"Home Business Blues" and How to Defeat Them!
If you are new to working at Home and growing a business, you will more than likely experience what I like to call "The Home Based Business Blues" resulting from perceived isolation as you adapt to being at home earning a living versus the office setting you were in. The best way that I have found to deal with this dilemma is through networking opportunities either in your area or outside of it. A perfect example, join your local Small Business Association, Chamber of Commerce or a Networking Club. Make plans to attend their meetings this will work for you in two way’s it will help your business and it will give you a reason get away from the house. You could make the acquaintance of the person that will help you expand your business. These types of exposures are always productive even when you think your time was wasted.
When you feel the walls are closing in on you, this is the time to go shopping, not for “Feel Goods” but for home business supplies, go to the grocery store, take some time to study the competition by visiting local businesses, or look up something you need to know at the library. Give yourself a day or two to relax and recharge your battery. Alternately, you can also make a date with your spouse, a friend or a prospective client for lunch. Since you must eat, you are not really taking much more time or altering your schedule much, and it will break up your day and give you a new perspective which will probably improve your work productivity since you should feel refreshed.
Do something that you really enjoy that gets you out of the house and around other people during the week and then do it at least once a week. Consider doing a home sales party for your Home Business a minimum of once once per month if you are involved in sales. It gets you out of the house and helps you meet people and possible networking opportunities as well as lets you work your business while having fun and adding variety to it. And remember, your Home Business should be fun!
The most important thing to remember is why your there, what where the circumstance that made me make the decisions that I made about giving up the corporate rat race and coming home to earn my living. Having the ability to call your own shots, be your own boss, visit with your children when they come home from school, take a moment and say to your spouse, hey I Really Love you and Thank You for supporting me in this decision. The little things are what you were looking for when you made this decision to come home, so do not cheat yourself out of doing those things!
My name is Scott Blake and I have been both up and down the corporate ladder. I have a Beautiful wife and her name is Linda. We have Four children two boys and two girls, and five wonderful Grandchildren that we Love and Adore. We hail from Texas at this time but are quickly making plans to get back to Tennessee. My business past has been very simple, Sales, Marketing and Management. I found my strength in the teaching and training of sales and marketing. The good Lord blessed me with the ability to take what is sometimes a very complex career such as sales and present it to someone in such a way that it becomes a second nature. If my training got them what they wanted in life then I am fulfilled. I guess that relates back to my favorite quote from my favorite mentor Mr. Zig Ziegler. "I will get what I want out of life if I will only help enough other people get what they want"
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