Check out some of the excitement that Claude & Vicki expereinced when travelling to the US from Brisbane Queensland to attend the 2015 #USANA15 Event in Salt Lake City Utah.
USANA Convention in Salt Lake City in Aug 2015
Work From Home Stories
This series of posts will showcase work from home everyday stories. During COVID 19 in 2020-21 I have come across so many real stories that's worth sharing. Take a look and relate to what I share here.
Succeeding In Network Marketing with Time Management
What Challenges did I overcome this week?
Succeeding In Network Marketing with Time Management!
Well the biggest one I noticed is to find time for all what I have to do in a week. I still follow a pretty rigid routine and get the most important things done first thing in the morning. Recently someone asked in a forum I belong to how does one allocate time to the various task at hand.
Though this is a fairly simple question I noticed most people gave varied versions which though helpful probably did not answer the poor guys question to the point.
Here is what I shared with that group. Hope it can help us here too.
The note ….
Great to see the responses here and lets add my take to it and hope it will help you.
I would take a note pad and list all the various tasks you do on a daily basis as well as weekly basis.
These may be:
1. Shopping
2. Family commitments such as
- Taking the kids to school,
- getting the house tidy,
- cooking.
- Walking the dog
- etc
3. Gym and if you go to
4. Church list that down too.
5. Your main job.
6. Your part time business
Next …
Lets take a spread sheet in excel and mark off the days vertically and then do the time slots in time lots of 2 hours horizontally.
The next step is write start to fill in the sections of the above 6 tasks you have listed. I suggest color coding each so they stand out.
Insert all the main ones ie #2, #3, #4, #5.
Once you do that look to see any slots of free time and then insert #6 with its specific color code and now you are all set to go.
You may need to change this from time to time but it will help you run your business more like a part time business rather than a spare time hobby.
What Was Terribly Wrong With My List Of Employee Benefits!
Employee Benefits Why I was Not Taken In!
This is a story of me when I was growing up and the views or opinions I had started to develop. From an early age I felt that education was the best thing to get someone off to a great start in life. They listed the type of employee benefits I would get as an employee if I studied hard. This was the advice my parents and teachers sowed into me. Yes they were correct to a certain degree because after all we do need knowledge but something was missing. What I have since learned is applied knowledge is far better and more powerful than just knowledge alone. Today the various types of employee benefits don’t attract me any more. I want more. I explain why soon.
Just look at the PHDs who are so knowledgeable yet many of them live pay check to pay check. What I had no idea back then was as a young student I was groomed to be a good serving employee to help someone else or a large company to make more money. I at that time had no problem about this because I knew no better. In fact I had started to look down on the trading community for a number of reasons that I will mention further down this article.
Where I started to go wrong!
I was under the impression that the types of employee benefits that employees enjoyed were far greater than those of self-employed people. This impression was sown into my little head as a child by my parents. Seeing my Dad enjoy certain perks I gathered the impression that employed people were the privileged class. They did not have to work so hard. Once they found a job the employer would look after them all their working lives. How terribly wrong I was.
Forming opinions can be expensive in the long run.
Some of my friends in school had parents who were small business owners. I noticed that the parents were uneducated and did not know much where knowledge was concerned. I thought my parents were very knowledgeable as they could talk on many topics. After all they had gone to school and then to colleges to become managers in their companies. Forming an opinion can be costly.
We lived pay check to paycheck too.
Compared to the parents of my friends my dad and mum were very clever. Yet I did not see that being clever was not good enough. My father though he held a good job still brought in a fixed income each month. We lived paycheck to pay check. Many a month my mother would send me down the road to those very same small business owners to buy our groceries on credit. How humiliating that was for us. We just had to find ways to survive.
I wondered how did these simple business people managed to give out credit to many as my mum was not the only one. I never once had the courage to ask the rich parents of my school friends how their parents made money through business. If I had I’d have known better. It was only after I read the book ‘RICH DAD POOR DAD’ did I see the folly of our ways and thoughts back then. I now know that we can enjoy life far more than just the list of employee benefits given.
Most people go by what appears on the outside.
