My last article explored the notion — Do I Want a Home Based Business? This article is the beginning of a part series. You see being a Home Based Business Owner is challenging, exciting, and demanding. Throughout this series, I will talk about my journey to be my best and build my business to provide residual income and financial security for my family. Sharing places I have been — and possibly make your journey easier — IF you decide to embark on your own journey.
What this article explores could be called Step One. Can you find IT?
I have just printed out a Problogger article I have had two weeks. The title of the article is
- Building a Blog Plan for Success
The author’s name is Shawn Williamson. He is a Salt Lake City writer who documents his journey of escaping the rat race at
- DoYouLiveOrSimplyExist.com
His premise is that you have to have a purpose for your blog. Why are you writing a blog? He calls it Basic Questions. He lists the questions the blog writer should ask to determine the reasons for writing. This soul-searching is all done with the purpose of building a plan to write future posts.
I see in his writing not only an answer for me to my question “why do I blog?”. I also see the answer to the question network marketers ask themselves, ask other people in their downline, etc. That question is “What is your “WHY”? WHY do you want to do this business? What drives you? What is your motivation? The answer is they have a business plan, a business model, a pattern to operate their business by. Home Based Business Owners and even Network/Affiliate Marketers HAVE to have a business plan, model or pattern to operate their business by.
If you want to successfully compete in this Global Economy, you MUST have a plan. Do not to make running a Home Based Business complicated.
Make it SIMPLE.! Jeff Ferris is a Business Owner, I know, uses this phrase
“If You Are Not Having FUN — You Are Doing It Wrong”. I must admit that the first time I heard Jeff say this I did not understand, I had mixed emotions.
People that are considering a Home Based Business must change their thinking. That is Step One. Then the planning and asking the question “What is your WHY?” begins the thinking process to consider alternatives and consider “what ifs” and if the thinking process is carried to completion. You will have a home based business or you will have figured out new and varied ways to provide financial security for you and your family.
Step One — Do You See Why “Changed Thinking” Is Necessary?
Your “thinking cap” must be on, the choices are many and maybe confusing at first.
Now plan a trip — This particular trip is called “Your Future”. Did you do Step One? Can you plan your trip?
See you in Part Two
March 21, 2008 at 3:51 am
Brilliant…Why we blog is critical..I am very eager for the part 2!