Three Overlooked Secrets for Developing a Successful Home Based Business
ByMillions begin creating a home based business with no desire for a job as their means for living. They plug into (hopefully) a good company and set the view toward building a huge organization. What a great form of free-enterprize and business without the burden of real estate costs and employees.
The rewards are plenty- freedom, flexibility, residual income, no boss- and it goes on from there. One has to ponder. If it’s so appealing, why do most fail to get very far up the trail?
As someone who has worked (and played) with a home-office base for over a decade, I’m going to point out three things, that, if mastered, or at least managed, will get your successful home-based business results graph going in a strong direction. If this is what you’re up to, please don’t skim over these, but rather, take a good hard look at which one(s) have been tripping you up- or are most likely to get you off the track you set out on to begin with. While there are other pitfalls, here are three that are often overlooked.
1) Your new boss needs to be your day-book. Yes, you can do what you want, and don’t need to use a daily planner if you don’t wish to do so. Without a daily checklist of things that are central to the game, you probably have little idea of the daily actions that you are making intentional. Company presidents don’t get there by winging it and you are the CEO of Y-O-U. It’s a lot like throwing the bowling ball down the lane in a complete fog, and all you know is whether you heard the ball hit the gutter, or some pins smash. Progress will be unclear if you don’t write things down with the pen or by typing.
2) Focus on the actions that bring about strongest long term results. Keep yourself from getting lost in little things and deluding yourself into thinking worthwhile effort is being done. Don’t be misled. You can put an ant on a figure eight track and he’ll walk for hours, but by day’s end he’s still going in circles. Stand back from everything long enough to see which activities have or will do that with your progress. Look at your schedule by the end of the day, and scan to see which activities would cause 80% of your results. How many hours were spent instead of other things more important?
3) Make places for accountability where needed. This one can make you or break you. Some need a lot, others need less and you’ll need to be candid about it.. Has your day gone by, only to see that important things weren’t getting accomplished? Totally understandable. Perhaps you can tie in your main tasks with a daily reward of some kind. Maybe you can tell someone in your family that TV is forbidden to you unless your top priority is done. Use your imagination when looking for solutions with regard to this. Find something you feel will work for you. A friend will do for some. Or find someone for that purpose.
OK, it’s confession time for me. (And I hope it gives you an example). I’ve been putting off writing this article for days and let other things take it’s place. At this moment I’m kneeling on two couch pillows as I write. Why, you ask? This afternoon, I wrote in my schedule, that I couldn’t sit in my office chair until I finished this article first.
A little crazy? Maybe. Hey- it worked. I’m now taking liberty to work out a not-so-ancient Chinese proverb, – and I’m even close to Chinese. “Better to lose comfort and create motion, than sit still and be stuck”.” I’m referring to being stuck in a business going nowhere. Promise yourself you’ll do what it takes. I’m going to get up in a moment and get my seat back. How about you? What are you willing to do to develop a successful home based business?
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