Network Marketing Beginnings

Ben with sponsor Mervyn in Late 2007

Ben in 2001
Before starting network marketing I had a long history of health conditions which I would let limit own life and lifestyle. These included being a former epileptic, asthmatic, a curved lower back, lax muscles and muscular skeletal issues. These affected own life as a person, I also had very few stable relationships within own life. I was also overweight.
I also came from a family who didn’t take care of their own health. My mum became a diabetic in later years, Dad had a number of health issues himself. My grandmother had a variety of health issues along with own grandfather.
So as you can see that as a child and teenager it was demonstrated to my siblings and myself about a non healthy lifestyle. Heck there was little physical activity at all, we’d sit around most weekends and do nothing much at all. There was no sports on the weekends after I gave up tennis at a young age. After leaving primary school I began to gain weight due to lack of physical exercise regularly and own health declined.
As I entered high school so came the poor choices which followed from own family’s influence. Yet I was unaware of anything different, that was all I knew. Boy was I so wrong…. It got to a point later in life where I’d go out and buy a 1.25 litre coke and it would be gone within a day. Chocolate was something that would be quickly gone and same with lollies, leave them infront of me for too long and their gone. There was also learned destructive habits from own family.

In 2003 I found network marketing through Herbalife and went on to have success with their products. Losing weight however the change to own lifestyle was a struggle to maintain. As I had failed to learn the correct foods to eat, the rite things to eat and the diet was unmaintained owing to influences with poor diet. I resumed the diet of fast food and coke. Also working shift work for a call centre.
In September 2006 I suffered from my 3^rd dislocation of my left knee cap this was my 4^th dislocation of a knee cap (3 on the left and 1 on the right). I went back to the gym to start rebuilding my muscles, build up strength again, to lose weight and improve cardiac function also. When I would work full time work I would find it a struggle to maintain both the gym and work, so I would let the gym work outs slip. Which then lead to the health decline again!!!!
Working in network marketing allowed me the flexibility to be able to manage own health and take care of such, yet to also earn a income from home whist helping others do the same. A number of years after returning to the gym one of my acquaintances said that when first went back to the gym for the 3^rd time I had the movement of an old man. After the 4^th dislocation I had been very stiff in the knee and movement, it took work walking up and down stairs. I was working with an exercise phyisoligist to get health back and a dietion to change own diet yet was gradually losing weight of approximately 250 grams a week.
In 2007 I found an ad for Herbalife whist looking for a income that was able to do as a person knowing that I had to juggle both health and a income. I saw the ad whist applying for jobs and said to myself should I be meant to be doing such then that is what I will do. I filled in my contact details and began the journey in Oct 2007. Over the next 14 months I went on to lose 35 kilos and to go from a double to triple xl to a small/medium and to be able to keep that going. Whist I was also working on own personal health as well.
The proudest day was the day that someone brought me home a winter singlet which was a small, being unsure weather it was going to fit. I put it on and it was a wonderful fit, that was a wonderful day.
However there was a piece of own life that was still missing and that had been seeking for many years. That was the closeness of a relationship a best friend who cared enough about me as a person. A true friend who offered that love, unconditionall acceptance about who I was as a person.
I had yet to learn that own friends were bad influences and knew nothing of positive influences before even joining network marketing it was a strange concept to me. All I knew was own families influence and there was nothing else within own life. A lot of such was a damaging influence. They are unaware of such themselves.
During that 14 months I managed to improve own health gradually so that was able to move more feely and health gradually improved. Where I had struggled with such in the past that would lose and gain weight owing to shift work, poor diet, poor eating habits and drinking a lot of soft drink. Also when worked full time own health went out the door as was unable to focus on such it was too much personally. After losing the inital 35 kilos I went on to retain mobility to lose a further 10 kilos and the best thing is I have not had a dislocated knee cap since September 2006. I built up the leg muscles that they are stronger than they were in the past.

Jenny and Ben in New Zealand April 2013
In 2010 I downloaded a eBook success in 10 steps by my wonderful friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy who assisted me to be able to build that amazing relationship with a number of people and to be able to overcome own fears as a person. Through Michael Dlouhy’s loving gudience love support encouragement and friendship along with the wonderful mentors from mentoring for free I was able to work on myself allowing me to become that person that had always dreamed of as a person.
That was a wonderful loving father, partner and husband to my own family. In September 2012 I met the most amazing woman who was so beautiful and she became the love of own life. Her name was Jenny, in April 2013 I got introduced to Jenny’s parents in New Zealand my first trip to New Zealand. From there we went on to be the longest relationships either of us had ever had to getting engaged in June 2013 and moving in together in June 2013. As I prepare to walk this road of the family there is so much that I’d love to thank others for, its been such a journey. From my wonderful mentors and friends especially Michael Dlouhy, Ken Klemm, Willena Flewelling, Brian Redding, David Haines, Marsha Sortino and so many others for your wonderful inpersation, guidance and love. Without network marketing I would of given up a long time ago of ever having that health or that family. To my wonderful exercise physiologist DR Mike C, to my Dietion Diane M thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Abundant health, love and hugs
Ben
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