Nothing ventured, nothing gained
| Category: Home Based Business - Getting Started | Date: 2003-06-18 |
I wanted to share what I consider to be one of the biggest causes of failure in home-based business.
I need to start out by telling you where Im coming from.
First of all, thought is creative. If something is true in the real world, it had to be conceived in a mind first.
Second, I believe we reap what we sow. Whatever our deepest heartfelt desire is, we will attract into our life.
"Every Seed Gives Birth to Fruit of Its Own Kind.
Furthermore, we exist in a world of effects where we are the cause or FIRST THOUGHT. In order to change out objective reality, we only need to change our attitude. In fact, our attitude is one of the few things we can change.
"If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results." To change the result, we have to first change our attitude or expectation. In addition, we have to care about the result.
To illustrate my point, I want so share an email I received this week.
Hello there,
I have been taken by SO many of these programs. NONE have worked for me. How can I be sure that what you are telling me is true? I REALLY NEED something to work. Does the advertising that you say is free really work? Can I get by with doing only that? I cant even afford the $20 enrollment right now so, if I buy that, I cant do much with advertising. Please be honest with me. Does it work?
Thank you so much for your time.
Name withheld
MY RESPONSE
I dont want to be unkind, but I wish you would re-read your message. It is your attitude that is dooming you to failure.
No, I dont think this business opportunity is right for you, at least not as long as you feel the way you do. No business can fail unless you allow it to fail. My father used to tell me that,
"A Person Who Wont Be Beat - Cant Be Beat."
No business plan has any chance of working unless you decide to make it work. Your attitude, at first glance, is that of someone daring a home business to work for you. Success doesnt happen like that, at least for most of us. Success is built from many smaller successes and failures over one to five years of persistent effort.
IF IT FEELS LIKE WORK, YOURE DOING IT WRONG!
If you would adapt a "Franchise Mentality," you would have a much better chance of success. Do you think you would give up so easily If you invested your life savings, mortgaged your house and invested your kids college funds in your business?
How much return on your investment can you expect for twenty dollars depends on you. You will earn 100% of your investment in your first sale, and you get another 100% with every sale. Success doesnt happen overnight, its a process. To be successful, all you have to do is invest yourself in the process.
BEING THE BEST IN THE BIZ! FRANCHISE MENTALITY!
Are you willing to invest enough time and effort to create your success? I work 100-hour weeks because its what I really enjoy, learning and growing. I get paid in many ways.
I worked full-time for almost two years before I made a dime. I was "taken" many times, but I learned something every time. I lived off my savings because I understood that, if I kept investing my time and energy long enough to grow my business, sooner or later I would succeed. I stoked my faith with desire.
After over 36 months working more than full time in my own Internet-based business things are going pretty well. I earn a better-than-average income. I can live anywhere I choose. I can choose my own hours. In short, I have more security because I am in control of my life.
Was it easy? No, When you go into business for yourself, you are making a break from the security you thought you had. But, in truth, is there is no security. I worked in the printing trade for 30 years, I started out at $3.00 an hour in 1966. In 1996, I was earning well over 100K a year when I left the trade.
I thought I was secure, being at the top of my trade, but just the opposite is true. The higher you get, the longer you fall. I was never more insecure. I worked for a pre-press shop ( Color Separation photography). We had never had a layoff. Microsoft and Boeing were our largest customers. I had just bought a new home. I thought I was pretty secure.
One day, all of the work from Microsoft just stopped coming in. Nobody in our company saw it coming. We gradually went from a really tight team of 38 people to 12 in less than a month.
At the time, I lived in Seattle Washington. I watched for five years as computers did more and more of the work. It reached a point where even people with years of experience and advanced computer skills were laid off. In 1996 in Seattle, 400 of a total of 600 qualified journey-level lithographers were out of work. Any jobs that came up were taken by kids right out of college. They would work for half of what we were making.
Why am I telling you all this? I do have a reason. Its because its happening everywhere in every line of business all over the world. The only real security is within us.
I believed while I watched my life savings dwindle down to nothing. I persisted when that ran out. Almost everyone I knew was telling me how foolish I was to start over at age 47. I could have lost everything.
Why do you think that only 5% of the population is independent? Its because everyone else is looking for something or someone OUTSIDE of themselves to tell them what to do.
The Cookie-Cutter is one the best "SYSTEMS" that I have seen. But no single "SYSTEM" can do the work for you.
Successful people actually make more mistakes. Yet they do better in the long run because they learn from their mistakes. It is VERY difficult to earn an income, even full-time, on the Internet. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, right?
