Hi my name is Jeff Maughan and I am the creator and author of www.askjeffmaughan.com and www.theeliteinternetworker.com.

The reason I started this blog is because I was sick and tired of my 9-5 job working as a payroll and accounting manager for Superior Lending Associates. I just hated working for someone else because it was a friggin’ ball and chain. I was always racing to meet deadlines, putting in way more hours than what I signed up for and all for little or no recognition. That’s why I started my own internet business, and why I created this blog because I want to give back to other newbie entrepreneurs who are in the same situation just like I was… Hopefully my story can help inspire you to discover a better alternative just like I did when I started working from home, being my own boss, and making money online. But before I get into all of that, let me just tell you a little bit more about myself…

ABOUT ME

I was born in Logan, UT, but I don’t really call it home. I have spent the majority of my life growing up a couple hours south in Orem. However, while my family was still living in Logan some very life altering events took place.

My parents owned and operated a small computer shop in Logan that helped us to get by. We didn’t have much, but I remember being happy. We lived in a small trailer park on the north end of town. To this day I enjoy driving by our little trailer park as it brings back a lot of memories for me. There was a small park among the mobile homes that my brother and his friends would put snakes in the sand boxes to try and scare our sister and her friends – I tagged along with them and acted tough but to tell you the truth, I was terrified of snakes too.

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED

Soon after my second birthday in January, our lives were turned upside down. I don’t actually remember the events that I am about to tell you because I was so young, but will relate them as I have heard them so many times before.

We had been sledding/tubing up in Logan Canyon near Bear Lake with some friends. Before returning home, my parents decided to make the trip to Bear Lake to visit some of their other friends.

When we finally started back through the canyon it was getting late. Just under halfway back, our car started having trouble and broke down – my dad coasted as far as he could but it wasn’t enough to make it out of the canyon.

We were able to flag down a student that was headed to Utah State University for school, his tiny car already bogged down with his belongings. (Remember the days when you could fit everything you owned into one car? ) We somehow managed to all fit into the car – my two older siblings laid across the clothes in the back seat while my parents and I were crammed in the front passenger seat.

Thankfully, we made it safely back to our little trailer park.

THE ACCIDENT

The following Monday my dad rounded up a family friend to drive him up and help tow our car back to town so they could fix it.

As he was getting down to disconnect the driveline another car lost control, crossed the oncoming lane of traffic and crashed into our car and the neighbor’s pickup. In the process, they also ran over my dad. His friend had just walked around the back of his pickup when this all happened, and rushed over to find my dad crumpled up in a ball near the rear tire of his truck.

He appeared to be lifeless so his friend went to direct traffic, but at some point noticed a tear in my dad’s eye. He was rushed to the hospital and laid there paralyzed in a severe coma for about three weeks. The doctors and hospital staff were urging our family to let him go, but my mother’s faith that he would live was so great that he started coming around and was eventually cleared to go home.

(For more details on his miraculous survival and recovery, visit www.helpdanheal.com.)

LIFE DOES GO ON

Since the accident all our lives have been a little different. Like I said, I was only 2 years old when this all took place, so I don’t really remember what life was like prior to it, but all my life I have known that he was different. I have watched as he has slowly improved over the last 24 years – from relying on a wheelchair, to being able to walk without any assistance. He’s still not the same as he was before the accident, but one thing has never changed – the smile that is always on his face.

It was especially hard on my mother, as she now had two roles to fulfill, in addition to taking care of a handicapped husband. We helped where we could, but especially when we were younger I think we just got in the way. Thankfully the world is full of great people, and we have always had both friends and strangers alike that would offer to help at the drop of a hat.

HOW IT AFFECTED ME

I didn’t fully realize how strong both my parents are until my wife pointed it out to me. Their lives were a standard that I had unknowingly adopted into my own – the witness that anything is possible if you only believe.

The first time that I can recall “believing” something into my life was as a wrestler in high school. When I was only in the 8th grade, I had a coach instill in me a belief that I could be a state champion if I would only work hard. He only said it to me once, but that was all it took. It continued to grow despite things that happened that suggested otherwise.

