The Work at Home Millionaire Journey

We’ve made it through February. Time to check up on those New Year’s Resolutions you reluctantly made. Most people have long ago lost that piece of paper.

I go to a fitness club.  I have for over 20 years.  So I know this little graph to the right to be absolutely true.

I curse the full parking lot every January.  But take solace in the fact that it will only last a month or so.  And always, every year, it proves to be true.  By the end of February, we’re back to the old crew.

A few weeks ago during an aerobics class, I looked around at some of the people who had been attending regularly since the new year began.  And they were getting it.  They had gone from stepping on the wrong beat and looking around the room in frustration, to being in sync with the regulars in the class and in step with the instructor’s calls.

I also thought about the dozens of new faces that I’d seen once, and then never again.  They cared enough to show up.  But it was hard.  Others made it look easy.  But the newbies gave up in frustration, often even before their first class was over.

It occurred to me that my aerobics class mirrors life.  Those who show up — who keep showing up — succeed.  And, it becomes easy for them.  I wrote this post in my head while doing a fairly complex aerobics class.  Because I’ve been doing it for 20 years and it’s easy for me.  It became easy for me a long time ago.

The “just keep showing up” rule applies to most anything you want to succeed at.  As a baby, you just kept trying until you walked.  (Good thing babies’ brains are so undeveloped, most adults would give up after a couple of days . . .)

Musicians, athletes, even doctors.  When they started they had no idea how to read music, to hold the ball correctly, to diagnose disease.  But they kept showing up, and working at it.  Until they could do it in their sleep.

The same formula for success applies to your home business.  Show up at night after everyone else is asleep.  Work on your business.  You’ll learn how to succeed.

Nearly everyone who starts a home business fails.  And it’s always because they stop showing up before they start making money.  They’re looking for get rich quick.  They want to get their website up tonight and see $10,000 in their Paypal account tomorrow.

That’s not how it works.  Not for anyone.

The good news is, you probably signed a contract with that fitness club.  So it’s not too late to start going again.  Today.

But before you go, sign a contract with yourself and get back to work on your home business.  It’s not too late to be healthier, and wealthier, in 2010.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Discover the Seven Simple Success Steps for free in Jennifer’s mini-course designed to start you on the path to personal growth and home business success.

Filed under: Goal Setting, Persistence, attitude, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments »

You probably know that if you write down your goals you are 1000 times more likely to reach them than if you don’t.  This makes sense to me.  I imagine that most people who have no written goals have no identifiable goals at all.  Which makes it decidedly harder to meet any goals.

I can’t count how many times I’ve done some version of a goal setting exercise.  Usually this involves writing down everything you want in your life.  And it requires that you throw aside any limiting beliefs about what’s possible for you to achieve in this life.  If you want to own a private island, write it down.

I think this is a wonderful exercise.  I continue to do it on a regular basis.

But, honestly, I had written goals for at least a couple of years without achieving one of them.  And that got rather depressing.  I did as I was told.  I wrote down everything I wanted to be, do and have.  I read the list at least twice a day.  I was a good student.

After way too much failure, here’s what I figured out.  My goals list wasn’t getting me anywhere because it was really a list of my dreams.  And it’s a beautiful and motivating list.  The thought of a first class trip to the Figi Islands with my entire family makes me work an extra hour.

But looking at that goal tells me nothing about how to attain it.  My problem was that I could read my goals list all day long and it gave me no direction as to how to get there.

What I really needed was a list of goals that would allow me to be, have and do the things I dreamed about.  So I renamed my “goals” list my “dreams” list.

And I started fresh with a new goals list.  Try this if you’re struggling with the fact that none of your goals have been checked off the list yet.  Pick an item from your newly renamed “dreams” list.  It should be something you really want to accomplish, and something that is fairly attainable.  (For example, buying a private jet may not be your first pick).

Let’s say you dream of paying off all your creditors.  That requires $5,000.  You intend to raise that money by marketing a new affiliate product.  Or starting a new “leg” in your network marketing business.  Or creating a new product.  Whatever it is, it becomes your goal.

Each step it takes to get there becomes a goal.  Make a list of every step you’ll need to take to generate $5000 in sales from your new affiliate product — create a landing page, write some review articles, test a ppc campaign, create a bonus for your buyers, etc.

