How,Live,Your,Best,Life,Home-B DIY How To Live Your Best Life As Home-Based Entrepreneur
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Startingand running a home business is serious stuff. Afterall, the first five years are the most critical. You have to come up with asound business idea, make sure theres a demand for your product or service,conduct research, create a plan, build structures and processes around youractivities, sell, market, deliver your product or service and manage thepaperwork besides. Ifyoure doing all of this while maintaining full-time employment, things canreally get heavy and through time either burn you out or just take the joy outof what was so fresh and invigorating in the beginning. Manya home business owner has faced the challenges of overwhelm, fatigue and stressby trying to be and do everything alone. The joys of life, family, adventureand other dreams fall into the shadows, masked by the belief that you must workhard, every waking minute in order to achieve business success. Theonly result you create by this kind of thinking is burnout and disappointment,believing that you are either incapable of making a home business work, or thatit is a pipe dream and neither of these is true. Asyou work on your home business, keep the following five questions posted atyour work area. Ponder them, answer them, then take action and live each ofthem. 1. Where do you want to go that you haventgone?2. What do you want to see that you haventseen?3. What do you want to experience that youhavent experienced?4. What do you want to do that you haventdone?5. What do you want to try that you haventtried? Dontput your life on hold as you build your home business. Live it! Thefirst thought that may come to mind is, how is that possible? I have too muchto do and too little time. Thisis the time to shift to the entrepreneurial mindset. There is no such thing asa self-made millionaire. Everyone who has created business success has hadhelp. Insteadof trying to do everything alone, identify your strengths and the highestpay-off activities you perform. Then, identify the activities that drain yourenergy, take up time and take your eye off the big picture for your business. Focusstrictly on what you do best that produces the highest return on investment andoutsource, delegate, automate and barter the rest. Next,create experiences for yourself based on the five previous questions. Thiscould be a simple as sampling different ethnic restaurants with friends once amonth, going on an overnight road trip with a loved one, or going to open micnight at a local club and belting out your favorite tune. Creatingnew experiences and living life will give you more zest, optimism and a clearermind in your approach to business. Stimulation, group conversations and avariety of surroundings will contribute to your personal and professionalgrowth. Youhave the ability to build a home business that will allow you to live full outand enjoy all the freedoms and rich experiences life offers and one of the bestways to make your dream come true is to start living that life today. 2007© Laurie Hayes - The HBB Source
How,Live,Your,Best,Life,Home-B