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Hey everyone, I wanted to post this article for your reading pleasure.  It’s just an overall heartwarming feel good story of one person overcoming challenges.  There is also a link at the bottom for the story on Yahoo.  Enjoy!

Nancy Shute - Fri Apr 3, 12:46 pm ET
Joe Steffy is off to Overland Park, Kan., this week to do a PowerPoint presentation on his business, Poppin’ Joe’s Kettle Korn. He’s a 23-year-old small-business man with a goal of $100,000 in sales by 2012. Joe also has autism and Down syndrome and is nonverbal. When he gives his talk, he will push buttons on an augmentative speech device to deliver the words. His audience will be parents who fervently hope their own special-needs children will be able to work, too.
Joe’s parents, Ray and Janet, didn’t agree with the school district assessment in their home town of Louisburg, Kan., that said Joe would never be able to work or live independently. “I’m one who can easily get ticked off,” says Ray. “That ticked me off. We saw more in Joe than that. We set out to prove to the school that he had capabilities.” They came across kettle corn while on a trip to Alaska and realized that all that popping, scooping, and serving suited Joe’s love of work.
The path to Joe Steffy’s success was not an easy one; Ray Steffy worked closely with Dave Hammis, an advocate for self-employment for people with disabilities in Middletown, Ohio, who trains business owners, government employees, and parents on how to make use of state and federal programs. The Steffys wrote up a business plan and helped Joe secure $25,000 in grants from programs like Social Security Administration’s Plan to Achieve Self-Support program (PASS).
In 2005, Poppin’ Joe’s Kettle Korn was born. Sales have grown from $16,000 in 2005 to $50,000 in 2008, both from selling at festivals and from delivering popcorn to local outlets. Joe has five part-time employees, and his parents help out with driving and other tasks. “Pop and everyone that works with him knows whatever Joe wants to do you let him do, because he’s the boss,” Ray says. “If he wants to pop, he’ll shove Dad out of the way and pop.”
If the business stays on track, it should be grossing more than $100,000 in three years, and the Steffys are seeking a business partner who can work with Joe to manage the business. Joe is no longer on Social Security disability payments; instead, he pays state sales tax and state and federal income tax. He rents his own house and is helped by caregivers who are paid by a state program.
“It’s been hard work, from the standpoint of physical work,” says Ray Steffy, who is 67. “But a parent with a child like Joe has a choice. You can either kick in and do this kind of thing, or you can sit and fret emotionally with the amount of energy, worrying about what’s going to happen to them.”
The payoff for that effort, as far as the Steffys are concerned, has been priceless. They see their son make a local popcorn delivery, accept payment, fold it, and put it in his pocket. When he walks out, his dad says, Joe looks 3 inches taller than when he walked in.

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In this site we have covered that Liberty League International is a so called business opportunity that recruits advisors to sell its so called product, at a very hefty price.  While most anyone can tell you that the fundamentals they operate on are a gimmick, personal development is a real thing.  But is it worth the ridiculous price they want to charge you? Ask any advisor about free resources on the web and watch their face turn red!

Personal development in my mind is just that and done on a personal basis.  Someone telling you how to think, and say “hey come be with us like minded individuals” isn’t personal development.  That’s the practicing’s of a religious cult. 

I recently came across the site of someone who specializes in personal development.  He has a website full of articles on personal development tips and experiments that he has done.  All the reading is of course absolutely free of charge.  While I find most of his writings to informative and more of a guide on what may work for you.  It doesn’t come across as a cult members hand book or anything like that.

Some of the articles are great, some I don’t understand or agree with, but at least you can disagree and not be cast out for not conforming to a set of teachings.  His site is just for informative reading and enjoyment.  There are many tips that may help you from breaking a bad habit to lucid dreaming.  If you are interested in learning more about personal development, it’s a great FREE place to start before buying personal development products.  Check out stevepavlina.com, comments are open discussion so come back and tell me what you think about it!

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Many of the visitors to this site come here looking for information on Liberty League Internationals home business opportunity as well as some of the opportunities related to it and some not related at all.  We do get many emails asking if it is a scam or pyramid scheme and we wanted to provide of questions to easily help you determine if it is a worthwhile and legal opportunity.  This list is provided by the government of a state in the U.S. and helps you easily define a group that may be operating a pyramid scam.

* Whether goods or service are being offered for sale, and, if so, whether these goods or services are being sold at an inflated price;

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* Whether, overall, the program’s true emphasis is on making money by expanding the pool of participants, rather than on purchasing the goods and services for their own sake.

This is how the government defines pyramid scams and guidelines when deciding whether to prosecute people involved or not.  Seems these all fit with the opportunity so often brought up on this site.  Investor beware.