My Mindset

April 14, 2008 in attitude, mindset
Tags: build, business, home based business, income, mindset, theberryvan, wealth

My last article was titled “Home Base Business Owner Mindset – Part One”
At the end of the article, I said there would be a Part Two. This is Part Two.

My style of writing tries to be conversational. Even though you not physically present to carry on the other side of the conversation. I try to anticipate questions. In most cases I use what I have experienced hence my title — My Mindset. It will be benefit you to read Home Base Business Owner Mindset – Part One before you read this article. From your own experience, when you take a trip. The trip consists of a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The journey to build wealth is very similar to planning a trip.

When you build to wealth you look to the Internet for answers. I did a search about a year ago. I was looking for another stream of income. I had a 9-to-5 job. I was looking for something else. So I went to the Internet and started my search. There was a multitude of seemingly good opportunities. Each one promised I would be rich overnight or at least by next week. Are you familiar with that promise?

There was no roadmap to riches. There was no roadmap period. One of things I hopefully conveyed in “Part One” is that the things you learned as a 9-to-5 employee usually do not work for you, if you consider being a Home Based Business Owner. That is Reason One why there are so many failures.

When you decide to become a business owner you will be confronted with many things and by many people. [See my article "Do I Want A Home Based Business"] Some of things, probably attitudes, will be similar to “things” encountered in your 9-to-5 job. But other things you encounter maybe, for the first time. You may not know if these “new” things are “good” or “bad”?

In Part One, I asked What is your WHY?. You have to personalize and ask What is MY Why?. The importance of this question lies in 2 areas. (1) Why is this question important to ask? (2) Why should I ask this question instead of asking a different question?
(1) Answering What is MY Why? starts your thinking processes to change. You are looking for a Changed Thinking. The way you consider information using your 9-to-5 job thinking is I go to work -I am at work – I come home from work — You are thinking about your paycheck at the end of week and how it is already spent on things you want and need? Am I right?

(2) If you do not want to answer What is MY Why?. When times get hard, will you quit the business and complain? Because you did not answer the “right” question before you started your chosen business. Reason One — No roadmap and 9-to-5 ‘thinking’; Reason Two — Not prepared. In Part One, I asked “Can you plan your trip?”

When you answer the question What is MY Why? You will have the beginnings of a personalized guide for you. You are your TRIP PLANNER. Write down on paper the answers to What is MY Why? KEEP the paper. It will help you with your trip planning. You will know what your chosen business is and know what you will do when the “hard times” come. [your commitment wanes and you want to revert to "pre-business" routines] Loss of Changed Thinking or not changed enough.

For you people who exercise at a gym, Do you lift weights by yourself or with the assistance of a ’spotter’? In Wisdom — “Are TWO heads better than ONE?
You should also seek out someone else who is “farther down” on the same path or road you want to “travel”. It should be a person who will assist you not help you. Some people use the term ‘Mentor’.

In a 9-to-5 job, the only thing you owe YOUR BOSS is a day’s work. When you are a Business Owner YOU are THE BOSS. What do you owe yourself?

Hopefully, I have explained to you a lot of things to be considered when you want to be a Home Based Business Owner.

I am very interested in your comments. Because then you and me have a “common ground” to begin sharing mindsets.

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