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When Starting a Home Based Business...Get Ready for Mood
Swings!
by Kirk Bannerman
Published on this site: April 28th, 2006 - See
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Back a few years ago, when I was starting my home based business,
no one ever told me about the emotional highs and lows that
I would experience in the early stages of getting my business
up and running.
Starting a home business can put you on an emotional roller
coaster that has you experiencing high highs and low lows.
In addition to the immediate luxuries of being your own boss,
setting your own working hours, and avoiding a stressful commute,
there are also significant things to consider on the other
side of the ledger...starting and building a home business
is not just an automatic trip to the promised land.
The need for self discipline is very important...since you
don't have a boss and a place to report for work, it is now
up to you to schedule your time and perform productive tasks
on your own.
Set actual work hours. Decide what hours you are going to
work each day and stick to it as much as possible. This is
one of the beautiful things about a home based business...you
get to make this choice based upon your own personal situation
for that particular day.
Make "to do" lists for each day. Then, as you complete
the items, check them off the list. You can transfer anything
you don't get done on a particular day to the next days list
and make some notation so that you can see that it is a carryover
from the previous day...however, remain constantly aware of
the procrastination trap which leads you to keep putting things
off until tomorrow. Hopefully, this will help you to stay
organized and on task and allow you to make some real progress
in developing your home based business.
In the early going, one of the most difficult things about
developing a new home based business is dealing with the emotional
roller coaster that can result from the highs (successes)
and lows (temporary setbacks) you are almost certain to experience. Once you have done the research and decided
on a particular home based business opportunity, you really
need to focus on persistence and realize that any real business
will not just automatically become successful in days or weeks...you
should be prepared to give it your best effort for at least
6 to 12 months in order to begin to build a solid income base.
Highs and lows were something that I began to notice when
I first started a home based business. I have many years of
top level management experience in "traditional"
corporations and have experienced lots of business cycles
(corporate "ups and downs"), but the natural "ups
and downs" that occur in a home business (particularly
in the early stages) can be emotionally brutal if you don't
prepare yourself in advance for the fact that it is a basic
law of nature...it will be a rocky road until you have spent
enough time and effort to build your business to a level that
sort of smoothes out the peaks and valleys.
The impact of the highs and lows you will probably experience
in developing your home based business is amplified by the
fact that you are now in business on your own. You are the
boss and get to make all the decisions, but you are also on
your own in dealing with the frustrations that will occur
along the way while you are developing your business.
Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business
and coaches others seeking to start their own home based business.
Visit his website at
Legitimate Home Based Business for more details.
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