Before you start your home-based business there are plenty of misconceptions that you need to be aware of. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that working from home isn’t work. Sometimes it will become MORE work than your previous job of selling your time to somebody else.
When I first fired my boss and started working for myself, I found that I spent more hours, not less, and worse, I started to worry about my business. THIS IS A GOOD THING! It means that you CARE about your business.
Also, don’t fall into the trap of thinking that you can get up at 8am, laze about until 9am before booting up your computer and then having 2 hour lunch. Anything worth having REALLY IS worth working for. A few people on this planet get lucky, but most of us are about average in the luck-department. Create your own luck by starting as soon as possible, having short lunch-breaks and don’t finish until what you set-out to do that day is DONE. If you can’t possibly finish your task that day, start even earlier the next day and make sure you’ve completed the previous days work.
Luck is one thing and one thing only; it’s when opportunity coincides with preparation. Be prepared for what you want by learning everything you can about a subject. Affiliate Millions is a great place to start.
To start, you obviously need knowledge, but you also need determination. Without this, nothing will work for you (unless you happened to be born into wealth, which is a LOT rarer than you might imagine). You also need a stong belief in yourself and more importantly, a belief in your ability to LEARN new things. In school we are NEVER taught HOW TO LEARN, which are just shown things that we are told that we should learn.
Perseverance is also paramount. Without the “never quit” mentality, you may well stumble at the first hurdle (don’t you just HATE cliches????!). But the single most important thing you can have to ensure your eventual success is MOTIVATION. Your WHY! WHY do you want a business you can run from home? Once you can honestly answer this question (and believe me when I say that it took me YEARS to work out what MY “why” was) then you are well on your way to making ANYTHING you want work-out.
Knowing what your real motivation is (your “WHY AM I DOING THIS?”) will give you ALL the FUEL you’ll ever need to keep-on-keeping-on when you have those irritating and sometimes seemingly insurmountable problems arise.
What is YOUR why? Well, it could be your daughter’s education, or a good retirement for you and your wife. Find out what your “why” is over the next few weeks. Think about it and then every time you have a problem with you business, you can simply think about your “why” and I promise you, this will give you all the fuel you’ll ever need to keep going.
Luke
