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Why Thinking Backwards Helps Home Based Business Success

More and more people these days are looking for home based business success – and success generally includes making enough money. Money buys a greater sense of freedom and security. But how do you do it?

In his 1960 classic self-improvement book Psycho-Cybernetics, Dr Maxwell Maltz wrote about the BE – DO – GET three-step principle for achieving personal goals. In order to get the results you want, you need to do what it takes. In order to do what it takes you need to be the sort of person who thinks about taking appropriate actions.

So it’s a question of thinking backwards. If you want the end result, you need to work on becoming the sort of person who takes the right actions. ‘Begin with end in mind’, was the way Stephen Covey put it in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

You can apply exactly the same principle to home based business success. If you want to achieve a certain money goal, it’s critical to know what action steps are needed. But it’s not possible to take these steps unless your thinking is in alignment with those steps.

For example, you can find a host of adverts promising inexpensive ways to ‘get rich quick for little or no effort’. These ideas most often don’t work. The initial thinking is wrong because it is based on jumping to the end result with no foundation work.

Then you get the other end of the spectrum where people say that any suggestion of making money from a home business has to be a scam. That can’t be right either. It defies logic. It’s a bit like saying that no-one can ever achieve any goal.

Building a successful small business is a creative act that needs the right vision. It also requires focus, hard work and persistence. These are the qualities that home entrepreneurs need to develop. Into that mix you can add ‘pick a good small business idea’, and improve your knowledge on general business principles such as marketing and time management.

It isn’t easy but it is possible – and thinking backwards is a great help.

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How Do I Start A Home Based Business?

There are probably thousands of home businesses you could choose, but how do you choose the right one? Well this article should help, you see I have already done all the investigations into finding a successful home business for you, so take note as I reveal the different types, which are scams? and whether there is a business model out there for YOU!So What Suits YOU? During your research you should really ask yourself what type of business would suit your lifestyle? I mean, lets say that you have children still at school, that could certainly rule out Forex or Commodity trading, as you must be able to monitor your trading screen pretty much ALL the time, AND THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT SUITABLE OR CONGUSIVE to the school run is it? So start by writing down EXACTLY what it is you want from your home business, what you enjoy and how much time you can commit to it, especially in the early days.Make sure that your business of choice is in an area which is of interest to you, working with something that you are passionate about will help you to discipline yourself to do whatever is necessary to succeed, and will help you soldier on when the inevitable roadblocks appear (and they WILL).Make sure the home based business you are thinking of starting is a legitimate one. Many MLM’s for example, in my opinion are bordering on the illegal, so do your due diligence, check out the owners, find out what their motives are, talk to the users of the systems and find out what the success ratio is.There are a lots of reviews posted around the Internet these days on just about everything you could think of, so utilise this resource and gather as much info as you can BEFORE making your decision.How Do I Start A Home Based Business?What about Support? One of the fastest ways to shorten the home business learning curve is to have access to, and the support of, a mentor. There are many home business systems out there which will promise you support and mentoring, but will dramatically fall short on this very important aspect, so another positive to look for is to ensure that any home business you are looking at starting gives you all of the support and training you will need to succeed, but more importantly provides you with the proof that they do, BEFORE you commit.What about cost? Even though running a home based business can be considerably cheaper to start than a traditional bricks and mortar business, there will still be costs, and anyone who tells you otherwise is talking nonsense.For example, you will need a Website and hosting, and you will probably need a marketing budget, as the fastest way for you to get results and start making money, will be to do some paid advertising. But this will really be a decision only you can make based on how quickly you need to see a return on your investment. There are many FREE marketing strategies you can use as well, but these tend to be more long-term, and WILL NOT produce big results quickly. I recommend implementing both free and paid marketing personally.How Do I Start A Home Based Business?Finally, you simply MUST Create a business plan. You know the old adage “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”, and this is very true. I have seen many businesses fail simply because they did not have a strategy to work with and therefore could not measure how they were doing. So set-up a plan for your home based business and follow through with it. Again when deciding what business system to invest in, check out the advice you are given on this subject and use this as part of your criteria when making your decision. Any legitimate home based business system SHOULD have within their support program, ALL the advice you would need to help you to create a good business plan to suit YOU.I would like to leave you now with a final piece of advice. Follow your plan through and take consistent daily action. Many people have the right idea and start out with the right intent, but fail to take the necessary actions. And remember that a business, whether it’s a home based business or not cannot succeed overnight.Nothing about running your own home based business will be easy, but if you take my advice and stick to it YOU WILL improve your chances of success a hundredfold.All the best.
-Jon

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Home Based Businesses – Find the Right Idea and Make Good Money For Yourself

Are you still struggling to find the right idea for your home based business? Do you constantly surf the net looking for something you can translate into your own business? Do you find yourself backing off from making any move through indecision? Let me help you to work through the fog around home based businesses, find the right idea and make good money for yourself.First of all, you have to make an important decision. If you seriously want to find the right homebased business that will bring in a good income, you have to wean yourself from depending on other people to pay you a “wage”. Tell yourself things like:I will not stuff envelopes
I will not be paid a measly sum to type other (lazy) people’s work
I will not fill in forms online
I will not process other people’s emails on my computer
I will not fill in pointless surveys online
I will not pay a fee to be able to type medical transcriptsWhy?Because I want to learn to generate my own income with my home based business that will benefit my family and my future! Cutting yourself free from other people’s payroll is quite possibly one of the hardest things you can do. Like me, you have probably been taught from infancy to depend on it. What are you told in school? “Do well in your exams” “Get the best grade you can” “Go to the best university you can – get the best training you can – find the best job you can – earn the best wage you can!” Good advice, if you want to remain an employee.I am not against education. Education is good. Education is the best, education is knowledge. Unfortunately, after years of hard work, your education may end up placing you in boring jobs building good fortunes for somebody else.If you want to find out the very best home based business for you, look within. What interests you so much that you would do it for free – with no salary and no payment whatsoever? What do you love doing so much that you willingly stay up late into the night, because you can’t stop? That would be called your passion – and that would be the ideal thing to base your home business idea on.Running with your passion in your own business means that you get to spend time researching all the creative ways you can market and produce your product. Discover what competition already exists in your niche market. Who will benefit from what you have to offer? How can you get your product to them in an original manner? Find a way to fill any exposed gaps you discover.Don’t discount your passion. Chances are it’s what you were made to do – and you can probably do it exceptionally well. Work through the fog around home based businesses, find the right idea and make good money for yourself. If you go now to http://www.earnyourwealth.co.uk I can show you how to get in-depth training in marketing strategies, techniques and proven methods to get you started in your own home based business today.