Why Bother With a Home Based Business?
For a lot of people, a
home based business is their dream. With commute times getting longer everyday, life high speed pace of the workplace, people are getting stressed more and more at their jobs. After you factor in daycare if you have children, the cost of living going up and the salaries not changing or even going down in lots of cases, people are looking into staying home more these days. But the problem with that solution is usually the cost of living being too high and most families cannot afford to lose that second income.
The solution to this problem is a home based business. You get to avoid the rush hour traffic in the morning and back home in the afternoon, saving you between two to four hours everyday. That commute being saved, you also save the fuel normally used to go to work or the bus fees. You can be home to put your kids on the bus yourself and save the daycare fees. And this still leaves your late morning and early afternoon open if your home business requires you to see clients.
But a lot of people are not successful in their business, because they lack that commitment that comes with it. When you own a home based business, or have a home based job, you need to be self motivated. The advantage of being at home is not having a boss on your back all day telling you what to do. The disadvantage of being home is not having a boss on your back all day telling you what to do. Too many are taking this business as early retirement they can't afford. They take this time to sleep in later and later everyday, do some chores they had problems fitting in before, watch new shows on the television they never would have watched before and the list goes on.
Until you work on enough residual income to replace your previous revenues, you need have the motivation to work at home as if it was you had that boss pushing you everyday and get it all done until you passed that level of comfort financially.
With your home based business, you need to still get up in the morning and get ready for work. It may be in your office next to your bedroom, but you need to treat it like work and be ready for anything. Getting up at noon, have brunch, do some laundry, some yard work and then realizing the day has gone and nothing is done will not replace the salary you are no longer getting from your job. But if you get up close to the same time you used to before, get ready to go to your office in the next room, you are prepared to start working right away after breakfast or as soon as the kids have gone to school for those with children. You saved that commute, so you don't lose on your work even though you spent more time with your family already in the day.
Remember to take some breaks, as you would if you were working away from home. If you don't do this, the lack of motivation will set in again. You will find that if you commit to your business, your productivity level will be much better than at a job. There are no distractions at home from other employees, so you concentrate more on your task at hand. Therefore, you can afford to take a little longer for lunch without sacrificing your business. And at the end of the day, when the kids and/or spouse get home, you don't feel like you wasted your day on chores. You also don't feel drained like you normally are when commuting home after a long day of work. So being more relaxed, it is easier to put in an hour of chores at the end of the day and not feel like it is that extra in your day pushing you over the edge.
Personally, I have done more at home lately then ever before with a job in the way. But I am still productive in my office as I am growing my business and pushing that comfort level higher to bring my wife home as well. I see my kids every morning, one thing that never happened before, except weekends. Working at home is well worth it and doesn't demand the high cost of having a job. But to do so, you need to have the conviction of success by being self motivated. You know what you need to do to keep yourself at the level you were with a job. And if you Just keep yourself an hour a day to learn more about your business and how to make it better, you will have an ever growing business that will set you free and permit you to reduce the hours you put in a day in the office, even if it is in the next room to your bedroom.
Stephane Therrien is newly retired from his full time job and is goal is now to help others achieve that same Freedom that most people stuck in the rat race can only dream of. If you go to my website:
http://www.ks-interactive.info, you will find different ways of contacting me at the bottom.
