Is The Secret to Success Knowing How to Type?

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 [...]

Work From Home and Simplify Your Life

Remember when you first started your work from home journey?  You were likely attracted by the promise that making money online was easy.  And the pictures of the house you could buy, the cars you could drive, and the vacations you could take just a few months into your work from home business.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t [...]

Personal Growth: If You Believe, You Can Achieve

I love the Napolean Hill quote, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”   Sounds easy.  Yet one of the biggest reasons people can’t change their lives is simply that they don’t believe they can.
I got an email from an internet marketer the other day promoting a training for people [...]

Meetup to Find Friends and Build a Successful Work From Home Business

The fastest way to explode your business is to get to know people, face to face, that you can work with and/or mastermind with.  But, logistically this can be hard.  Most of us work, many of us live paycheck to paycheck, and many have kids and a million other responsibilities.
Taking a few days off work, [...]

People Who Need People Are the Luckiest People . . .

One of the happiest moments of my home business career was the realization that I didn’t need my Uncle Roy or my best friend’s sister to have a successful work from home business.  And one of the moments that I resisted most was the fact that I do need to sell myself to others to [...]

Good News! You Can Start an Online Business for Under $17,000

I’m grateful for the fact that I have the entrepreneurial spirit.  It’s one of those things that I tend to take for granted until I am reminded how differently entrepreneurs think than the rest of the world.  We have an endless number of options and choices where others see few, if any, bright opportunities.
I was [...]

Did You Take a Wrong Turn? Avoiding Persistent Failure in Your Online Business.

Last time we talked about how persistence can be fatal to your home business success if it is random rather than guided.  And, for most people with a new online business, persistence is fatally random, if you are persistent at all.
It is hard to empathize with the masses who play around with making money online.  [...]

When Persistence is Deadly to Your New Online Business

You’ve probably heard the saying “the only way to fail is to quit.”  We encourage persistence in people from the day they are born.  We prop our babies up and reach out for them as they try to take that first step towards us.  We repeat this exercise over and over again until they finally [...]

Finding Your Comfort Zone is Key to Home Business Success

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” — Dale Carnegie
I took a break from this blog for a couple of months.  Actually, some of my time away was forced.  I had another offline commitment that deserved my full attention.  But, as I wrapped that project up I began addressing some [...]

3 Steps to Turning Your Hobby Into an Online Money Making Opportunity

When I first started looking for ways to make online money, I was assured that all I had to do was find something I was passionate about.  I thought about my hobbies and passions.  But I couldn’t envision turning any of them into an online money making opportunity.
But I’m a good student, so I did [...]