Afraid to Look? How Your Home Business Fears Could Ruin Your Life
Working from home can be great, but why should you look into doing it? You have a job. Although it doesn’t provide the kind of life you dream about living, you get by. But are you happy?
Just think: All the long hours. Your boss being a pain the rear. And that coworker who drives you crazy.
And then there’s the pay. It limits all your financial decisions. “No, I can’t afford it now–no to the Cadillac Escalade I want, no to my brow lift, not to my daughter’s braces.” In short, “No, no, no!”
Plus, there’s no guarantee that you’ll always have this blessed job either. So why don’t you look for something better?
“Well, it pays the bills.”
So basically it’s safe. Why? Because it’s familiar, but that’s no promise that it will be there for you tomorrow. Nothing in life is secure. Change will occur, and it may not be according to your desire.
“What if I loose everything I now have?” You ask. “I can’t deal with failure. I just can’t.”
So you don’t.
But what will you do when one day you DO find yourself out of work? How will you make ends meet then? You’ll have no other means of support, and THAT is dangerous.
What you should do for a minute is to step outside your emotions. Look at your situation objectively–as if you were analyzing your best friend’s situation and advising him.
You’d probably tell yourself something like, “How will you find something better if you don’t look?” Or “Maybe you’d be pretty good at that sort of thing. Remember Trish from Dayton? Well, she’s woodworking now, professional furniture–full time. You used to be pretty good with your hands too–remember that rocking chair you made Grandma for her 60th birthday?…” You would egg yourself into researching your interests rather than dismissing them.
Keep in mind that not everything your mind tells you is right but that neither is everything it tells you wrong either. You just need to learn to tell the difference. And the best way to help you do that is to separate yourself from your feelings.
Go ahead. Give yourself permission to look into home business opportunities. And who knows? You may just find something better.
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