now we haven’t been “super stars” in this home based business industry, but we haven’t been slouches either.  Working part-time and no-time, we have made more than most people working full time.

More importantly, we have helped many people have healthier lives,  healthier homes and made many lifetime friends. 

Money cannot compensate for that.

Shaklee Dist.