I started "preparing for my retirement" the day I joined SFI, working on building my team and growing my business.
The concept of retirement is a conditioning in the workers' lives as employees of Government entities or private corporations. We go to school to get an educations and skills we exchange for a job. We work for a period of time and then we retire.
There is a twist in that concept: a self employed is working for themselves. They may be a brick and mortar business person, or a store owner.. Such self employed are working alone, even if they may have few employees of their own. They are still by themselves. They are not part of an organisation.
A self employed chooses their own hours, writes their own pay check according to the work their put in their business and decides to slow down or stop working altogether when they so choose.
As SFI affiliates we are self employed, with a "qualification"
There is an important difference between us and the regular employee. For many of us SFI has also become a hobby. We work at SFI for ourselves, not only for the money, but for the satisfaction we find here, for the community of fellow entrepreneurs of which we are now an integral part, for the help we are getting here and the help we are giving to others.
For all the above reasons, our concept of retirement is not the same as the traditional one. It is different from the regular employee as well as from the individual, isolated business owner.
From day one, when we join SFI, we start preparing for our "retirement", so to speak, as we are building our residual income, which is one of the major features of a retirement with SFI. Critical components of our retirement strategy are the PSAs, the ECAs, and the PRMs we bring into SFI to grow our team and build our business
The difference in our "retirement" with anyone else's is multiform. The employee of a Government entity or of a private corporation will stop coming to their work place when they retire. The store owner or small business self employed owner will stop working when they retire. However I cannot imagine myself not logging into SFI as long as I can do so, especially after I have built a very strong team and a thriving business. I will always want to know how my team members are doing, whether my a2a friends are well, what new innovations are being brought into SFI, what questions are being discussed at the forum or with Ask SC.
I also want to ensure that I always have a Standing Order (SO) so that I keep enjoying all the benefits and perks I am entitled according to my rank.
In other words, there will always be something that will bring me be back, even when I am not actively selling or sponsoring new affiliates.
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I started "preparing for my retirement" the day I joined SFI, working on building my team and growing my business.
The concept of retirement is a conditioning in the workers' lives as employees of Government entities or private corporations. We go to school to get an educations and skills we exchange for a job. We work for a period of time and then we retire.
There is a twist in that concept: a self employed is working for themselves. They may be a brick and mortar
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