Put a deadline on each of these goals.  As you meet your goals, you’ll find yourself checking things off your dreams list.  And you can start to pick bigger and bigger dreams.  And write goals to meet those dreams.

Someday it will become a matter of just living the life of your dreams, almost effortlessly.  But let’s not get ahead of ourselves . . .

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is helping others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Discover the Seven Simple Success Steps for free in Jennifer’s mini-course designed to start you on the path to personal growth and home business success.

Filed under: Goal Setting, mindset, successful home business on January 31st, 2010 | No Comments »

Usually I’m beating myself up by now.  Looking at that piece of paper that represents the new person I was going to become in the new year.  Well, maybe I’ll start this plan after the weekend, when the holidays are REALLY over, I tell myself.  Yeah, whatever.

But not this year!  Today, I feel great.  I made no New Year’s Resolutions.  Which means I’ve broken none of them yet.

Here’s why I gave up on New Year’s Resolutions.  (and why you may want to also)  You can’t change overnight.  You fail to meet your resolutions every year because they require you to wake up on January 1 a new person.

Now maybe if you’re one or two things away from being perfect, this is attainable.  But let’s face it, most of us have things in our business (and/or job), relationships, household, finances, personal habits . . . that we want to change.

And you can’t do it all at once.  Stop trying.  That’s why we fail so badly.  We neglect a resolution in one area of our lives and it has a domino effect.  The failure mindset creeps in.  Any chance of success in some other area is gone.

The arbitrariness of making all of these fantastic changes at the stroke of midnight on December 31 also bothers me.  Of course, it can be a very appealing concept to those of us who struggle with procrastination.  Ever find yourself in November saying, “Next year, I’m going to . . .”  Or maybe even in October, September . . .

What’s wrong with right now?  Why put it off until the new year — which is meaningless timing to most resolutions?

Next year I’m going to get up an hour earlier and put an extra hour into writing articles to promote my website.  Why?  How about tomorrow I’m going to start getting up an hour earlier?

If you made resolutions, don’t throw them away.  If you didn’t, don’t feel like an unmotivated slug.  Either way, do this.  Determine what your ultimate goal for 2010 is.  This is likely something big, like quit your J-O-B and go full time in your home business.

Don’t take this assignment lightly.  This is not what your “dream” is for the year.  Make it a definable, attainable goal.  That doesn’t mean it can’t be a BIG goal.  A hard to reach goal.  But it must be something you feel is attainable.  Walking on the moon in 2010 probably isn’t realistic if you have zero training as an astronaut as of today.

Once you’ve determined your ultimate goal for 2010, we’ll talk about how to make it happen.

So relax, even if your two page list of New Year’s Resolutions has already been burned in your evening fire, there’s still plenty of time to make 2010 your best year ever.  And it won’t be as hard as all those resolutions made it feel.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is helping others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Take the first step by claiming your free copy of Jennifer’s mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps.

Make 2010 your best year ever with Jim Rohn’s One Year Success Plan. Today is the right day to start your one year.

Filed under: Goal Setting on January 10th, 2010 | No Comments »

My “friend” Jim Rohn died on December 5.   Of course, he had no idea who I was.  But that didn’t make him any less my friend.

I was introduced to Jim Rohn by my upline in my first network marketing company.  I will always consider my time with that company a success.  Not because I made a lot of money, I didn’t.  But because it brought to me the man who would become the most influential mentor in my life.

Over the past 13 years, I’ve learned lots about personal and professional development from a handful of people.  But for some reason — and I can’t even put my finger on exactly what it is — no one has even been a close second to the value I’ve gotten from Mr. Rohn’s books, CDs, and DVDs.

To this day, if I feel discouraged or beaten down, I pull Jim Rohn up on my IPod.  I’m pretty sure I own everything in the Jim Rohn library.  Jim’s style, his story, his words and the way he delivered them — all have a unique way of reassuring me that yes, anything IS possible.  And of motivating me to go make it happen.

What made Jim Rohn unique in the personal development world?  He taught fundamentals.  His foundation for success boiled down to basic principles.  What’s worked since the beginning of time.

There is never any fear of Jim’s stuff becoming out of date.  My great grandkids will be able to rely on it when learning how to succeed.  As fast paced as our world has become, that fact speaks volumes about Jim’s philosophy.

