It’s easy to become consumed with running a home-based business and to forget there’s more to life than selling, marketing, customer service and answering e-mail. Answer these five simple questions and inject some fun and balance back into your life.
Starting and running a home business is serious stuff.
After all, the first five years are the most critical. You have to come up with a sound business idea, make sure there’s a demand for your product or service, conduct research, create a plan, build structures and processes around your activities, sell, market, deliver your product or service – and manage the paperwork besides.
If you’re doing all of this while maintaining full-time employment, things can really get heavy and through time either burn you out or just take the joy out of what was so fresh and invigorating in the beginning.
Many a home business owner has faced the challenges of overwhelm, fatigue and stress by trying to be and do everything alone. The joys of life, family, adventure and other dreams fall into the shadows, masked by the belief that you must work hard, every waking minute in order to achieve business success.
The only result you create by this kind of thinking is burnout and disappointment, believing that you are either incapable of making a home business work, or that it is a pipe dream – and neither of these is true.
As you work on your home business, keep the following five questions posted at your work area. Ponder them, answer them, then take action and live each of them.
1. Where do you want to go that you haven’t gone?
2. What do you want to see that you haven’t seen?
3. What do you want to experience that you haven’t experienced?
4. What do you want to do that you haven’t done?
5. What do you want to try that you haven’t tried?
Don’t put your life on hold as you build your home business. Live it!
The first thought that may come to mind is, how is that possible? I have too much to do and too little time.
This is the time to shift to the entrepreneurial mindset. There is no such thing as a self-made millionaire. Everyone who has created business success has had help.
Instead of trying to do everything alone, identify your strengths and the highest pay-off activities you perform. Then, identify the activities that drain your energy, take up time and take your eye off the big picture for your business.
Focus strictly on what you do best that produces the highest return on investment and outsource, delegate, automate and barter the rest.
Next, create experiences for yourself based on the five previous questions.
This could be a simple as sampling different ethnic restaurants with friends once a month, going on an overnight road trip with a loved one, or going to open mic night at a local club and belting out your favorite tune.
Creating new experiences and living life will give you more zest, optimism and a clearer mind in your approach to business. Stimulation, group conversations and a variety of surroundings will contribute to your personal and professional growth.
You have the ability to build a home business that will allow you to live full out and enjoy all the freedoms and rich experiences life offers and one of the best ways to make your dream come true is to start living that life today.
2007 © Laurie Hayes - The HBB Source
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