It always amazes me how many people spend weeks, months and even YEARS working at their home based businesses before making their very first dollar.
And it's never because they aren't smart enough, or motivated enough to make a profit, rather - they are almost universally well equipped in both of these categories.
The problem, in my experience is what I refer to as the "perilous pursuit of perfection"or the practice of trying to learn absolutely everything - every strategy, technique, tip, attack and approach possible before applying what you have learned to make some real money.
Is learning a bad thing?Of course not!But is trying to master and seize every new opportunity that comes down the pike going to get you closer to your goal of financial independence any faster?It most assuredly is not either.
As a matter of fact, in my opinion, it is going to actually hold you back.
You've got to pick a path, and stick with it.
It really is that simple.
It's funny because in religious circles, you often times see the same problem as the home business marketplace.
People are always seeking the next best thing - the next higher form of spirituality, self - help or more advanced approaches to finding god.
Yet, there is the old parable of the three wise old religious men, each traveling up the mountain on a separate road in their quest for god.
They pass each other numerous times on the way up, and eventually, when they all get to the top, they realize there are many paths to get to the same place.
The key is simply to pick one and follow it up.
But if you pick 12 - and start and stop each an eighth of amile in, you are never even going to make it up the first ravine.
My advice to everyone starting a home based business is simple.
Find and model your efforts after people who have gone before you and have done it successfully.
Make a commitment to a certain way of success, and as long as your due diligence was done properly, if you emulate those who are working it well, you too will share in the great rewards.
If it isn't working and you find the mountain rife with rocks and obstacles - find another way up.
But not until you've stayed the course long enough to know for sure.
And if you need to pick another road, be doubly sure that this one will indeed get you where you want to go.
The only recipe for failure that I know for sure, and that re-appears throughout the fabric of most home business failures, is the one that tries all of the ingredients available when making dinner!You wouldn't do that every night when you sit down to eat, nor should you do it when starting and planning a business.
Stay with it and keep your eyes on the prize, and like so many others who are enjoying tremendous success from home, so to will you, I promise!