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Success Literature Is Good Inspiration

When you own and operate your own home – based business, you will quickly discover that you are in charge of many things. If your home – based business is a one person operation, than you are actually in charge of everything. This may be quite a departure from whatever your responsibilities were at the jobs that you had before you made the switch to working for yourself and working from home. Depending upon what jobs you had, you may have occasionally been involved in workplace activities that were designed to inspire or motivate you and your coworkers to do … Continue reading →

Home Based Business Idea – Heavy Equipment Operator

This home – based business idea is dedicated to my almost three year old son, Dylan. Earlier this month, we borrowed a Mighty Machines DVD from the library. From the first time he watched it, Dylan was fascinated by the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, and other heavy equipment that were featured in the stories on the DVD. If you love heavy equipment and have the skills and license to operate it, you could start your own excavation or dump truck business. Of course, this is a home – based business which requires an up front investment. Not many people have … Continue reading →

What Are Your Payday Habits?

The habits we develop determine whether we are a success or a failure. The way we handle stress, the things we do to reward ourselves, and our payday routines will all impact our financial stability. If we go shopping when stressed or as a reward and come home with bags of unneeded items, we’re obviously not laying a solid financial foundation. But what about our payday habits? What do you do when you first get your check? First, I hope you verify the amount instead of just assuming you received the same as always. Sometimes deductions are taken without our … Continue reading →

Be Yourself to Be Successful

I’m not a multitasker. While some people might suggest that multitasking is a skill that I would be wise to develop as a home-based professional mom, I’m okay with not multitasking. It is not like I have never tried multitasking before, but every time I try it I feel like one of the things that I am doing does not get done as well as it could if I were not multitasking. It is just not for me. Other home-based professional parents may be excellent multitaskers, getting a couple of things done all at once and doing them all in … Continue reading →

Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

Although I am not much of a list person, today I came across a list that I think is worth mentioning. It is a list of twenty-five common characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, and it originally appeared in “The Ultimate Home Based Business Handbook” by James Stephenson. For those of us that are already running our home businesses, this list is a good self-evaluation tool that we can use to identify areas where we can improve in order to achieve even greater success. For people that are wondering whether a home-based business is right for them, the list is useful as … Continue reading →

Success Habits For Business

Have you ever wondered why some people are successful and others are not? While there is no one magic answer to this question that people have been pondering for ages, there are certain things that successful people do that other people do not. The behaviors of successful people are a popular topic for research, perhaps because researchers know that people are always looking for suggestions as to how they might become more successful. I came across a few observations regarding the habits of successful business people that I think could be useful for home-based professionals. Successful people plan ahead. Many … Continue reading →

Setting Boundaries In Your Home-Based Business

One thing that new home-based professionals often have trouble with is establishing boundaries between home and work. Establishing those boundaries now will not only make you feel better about your choice to become a home-based professional, it will help you to establish the good work habits that you need in order to be successful. A good first step is to set a work schedule that is realistic. To determine what a realistic work schedule is for you, take out a calendar and look at a typical week. A calendar that has a lot of space to write on each day … Continue reading →

Are Bad Habits Hurting Your Home Business?

Ah, those bad habits! While we may not realize what some of our not-so-savory habits are, we may very well have some self-awareness around our other bad habits. Sometimes bad habits aren’t much more than an annoyance, BUT, what should you do when your bad habits are actually hurting your home business? The first step, of course, is a little self-evaluation regarding what exactly your bad habits might be–we’ve talked about procrastination here, but what about other habits like smoking, online gambling, poor time management, or gossiping? One could argue that these habits don’t seem to have a direct connection … Continue reading →

Happy New Year! Time to create habits!

OK, how many happy new year blogs are you going to read? Maybe a ton. Maybe just one. But I hope you read this one! Why? Because, this week can be so important in your business! My goal this week is to make a ton of calls. Normally I aim for just 2 – 5 a day, but I have so much information to get out! Right now, being January, is just a good excuse to call. I addressed this in my last blog. So besides make a ton of calls, what else do I plan to do? Create good … Continue reading →

The Spending Diet Game Plan

Lose the extra weight from your budget by putting your spending habits on a diet. At the end of the month, you’ll have extra money that you can use to pay off some outstanding debt, and your budget will be slim and trim. Keep it up for six months or more, and your budget will be healthier than it has ever been. When you diet to lose weight, you must burn more calories than you take in if you want to be successful. A spending diet is similar, although in this case, you must take in more money than you … Continue reading →