In the first days after his death, I found myself feeling really sad.  And, kind of embarrassed that I was so sad.  I didn’t know Jim Rohn personally.  To me, he was pretty much the same dead as he was alive.  Which sounds bad as I say it, but I knew Jim through his books, CDs, and DVDs.  These are all things I still have.

But I realize that somehow I was comforted by the knowledge that Jim was here in this world on the journey with me.  And knowing that he was part of the same journey, and such a good part of it, gave me hope, inspiration and self-confidence.

I’ve seen a lot of people touting the customary “Rest in Peace” when commenting on Jim’s death.  I have no doubt that Jim has found peace in his escape from what must have been an especially difficult affliction for a man who talked for a living.  But “rest,” I doubt it.  I’m sure he’s gone to a better world, and is hard at work making it even “more better.”

Enjoy, my friend.

JENNIFER HERNDON is a work at  home mom with three fabulous kids.  She has been enjoying the benefits of working at home for over 12 years.  Jennifer’s passion is helping others on the challenging and rewarding journey of entrepreneurship.  Take the first step by claiming your free copy of Jennifer’s mini-course, Seven Simple Success Steps.

See what a difference a year will make with Jennifer’s favorite Jim Rohn product, the One Year Success Plan.  (Yes, I get paid a little to promote it, but I also use it and it’s made a huge difference in every area of my life!)

Filed under: personal development, personal growth on December 31st, 2009 | No Comments »

I am SO tired of hype.  I was nearly pushed over the edge the other day when four marketers in the “how to succeed in internet marketing” niche sent me emails claiming I could make thousands of dollars a week if I was simply able to type.  All I had to do was fill in forms and/or write short articles.  I thought I respected these four marketers.  I’m rethinking my opinion.

The sales page for this “magical” no-brainer, no-ability “opportunity” was moving and convincing.  Until you got to the bottom.  In four paragraphs of fine print (which also happened to be much lighter in color than the text of the sales page), I read something I couldn’t believe.  In fact, I read it two or three times and am still flabbergasted and saddened by it.

It seems that the moving story of the man who was suffering medical problems, struggling through a dead end job, and constantly away from his family until he came upon this incredible opportunity, was, in fact, fake.  Completely made up.  Not real.  Didn’t happen.  Provided for “my entertainment” the fine print said.

Hmmm.  I’m already skeptical about the truthfulness behind the claim that the secret to success lies in my ability to type.  Now I see that the sales page is made up.  What else could they be making up?  Don’t they have any real product success stories they could use to hook me?

Before I go on, I must confess that I am going to buy this program.  And try it.  And I’m not going to talk myself into failing just to prove my point.  I’m really going to try it.

But I also must confess that I’m buying it to prove it’s hype (or not).

And here’s what makes me sad.  There are thousands of really desparate, struggling people out there.  They are reading these type of sales letters and pressing the “buy now” button before they ever get to the “fine print.”  That’s just unnecessary legal mumbo jumbo anyway.  Isn’t it?  Who bothers to read the fine print?  You’re on your way to riches and retirement in the next thirty days.  No time to be interrupted with the fact that it’s all a lie.

Too many people are buying the hope these products sell.  It’s not fair, honest or right in anyway to be misleading.  The secret to success is not my ability to type, or to copy and paste someone else’s campaigns.  Or any of the other junk these sales letters claim.

I’m tired of testimonials from those who made $10,000 in their first week.  Because too many times I’ve learned that these people are the product creator’s best friend or relative.  That they had a list of 50,000 people to promote to in that first week.  That yes, they quit their job, but now they’re simply more broke and unemployed.

I’m tired of paying $200 for a product and then being told that I’ll really have to spend thousands more to be successful.  There’s too much misrepresentation and deceit everywhere I turn on the internet.

And none of this is okay with me.  Because I hear from too many people who are truly struggling and desparate.  They should know it’s not easy.  They shouldn’t be sold false hope.  They don’t have the money.  Or the time.  It crushes their spirit.

So, if the secret to success isn’t knowing how to type, what is it?  We’ll tackle that tomorrow.  I’m off to type my way to millions tonight . . .

JENNIFER HERNDON works from home with her kids.  She has enjoyed the time freedom and financial rewards of home business ownership for over 11 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering you to success through a positive mindset and consistent action.  Discover the Seven Simple Success Steps for free in Jennifer’s mini-course designed to start you on the path to personal growth and home business success.