Yet we never once realized that these people had more money than us. We were brought up in a society that looked down on the business class. All we thought about was types of employee benefits we could get in our jobs.
After all the shopkeepers were working long hours. Most of the small business people back in the 70’s seldom sent their children to school or college. They out-worldly lives were far less impressive than to what salaried people enjoyed. They did not go to fancy clubs on weekends or talked big at events nor go for picnics as I was used to. Yet they all controlled the money in the town. Interesting when I look back and think about it – if only I knew how money worked..
In fact my family looked down or thought less of those that were shop keepers, contractors or small business people. These people were just keen in making money and not learning. My parents thought money and business were a dirty thing. Even though they did enjoy the services or products of the business community. For them business was risky and unsure. Rather have a safe secure job that paid on time each month was their advice. Even if the money was not enough it was better than business.
Well is it really?
What my parents did not realized was that these people did not need to be experts at everything. They could afford to have experts brought in to do the jobs they could not. They did not have to be the experts at anything as long as they could pay people they could get work done.
Employees on the other hand were the experts. They were hired by the rich people. They were working pay check to pay check and seldom could afford to out source work to others. Business people could. Quite smart to think about it.
The list of employee benefits enjoyed by the working class were conceived to be far better, giving the individual a higher social esteem over that seen by the business community. Employees loved this false sense of security.
Business people seldom took holidays. They ran their businesses from dawn to dusk. They worked long hours and rarely saw their children play. In fact many had their children too working in the shops. Yet they had more financial freedom. They did not worry about employee benefits.
Now the business community did have a life. They did not have to worry about employee benefits. After all they employed those people. They set the rules. They had peace of mind as they made more money than the working class employee who was on a fixed wage. These people lived simple yet invested their profits into land, houses and other businesses. They knew that investing money into other enterprises was the only way to increase they net worth. They some how knew the secrets of the wealth, the same secrets that Robert Kiyosaki talks about in the book CASHFLOW QUADRANT. If you know of a rich family ask them to teach you how to get rich too. I am sure they will only be happy to share why the types of employee benefits you receive today are not enough to get rich and financially secure.
Why Do We Just Think Laterally!
My parents thought owning land and buying houses were troublesome and tenants were a nuisance. They did not see the value of owning more than the family home. The biggest asset was to get a home only. Why would you want to take the headache of owning property. They only way they felt to become secure was to save in the bank and get paid interest on your money. Sadly they had no idea how money worked back in those days. Sadly we were the students of that era. We did not have the mentors needed to help us break free if we wanted to. We were blinded by what was around us. My parents taught us to feel secure with the employee benefits we received by bosses.
Sadly what we did not see is the types benefits the office workers enjoyed were far less than what really the business people did get. The business people had far more going for them than what employees like my dad had going.
Pride Can Be Dangerous To Growth!
Our pride was based on the fact that office workers were far more educated, which blinded us back in the 70’s and 80’s in comparing if the employee benefits is any better or not.
Back in those days when I was a young man in the 70’s and early 80’s financial literacy books such as we see today were few. Robert Kiyosaki with the Rich Dad series was not around. In fact he was just getting started himself and was being formed into the millionaire he is today. He was being groomed by his so called Rich Dad that employee benefits were not good enough.
List of Employee Benefits!
As a child and young teenager I was attracted to these most common employee benefits. Here are some of the employee benefits packages that spurred me on to become a good employee in the early 80’s.
- Job security,
- Regular pay,
- Regular holidays,
- Sick leave,
- Holiday pay,
- Medical allowances when sick or ill,
- Work uniforms,
- Free food,
- Subsidized accommodation,
- A yearly bonuses were a few of the benefits I started enjoy.
How Wrong I Was To Think That This List of Employee Benefits Would Last Forever!
Today looking back the benefits for an employee are far less. In fact job security is a thing of the past. Employers can sack you with little or no notice. Most employers will just keep you on as a casual employee so they don’t have to pay any loading or holiday pay. The yearly bonus is also a thing of the past. May be a carton of beer is all you may get if you are lucky. So why are we concerned about these employee perks?
What Do We Do...
So the world is changing and moving to a different business model to reward employees with new types of employee benefits.
