Why know the Why is Important

It can’t be said enough that the key to success in a home based business is all about what your mindset is like. It really is the truth. If you believe you’re going to be successful and you have a positive attitude there isn’t anything you can’t do.

I don’t know where you are in your business as you read this article. You may be new to a home based business, you may have been involved in your business for years, you might not even be in a business at all or just starting to think about working from home.

Wherever you are in the process if you don’t know your “why” STOP! Don’t do anything else for your business, don’t make another call, don’t send another email. Because if you don’t know your “why” I can almost promise you you’re not going to be successful in your business.

That’s a pretty bold statement, but it’s true. You will never win if you don’t know what you’re fighting for.

What do I mean when I say you’re “why”? I mean, WHY are you doing the business? WHY do you want to make money from home? WHY do you want the amazing lifestyle that a home based business offers you? WHY?

Now that you know what your why is let me tell you what it’s NOT. Your why is never money. You might think you are motivated by money but the truth is nobody really is. What you are motivated by is what the money can DO for you and what it can do for your family.

When you’re thinking about your why you’ll want to think about things that make you emotional. Your husband or wife, your kids, your parents, your childhood dreams… things that really hit you hard in the gut.

Now I can’t tell you exactly what your why is for you personally but let me give you some examples of what it is for a lot of people…

Being able to take care of your parents like they took care of you…

Being able to give your children a better like than you had…

Letting your spouse quit his or her job…

Living in the house of your dreams…
Giving more money to your church or a favorite charity….

Waking up every morning and doing exactly what YOU want to do everyday…

Saving for your kid’s college….

Those are just a few examples but I hope it gave you a few good ideas of what a “why” really is.

Here is another hint… you don’t have to have just one. You can have 2, 5, 10 even 20 “whys” as long as they are personal to you and help motivate you, you can have as many as you can think of.

Now that you’ve got your “why” you need to mediate on it every single day, don’t let it slip out of your mind. When you come home from a long day of work and you don’t feel like working on your business simply take a look at your “why” and if it’s strong enough it will push you to work a little harder even when you don’t want to.

There really is NOTHING that will motivate someone to success in this industry more than their “why”. Make sure you have one and make sure it’s a GREAT one.

Choose success

Success is not just something that happens to people it is a choice. Everyone in the world who is successful at one point or another made a very distinct choice to become that way. And here is something not many people are willing to say but…. If you’re NOT successful that’s your choice too.

When I first heard that last part I got really defensive and angry. How could someone tell me my lack of success was my fault?! I was trying the best I could!

Then I started thinking about it and you know what, it’s true. Success is a choice and so is not having success. I don’t know about you… but I’m read to choose success!

Everything in life is really about choices you’ve made. Flunked out of school? You obviously chose not to study. Make $100,000 a year as a doctor? You made a choice too… a choice to succeed in medical school.

It’s not just about money either. Are you overweight? That’s a choice. Have rock hard abs? That’s a choice too.

Do you see what I’m saying now? Everything in life is a choice, and when it comes to your home based business you will either choose to succeed or choose to fail.

When you choose to succeed it means you work on your business even when you don’t feel like it. You develop your skills and go a little out of your comfort zone if you need to. You sacrifice going out to dinner with friends to work on your business or you spend a few dollars on an ebook that will help you develop your skills.

You might not know it at the time but putting off calling leads on the phone one night is choosing to fail. I’m sure you don’t want to fail, after all why would you have signed up in the first place if that was the case. However, that is the choice you’ve made.

This is not to say that you can’t ever hang out with your friends or that if you’ve done things in the past to hurt your business you can’t turn it around because you can. What I am saying however is if you really want to succeed working from home you’d better choose it now or risk a lifetime of lost dreams.

I hope that you have taken this article the way I meant it when I wrote it, to help you! I don’t want to discourage you to bring you down I want to give you everything you need to choose success. I’ve chosen it! What about you?

Is it possible to grow my business with Article Marketing

If you are a home based business owner you’re probably always looking for new ways to market your business right?

 

            One of the most popular methods for marketing a home based business is through article marketing. If you are not familiar with the concept of article marketing, oh wait, you’re reading one right now… hmm so I guess you DO know what it is!

 

            Article marketing works for several different reasons. First of all it allows you to address certain issues that a prospect might be having trouble with. Like “is this one of those pyramid things” or “Can I really make money with Network Marketing?”

 

            All you have to do is write an article about that particular issue and it’s out there for all of cyber space to find and read.

 

            The other reason article marketing works is it makes you an instant expert on the issue.  There is a certain amount of credibility that goes along with being the author of an article even if it’s just on the internet and not a newspaper or a magazine.

 

            For these two reasons home business owners have been using article marketing to grow their business for years! Oh and just in case you are not yet convinced that it really is a great way to market check this out… it’s free!

 

            That might just be the best part about article marketing online. It doesn’t cost you a thing! While traditional methods of marketing in print say in magazine or newspaper ads can cost a ton online article marketing is absolutely free.

 

            Even if you aren’t a professional writer you can have lots and lots of success with article marketing. Of course if you don’t have the time or the will to write articles, and yes they can be fairly time consuming, there are plenty of PLR or private label rights article websites that will write your articles for you for a small fee. There really is no reason for any home business owner not to be doing this!

 

            Another great thing about article marketing is that it will get you in the search engines like yahoo, google or MSN pretty quickly and that means that when people are online looking for a home based business opportunity they can find your article and therefore find you!

 

            Article marketing is simply a great way to let even more people know about your home based business, and that means more money and success for you!