Best Wishes
Bob
About the Author,
bob@smithfam.com
http://www.smithfam.com/
I need to start out by telling you where Im coming from.
First of all, thought is creative. If something is true in the real world, it had to be conceived in a mind first.
Second, I believe we reap what we sow. Whatever our deepest heartfelt desire is, we will attract into our life.
"Every Seed Gives Birth to Fruit of Its Own Kind.
Furthermore, we exist in a world of effects where we are the cause or FIRST THOUGHT. In order to change out objective reality, we only need to change our attitude. In fact, our attitude is one of the few things we can change.
"If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results." To change the result, we have to first change our attitude or expectation. In addition, we have to care about the result.
To illustrate my point, I want so share an email I received this week.
Hello there,
I have been taken by SO many of these programs. NONE have worked for me. How can I be sure that what you are telling me is true? I REALLY NEED something to work. Does the advertising that you say is free really work? Can I get by with doing only that? I cant even afford the $20 enrollment right now so, if I buy that, I cant do much with advertising. Please be honest with me. Does it work?
Thank you so much for your time.
Name withheld
MY RESPONSE
I dont want to be unkind, but I wish you would re-read your message. It is your attitude that is dooming you to failure.
No, I dont think this business opportunity is right for you, at least not as long as you feel the way you do. No business can fail unless you allow it to fail. My father used to tell me that,
"A Person Who Wont Be Beat - Cant Be Beat."
No business plan has any chance of working unless you decide to make it work. Your attitude, at first glance, is that of someone daring a home business to work for you. Success doesnt happen like that, at least for most of us. Success is built from many smaller successes and failures over one to five years of persistent effort.
IF IT FEELS LIKE WORK, YOURE DOING IT WRONG!
If you would adapt a "Franchise Mentality," you would have a much better chance of success. Do you think you would give up so easily If you invested your life savings, mortgaged your house and invested your kids college funds in your business?
How much return on your investment can you expect for twenty dollars depends on you. You will earn 100% of your investment in your first sale, and you get another 100% with every sale. Success doesnt happen overnight, its a process. To be successful, all you have to do is invest yourself in the process.
BEING THE BEST IN THE BIZ! FRANCHISE MENTALITY!
Are you willing to invest enough time and effort to create your success? I work 100-hour weeks because its what I really enjoy, learning and growing. I get paid in many ways.
I worked full-time for almost two years before I made a dime. I was "taken" many times, but I learned something every time. I lived off my savings because I understood that, if I kept investing my time and energy long enough to grow my business, sooner or later I would succeed. I stoked my faith with desire.
After over 36 months working more than full time in my own Internet-based business things are going pretty well. I earn a better-than-average income. I can live anywhere I choose. I can choose my own hours. In short, I have more security because I am in control of my life.
Was it easy? No, When you go into business for yourself, you are making a break from the security you thought you had. But, in truth, is there is no security. I worked in the printing trade for 30 years, I started out at $3.00 an hour in 1966. In 1996, I was earning well over 100K a year when I left the trade.
I thought I was secure, being at the top of my trade, but just the opposite is true. The higher you get, the longer you fall. I was never more insecure. I worked for a pre-press shop ( Color Separation photography). We had never had a layoff. Microsoft and Boeing were our largest customers. I had just bought a new home. I thought I was pretty secure.
One day, all of the work from Microsoft just stopped coming in. Nobody in our company saw it coming. We gradually went from a really tight team of 38 people to 12 in less than a month.
At the time, I lived in Seattle Washington. I watched for five years as computers did more and more of the work. It reached a point where even people with years of experience and advanced computer skills were laid off. In 1996 in Seattle, 400 of a total of 600 qualified journey-level lithographers were out of work. Any jobs that came up were taken by kids right out of college. They would work for half of what we were making.
Why am I telling you all this? I do have a reason. Its because its happening everywhere in every line of business all over the world. The only real security is within us.
I believed while I watched my life savings dwindle down to nothing. I persisted when that ran out. Almost everyone I knew was telling me how foolish I was to start over at age 47. I could have lost everything.
Why do you think that only 5% of the population is independent? Its because everyone else is looking for something or someone OUTSIDE of themselves to tell them what to do.
The Cookie-Cutter is one the best "SYSTEMS" that I have seen. But no single "SYSTEM" can do the work for you.
Successful people actually make more mistakes. Yet they do better in the long run because they learn from their mistakes. It is VERY difficult to earn an income, even full-time, on the Internet. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, right?
Best Wishes
Bob
About the Author,
bob@smithfam.com
http://www.smithfam.com/
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