My sophomore year I broke my arm near the end of the season, preventing me from even going to the state tournament. My junior year I made it there but didn’t win a single match. I could have let things like that discourage me, but thanks to my parents example I didn’t know any better. I didn’t understand that people that had never won a match at the state tournament were not supposed to take first place. When my senior year came around, I couldn’t help but win.

MY INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK MARKETING

My dad had always been looking for ways to contribute to providing for our family. When I was still in elementary school, he had gotten involved in network marketing, but it seemed like a never ending struggle for him. As I continued to grow up, I watched how persistent and hard working he was to make it work in spite of his disabilities. I thought to myself, “My dad must be the most annoying business person on the Earth, but more power to him.”

When I was finally of age, I had seen so much of network marketing that I didn’t want to have anything to do with it. I did whatever I could to evade his “invitations” until at last I was safely on my way to Brazil to serve a two year LDS mission.

When I returned home two years later, he picked up RIGHT where he left off. I thought, “This guy is unbelievable!” as I reluctantly agreed to go with him to a NU Skin meeting in Provo just to get him off my back. When we got there, a man by the name of Nathan Ricks proceeded to reel me in.

I was a goner.

WHY I AM STILL AT IT 5 YEARS LATER

You might expect me to say that I was a smashing success in network marketing my first go around, and that is the reason I’m still doing it today. WRONG-O!

The truth is I have been in and out of the industry the last five years with several different companies. Call me what you want, but I kept coming back in spite of my ridiculous failures because I understood a few concepts.

First, I know my dad has for a long time had a goal of bringing my mother home from her corporate job. He wants more than anything to be the sole provider for his family, but hasn’t been able to do so because of his disabilities. I have for the past five years wanted to help him achieve that goal.

Second, I knew that just getting a good paying job would do two things. One, it would pay me a set wage for each hour I gave to it – no more, no less. (Except in the case of a salaried employee – they typically get less. In general, salaried employees work longer hours for the same pay.) And two, it would suck the life out of me. Let’s face it, whether you like your job or not, you give at least half of your waking hours to it. That’s more than you give to yourself OR your family! In my case, I was giving nearly 80-90% of my waking hours to it, and it was not helping me achieve what I wanted out of life – it was PREVENTING IT.

Lastly, I understood that I would need to get some leverage on life if I ever wanted to get ahead. I wasn’t counting on coming into any large sums of money any time soon, so starting a large business or investing in real estate was pretty much out of the picture. Unfortunately, I didn’t really understand much about investing and that you don’t need a million dollars to start.

Since money was kind of out of the question, network marketing became even more appealing because of the ability it gives average people to leverage the efforts of others. This is the kind of power heads of huge companies wield, and network marketing puts it within reach of the average Joe.

Even so, I struggled to build my businesses the way my uplines tried to teach me.

THE SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM

But all of that changed when I learned how to leverage the internet. I mean REALLY leverage it – not just dink around on different social networking sites bothering my friends with some silly business opportunity. And now I have teamed up with some of the best internet marketers in the world. I only wish I had taken them seriously the first time I saw it – I thought it was some kind of scam!

Later, somebody I knew – a real live person – told me about their experience with it and THAT is the moment that changed everything.

It has been a long journey. Others have undoubtedly had longer ones, but I’m glad they have shared their insights with me. It has significantly shortened my learning curve and prevented me from being taught exclusively in the school of hard knocks as many of them were. I’ve drawn my knowledge from many sources, especially from the great books available to anybody with a tiny plastic library card.

I’m looking for people that are serious about being successful online – but I’m in this for the long haul and am dedicated to helping both networkers that have been at it for a while with little or no success, as well as the beginner that has for whatever reason resulted to network marketing. This industry is amazing – if you don’t already know that you will in time, provided you put in your time.

It’s definitely worth all the struggle and frustration that you would go through trying to learn how to do it on your own – for as Jim Rohn says, “what you become is far more important than what you get,” but most people don’t have the time or resources to learn it all themselves.

That’s why I created this site – to help people like you (I trust that if you have read this far you have struggled to build your network marketing business…) become successful online and ultimately in network marketing.

I hope that you find this insider information helpful!

To your smashing success,

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