Welcome to my official blog!

Hi everyone and thanks for taking some time to get to know me a little bit. My name is Anthony…of course… and I live in St Paul Minnesotta (No clue why. It’s damn cold up here) I was born and raised in the East African country of Kenya and NO I’m not related to president Obama…lol

While in Kenya, I lived in different places starting from a small remote village and moving to a small city at the age of 13 and later to the big city called Nairobi where I worked different jobs for about 8 years before migrating to the United States. I have 6 brothers..(one deceased) and 5 sisters, a total of 12. Actually, 8 of them are half siblings…same dad different mom but we all grew up together as one happy family (It’s an African thing) My mom has 4 and I’m the first born. There are no babies in the family anymore, in fact the youngest is a proud mother and wife.

I grew quite poor but not destitute. Even though I’m now fluent in 3 languages, I didn’t speak much English until maybe my senior years in high school. I also faced more life challenges before I was 18 than most people in America face in an entire lifetime.

I have fetched water from rivers 2 miles away, walked 3 miles one way to get to school… and 3 miles back, and spent 10+ hour days on the weekends under the hot African sun fetching for food, firewood, water and grazing sheep… or performing one of the myriad hard labor activities that I needed for survival, all with no shoes on my feet. Truth be told, I hated it and used to dream of a day when I would have tons of money and never have to do manual labor ever again. I wish I could tell you all about it but then you’d be here for a week and I’m sure you’ve got stuff to do.

Life was very difficult back in the motherland. But then of course there was America, the great country where you could dream big, work hard and literally achieve anything and everything your heart desired. I heard about the American dream, I believed in the American dream. I wanted it for myself and 10 years ago, I came to get my piece.

It didn’t take me long to realize that the most hardworking people in American aren’t necessarily “the well paid” people in America. The dream may be alive and well but it’s no longer accessible to the average man or woman who labors from 9 to 5 in one job and even more hours in another trying to tie the ends.

I was one of those very hardworking people, yet seldom able to keep my head above water. I worked long hours in multiple jobs and did all the right things… most of the time, but it was never enough. Luckily, I’ve always been an voracious reader with a penchant for personal growth and development. I would eventually come to terms with the fact that I couldn’t make my dreams come true while working myself to the ground making someone else rich. It took me a while to get it but I did get it and so I ventured out on my own…but kept my part-time job to keep food on the table.

I’ve always had a thing for Network Marketing and so my search obviously lead me in that direction. Over the last 8 years or so, I have been involved in several MLM/Network Marketing opportunities. Herbalife,  Prepaid Legal, Trek Alliance (now defunct) and a few other sidekicks along the way. All in total, I must have made maybe $1,000 between the 4 companies. My best check was $330.00 from Prepaid legal, half of which I ended up paying back once my downline jumped ship and went on to find something  else to do.
Since I didn’t grow up or go to school in America, it was impossible for me to come up with a list of 100 friends and coworkers. I couldn’t have come up with 20 if I tried. Without a list of friends and family members to harass and stalk, I was eventually forced to give up Network Marketing…though reluctantly since I fully understood the power and income potential contained therein. Looking back, that was a good thing.

I went on to write and publish a book and was awarded a bronze medal in the “10 Most Outstanding Books Of The Year” category. Mine came 3^rd. It was one of the proudest things I have ever done. After all, It’s not everyday that your first book ends up on the 10 most outstanding books of the year list. That was sweet. I have several more in the works.

Now, writing an award winning book is no picnic, believe me, but then there’s marketing and that’s no walk in the park either. While researching new marketing strategies for my book on the Internet, I would once again run into the love of my life that I had abandoned years before but never quite got over. That love of my life was network marketing.

Since I never lost my love for the Direct Sales industry, in 2008, after a 5 yr hiatus, I decided to give it one more try only to find out that the rules had completely changed. The traditional methods of writing lists, passing flyers, sticking neon colored business cards on windshields, cold calling and hosting home and hotel meetings were not only archaic but no longer feasible as well.

Network marketing and direct sales had evolved, moved away from home and hotel pitch parties and embraced web 2.0 (web two point who?) Even though I’d never sold a darn thing on the Internet, I was excited. I love the Internet. I do everything on the Internet. To be able to market my network marketing business on the Internet was to me the quintessence of leverage. I couldn’t imagine anything better. I still can’t. I was at the right place, it was the right time and the system couldn’t have been better.

So, from herding goats, fetching water from far away rivers and walking 3 miles to school barefoot, I had come a long long long way…. all the way to Web 2.0 and beyond, which proves that anything and everything is possible. Who would ever have thought that a young African boy growing up in poverty would someday be utilizing technology and systems, teaching masses of people from all over the world how to dream, how to create and how to achieve their financial dreams? I would. I for one I’m not the least surprised. I always believed that a day like this would come.

What baffles me though is the masses of people living in a great country as the United States who settle for mediocre passionless lives, lives with no challenges, no growth and no other purpose than to slave away at jobs they hate, working for people they can’t stand and calling it living. Don’t get me wrong, I know there are people who love their jobs and I know they’re people who work for great companies and great employers. Good for you if you’re one of them. My bosses were and still are the best human beings you could ever hope to meet and we have a continuing friendship that thrives outside the workplace. But, if you don’t like you job or the people you work for, why then are you settling?

I know you. If you didn’t have an entrepreneurial spirit within you, you wouldn’t be here reading this. So my question is, why are you settling for less than you want and deserve?

You will have and live the life you create, period. It won’t land in your lap and you won’t catch a break just because you “want” to. A passionate compelling and fulfilling life is a direct result of conscious choices to develop yourself, empower yourself, quit the small crowd and embrace the greatness that is rightfully yours if you CHOOSE to. It takes years of hard work on YOURSELF to move from mediocrity and stagnation and evolve into a creator of your circumstances and dreams.

What I bring with me today is a bag full of mistakes, missteps and failures in my journey towards FREEDOM as well as the breakthroughs that lifted the fog and cleared the path for me to have satisfactory happiness and the knowledge, skills and mindset to literally create at will — the kind of life I had always desired and knew that I deserved.

When you subscribe to this blog and stay tuned to my message, you will learn how to create true freedom in your life. You will flourish as an entrepreneur and as a human being, and I look forward to sharing my knowledge and skills with you so you too can be empowered and start steering your life in the direction you want it to go.

If you would like to connect with me, I gladly welcome you to do so. I promise it will be worth your while. When you start hanging out with me and my circle of empowered friends, you will begin to see possibilities for yourself that you never even thought were possible.

Thanks for spending those few minutes with me. I look forward to getting to know you better.

In service to all

Anthony M. Kibe.