I was terrified.

I can still remember lying in bed, hearing my wife breathing, unable to close my eyes. The thought of losing my job gnawed at me.

It wasn't like it was some unrealistic worry. I mean, people were being let go all the time. In an economy like this one, there's no guarantee of finding another one any time soon.

What would I do?

Would we lose the house? Would unemployment even be enough to feed us, or pay rent in an even small apartment?

Even with the job, the utilities were often late. I remember having to decide which bills were going to get paid on time this month, and which would be late.

There just never seemed to be enough money to quite cover it all.

Ironically, even though I was scared to death of losing my job, the thought of going to work made me nauseas.

Most days I would hit the snooze button until the very last minute, then scramble to the shower, moving as fast as I could to get ready to go fight traffic, to finally arrive at a place I'd rather not be, to be around people I'd rather not be around, to do a job I couldn’t stand.

I despised the fact that I was dedicating my entire life to making others wealthy. And that's EXACTLY what I was doing.

Working a job like that, I was told how much money I was worth. I was told what time to start work, what time to leave work, and whether or not I could take the time to drive my wife to her dental appointment.

Still, not enough. Which brings me to another paralyzing fear . . .

My wife and I almost never spent quality time together. Sure, we loved football, so during football season we spent the whole day pretty much watching the games, but that was pretty much it.

I was too tired on Sunday, my one day off, to really do anything worthwhile.

I had no doubt that, one day, she would see that she didn't have to live this way. She would find a real man who could afford to take her to nice restaurants, to the beach, and do the little things I just couldn’t find the time or money to do.

Then, I discovered network marketing.

At first, it seemed like the answer to my prayers. I fell for the hype about making $10,000 a month your first month while all you did was sit on the beach, sipping pina coladas and checking your email a couple times a day.

The reality hit me hard and fast, though.

The first thing my upline told me to do was to make a list of family, friends, and pretty much anybody I'd said "Hi" to my entire life. I was then to call them up, tell them about the company and our products.

Of course, most of them would just magically jump into the business or buy products like crazy when I did this. Right?

Well, if you're a network marketer, you know what happened. I was laughed at, talked down to, and told I should just move back home because the factory my dad and uncle worked at was hiring.

I saw the beach lifestyle fading quickly.

My sponsor then told me to buy leads from this super duper website that had pre-qualified, real-time, telephone-verified leads.

These leads also cost half my weekly paycheck.

I bought them anyway. I even followed the script my sponsor told me was used by all the heavy hitters in this industry. Did I recruit a ton of people calling these leads?

Well, even though these were considered premium leads, only about 10% even bothered answering the phone. Out of that 10% only about 1% even remembered requesting information.

Nobody joined my business or bought my products.

So I quit.

Still, I loved the network marketing concept. It just made so much sense to me. Residual income, I was convinced, was the way to go.

Even more, Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki said network marketing was the wave of the future.

Still, I felt burned by the experience, and it was a few years before I tried it again.

This time, however, a new tool was available. The internet.

Yes, the internet was around in my previous experience, but not quite to this extent.

Instead of making a list of family and friends, this time I ignored my upline and bought some marketing courses online. Yes, they were expensive, and my wife railed against it, but I did it anyway.

I was convinced I'd found the Holy Grail.

To be truthful, some of these courses were VERY expensive, and I went behind my wife's back to buy them. I was convinced they would make the money back for me before she discovered it was missing.

They didn't.

In fact, most of the courses I bought didn’t help me that much at all. Yes, this stuff was nice to know, but few of these gurus gave solid, practical advice about how to implement what they were teaching in the real world.

I was ready to quit again. My wife reminded me every day that I was wasting my time on something that would never pan out.

She pointed out that I was jumping from this thing to that, never having success with any of it. And she was right.

Then I stumbled onto something.

This literally blew me away when I found it. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before.

I mean, it was right in front of my eyes the whole time.

Have you ever had one of those moments where you just suddenly "get it?" This was that moment for me.

Now, it didn't mean my work was over. Far from it. In fact, I knew this would take a lot of work upfront.

But I also knew that the payout would be huge.

If you enter your information below, I will teach you, step by step, how to do what I'm now doing.

See you on the other side.