How to retire your Military spouse!

Being an Army spouse has allowed me the luxury of living in many places and making many friends! The downside is after every move, you have to give up a great job and search for another which greatly affects your income. 

If you are like me, your were approached from every "party invite" for jewelry, pots & pans, skincare, etc. That was NOT going to be me...lol! When you have more month at the end of the money, you eat your words or humble pie. 

Although it's not your mama's party plan, there's been much improvement in this profession. Hype doesn't move any one and a room of products are now in online stores. You can watch your baby play in the floor while on Skype with someone in another state or country. Doctors, Lawyers, Nurses, Soldiers, Teachers, etc. have broken free from their jobs and now have more time and financial freedom to continue their path to their dreams.

Honestly, making the decision to become an Independent Business owner in the Direct Selling/Network Marketing Industry was scary and also the greatest decision we could have ever made. Yes, I say we! My Soldier husband was able to work right along beside me so that we would have a Plan B after retirement. He retires July 30, 2014, 93 days to be exact...lol! How grateful we are that we will continue to build our legacy with our family and continue to change others lives to enjoy the same.   

Bowling in the private room with his son!

We realize many do not believe in the validity of this industry because of negative experiences from others as well meaning friends and family thinking you've done some crazy thing. That's okay. We must do better to educate and not become defensive. I was the biggest ignorant skeptic. The saying is true, "you don't know, what you don't know.  I now have become an "ambassador" of sorts for this life-changing profession and happy to see the Army Wife Network feature Amy Robinson of the DSA (Direct Selling Association) very helpful article: How to Succeed in Direct Selling: http://www.armywifenetwork.com/?p=7975

To read my story and learn more about the Direct Selling Industry visit: http://www.directselling411.com/seller_profiles/erikah/

Need help looking for your Plan B? Email us: erika@hilliardgroup.net or patrick@hilliardgroup.net

Here we grow again!

The best thing about starting a blog is getting to share my life and thoughts with you. The worst thing is me getting lazy and just using Facebook...lmbo! Too much is going on to put on Facebook! In less than 24 hours the discussion will began ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! And I am blessed and honored to be apart of it once again. 

The event is Super Soul Sunday present A New Earth with Author Eckhart Tolle. Airing at 11 CST a.m./12 EST a.m. on the OWN Network. If you don't have the channel, go to www.oprah.com or www.facebook.com/owntv. 

I read this book and it truly was if someone just woke me up from a deep slumber. I started to connect the dots and understand what I was feeling and hearing inside my soul. It's still a journey but an amazing one that I get to charter and not let take me where I don't want to go. I dream bigger, laugh and love more. Do I mess up? Heck yes, but the God I served already knew my beginning from my end so I just rely and trust in Him that everything I need is inside and sometimes the "other" comes from the books I read and the people I meet. I am so excited to start a "new" discussion with you. Will you be reading the book? Will you be watching? Tweet along with me. My twitter handle is erikahilliard. 

Need to order the book? Find it at Amazon! http://amzn.to/1gGzIr5

Peace!

Confessions of a goal-digger

On my Facebook page I posted a question: "Do you wait until January 1st to set new goals or start now?" I loved the answers. Some were a few sentences long and others said, "NOW!".  If you are like me, you didn't grow up around goal-setters and people who spoke of having a vision. So when I became an Entrepreneur and learned setting goals and having a vision were important, it sounded like another language being spoken. But for years I had always read the words from the Bible that say to "write the vision and make it plain...for the vision is yet for an appointed time, it speaks of the end and will not lie; though it lingers, wait for it, it will surely come." Now I understood! 

Many times it was difficult to continue to write the goals down because I would look at the time and nothing would happen. So I would push them to the side and say, "I guess it wasn't meant to be". What was I thinking...lol! I realized we are programmed to go into "default" mode. You know how your printer or settings go back to default? That is what our brains do. So it takes a daily decision, sometimes minute by minute to choose to continue to do the work necessary. Some call it discipline. Because it will come to pass. Focus on what you want, not what you don't want. Sit down and just let your dreams expand. You have gifts and talents inside you of that the world needs. 

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of decisions." Stephen Covey

Start today. Maybe with a weekly goal, then move to 30 days, then stretch and do 90 days. Where would you like be spiritually? Maybe plan more time with your family. If you have kids, please include them. They have dreams too! Would you like to see an increase in your finances or where would you need to change to have healthier habits? Maybe get rid of some debt. Remember, you get to choose because you know yourself better than anyone else. Do it and make 2014 the best year yet! Better yet, make the end of 2013 the best yet ;) Peace