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Is Developing A Profitable Home Business Really that Difficult when you consider the alternatives?

Is it difficult when you must produce a report on a Sunday afternoon, and consequently, you cannot attend your son’s football game?

Is it difficult hearing the work phone ring on Christmas morning, and tragically, you cannot see the excitement on your daughter’s face as she feverishly tears into another present?

Is it difficult to know the rust bucket you call a car is eating you alive in maintenance, but you cannot afford a new one?

Is it difficult to go to your annual job performance review, and even though you have worked hard for yet another year, you come away empty handed, or with very little financial reward to show for your efforts?

Is it difficult to know that you shop by "price sticker" rather than whether the garment looks good on you?

Is it difficult to know that you are in an unsuitable house simply because your budget won’t allow a more suitable one?

Is it difficult to know that you married to a wonderful person, promised them the world, and for the next 30 years you look at balancing the budget, and figuring out what sacrifices must be made?

Is it difficult reciting, "If we get this, we cannot have that?"

Is it difficult always lowering your dreams to meet your means?

Is it difficult knowing that you have spent or will spend 40 years of your life working for someone else, only to realize that you will be retiring on 1/3 the income of what you already cannot live on today?

Is it difficult when your children move out, and you cannot visit them because traveling costs too much?

Is it difficult to know that the fish are biting this week, and you cannot drop what you are doing and take your Dad fishing?

Is it difficult watching the spark in your partner’s eyes fade because both of you realize the dream house you have been wanting is just a dream because someone else is controlling your finances?

Is it difficult waking up one morning and realizing that your children, the most precious thing imaginable, no longer need bottles, diapers, have tea parties, eat things found under the sofa, are shorter than the baseball bat they are trying to swing, but are grown and starting their own families, and you missed all of that because you agreed to be locked in an office for twenty years by a boss who watched his children grow up?

Is it difficult dropping your one year old at the nursery because you have to be at work by 9am to stand by the Xerox machine, or handle irate phone calls, and realize someone else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son say "dada" to the playground teacher?

Is it difficult to know that you have diligently worked only to be given an early retirement that you can’t afford to take?

I will tell you what is difficult...

It is very difficult realizing it is too late, and that time frittered away on someone else’s dreams can never be retrieved. It slips through our fingers one second at a time.

What are you doing with YOUR TIME?

We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastinating, and skirting important things rather than facing the issues. Too often we allow others who do not pay our bills, who do not share our dreams, to direct our future.

I believe the majority of people want to sing, but die with the music still inside.

Is it time to face the music and shoulder some responsibility?

You cannot have that time back. You have chosen your direction, and if you have not spent your time wisely, too bad. Other people have benefited greatly from your efforts. Were you given the opportunity to change your situation only to elevate the trivial to a higher priority than yourself.

Is starting a profitable business really difficult?

Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting product or idea?

Is it so difficult to understand that if you work this marketing idea for a couple of years, you might not have to endure so many nasty options?

Would you be willing to work really hard for a year or two so you could put your family in the home of their dreams?

Would you work really hard for a year or two so you could send your children to college chosen by excellence rather than one chosen by price? The same criteria you used for clothes shopping.

Would you turn off the idiot box, the soaps, the talk shows, sporting events or CSI Crime Scene for a year so you could take dream vacations several times a year?

Would you apply yourself for a year or two so you would have the freedom of being able to roll over, yank the covers over your head and wake at the crack of noon because you wanted to?

Would you work really hard for a couple of years to mould a lifestyle of your choosing so your family could live a lifestyle of their dreams, rather than trying to live how someone else forces you to live?

We really think we are important in our jobs. The company we work for cannot survive without us. We are the cog that keeps things moving.

Everything would grind to a halt without our presence. Think again. Corporations are not structured like that.

A corporation does not rely on people to remain viable. A corporation needs many properly arranged little robotic squares, functioning in a preset order to survive.

After many years as a manager in the corporate environment, here is an excellent visualization of your importance:

Find a bucket and fill it about 3/4 full of warm water. Make a fist and push your left arm in the bucket up to your elbow. Now, quickly remove your arm. The resulting hole is your impact on that corporation.

Sobering, isn’t it?

Can you identify the words "next time"?

How many "next times" will you have?

What will it take to get you off dead center?

Will it be the knowledge that people are physically deteriorating when you have a product that will help them but are afraid of someone thinking you are taking advantage of that person and are just out for the money?

Gosh, I hope not.

Will it be the knowledge that people are agonizing through bankruptcy, realizing they only needed a couple more hundred dollars per month, not $50,000 per month, but you procrastinated once again?

I hope not.

Realize the awesome power you have in your hands with a home business. The business you have chosen has the ability to change lives.

IT cannot do anything. But YOU can change lives with IT.

YOU are the one with the life changing ability. What are you waiting for?

What will it take?

You will pay consequences for your actions. What will your actions be? Which consequences do you choose to pay?

My input: You can choose to have very positive, beneficial consequenses for yourself and others.