Not that long ago I had a friend, who has struggled with her belief in the industry, to share with me that network marketing is hard work.

Well from time to time, I have heard from prospects & people outside Network Marketing industry & it's critics that the industry is a lot of --h-a-r-d w-o-r-k-- and that it takes too long to see cash flow.

Well, the "hard work" part is correct, that's for sure and no one should ever deceive people about that - that is precisely why the ultimate rewards can be so very high.

So in a nutshell here is what I answered - Is network marketing difficult? Yes, and so is anything 'else' in life that's worthwhile.

But let's be honest - "how" difficult is it? - and, difficult in comparison to What? What other options are 'out there' for personal business ownership that are as easy to get set up in?

H-e-r-e is what's "difficult" - -

It is difficult .... when you tell your loved ones that there isn't enough funds this Christmas to get them what they wished for.

It is difficult - knowing the rust bucket we call a car is eating us alive in maintenance, but we cannot afford a new one...

It is difficult - to go to our annual performance review (job), and even though we have worked "hard" for another year, we come away "empty handed"...

It is difficult - knowing that we shop by "sticker", rather than whether the garment "looks good" on us...

It is difficult - knowing that we married a wonderful person (our spouse), and promised them the world, and yet for the next 20 years, we look at "balancing the budget" and figuring out what "sacrifices" must be made...

Always lowering our "dreams" to meet our "means" - that is difficult...

It is difficult - knowing that we have spent 30-40 years of our life working for someone else -- only to realize that we will be retiring on 1/3 of what we cannot live on "today"...

It is difficult - knowing that the fish are biting this week -- and we cannot drop what we're doing and take our Dad fishing...

So " What other choices do we have? What can we do about it?"? We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastinating and skirting important things, rather than 'facing' the issues. Too often we allow "others" --who do not pay our bills -- who do not share our dreams -- to direct "our" future!

Is home based business "Really" that difficult after all? - Is it so 'traumatic' for us to tell people about our breakthrough products? Is it that hard for us to understand that if we "share with enough people"- and "focus" on this business "hard" - just for a few years - that they will not have to confront some of the nasty alternatives - and instead, we can have "choices" for ourselves?

By this time I was really on a roll and I ended the conversation this way ........

In order to be well on your way to putting your family in a comfortable home would you be willing to "work and focus really hard" for next 3-4 years? Would you "work really hard" for a few years - so that your children could go to University of their choice. Chosen be "excellence and not by "price" (the same limits we used for clothes shopping)??

Would you be willing?