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Fundamentally the operation of a home based business is similar to a traditional bricks and mortar business. You need a product or service, communication skills and communication technology, computer, telephone, marketing, promotion and a great desire to achieve. That is the same in any business on the planet no matter if it is in the AMP tower overlooking Sydney Harbour, or a factory in Wollongong, or selling seconds out of a truck at a market.
The most significant difference about starting and successfully running a home based business is your mindset. Your personal belief system comes right to the fore. Why, mostly because you are the owner and the driving force of the business. The buck stop with you. That is why it is imperative that
you choose a home business that you like the look and feel of, you like the products or service, use them yourself and promote them from a place of total integrity.
You mindset has to one of expecting others to see what you see. If you are into personal development and have seen or read The Secret then you will appreciate that we attract what we think about most. It is a long held view that we all grow to the level of expectation our parents imposed up on us. This has proven to be a good thing but at times has also been a disaster. However, when we set the expectation on ourselves and others we are driving towards our desired results.
If coming from a job there is a major shift in Mindset required. The mindset that makes a successful employee is not going work as well in a home business. An employee needs to be compliant, fit in, not rock the boat, work diligently towards the next promotion or payrise. Inevitably there is a lot of being used to accepting the boss, or the department head is right or must be followed.
In a home business you are the boss, you are the business owner. As long as you act ethically you are not obliged to follow other peoples agenda unless it suits you. You pick and choose your suppliers. You can filter your potential clients - not everyone is suitable for the things you are promoting. You choose your hours and how you promote yourself. You start to develop the mindset of an independant decision maker. Well and truly the buck stops with you. It can be a big jump for some of us.
It is a jump we must make, because we need to accept that we are in a serious business that can have a significant impact on our lives. Therefore we need to have a plan and then take action constantly, without being concerned what our "supervisor" thinks. For we have no supervisor.
When choosing a home based business it is important to enquire whether there is mindset and personal development training as well as product and marketing training. The wonderful about taking the step from employee to home business owner is that it will challenge you to become the best you can be, and then better again. As you get better at what you do and how you run your business then the business grows - and a growing business is a good barometer for how much you are improving handling the business and this spills over into your private life as well.
So if you are ready for change and challenges that will force you to grow as an individual then he right home business may be just what the doctor ordered. A good dose of "working from home"!!!! |
