Being Your Own Boss
by Brian Beshore
Published on this site: August 30th, 2005 - See
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As far as being your own boss do you have what it takes? The
best bosses, they say, are tough, only in being your own boss,
you know who you have to be tough on.
Now, I'm not advocating that you stop liking yourself. Far
from it! But we all know that being your own boss requires
that you go that extra mile in many respects. For one thing,
you must guard your time jealously. You must forgo many of
the distractions that society throws our way. You must free
yourself from the routine. It's just the hum-drum side of
life anyway.
There are those, of course, that don't have the motivation
to even set aside the time for regular work at their marketing
plans. On the other hand, I think there are plenty of folks who do work at it.
But, do you know what I think? I think a lot of these people
get into a rut. I think that because I've gotten emails from
these people from my newsletters. They'll be just into surfing traffic exchanges or something and I'll
say why don't you get a website and optimize it or write some
articles or a blog?
They'll say "Oh, I could never do that!"
It was only a few years ago that I didn't even know how to
turn on a PC and now I know my keyword from my mass e-mail
blaster. They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with
the first step.
If your one of those folks who's intimidated by fancy sounding
terms like keyword search or PPC, here's what I want you to
do; many self motivation coaches recommend creating many smaller
goals that lead up to your bigger goals.
Many people have big ambitions and goals, but they lack the
exact steps to take in getting there. Therefore, you have
to start on a smaller scale and start choosing goals that
you know you can achieve. Smaller steps that lead you in the direction you want to go.
Like in learning, for example, I want you to make a resolution
that you will learn one new thing each week. Something to
do with your business, or if you don't have one yet, learn
about the different ways to make money. Learn about the different
ways there are to advertise, and the ways that you can get
people to your business without advertising. Learn what they
are and if they work.
Brian Beshore is a professional copywriter and creator
of the Become Your Own Boss Program; http://www.surfinsafari.net
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