There is a magic about traveling to distant and exotic places. Seeing it all is great but taking you family, watching children soaking in cultures and meeting other peoples is something else all together.

I was fortunate to be able to take my wife and children on the road for a year to travel the world. When we started out my babies were 12 years old, 14 years old and 16 years old. Great ages to get out and see things, understand them and remember what they have seen.

We live in a little county town of 8,000 people and not many people get out and travel. My littlest one started at Secondary School after the trip and had 76 stamps in her passport. This travel was eye opening and life changing for all of us, but especially for the kids who only had small town experiences prior to the trip.

You say “Great for you I’m sure but, how was it possible to pay for it???”

How do you fund it?
How can you keep cashflow coming in while you travel?
How can you be away from home for a year and still have a livelihood to come back to when you are finished?

The answer is not in a salaried job.
A job will get you an income and if you are good at it then they may hold it for you in a deal with your annual leave or something similar.
The trouble is that when you travel you don’t come in to work, and then you don’t get paid.
You can take a few weeks off, maybe a few months, but taking a whole year off work doesn’t work for most employers.

Also it is hard to get time while the kids are still small enough to be able to travel as a family, rather than as a collection of adults.

How do you do this?

My answer was to find a way to build an independent income that had a solid royalty component to it.

I cannot sing so music was not going to do it for me.
I have never written anything to publish so a great novel was not an option.

What I did was to set up a part time business in direct sales of nutrition products beside my traditional business.

When I started I thought it was a way to build a separate income stream. A little flow of money outside of what I had been doing.
In time I found that the part time business grew to match my full time business and then my accountant sat me down to tell me that my hobby was paying me more money that my family business was ever going to. Get rid of the traditional business.

That meant I had a business that was going to pay me an income if I got out of bed in the morning or not. If I got out of bed in my home or in Hungary of Kenya I would still have an income.

It’s a fascinating concept. It is even more fascinating when you live it yourself.
I am not saying that you set up a business in direct sales, recruit and support a team of people to work with you and then the multi level marketing ( MLM ) component of it supports you without any work. You still have work to do. It is just you can choose when and where you do that work. It can be within the hours you choose but it can also be in the location you chose.

If someone had told me when I started with the direct sales that it would lead to a situation where I could take a year off while 3 of my kids were still in school and travel through many countries in Africa, In Europe, USA, India and Asia I would have had trouble believing them.

What I do know now though is that if you can find a way to spend core time with your children, away from the pressures of normal life, then you can build a relationship with them that will hold through your entire lives.

It is easier than you think to get your home based business up and running. Just get the right advice and promote the right products to suit your interests and lifestyle. If you don’t start sometime soon, the opportunity to travel with your family while your kids are young will have passed you by. I can guarantee you that it is an experience you and your family will treasure for the rest of your lives!