By Cheryl Johnson
What are you passionate
about? What do you believe in?
Is there a
product or service that you find yourself just raving about
with friends and family!
Share your talents,
experiences, and beliefs through a home business.
Choosing a work at home business is rewarding.
Earn extra money - meet your
savings and debt reduction goals faster!
Have Flexible Hours - schedule
your work around other duties or your household duties around
your work. Either way, you set the schedule. Set your own
goals - You decide what is enough.
Provide a creative outlet to do
something you love to do. You might feel motivated to work at
home because you need a little extra money. Perhaps you just
need a creative outlet.
Maybe you’ve become so good at
your household management skills that you just have too much
time on your hands. With the many challenges of family and
household management I congratulate you if the latter is the
case! Give yourself a pat on the back!
You know we
learn our most valuable lessons from our failures and
successes. Hopefully, Right!
I have learned one
undeniable truth in my work experience.If you love it and have
a passion for it, you WILL be successful.
There is
nothing easier than doing what you love to do. This is an
undisputable fact of human nature. We all know this
instinctively, but somehow fall away from the idea.
If you can
incorporate what you love to do, are passionate about and
truly believe in, into your work at home business you will
find success!
You can choose to live your work or work to live.
The decision to live your work can only be successful. It just
makes sense!
Until you find your niche in life you are
just trudging along doing the necessary steps to survive.
It’s when you find and work your passion in life that
you begin to live. Your work naturally becomes your life.
No, I’m not talking about being all about work 24/7.
I’m talking about bringing something you are passionate about
in life into your work at home business.
There’s a
huge difference.
That being said, you need to really
analyze what it is you like to do. Think about something
productive or creative that you love to do in your spare time.
WHAT IS YOUR "THING?"
You may instantly
know what your “thing” is or it could take you several days to
figure it out. You may not have been able to do what you love
for so long that you have forgotten what it actually is you
love to do. Unfortunately, this happens to a lot of us.
For example, through all my experiences I found
nothing that excites me more than what I am doing right now!
Bringing my family back to basics, getting my financial goals
back on track and teaching my children to be financially
responsible and successful.
When I started looking for
an extra income I tried so many things that just seemed to be
out of character for me.
I accepted offers only to
discover that the program either required me to sell something
(which I determined early in life was definitely not my
thing), or required me to do something that I had no clue how
to do. Like building a website or internet marketing.
I
was shot down from the start and couldn’t even get motivated
to try.
I learned that you don’t always get what you
expect when you accept a work at home offer. You have to be
careful to read everything.
Make sure you know what
you're getting! If you choose an internet business and
you're a "newbie", make sure you will be provided with all the
educational and technical tools you need.
Internet
marketing and website building is very technical. If you have
no knowledge of .......
writing HTML text
Search Engine Optimization - click
and pay hits - search engine spiders?
Keyword brainstorming
affiliates - associate
programs
Well, you can see it’s another college degree
it seems. At the very least it would involve a great deal of
reading, studying, and trial by error to create a website much
less be successful at it.
You need a step-by-step
program to help you through. Some programs can leave you in a
sea of confusion! Where do I start? What's that mean? How do I
promote it? Build a website? Advertise with search engines?
You will be defeated before you've even begun if not
careful.
If you’ve bought into any of these
informational offers and still feel lost on how to get started
on your work at home venture, you know exactly what I
mean.
So, if you're not internet savvy, or a webmaster,
be sure the program offers the assistance that you need to be
successful!
Perhaps a work at home internet business is
just not your cup of tea. There are lots of other wonderful
ideas for generating a home based income.
Child Care,
crafts, and cleaning services are just to name a few. And,
yes, there are people out there that do love to clean! Just
remember - Do what you love to do to be
successful!
Find something that interests you or adapt
an idea to suit your interests. You'll be meeting your goals
in no time! No matter what it is you love to do, you can find
a way to use it to make extra money.
The best part is
you’ll love doing it if you love the work!
If you
chose to include a work at home business to strengthen you
family’s foundation, I wish you the best of luck.
Remember, if you pursue what you love and are
passionate about, YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL!
About the Author
Cheryl Johnson is a mother of four helping herself and
others become, and remain, debt free. Simple Debt Free
Living is a self-help plan for personal financial
independence including home business
ideas to earn extra
income. |