Millions begin creating a home based business with no desire for a job as their means for living free. They pour themselves into (hopefully) a good company and set the view toward building a large organization. It’s a pure form of free-enterprize and without the burden of employees.
The rewards are plenty- freedom, flexibility, residual income, no boss- and it goes on from there. It makes one wonder. If it’s so appealing, why do most fail to make enough progress to make it worthwhile?
As someone who has worked (and played) with a home-office base for over a decade, I’m going to point out three things, that, if mastered, or at least managed, will get your successful home-based business results graph going in a strong direction. If this is what you’re up to, please don’t skim over these, but rather, take a good hard look at which one(s) have been tripping you up- or are most likely to get you off the track you set out on to begin with. There are other keys to growing a powerful business but, here are three that are often overlooked.
1) Your daily written plan = your new boss. Yes, you can do anything you want, and don’t need to use a day-planner if you don’t want such a thing. The problem with that is if you have no daily checklist of things that are central to the game, you probably have little notion of the kinds of daily actions that you are making intentional. CEO’s don’t get there by accident and you are the CEO of Y-O-U. It’s a lot like throwing the bowling ball down the lane in a complete fog, and all you know is whether you heard the ball hit the gutter, or some pins smash. It’s tough to know what progress is being made if you haven’t put your actions in existence by putting the pen to them and looking to see what got done- or not.
2) Focus on the actions that are likely to produce the highest long term results. It’s easy to get lost in the minor, deluding yourself into thinking worthwhile effort is being done. Don’t let yourself be misguided. An ant on a figure eight track may walk for a week, but gets nowhere. Stand back from your plan for enough time to see what which activities have or will do that with your progress. If you use this tip in conjunction with #1, and have the courage to do it, look at that schedule by days end, and do a check on which items would most likely cause 80% of your results. Take a look at how much time was spent that way, and how much with things of lesser importance?
3) Create an accountability structure. This one can make or break you. Some need lots, others need less and you’ll need to be honest. Has your day gone by, only to see that important things were getting lost in the mix? The essential thing is to learn from it. Perhaps you can tie in your main tasks with a daily reward of some kind. Maybe you can declare to someone in your family that TV is off limits to you unless your top priority is done. Be creative. Find something you feel will work for you. Friends or someone in your group can work well.
OK, it’s confession time for me. (And I hope it gives you an example). I put off writing this article for days and let other things take over. At this moment I’m kneeling on two couch pillows as I write. Why, you ask? This afternoon, I wrote in my day-book, that I couldn’t sit in my office chair until I finished this article.
A little crazy? Maybe. It’s more important to have something work that what it looks like. Now, to construct a not-so-ancient Chinese proverb,- and I’m not Chinese. “Better to lose comfort and go forward, than sit too long and grow stuck”.” I’m referring to being stuck in a business going nowhere. Promise yourself you’ll do what it takes. I’m going to get up in a minute and reclaim my throne. Does this pertain to you? What are you willing to do to develop a successful home based business?
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