Filed under: Make Money Online, successful home business on November 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

My 5-year-old was balancing on one foot on the edge of the bed frame last night.  She fell off and immediately said, “watch, I’ll do it better next time.” (And she did).

Being the ever-conscious parent that I am, I tried to seize the moment for a “life lesson.”  I told her that she was right, with anything she wanted to do she would be become better at it with practice.

For example, if she practiced being nice, it would become easier to be nice.  (A concept that needs practicing when it comes to her 2-year-old brother).

As I made the bed, I started thinking about how true this was.  And it doesn’t just apply to gymnastics and spelling and things of the sort.  It applies to being nice, and to treating people right, and to developing positive self-talk.

Our physical body gets better at things as we practice them, as does our mind.  It’s called developing habits.  It reminds me of a story Denis Waitley tells about his work with world class athletes.

This won’t be a perfect telling of the story, but Denis talks about conducting tests where they ask the athletes to visualize running the race they are training for.  When they monitor the athlete’s body during the visualization, they find that the same muscles fire as do when they are actually running the race.

The body is so conditioned by practice that the race can be run in the mind.  The body reacts automatically.

And so does the mind.  If trained properly.  Let’s look at a simple example.  Someone cuts you off in traffic.  You react to this without thinking — by laying on the horn, throwing up your middle finger, cursing the person who dared to interfere with your drive.

Try to stop yourself from this automatic reaction.  Instead, say “wow, he must be having a hard day,” or “she must be late, I’ve been there,” or “I hope nothing’s wrong.”

Instead of reacting to the jerk who cut you off, react to the person who’s somehow struggling that day.  Before long you’ll notice that you won’t have to make a conscious effort to lay off the horn.  Your automatic reaction will be one of compassion rather than anger.

You will find, with practice, that you can change your entire outlook on life.  At first it’s hard.  You have to constantly push the negative aside and force yourself to think positive.  Oftentimes you don’t even believe what you’re thinking.  That’s okay.  It will come.

I love music.  I used to force myself to sing happy Mary Poppins-like songs when something was bringing me down.  Now there are times that I realize I’m in the middle of one of those songs without having given it any thought.

With practice, positive thinking and productive habits become as easy as tying your shoe.  First, exercise your mind and train it to develop new ways of reacting.  You will find that new habits emerge.  And, quicker than you think, personal and financial success will become a way of life rather than a daily struggle.

JENNIFER HERNDON works from home with her kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial rewards of working from home for over 11 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering you to achieve success through a positive mindset and consistent action.

Get weekly exercises for your mind  with Jim Rohn’s One Year Success Plan, the most complete and achievable personal development plan ever.  Develop simple habits for a successful business with your free copy of Jennifer’s Seven Simple Success Steps mini-course.

Filed under: attitude, mindset, personal development, personal growth on October 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

I missed my favorite class at the gym last week because I had a meeting.  When I returned to class this week, people asked me where I’d gone and assumed I’d been on vacation.  Unfortunately, it was far from vacation, but it was clear why they’d made this assumption.  I never miss class, and I returned with a much darker tan wearing a Jamaica t-shirt that I did get on vacation — about 10 years ago.

This first got me thinking that it truly is time to take a vacation.  But it also made me think about how we go through so much of life on assumptions and first impressions.  We don’t even consciously think about things.  We just go through the rhythm of life.

Of course assuming someone’s been on vacation when they haven’t is pretty meaningless.  But as we work on self improvement and struggle to develop a consistent cash flow in our home business, forgetting to step outside the box of what’s expected can be fatal.

Let’s face it, the assumption when you start a work from home business is that you are going to fail.  Your family expects it.  Your friends expect it.  And really, who can blame them?  They don’t predict your failure because they have no faith in you.  But because in truth, most people do fail in their home business efforts.

And sadly, whether you want to admit it or not, at least a part of you assumes your business will fail.  I remember being in line to get in the doors of a network marketing company seminar I was attending.  Everyone there was paying for the seminar, airfare and a hotel room.  I heard someone in the line saying “if this doesn’t work, I’m going to try . . .”

I’m sure it didn’t “work” for her.  Because she didn’t expect it too.  And she was ready to “try” something else.  I highly doubt that worked either.  Even people who are willing to devote significant money and time to their home business expect to fail, at least on some level.

