Changing the Rules

by Kori Rodley Irons | More from this Blogger

05 Nov 2007 04:05 PM

There are business rules, right? There is a correct way to do things, definite techniques and protocol that work, there are ways we should be going about this home business endeavor. Or are there? What is so wrong with shaking things up and changing the rules-especially if it helps us grow and energize our home-based businesses?

Okay, there are definitely "best practices" for most industries and for business as a whole. There are also laws and things we HAVE to do-like pay taxes and apply for any pertinent licenses and such. But do we always have to follow the "experts" and all those periodicals, articles, web sites and books? Isn't there something to be said for breaking the rules and finding a new way to do business?

I find it interesting that many of us have a strong streak of "risk taker" in us in the first place-after all, we are willing to become entrepreneurs and start our own small businesses, aren't we? But then, many of us go through a period when we are trying to do everything "by the book." We forget that if we had done everything based on other people's rules and expectations, we might have never started our own home businesses in the first place! We CAN change the rules and find better and more personal ways of doing things. We CAN strip away the things that don't work for us-even if they are considered necessary by the most famous of business gurus. While it can be helpful to take on advice and try other people's success stories on for size (who wants to ALWAYS be re-inventing the wheel, after all?), at some point, we have to find our own way and create rules and strategy that really work for us.

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