Company benefits for employees: Companies still provided benefits but in form of bonuses. We need to perform and bring in results to get these employee benefits we were used to.
They are performance based models where the company has shifted the risk of performance back onto the employee. Unless you perform you get paid. If the employee wants better pay, more benefits he or she has to work for it. This new form of work place is a win-win for both the employee as well as the employer. The top performing staff shall see the rewards. Its now harder to get a free ride at the office.
If the employee brings in more business he gets compensated more.
Now you must be thinking how do you get to find these business models.
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Claude Fullinfaw
Brisbane
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list of employee benefits
What Is An Employee? Why A List Of Employee Benefits Must Be Scrutinized
What is an employee?
The definition of an employee by Wikipedia is
What is an employee – “An employee is a term for workers and managers working for a company, organization or community. These people are the staff of the organization. Generally speaking, any person hired by an employer to do a particular job is an employee.”
Now that you know that you are hired to do a certain job at the office for a set wage you have no recourse to ask for more wages as time goes on unless its specified in the contract or you have added extra value to the work place and brought in more money. You must make sure you have in place the most common employee benefits in your contract before you start working.The work place is moving more towards a performance based model rather being stuck in the old model of seniority where you are entitled to get a raise just because you have been there for 10 years. We shall go over the list of employee benefits seen in companies in 2015.
What is employment?
In Wikipedia it is the ..
“Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract, one being the employer and the other being the employee.”
You must look at evaluating your contract from time to time with your employer. Make sure you have increased your skill sets regularly and are at the cutting lead of the science or technology available to deliver more to the company that what is being asked. This way you will always have a job and possibly be paid more than your fellow work mates. This is one area where most employees slip as they rarely upgrade their skills after they sign up with a company. Study is the last thing on on agenda.
Types of Employee Benefits Seen
(Just do your own employee benefits search too)
Now the list of employee benefits seen in offices around Brisbane are:
- If permanent you are entitled to 4 weeks sick leave
- You also have access to paid sick leave as well as unpaid sick leave
- Some companies may even give you an allowance for petrol, telephone and meals
- And some companies will go a bit further and maybe give you a small bonus at Christmas
Wait a minute - are you happy with the most popular employee perks?
If you are I want you to think about this…
I want you to just imagine being an employee for a second with these great employee benefits packages. Yes you have a job and that’s great. But isn’t it similar to the life of a jail bird where you are being forced to go to work each day for the fear of losing your employment. All because you need the income to pay for your family expenses. Prisoners work in similar conditions. They too are forced to do work (yes maybe for far less and definitely they are rounded up at night and trucked back to prison). They are just like you.
The only difference with an employee is that they can go home each night to sleep in the bed at home as part of the company benefits for employees. But if they don’t turn up next day for work they are in trouble with the employer. The employer owns your time.
For what? The small wage the employer gives you each week. You live in silent fear that if you don’t perform you will be among those made redundant today in the country.
So what may be the ideal job? Here are some clues that I have found that can be possible if you un-learn what you know and learn new concepts especially because the world is moving in that direction in the 21st Century.
The Ideal Job Attributes, List of Employee Benefits Should Look Like..
- You can pick your own hours
- You can pick your own work place
- You can even work from home if you want
- You get to pick your work mates
- You can set your own pay level and raise it whenever you wish
- You get travel incentives thrown in for your achievements
- You get bonuses on top of what you get paid weekly
- You get recognized for your achievements at work. Your photo comes out in the monthly company magazine and you get celebrated at company events
- You get to hone in on your growth in personal development and leadership development
- You don’t have to work under pressure as seen in the normal work place nor do you have to put up with office politics
Just imagine...
If you could enter a company that has a list of employee benefits such as the list seen above!
Now do you work in such a congenial atmosphere right now with the ideal types of employee benefits? What if there was a way you could get the ideal job with a list of employee benefits that makes life so much pleasant and start working in a company part time and over the course of the next 2 years make the transition from a pressured employee to one that is highly satisfied, motivated and happy. Are you open to look at opportunities that have the types of employee benefits you are now open to look at?
Then the answer lies in owning the business that employs you. That way you have control your list of employee benefits.