Most of us start a work from home business hoping to get rich quick, even though we know that’s not reality.  Very few stick around after they discover how much work it’s going to be.

Those of us who do persevere fall into the trap of “it takes time to build a home business.”  True, but, once you start thinking like this, you don’t expect to make money.  And, surprise, in fact you don’t make money.

I’m not saying you should ignore reality in your home business expectations.  But, as Tommy Lasorda says, “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”

The overwhelming majority of home businesses end in failure.  Knowing this fact, and likely being constantly reminded of it, you must take great care to overcome the failure assumption.  Because lots of businesses do succeed.  And yours can be one of them.  If you decide to make it so.

JENNIFER HERNDON works from home with her kids.  She has enjoyed the time freedom and financial rewards of home business ownership for over 11 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering you to success through a positive mindset and consistent action.  Discover the Seven Simple Success Steps for free in Jennifer’s mini-course designed to start you on the path to personal growth and home business success.

Filed under: attitude, mindset, successful home business on August 15th, 2009 | No Comments »

I’ve been working hard on a new project lately.  It’s left me a little overwhelmed and without much time for blogging (sadly).  But, it’s going well and I should be back to “normal,” if there is such a thing, within a couple of weeks.

I was standing in the kitchen the other morning, feeling overwhelmed and a little stressed about all the work I had to do and the lack of any thought about what I might fix for dinner.

In hopped my 2 year old, sporting only his morning diaper.  He had a big smile on his face as he bounced on both feet around the kitchen floor, babbling something I couldn’t decipher.

He was totally immersed in himself.  He wasn’t playing with anything or interacting with anyone.  He was just happy.

And I wanted so bad to know what was going on in his little head.  I imagined that he was deliriously happy to greet another beautiful day full of so much potential.  I wanted to think I was at least partially responsible for making his life such a happy one.

But more than anything, I wanted to be him.  I wanted to happily hop around the kitchen floor with him.  I wanted his joy.

And it made me think about what age we are when it becomes not okay to outwardly express our happiness like that.  Or better yet, when do we cease to be that happy?  And why?

I know the short answer.  Toddlers can be so happy because they have no responsibility, nothing to worry about.  Everything’s taken care of for them.

But I’m not buying that.  I think that’s just an excuse.  And not a very good one.

We see the same sunshine that my toddler does.  Every day has the same unlimited potential for us as it does for him.  Even more really, because we are capable of doing so much more.

My 2 year old could have chosen to be cranky that morning.  Lots of things were not going to go his way that day, and he had to know it based on past experience.  I wouldn’t let him eat candy for breakfast.  His sister would take one of his prized cars away from him.  His brother would hit him.  I would make him take a nap no matter how hard he struggled.

When you think about it, he was going to potentially have a tougher day than me.  But he chose to start off happy and full of life, just as he does every day.

He knows something about self improvement that we don’t.  Wouldn’t it be great if adults regularly started their day running around their offices laughing and smiling about nothing other than the joy of being alive?

Instead we suck down five dollar cups of coffee to wake us up, and complain about our job, our boss, the economy, our spouse, blah, blah, blah.

The way you start your day is vitally important to what you make of that day.  So take a few minutes and think about what you want from your day before you give the finger to the guy who cut you off in traffic, causing you to be 5 seconds later to work than you already were.

JENNIFER HERNDON works at home with her kids.  She has enjoyed the benefits of home business ownership for over 11 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering you to success through a positive mindset and consistent action.  Start today with the Seven Simple Success Steps, Jennifer’s free mini-course designed to put you on the road to personal and work from home success.

Filed under: attitude, self improvement on August 8th, 2009 | No Comments »

I love connecting with other people who are like me.  As I moved my work at home career online, I was excited about how easy it appeared to be to connect with other moms who also had an online business.  I went to places like mybloglog.com hoping to connect with other moms.  I bought a few books written by work at home moms.

I was, and continue to be, pretty disappointed in what I find.  My email box is stuffed full of promotions from internet marketers.  What the sales letters for all of these promotions have in common is a great story about how the marketer is financially free.  He can take his family anywhere at any time.  There are pictures of cars, homes, vacations.

I can count on one hand the number of times over the past ten years I’ve received one of these emails from a woman. And never from a work at home mom.

