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While Making Money Can Be a Hobby, It Isn’t a Game

If you work at a demanding full-time job and have a gnarly commute to boot, you probably are not real enthused about spending more time working to start a home business so you can be making money on the side. However this is the very thing you should be doing. It may help to look at it as a hobby – one that you are interested in and find to be a fun project that you look forward to.

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The motivation doesn’t even have to be making money – you can imagine not having that grizzly commute and just working from home someday, kicked back with your feet up, enjoying the journey as much as the thought of the eventual destination. The point is this could be critical someday, so find a reason to love it and pour whatever is left of yourself by the time you get home into it.

We can never know what is around the corner. Whether it is going to be something that helps or something that hinders. Therefore we need to be prepared, and making the most money now, while you still can, is a wise decision. There is a whole laundry list of possible disasters of varying magnitudes that could befall you and your family. If you had some money saved and/or an alternate way to support yourself well-established, landing on your feet would be a lot more sure.

So many things that we may have grown up being accustomed to are either gone or in a precarious state. You just never know what will happen to the company you are depending on to pay you a pension. Their investments can tank just like your own. There is no longer the concept of ‘too big to fall’. We have seen the biggest corporations fall to their knees and it can happen to individuals as well, as a result.

We saw what happened to millions of people in the last ‘recession’ where people lost their money on the stock market and even lost their homes that they worked all their lives to buy. We saw people who were reaching retirement age realize they had insufficient retirement funds and instead of planning a trip to Cabo they find themselves looking for part-time jobs for senior citizens. It’s just tragic. It’s heartbreaking to imagine looking forward all your life every day to something that is only a mirage, built with ‘funny money’.

What is the risk for you to invest your spare time in starting a home business to start making money so that you can feel a little more secure? For one thing, if nothing catastrophic happens where you need the money, you may be pleasantly surprised when you see you actually have enough money saved to buy something you really want but felt you couldn’t afford, like a new car or to take a vacation now while you still can.

The bottom line is it isn’t a game – if you are going to start a home business you need to take it seriously. Your home is a ‘kicked back’ environment, and lots more relaxed than the hostile corporate or retail work environment; however this could mean that you have to even more so be really determined and focused – absolutely committed, so that you will stay motivated to take care of business.

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How to Get What You Need to Succeed in Your Home Business

We do have experience. Just because the Internet or marketing business may be new to us, does not mean total novice “newbie” personally or professionally. It doesn’t mean that we do not have the ability to learn what to do to make it work if there does happen to be areas that we may be ‘challenged’ in.

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Today, we are the sum total of all that we have experienced or learned so far in our lives. We should consider every situation or transaction to be ‘stepping-stones’ – significant pages in our little black book of experience. All experiences can be conducive to your eventual success if we keep an open mind and see things rightly.

We should be aware of the resources that we do have. We should know what assets we have and where they are in our head, so that we can get to them in any situation. If we just take time to think we could figure out what to do. ‘Thinking on your feet’ being an art that comes with experience to the degree that you gain confidence from your accomplishments.

We should never accept feeling that we can’t do something because we don’t measure up in this department or that department!? If we truly want to do something we will learn how – we will search until we find the way. We will try different things and some things work and some don’t at any given time. The things that don’t work are in every way as much of a lesson than learning to do something right.

It’s all character building in how we handle the twists and turns. If we land on our feet it will usually be because we were really engaged in our business and taking it seriously. When a big wave came we rode it out and we had contingency plans. In fact ‘when the world gave us lemons, we made lemonade’.

On the other hand, obstacles may have presented themselves and at the time we were not able to overcome them. If we have made a mistake, it’s ok, because a ‘mistake is not a failure’ necessarily. We can just pick up the pieces and keep them all together; so that we can refer to them in the future should an opportunity arise where we believe and/or know it is a better time to start a home business than it may have been on the last attempt.

Ever ‘Onward and Upward!’

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Why Do You Want to Start a Home Business?

Most people likely would just say they want to start a home business to make money. To what degree depends on the individual circumstances. It could be extra money to pay bills because the regular paycheck is not ‘stretching’ as far as necessary. It could be extra money for some special thing like a vacation or a new car for example. It could be extra money to create some savings or investments for retirement or a ‘safety net’.
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Money could be needed more critically if someone has lost their job and has been unable to find another one, and need to replace their salary. This is the scenario where they would be better off if they had started something part-time that they could capitalize on where ‘spare time’ is all they have right now! It is important to plan for the unexpected just like we should do for earthquakes or hurricanes, etc. Once the emergency hits, it is a little late to prepare.

Although when we are doing well and don’t think we have any problems it is normal to not worry, if somebody reads the news for the past few decades they should realize that ‘only by the grace of God go I’ is a real, true statement. It could happen to anyone. Don’t get complacent because you know you do your best to do a good job, and often ‘go the extra mile’ to exceed expectations; that is no insurance at all. When companies make decisions to eliminate jobs, it is positions that they are looking at, not people. Be prepared. Save your money, start building something on your own to increase your security. Do it now before it is critical.

There are blogs and other social network communications from people who call themselves the ‘used to haves’ – these are people who used to have good jobs and enjoyed a good salary and all the things you can buy; they are people who are educated and skilled. Yet they lost everything through no fault of their own. They lost their jobs and their salary because their company merely wanted to make more money and so they moved their operations ‘overseas’ where they do not have minimum wage laws or taxes. The ‘used to haves’ are now struggling to pay their bills, have no prospects for jobs and are every day becoming more and more depressed and deeper in the hole.

It is therefore surprising that more of them do not arrive at the possibility of starting a business online from home. They do have for the most part education and skills – they must know how to do quite a few things that could be ways to earn money from home. Of course many are willing to make less money or work longer or just to do anything out of desperation. Another option they have is to apply at temporary agencies to get assignments that can just help to tide them over until they find permanent work.

Yes, for the most part wanting to start a business from home is mostly about money – but there is a lot more to it as far as feeling strong and feeling good about yourself because you are doing more than what is expected – because you always feel you can accomplish more, and because you are going to be prepared for the unexpected (and if it never comes you will find something to do with a nice chunk of money you have saved!)

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