I glance down and who's on phone but Ted - an old high school buddy. Now, this might sound innocuous but, without revealing my age, let's just say I hadn't spoken to Ted in quite some time. In fact, it'd been over ten years since we'd had any contact.

The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hello?

Ted: Geoffrey, hey man, this is Ted, how you been doing?

Me: Fine, and you?

Ted: Great, great - hey, remember when *blah blah blah*...Ted proceeds to talk about glory days for next 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, I'm sitting in my chair wanting to watch 24 and thinking, "Will you just shut up and get to point?"

Eventually Ted says something stops blathering about past and goes in for kill:

Ted: Hey, listen, it's great to chat about past and all. In fact, that's why I called you. I always respected you and wanted your opinion on something.

It's at this point that my MLM radar goes off. Yes, every one of us loves to be told we're respected. We also like to hear how much people love us and how our business acumen is best thing since Donald Trump.

Information overload was and still is a dilemma I deal with everyday. It’s hard to stay focused when there so much important “stuff” to learn. That is key I discovered. Stay focused! It’s so easy to get side tracked from day’s mission when there’s so much information to distract you.

I found myself starting out to complete one task and running across another very interesting concept that I just had to try. Needless to say, a lot of times my original goal got lost in massive learning frenzied my mind was undertaking.

It took a lot of time, research, learning, wasted monies, and dead end offers to get where I am now. But, fortunately I didn't have to spend years and years pursuing a degree as a computer tech. I'm too old to start all that again and with a family of six to care for, it would be a challenge I wouldn't likely enjoy at this point in my life. But then again, little did I realize challenge of what lie ahead of me.

I was determined to get in on internet boom. Although many of us still want to deny it, it is undeniably way of future. And NOW is opportune time to get in. The tip of iceberg of things to come you might say. The future of home business, or any business for that matter, lies inevitably in rapid growth of internet.

If you're not getting in now, it may be too late. Things are changing rapidly. Some things getting easier, a lot of things getting more technical and harder.

Regardless, if you are a newbie or a techie, keeping up is a challenge. But if you are a newbie, I know from my own experience that it's a mind blowing information explosion when you start down road to creating your own successful internet home business.

If I can do it, surely anyone can. That's not just a cliché, it's a fact. My kids had little faith. They said "no way", laughed at me, and never took notion seriously. Who's laughing now? I am! Every time I get a check for doing something that I have grown to love. And every time I learn, and accomplish a new task that makes my internet business more profitable or easier to maintain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~