Work From Home and Be Successful
Work From Home and Be Successful
What are the qualities of a successful home business?
You must have personal drive!!! Nobody is there saying “time to get up, time to do this,” so there has to be a tremendous sense of motivation individually. Persistence goes along with that, so personal characteristics of discipline, persistence, motivation are key. Have you heard the term ‘forcing mechanism’? In a home-based business there’s no forcing mechanism cause you’re not on payroll and you don’t have a boss so you have to create your own forcing mechanism.
A vital thing is creating support for yourself, because it’s very isolating, nobody knows what I’m doing, nobody’s around saying “did you finish that job, what’s exciting in your life,” so create support for yourself. Create or join a master mind group where you can come together to set goals and keep each other accountable.
How do you deal with the isolation?
That’s a biggie for people, particularly people who’ve been in the work force, because all of a sudden they’re home and they’re looking at their four walls. So that’s something that I have developed a great skill around, finding ways to not feel isolated. I love being by myself only because I’ve got so much other activity. I’m part of network associations, groups, I’m in a writing group that meets on the 30th, I’m in the master mind group that meets tonight, I’m in a fellowship that meets every Monday morning, so I’m constantly associating with other people, and to set that up requires a lot of energy. To find out who are the other entrepreneurs, who wants to meet, how am I going to find them. Getting started is a challenge for people who all of a sudden are home with a child or retired or whatever, it’s like “Wow, how do you stay connected?”
What are the pitfalls that home business owners need to be most vigilant against?
I think complacency. Like, “Oh, I’ve got it all happening now, the checks are rolling in, the clients are lining up.” And not keeping the pipeline filled, not continuing to do all the things in my marketing plan, showing up at three networking events a month, continuing to speak twice a month so people know that I’m out there, continuing to publish a newsletter. Getting lazy when the checks are rolling in or the big accounts are there.
What are the qualities of a successful home office?
Invest in a great chair!!!
Find an organizer!!!
Really good lighting is important so you don’t get tired.
Source: Snippets from CNN.com, Persistence, motivation beat isolation, slacking
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