So what are we work from home moms doing?  The books I’ve read (and it’s not even close to all of them) talk about how to organize your office space, deal with your customers, and manage your kids at the same time.

The blogs I’ve visited almost universally lack one thing — any suggestion that a work at home mom can learn to leverage her time so that she can create financial freedom for her family and have the time to actually enjoy it.

Most moms seems to be doing something barely better than a J-O-B.  They are trading time for money.  They are making diapers, having home parties to sell their products, and not expecting much more.

One blog I visited had a list of ten businesses a work from home mom could do.  The one that struck me most was “virtual assistant.”  Hmm.  Be a virtual assistant?  I have a virtual assistant.

I have a friend who has a work from home business because she wants to be with her kids.  She works about 14 hours a day.  Much of it is out of the house trying to promote her products.  She hopes it won’t always be this way.  But honestly, any significant change doesn’t appear to be on the horizon.  And, what if it takes five years?  Well, that’s good in five years.  But your 3 year old is only 3 for one year.  And to miss that year is not okay with me.

I know there are exceptions.  And I’m happy to be one.  But at least 90% of what I see tells me that the mentality of the work from home mom is wrong.  We can, and should, expect to grow our businesses to seven figures while we stay home with our kids.  To work only when we want.  To leverage our time so we only need to work a few hours a week.  And to do it all before our kids go off to college.

Is this not what moms want?  More likely, we don’t think we can do it.  Maybe we could learn something from men here.

JENNIFER HERNDON works from home with her kids.  She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial rewards of working at home for over 11 years.  Jennifer’s passion is empowering you to success through a positive mental attitude and consistent action.  Start on your path to a seven figure business today with Jennifer’s Seven Simple Success Steps free mini-course.

Filed under: successful home business, work at home moms on July 26th, 2009 | No Comments »

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.” – Thomas Edison.

I find this to be a beautiful description of home business ownership.  The “one problem” we face as home business owners is how to reach the point where our business is easy.  Where we put in a few hours work and see thousands of dollars in return.

Along the road to success there are many, many days when our physical and/or mental energies grow weary before we even begin to tackle “the problem.”  There are still times when I feel awake and ready to go, yet my mind seems incapable of producing anything.  And times when I lay in bed having the greatest ideas, but my body won’t let me get out of bed and get to the computer.

I haven’t spent a lot of time with people who have given up on their home business.  But I have to think that many people quit simply because they grow weary.  Weary of working all day and coming home to dinner, a messy house, family time and — after all that — having to be brilliant for a few more hours of work on your home business.

Of course, when people quit, they generally don’t say, “I’m weary.  I give up.”  Instead, they make excuses for why it didn’t work for them.  They didn’t have the technical skills, didn’t have the time, home businesses are all scams. . . Whatever.

They’re all excuses.  Because anyone who does apply their physical and mental energies to their home business will succeed.

So why does almost everyone who starts a home business eventually quit?  Because either they don’t know Edison’s formula, or they don’t believe it.  Or maybe they just become too weary to go on, no matter what.

How do you become one of the few that kept going?

You embrace Malcolm Gladwell’s philosophy in his book “The Tipping Point.”  In a nutshell, Gladwell talks about how many things start out being ridiculed and rejected, and over time become not just accepted, but embraced by the world as a given truth.

Look at your business as a mountain.  Hopefully you don’t start out being ridiculed, but you do begin with nothing.  No followers, no credibility, no money.  Every day you climb just a few steps up the mountain.  You may even have to rest for a few days.  It’s okay.  You’re still on a journey up the mountain.

And one day, you hit your tipping point.  You’re no longer struggling uphill.  Your efforts are paying off.  You realize you’re going down hill.  It’s becoming easy.

Gladwell’s tipping point is more than just theory.  He gives concrete examples in what is a must-read book for entrepeneurs.

Your business will have a tipping point, if you keep journeying up the mountain.  No mountain is an eternal uphill climb.  Knowing this, and remembering it when either your brain or your body is ready to throw in the towel, will make all the difference.

JENNIFER HERNDON works from home with her kids. She has been enjoying the time freedom and financial rewards of working at home for over 11 years. Jennifer’s passion is empowering you to success through a positive mental attitude and consistent action.  Get on the path to your tipping point with Jennifer’s Seven Simple Success Steps free mini-course.

Filed under: Persistence, successful home business on July 21st, 2009 | No Comments »