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On Becoming a Home Business Entrepreneur

Although starting a home business is not rocket science there are some traits that a person should probably be capable of if they are going to accomplish anything. Most involve being ‘self-motivated’ or directed and taking initiative.

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In your former career you may have been used being presented with a plan. This is your job and these are the duties associated. In some cases there may have been quotas that were expected as far as performance. In others it is just assumed you will do everything put in front of you in a timely way.

So you may have not had any reason to have initiative or for that matter even much motivation. Initiative is when you take control. You realize something needs to be done and nobody is there to tell you to do it. You do it just because you know it is necessary. This is how having your own business would be. You will

Why You Must Have Faith to Start a Business

Just imagine, if you really believe that you can do something how it will inspire you to keep trying each day. You merely have to remember that you really believe you can do it. Maybe you have the type of mind that you also need to tell yourself why you believe you can. Is it because you know that once you make a decision to do something that you won’t stop until you have accomplished your goal? Is it because of your past experiences where you always prevailed?

have faith in yourself.

Then conversely imagine trying to do something while not really believing you can. Just the thought puts a terrible weight in the air and you have to keep lifting that in addition to whatever chores you need to do to run your business. It is exhausting because your focus is on doing everything in spite of the weight. It won’t be long before you convince yourself that you may as well stop trying sin

Start a Home Business and Finance Your Dreams

Do you have some little (or big) things that you think it would be nice to have? Do some of these persist off and on or year after year? Do you wake up from the day dream being very practical and acknowledge that you really can’t afford it, so you forget it again. ‘Can’t afford it’ means not even on credit, which is not free money but quite the opposite.

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You may or may not begin to resent this, feeling deprived or punished. You work hard and you take care of business. Why can’t you have just this one little thing you want? You can. If you look at it from the perspective of saving the money to buy it, maybe you can!

Saving money means putting it away – say every payday whatever you can – just a few dollars that you won’t notice if you are running things pretty close to the bone like most of us. Even small amounts will add up after

HomeBiz Start-Up – Focus on What You Can Do

Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t do. It is really sort of like ‘shooting yourself in the foot’ if you allow your obstacles to dictate to you. How counter-productive to stop dead in your tracks because something or other didn’t go the way you had planned. Now all your energy is spent in anxiety about these circumstances.

don't sweat the small stuff

Until you can get past it you won’t really be able to focus on what you can do to promote your business. Remember it is all about what you can do and whatever didn’t work just goes in the circular file, figuratively as well as literally if necessary. It is the same concept as spending what could be productive time in ‘crying over spilled milk’ when you didn’t get the rate of customers you had hoped for from a campaign.

What exactly do you gain by your regret? Or by your subsequent skepticism? Does it

Home Business – Following Directions vs. Flying Blind

While there are some things that one could do through trial and error without having directions, some you just wouldn’t. For instance baking a cake – you are likely to have a big mess without a recipe. That is because there are some technical aspects that require exact measurements. In this case it is leavening to flour to liquid that all has to be balanced perfectly.
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Starting a home business is something that you might do with trial and error. However this could become very expensive and waste time if you really didn’t know what you were doing. For example you could be using some strategy that had its day back in the 1980’s and just doesn’t fly very well today. It may still work to some degree if it ever worked, but surely you would rather spend your time and money on something that is more up-to-date.

Many times people come to the table thinking tha

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