Adopted dogs, shelter dogs, BMX Flatland:

My story in DXN Ganoderma medicinal mushroom coffee business, part 3

Hello, I’m Gergely Takács, a full-time teacher with 15 dogs and 2-3 bicycles. (No, the many dogs are not a typo, I’ll explain more later.)

If you are a long-time visitor to my site, then a few things may already be familiar to you about me, as I previously wrote a “My Story” and a “My Story Part 2“.

In this article, I will talk about why there hasn’t been a new post on my site for a while. Of course, I’m trying to justify my laziness with this. 😊

If you prefer videos, check this out here, it has pretty much the same content as my article below 😊

 

Why do I keep on slamming the keyboard as a second job besides teaching?

Benefits of online networking 

In addition to the Ganoderma medicinal mushroom coffees that I first learned about from DXN products, what really caught my attention about this business is that I can build my it from home, from the comfort of my room, typing away at the keyboard.

I have always been more reserved by nature, and although I previously dealt with a company and its products whose main profile was direct selling. 

Nothing is compulsory in DXN 

The following facts, that:

• there is no mandatory walking around with the products,

• I don’t have to give presentations,

• I don’t have to go to applause-filled mass events, if I do not want to,

all came in handy with DXN MLM.

I’ve talked enough by teaching English in primary school that by the time I get home, all I want is silence. This must be a professional disadvantage for me, or I’m getting old, but in any case, I understand more and more that I can build the DXN Ganoderma business in the form of internet networking and relax my nerves that are frayed at work.

 

What do I want to achieve with the medicinal mushroom coffee business?

Summer break is not enough, I want unlimited free time

It must be extremely unsympathetic that as a teacher I want more free time, since in Hungary we have spring break, summer break, autumn break and winter break. As far as I know, as a teacher we are still doing well with vacation and days off compared to those working in other sectors, but my desire for freedom would be even stronger if I were not working as a teacher with fewer annual days off.

 

But why do I want more free time?

Re-evaluating my hobbies and order of importance

I wrote earlier that I want to ride my bike (Flatland BMX and mountain bike) when and as much as I want. This cycling thing has re-evaluated for me since I volunteered at the Miskolc Animal Welfare Foundation.

 

I’m not saying that I won’t ride my bike, because I need to find a balance in my life between my things, but taking care of my shelter dogs and my adopted dogs comes first, rather than selfishly practicing all sorts of complicated tricks on my “kids’ bike” or rolling up a mountain bike on a forest path just to roll down afterwards.

Now it probably sounds like I’m oversimplifying and belittling these two sports, but that’s not my intention. Anyone who knows or practices similar sports, or any sport that they love and take seriously, knows that both BMX Flatland, with its a thankless, joint-killing and time comsuming sport, and mountain biking in the forest, have their own beauty.

 

In the video, Tomi (a Caucasian Shepherd Dog) and my adopted dogs (brown) meet on the kennel line at MÁSA. Tomi is an infinitely good-natured, friendly, gentle giant 😊 

A bicycle is an object, a dog is a feeling, loving creature

I now see BMX and mountain bikes as they really are: as objects that do not feel closed off, lack of love, or a desire to belong, unlike dogs waiting for their owners at the shelter.

 

Each one of my 12 shelter dogs get about 10-15 minutes of walk every day, that’s how much time I have after work to walk them until the shelter closes, but these 2 and a half hours are quite tiring for me as well. Each of those 15 minutes of my day are nothing to me in my life, in my day, but for the dog that I or my other volunteer companions take out, it means everything, this little time is the highlight of their day.

I simply can’t deny them this just because I tire myself out with my selfish little sports, for the sake of patting myself on the back, for a good montain bike ride or for improving in a Flatland trick. If I still (very rarely) have energy left after dealing with my shelter dogs and my own dogs, then I go for it.

 

Ride hard, or don’t!!!

A good little slogan. Tough, cool, motivating…

By the way, I haven’t had a mountain bike for a year. What I had, unfortunately, I “ruined”, as a mechanic friend of mine used to say. First of all, the rear derailleur hanger broke, but unfortunately the rear derailleur also got beaten up. Then it turned out that the carbon frame was cracked in 2 places, and I thought it was better to sell it, in its current condition.