If you are an employee looking for a way to make extra income, have the right type of employee benefits or even better get into a home based business then the Connect with me here for more tips.
Claude Fullinfaw
Brisbane
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Do You Feel Employment Entitlements In Australia Are A Thing Of The Past!
Do you feel Australians have been sheltered from the GFC for too long ?
For over 25 years Australia has seen massive growth in its economy and in spite of the ‘Global Financial Crisis’ the Australian Economy has somewhat remained isolated from everything else that is happening around the world. Employee entitlements Australia are much more than other countries. Free Coaching
But only just. With the slowing down of the mining boom we see huge number of people being retrenched leaving large gaps in our labor force now. Housing prices that have seen astronomical heights have come crashing down in many a mining town leaving investors at the mercy of lenders.
25 Years ago housing debt was at its lowest around 20%. This has climbed to around 90 percent in recent years due to the high wages our labor force received in mines around Australia.
But that’s not in itself enough to drive the stock of housing debt from 20 per cent of GDP in 1990 to around 90 per cent today. That huge run-up in debt was based on a number of factors. We’ve had nearly a quarter of a century of positive economic growth, nearly a decade of booming resources prices and investment, a global credit bubble that did not deflate as much in Australia as elsewhere and – when the GFC threatened to halt the growth of housing credit – waves of federal and state government hand-outs to help first home buyers get onto the housing ladder.Taken from The News Daily.
Can this sustain the ways to motivate employees in the current financial environment we see around us with people losing their jobs?
To top it all off the new generation of worker now is straddled with more debt than ever before. He or she is living pay check to paycheck trying their best to service housing loans.
What’s forgotten in that long-term story is that each new generation has to direct an ever-larger proportion of their pay packets to servicing debt.
Australia’s re-balancing away from a heavy dependence on the resources sector comes at time when we must also re-balance away from a long property and credit boom.
That doesn’t have to mean a bubble will ‘burst’, but it does mean the end of an era in which Aussie pay packets were assumed to be able to service unlimited amounts of debt. If anything is bursting, it’s that fantasy. More info from News Daily on the housing crisis.
Australian will need to tighten their belts and live within their means. The days of six figure plus incomes may soon be a thing of the past.
The old ways to Motivate Employees has long gone- What Motivates Employees!
Don’t worry your full time entitlements can still be gotten. But you will need to work smarter. You will
- Firstly have to look where the ‘new jobs’ are being seen
- Next you will need to ‘un-learn’ what you know and re-learn’ new skills
- You will need to be able to allow time to settle into the ‘new economy’ and get experience
- Allow yourself 4 to 7 years to become a ‘Pro’ in the ‘New Economy’.
People will need to look at how much value they can give their employers. Companies will still hire staff and will use performance based models at work to motivate employees. Base wages with structured ways to motivate employees to perform will be introduced at work. Unless you deliver you will not be paid your full salary you once saw. So though the staff entitlements on the surface would not seem to be there employment entitlements will be even more available for those employees who perform and deliver on time.
Companies will introduce ‘Ways To Motivate Employees…
- Commissions based on how much sales you bring into the company
- Bonuses will be a part of the structure as well (Fun Ways to Motivate Employees)
- Some companies will go as far as allocate bonuses to help others to succeed. The more you help them to succeed the more you will get paid. In fact ‘How to Motivate Others’ will be a huge part of being paid.
- Free travel and cash incentives will also play a big part to motivate employees to work harder.
What may happen is that at first …
- Families will need to have both parents working again to bring in incomes to service debt.
- Extra work will be available through part time positions.
- New employees may find it hard entering the labor market due to the increase in unemployed seen in the work place today.
- Many will have to downsize the family home or even sell of investments to stay afloat.
Change is apparent! We need to look for part time or casual positions within other companies as a back up plan, Plan B.
To survive in the new era to come we need to embrace change and look for the next horizon, the ‘Next Boom’. When one door shuts another opens as the saying goes. The opportunities will be there but people will need to re-skill and look else where while at the same time collaborate or network with others to bring in the bacon again.
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Claude Fullinfaw
Brisbane
I need to make more money today!
