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Too many families these days are too busy to sit down for a meal together. They eat and run or eat on the run. I have to tell you – if at all possible, make the time to sit together over a meal and chat at least once or twice per week. In our house, anyone who is present at dinner time, sits at the table and eats & chats with us. Not all of our dinner table conversations are “blog post worthy”, however, I will try to recapture some of those here on my blog in a “Dinner Table Conversations” category.

Dinner Table Conversations 8/10/10

Present: Clayton (husband), myself, Kate (daughter) & Anthony (daughter’s boyfriend)

We were talking about actors/actresses and where they got their start. I asked Kate & Anthony if they knew where Adam Sandler made is TV debut. Anthony knew that it was as Theo’s friend on the Cosby Show.

Kate then asked if we knew Robin Williams was on “Happy Days” and my husband exclaimed “Mork”. Then Kate and Anthony looked at me like I was out of my mind when I exclaimed “Mork & Mindy!” Of course I then had to do the “Mork calling Orson…come in Orson” imitation. My husband and I did the na-nu-na-nu handshake and then shouted “shazbot!”

I told them about the cats we had when I was little named Mork & Mindy. I loved that show. It ran from 1978 until 2 days after my 15th birthday in 1982.

For those of you who don’t know about Mork & Mindy, Mork first appeared in Happy Days as Richie’s martian friend. Then Mork & Mindy spun off as a new sitcom. Mork was sent to Earth to study life here and Mindy befriended him, moving him into her attic. At the end of each episode, he would call home to Ork and summon Orson by standing and calling “Mork calling Orson…come in Orson”. Each week Mork would report back to Orson about what he learned. Things like “Earthlings drink liquids with their mouths, not their finger” and “They sit on their butts, not their heads”.

In the fourth and final season, Mork & Mindy got married. Mork gave birth (laid an egg) to an adult baby (played by Johnathan Winters) named Mearth. Mearth was born an adult because Orkans age backward.

The kids laughed and laughed during dinner. At times they thought we were crazy, but for the most part, we all had a blast talking about old TV shows. Make time to sit and talk with your family!!

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It’s about time someone tells the truth about working from home. I’m sick and tired of these nitwits who scream all over like a carnival barker yelling things like “It’s easy!!” “Anyone can do it” “Sign up, do noting and make money”.

IT’S NOT EASY!

Sign up, do nothing and make money is a scam! – EVERY TIME!

With that said, can you really make money working from home? Absolutely! As long as you understand that it’s called WORK from home, not sit on your ass and do nothing from home.

It really upsets me to see people conning others out of their hard earned money and telling them they can do little to nothing and be making enough to quit their job in no time. It rarely ever works that way. I mean…come on…get real people. On the other hand, the scams that tell you that you never have to spend a dime are just that – scams. A home business will cost money to start.

Is working from home easy? Hell no!! Otherwise everyone would be rich and there would be no one to keep the world moving. No secretaries, no janitors, no housekeepers, no maids, no fast food restaurants, no grocery store clerks… You get the picture.

So…bottom line…if you want to work from home, know that it will take WORK, TIME and MONEY. If you are the type of person who can manage their time and make a commitment to doing something long term without seeing immediate, instant results, then you will be fine. If you are the type of person who does not work well on their own and wants to see an instant income, do not get involved in a home based business of any kind.

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Any time you sign up others and make money from their efforts as well as from those they sign up, you are in network marketing. Some call it MLM (multi-level marketing) and some call it direct sales. No matter what it’s called, it’s still the same.

I do have to laugh at the whole “direct sales” thing. Direct sales is when you sell your products / services to others and get paid a commission. Any time you have recruiting or sponsoring of others where you get paid on their efforts, you are in multi level marketing. SURPRISE!!! People have been lying about this for years.

Network marketing / MLM is a legitimate way to make money.

With that said, there are some caveats.

1. If an MLM company has no real product or service, it is a pyramid scheme, not a viable MLM opportunity.

2. If the only people purchasing products or services are the reps, it’s not a legal MLM opportunity. The government has stated that sales must occur to people who are not part of the multi level structure. If you have to sign people up as reps so they can buy your products, you are in an illegal MLM opportunity.

3. Would you buy your products or services at full retail if there were no business opportunity involved? This is a standard test that the government does when looking at network marketing opportunities. Ask yourself that. Go look at the retail price (not the rep price) for your products. Would you pay that price for them if there were no business opportunity? Most companies jack up the retail prices to make it easier for reps to talk people into joining to “get the good prices.” Is that your company?

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I was driving home the other day and noticed this lime green bug with wings on the hood of the truck. He must have had some kind of sticky feet because he was near the middle of the hood holding on for dear life. Even when I got up to 60 mph, he hunkered down and held on tight. Even when I slowed to a stop, he repositioned himself to hunker down and hold on for dear life the next time I sped up.

Every time I stopped, I yelled “Just let go and fly, little buddy” but he didn’t. I guess bugs don’t understand English.

All he had to do was let go. Just fly away and he would be free. Did he do it? No. When I stopped in the driveway, he slowly crawled toward the front of the hood and hid under the bug deflector. A few hours later, I took my daughter to a job interview and there he was, STILL hiding behind the bug deflector. He rode all the way to her job interview and back home with us. Some time later that day he took off.

He wasted almost an entire day getting a better grip on the hood of the truck so he didn’t get blown off during the next trip. I believe this bug is a cicada. Cicadas live only a few years as a flying insect. The majority of their life is spent burrowed in the ground. So…he wasted a good portion of his short life hunkered down getting a better grip for the next “storm” in his life.

Are you simply continuing to reposition yourself for a better grip on the windy, chaos filled life you have now? All you have to do is let go and fly. Don’t be like this insect. What can you do today to spread your wings and fly and make a better life for yourself?

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