MOVING ON

That picture is from one of those moments when I figured out a selfie would represent what was running un-clearly in my mind. I would be always out and about here in New York City (NYC) where I have been based for the past 10 years. Among accomplishments I've completed, I've been able to grow, expand my online business while I have been doing part-time jobs to continuously provide for fodder to folders in my mind where I draw materials to write about. Hence, this posting is one of those very pleasurable days when I have finally been able to write and share something here online (again). I continue to write for my own pleasure. I really just want to read and write, practically almost everyday. But that's not possible right away if I choose to live and stay very well here in NYC. Yesterday's unplanned meet-up with a couple of retired Filipino teachers who have their own house somewhere in a relatively expensive neighborhood in Queens, NYC has mainly prompted this post...

Check out the picture above and read some of the more important details. I deliberately erased certain information but you can see enough details about the commission that I have started earning from my franchise business with Market America / shop.com . The business is very real, has called for time, discipline & focus to build & expand, and I have learned so many valuable lessons in my ongoing journey to start earning my ongoing commission income from it. I am talking about earnings that will come to my account in addition to the retail profits, cash back built into the system. It's similar to creating an annuity that is being built and grown together with my teammates, leaders, partners, customers. Believe it as we're all connected 100% as we go about leveraging others' efforts. You don't get the sense of being taken advantaged by the system or by someone because of certain limitations that you encounter in life's everyday situations. For me, it's...

P.S. To Jill Abramson: Grads, You Must Learn The Word ‘Fungible’ I'm surprised that this article fell short of directly advising college students these days to seriously consider ways to become entrepreneurs. I was just chatting briefly with a security guard of a Barnes & Noble store in downtown Brooklyn. He was asking me about the experience of being a 'home health aide' (HHAs) when he saw me wheeling my client in with his family in the store. I had to tell him,  HHAs are are called caregivers. I had the impression from him that he thinks it's a relatively easy job. I had to correct his mis-impressions right there and then. No job is ever easy or else it won't be called a job, isn't it? But I also took the chance to tell him to check out this opportunity to become a business owner after I had the impression that he's on the look-out for better career opportunities. I'm doing it now with my Market America / shop.com franchise. And look more clos...

Oh, well, the title is long; it carries the entire message of this posting. I was inspired to share here about some persons I've met, known and invited to explore opportunities I see with my franchise business with Market America ( shop.com/jeromebaladad ). Probably, they don't see yet in me the benefits of having explored those opportunities that I've been telling them these past few months. Or they're just not interested for now. I've learned not to take things, including rejections, personally.  But still, I wonder why some of them have refused to explore. One of them includes a roommate. He's an American, born and raised in Brooklyn. Good looking, still healthy, relatively young, not really busy as it seems to me, does part time jobs to meet and pay his bills, he could be a very good prospect who could build his business for starters as he's not even employed full time. But I got the chance to clarify a lot of confounding observations on him when he k...

Weeks ago, I was tasked to present part of the home business presentation (an overview on what the business is all about in an hour or two with guests and partners around) before a crowd in a room somewhere in White Plains one evening. I have done many similar presentations before when I was still leading a corporate life as well as during MBA school. I'm saying this experience is really nothing new to me. I'm grateful, though, that my partners have thought well of me to consider asking me to present part of the program we have to help create stronger awareness among our prospects, partners and customers about our very awesome network marketing business (contact me, if you want to know more about this). And during the presentation, I soon found myself delivering my message in a trembling state. Minutes before the presentation, I took 4 capsules of Bliss , following the suggestions of my partners. I had around with my partners. But still, I was overcome by fear. I failed even ...