No need for a mountainbike if I won’t ride it

I would really like to try a 29” wheeled, modern frame geometry, 1×11 or 1×12 gearing, dropper post equipped trail/enrudro bike, but it is very expensive, around 6-800 thousand Hungarian forints at Decathlon in my hometown. This is still “cheap”, but I always buy used mountain bikes in very good condition, with good old 26” wheels. But any bike is expensive if I do not use it, and this is why I do not have an MTB at the moment.

 

Now I simply don’t think it’s unnecessary to spend any amount of money on another bike besides my 2 BMXs (a Street and a Flatland BMX), because I can barely fit practicing with my BMXs into my daily schedule, both in terms of time and energy.

If I were to also ride mountain bike, which I really love anyway, it would definitely be harmful to my health, in addition to walking dogs a lot. Of course, I might buy a mountain bike and go out sometimes to Bükk, but if I do something, I do it seriously, not once a week, but at least once a day. So mountain biking has recently been pushed in the background.

This is not a problem, but since I said that I reevaluated my things, this way the picture is complete.

 

Cruciate ligament rupture in both legs of my dog

Unfortunately, my little girl dog has a cruciate ligament rupture in both of her hind legs. We didn’t do anything extreme, they say that this is unfortunately common. Now, at the time of writing this blog, her left hind leg has already been operated on, and of the prescribed 6 weeks of cage rest, there are still (or rather: only) 3 weeks left. Until then, she can’t walk, she can’t run, you can walk carefully in the garden, but my poor thing is forced to rest.

It may sound strange, but this also bothers me. Basically because my dog’s leg is hurt – although they say that her leg will be better than when it was new – but also as much, that she can’t come for a walk with us. With my other 2 dogs I go for a walk once a day, instead of twice a day before my girl’s injury. I reduced the two walks a day to one because I don’t want to leave the little girl at home so often, because I feel sorry for her.

I give my dogs the same DXN products as I take (except for coffee, of course)

 

No separation anxiety

Of course, I leave her at home keeping the rules. She has a little room with a mattress, water, shade, ventilation, and I don’t reassure her that I’ll be back soon, everything’s okay, don’t be afraid. Neither my old “angel” dogs neither my adopted ones have separation anxiety. This might develope when they worry about expecting their owner home.

Now it is me, the owner (or rather I prefer to call myself dog-dad), is the one who is suffering emotionally from this “excommunication”, but she needs to get well soon – and she can then be operated on her other leg too. Hurray…

 But I’m glad it’s not a back problem or something internal. It could always be worse. I learned a long time ago not to complain. I won’t do that now either, although it might turn out to be the opposite when you read on. This is just a little status report from me, the Coffee King (this is the name of my Hungarian website). The latest part of “my story”. Full of things that I think many of you can identify with.

And with these little things, I’m building my international business at DXN, a company that has been operating successfully for more than 30 years. If I can do it, then anyone can. Even those who don’t have a dog. Even those who have a cat. Even those who don’t ride a bike, but play soccer. Or go fishing. All you need is a little “ambition”, a little reason to spend some of your free time on it.

 

Passive income for the sake of shelter dogs

However, I don’t have much energy left for DXN either, even though I do it as a sedentary job in front of my computer. But now that I’ve finally said it, as you can see, I’ve thrown myself into online work again. Not only because of my desire for financial independence, but also because of the dogs.

As soon as I have more free time and money, I will have more time for the dogs, both at the shelter and at home. It would be great if in my country and basically all over the world there would be no shelters, but in the meantime, I would like to support the shelter I volunteer at every day more seriously, financially, first of all, and then all organizations that need it. The homeless dogs and cats.

 

What is passive income?

Income without work

When a person receives money without working, it is called either unemployment benefits or passive income. Of course, the two are not the same. You have to work hard for passive income, but after a while everything will work itself out, customers will return without me “threatening” them to buy coffee. 😊 This is a very stupid explanation of passive income, you can read more about it by clicking here: is passive income a scam?

 

Passive income and the unlimited free time that comes with it are not given for free at DXN either. It is also in the word “networking” itself: you have to build it, because it does not build itself. IT is NetWORK Marketing, not NOTwork Marketing.