Everyone wants easy, right?
We are an immediate gratification society.
Microwaves that cook in seconds, diets that eliminate ten pounds overnight, and a home business that will make you a millionaire in a month.
But microwaves destroy any nutritional value your food happens to have. And drastic diets can kill you.
Likewise, buying into the instant business success myth [...]
Filed under: successful home business on June 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Filed under: Goal Setting, mindset, successful home business on January 31st, 2010 | 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 [...]
Filed under: Make Money Online, successful home business on November 1st, 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 [...]
Filed under: attitude, mindset, successful home business on August 15th, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Filed under: Persistence, successful home business on July 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Most of us resist change, consciously or not. We are comfortable in the predictability of our routine, even as we realize our lives are far from the “perfect” we imagine.
This “comfort zone” that we float through life in is seriously challenged by our desire for the time and financial freedom a successful home business [...]
Filed under: mindset, successful home business on July 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Make Money Online, mindset, personal development, self improvement, successful home business on July 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Make Money Online, Persistence, attitude, mindset, personal development, personal growth, successful home business on July 15th, 2009 | No Comments »