Home business is not for sissies.  It's not for anyone who gives up easily.  This is true whether you're trying to make a modest living, a million dollars, or just a little bit extra to supplement the family income.

There are barriers to finding the right opportunity for you. There are barriers to finding enough customers. There is competition trying to crowd out every ad you ever posted. Sometimes Google, or Yahoo, or Bing will tell you that your ads don't meet their guidelines, even if everything you can see about the ad says that your ads do. Sometimes, clients will promise to pay you and then fail to do so.  Or they'll scam you.  Or they'll run off into the night. Or they'll put the money in escrow and let you stare at it for three months past the date you expected it, wondering why they don't just hit the release button already.  

It's so close, yet so far away. Clients will sometimes call you when you're off, even after setting office hours.  You have to decide whether to take the call cheerfully and risk having it happen again or be firm and risk losing the client. Your child will unplug the phone and you'll fail to find out for five days.

When you finally get your messages you'll realize that you've probably just lost an $1000 sale.  You never thought to check your voicemail cause you were home the whole time and the phone never rang. If you don't have persistence, any of these things could send you running back to your nice, safe little cubicle.  There's nothing wrong with that of course--if that's what you want. If it's not what you want you have to cultivate persistence, and a thick skin, any way and every way that you can.  

You have to find your way over, under, around, or through those barriers so that you can keep going.  You have to have faith in the good things: The big check that arrives tomorrow... Curling up with your child to read a book on a snow day... The satisfaction in doing a job well and gaining more responsibility than you might have been able to achieve in your office...

Throwing away your resume or CV... You have to have faith that the next big sale will come even if you missed the last one.  You have to figure that the project that just blew up will teach you something that will help you do the next project even better.  The employee or subcontractor who left in a snit is making room for the next really stellar employee to come along.  

Nothing is ever wasted.  

It's a journey, and not a destination.

Back from Whats your Persistence Level to Based Best Business Home Opportunity

Back to Home of Home Business