Most people with any degree of ambition say they want "financial freedom". They want to have enough money to pay all their bills, buy the things they want, and live the way they want. And many people achieve that–through their jobs or through a business or investments.

Many people have financial freedom, but unless they are in network marketing, there is a very good chance they aren't able to truly enjoy their income. They have to work so hard to keep their income flowing so they can maintain their lifestyle, they don't have "time freedom."

Time freedom was my objective when I got started in network marketing. I earned a lot of money in my law practice and then in my publishing business, but I didn't have any free time. I saw network marketing as the best way to replace my linear income (trading time for dollars) with passive income and create the time freedom I was after. And that's exactly what happened.

Network marketing offers us the ability to develop passive income, and when there is enough of it, if you choose to, you can take the rest of your life off. When the money comes in without you having to work for it, you have financial freedom and you also have time freedom.

I've recently been working with an attorney in my organization who started her business for the same reasons I did. She wants to build a retirement income for herself (financial freedom) and she also wants to be able to spend time with her kids and her new grandson (time freedom). But she pointed out to me another benefit of network marketing. She called it "mind freedom".

She meant freedom from worry and stress. Freedom from all the little details of life that gnaw at you and wear you down but which are hardly noticed when money is out of the way. Mind freedom means more than financial freedom and time freedom, it means a better quality of life, and it's available for most people only through network marketing.

So the next time someone tells you they want "financial freedom" you might want to respond by saying, "is that all?"