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Losing Sight of Your Vision

Perhaps you have been at this home business endeavor for a while–you started out with great focus and idealism and now you are just holding it together and wrestling with all the details on a daily basis. Have you lost sight of your vision? Have you forgotten what you wanted to accomplish when you started your home business? Are you having a hard time staying motivated since you’ve lost the “zest” or spark that makes you want to get up and get to work in the morning? First of all, there is no reason to get down on yourself–it happens … Continue reading →

When Inspiration and Motivation Changes

Many of us start our business for a specific reason–we feel inspired and motivated by someone or something and after getting our courage up we embark on our won. Over time, however, the reason we started our business may not be enough–our lives change and our inspirations might change too. This can make it challenging to stay motivated or might take our home businesses in a new direction. Change is inevitable and we certainly cannot expect things to stay the same forever. Some people might start their home business when their children are very young or they are new parents … Continue reading →

Sinking Your Teeth In

Surely you have heard that saying “something to seek my teeth into” as it refers to getting so excited or into a project or situation that you really dig in and commit to working on it. For many of us, our home businesses become like this. However, we might also be reluctant to really dig in because we are afraid of failure, of getting too attached, or worried that we might lose perspective. I cannot help but think that “sinking our teeth into” our home business is a good thing in the short and long term. Sure, I know that … Continue reading →

How Much Time do You Spend Hunting for Misplaced Items?

As I was cleaning out my work space yesterday, I found a file I had misplaced about half-way through the year. While anymore, most of the hunting I have to do for misplaced items is on my computer—I file things away in places that make sense one day but not on another, I still cannot help but wonder how much time is wasted in my home business by my having to hunt for misplaced items. Now, I think of myself as a fairly organized person as many of you may have picked up, but I definitely have my weaknesses. Inconsistent … Continue reading →

The Fresh 2008 Calendar

This morning, I unwrapped my 12-month, poster-sized wall calendar and put it up over my desk—there they were—the twelve months of 2008 stretched out ahead of me like a blank slate. But then, I took my little black Sharpie and started to write in deadlines, scheduled business trips and other work details and I realized that I’ve already started on the coming year—even if the first day of 2008 hasn’t even arrived yet! For me, until I actually “see” the dates and weeks start to stack up, the coming year is still just an idea—a clean slate with no mistakes … Continue reading →

Planning for Changes…or Status Quo?

I have written these past few weeks about ways to wrap up this calendar year in our businesses and get ready for the next one. Budgeting and planning are part of the package, as well as getting ready to pay taxes and organizing record-keeping for the end of the year. I thought it might be work mentioning, however, that not every home business needs to plan for big changes in the upcoming twelve months. It is a perfectly legitimate planning technique to plan to keep to a status quo for a period of time… Having a long term plan for … Continue reading →

Are You Taking Things Way Too Seriously?

I know this is serious business, this whole home-business thing. For many of us, we have a lot at stake on our businesses and it is incredibly important that we succeed and that we learn how to be “serious” business people. BUT, are we in danger of taking ourselves and our businesses too seriously? Are we losing perspective or becoming so tense that we are not having any fun at things? What can be done if we feel we are getting far too rigid and uptight? I know that I am taking things in my business way too seriously when … Continue reading →