Online Business Owners To Stay Motivated

How do home-based business owners keep their motivation high? Getting motivated and inspired is important for any successful businesses (both online and offline). One way is to have a vision for their business.A vision is how you see yourself. It is what you truly expect for yourself. Your vision is what determines your success. It is created by what people say about you, the results you experienced in your life, and what you say and think about yourself.

You need to specify your goals. This is your "why" for starting your online business. You have to be specific in your goal. For example, my goal is to earm a monthly income of $50000 in half a year in my online business opportunities. State the reasons that you need to achieve your goal. Is it because of the need for a second income or a desire to be rich, or simply being dissatisfied with their current day-job and wanting to tell the boss that his service is not needed anymore (Hey boss, I don't need your service anymore)? Or is it because of the flexibility in your time management - more time at home with your children and do the things that you have always wanted to do. Personally, I start my internet business so that I can provide for my family and not going in a restaurant and take a look at the price list first, or saying no to my wife's asking "Dear, can we go to the Mediterranean this school holidays?" Also, I do not want to miss seeing my children grow up by not trading my life away for a job. I want to be a mentor to my children so they will never live a life of poverty and mediocrity.

So, write a short statement setting out your vision for your online business and read it it often. Inject excitement about this and breathe life into this written vision statement. You can place this in your bedroom or dashboard of your car and read it daily. Every time you read your goal, it makes an imprint on your subconscious mind and creates your vision. Put an affirmation statement for each goal as it will influence your subconscious mind to make you succeed.

Next, invest yourself in a personal development course. This is necessary as personal stagnation is the cause of decay and failure in most people's lives. There is a quote from Jim Rohn - "Formal education will make you a living, but self education will make you a fortune". Success University provides an excellent personal development program by means of online and audio training. They provide monthly achievement courses which enable you to get re-inspired. They give training on success principles and goal settings which give you the motivation you will need to achieve success in your online business. Many high goal achievers are members of Success University. Spend some time in attending their conference calls, a proven way of maintaining interest and motivation in your internet business. What these conference calls do is to cultivate a positive attitude in you as success is in the mind.This method has been practiced in traditional networking companies, where like-minded people who are positive and goal-oriented, mingle with one another sharing their experiences and knowledge. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and motivate yourself!

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Entrepreneurialism - The Job Description

Wanted: Individual willing to take a simple idea and use it to create a viable business for both personal satisfaction and long-term fulfillment.

Qualified candidate must have the ability to catch a vision and run with it without the oversight of an advisory board or supervisor.

Qualified candidate may have specific training in this idea, but it is not mandatory, however, this same candidate must be flexible and willing to adapt to a rugged on-the-job training program (manual not provided).

This job requires extremely long hours and a huge learning curve. Applicant should expect both early and late hours along with extended times when they must simply think through problem solving skills.

This position does not initially allow for candidate to fill a supervisory role nor would the candidate be required to report to a division manager or CEO.

Successful candidate should be able to withstand a certain amount of solitude and be able to make decisions as needed without undo indecisiveness. Inability to do so could prove detrimental to the future of this new company.

This position should be filled by someone willing to ride a bike blindfolded. While this is not an actual requirement of the job it is a necessary visual for the candidate to understand working conditions from time to time.

Our current business plan is inadequate to explain how candidate can successfully move from dream conception to business opening, but candidate will, nonetheless, be required to move the business forward.

Benefits are not applicable to this position in the traditional sense. Any benefits derived from taking this job will be the sole responsibility of the successful candidate.

Start up capital will also be the responsibility of the job applicant. In fact all risk will be the sole responsibility of the man or woman selected for this position.

If you feel you may be the right candidate for this position please respond at your earliest convenience. Please post your letter to the Entrepreneurial Initiative.

Does this sound like the kind of job you would willingly apply for? Probably not. Especially when the idea for job creation is someone else's. We would not take a risk for someone else and we would not put forth the effort required for a business start up from conception onward without some personally vested interest in the outcome.

This description is, however, very close to what every entrepreneur faces when they have an idea that just won't leave them alone. An incredible amount of time is poured into developing the idea. Every spare dollar is used in making the dream come to life without promise or guarantee.

Why will we do for ourselves what we would never do for another? Maybe because this is the heart and soul of entrepreneurialism. We may laugh at the classified ad above, but this is exactly what is required of each entrepreneur on the way to dream fulfillment.

Maybe YOU have the right stuff - maybe you should apply for the job. I hear there is an opening.

The Antidote for Unsuccessful New Year's Resolutions

Many people spend some time at the end of the year working on the New Year. These people typically fall into two groups: those who use the end of the year as a way to be introspective and look back on the past year, and those who spend time looking forward; setting goals and planning the coming year.

Actually, there is a much larger third group - the group that intends to do one or the other of these things but ends up doing neither. Why this third group exists is the topic for another article, but reading this article can provide a path to help you if find yourself stuck in inactivity each December!

Each of the first two groups is doing something positive and helpful, but both are missing something. They are each doing half of the two step process for accelerating your success. Here are those two steps:

- Reflect - Project

Either of these steps can be useful, however when you place both of them together, you create a powerful synergy. Let's look at each individually.

Reflection

Reflection is key to capitalizing on your past experiences. Have you ever met someone who seems to make the same mistake repeatedly? This person isn't taking time to reflect on what worked (and what didn't) in their past experiences. Reflection allows us to learn and grow from our past experiences. You can see why people like to do this at the end of the year - it gives them time to take stock of their year and look for the things they learned.

Doing this reflection successfully though is about more than collecting lessons; it is also about growing from those lessons. Effective reflection leads to an outcome - an intention for applying those lessons in the future, which leads to the second step.

Projection

Projection is a process of looking forward. When people take time at the end of the year to look ahead and set some goals they are projecting. Projection is planning; thinking about the future, deciding what you want and then expecting success. When we plan from a perspective of expected success, we plan more thoroughly. And when we plan more thoroughly, we improve our ability to execute on those plans.

As you can see this is a more engaging process than just creating a New Year's Resolution. The good news is that this more integrated approach gives you a much better chance of making your "resolutions" real.

How To Do It

Now that you know the steps, you may be looking for more guidance on how to do them. While books could be written on specific details and tools, you'd likely rather be reflecting and projecting than reading an in-depth treatise on approaches. So let me make it simple.

Ask yourself questions.

Ask yourself questions to reflect on the past year, on the lessons you learned and more.

Ask yourself questions to think about the coming year, what you want to achieve and how you can use the lessons of the past to reach those plans more rapidly.

Asking questions and answering them is one of the most powerful ways to help you reach any new goal or objective.

Only at the End of the Year?

I'm writing this in mid-December and this is definitely a time of year when this two-step approach is helpful. But you can use this approach any time you wish, or any time you are looking for a kick start on success.

Maybe . . .

- Once a quarter - At your birthday - At the start (or end) of a new job - At the start (or end) of a big project

You can reflect and project anytime you want - in fact the more you think in terms of learning from your past and applying it to your future goals and plans, the more you accelerate your progress!

Like many other things in life, the more time you put into these processes the more valuable they will be, and yet simply working on a daily basis with this dual focus of reflection and projection can be helpful as well.