Are you enjoying your whining sessions?
Are you ready to quit the whiner's club and join the leader's club?
How long have you been in �business� for yourself? Are you happy with where you are today? Are you earning the income you sought out to earn?
What needs to happen in your life in order for you to really start taking your business seriously? How long do you want to live in the poor house?
This is what I mean:
Have you joined more than five businesses in the past 2 years? Do you find that you are easily seduced into various money making opportunities? Perhaps you think the �magic� is over there with that team or pay plan?
Although I think it�s very important to join an opportunity that has strong training and support, your success really boils down to you.
We are ultimately responsible for our success or failures.
How many times have we heard the saying, �if it�s to be, it�s up to me�?
If you find that you are not getting the results you�re after, what are you doing about it?
*Are you getting the training you need to market your business effectively?
*Are you putting into practice what you�re learning from the trainings?
*Are you attending to your business by really �working� it?
*Are you following up with your prospects?
*Are you prospecting and generating leads?
*Are you advertising and promoting your business?
*Are you fine tuning your messages, website and business building �system�?
*Are you learning how to prospect?
You see so many people fail at their home based businesses. They whine and complain like they have bad luck or something. They blame their upline, the company, the team, their dog.,,,,
The truth of the matter is that when you look deeply at that person�s situation, they really didn�t do anything to �grow� their business.
You don�t get anything in this life without a little sweat (maybe a lot of sweat)!
Let�s think about building muscle for example.
Fat is the culprit. We want a lean, trim and well defined muscular body that shows off the beautiful muscle. We want to fit into certain clothing and look our best right?
What does it take to achieve that firm, well proportioned and toned body?
Well for starters, we need to get rid of all the junk in our lives: ice cream, cookies, chips, sodas, beer, donuts etc� since these feed the fat and create fat.
But it�s not just the obvious junk. At some point in your body building efforts, you will have to �fine tune� your diet, and that will mean limiting the pastas, cheese, breads, pizzas, starches and the like. You�ll have to incorporate more fibrous vegetables and some fruit.
You�ll have to learn about which foods create a �fat burning� environment in your body and how to eat your �good� carbs to maximize the fat loss process.
You�ll have to make water your best friend since it�s a cleansing agent.
Aside from revamping your eating habits, you�ll have to make a commitment to weight training and cardio. You�ll have to learn how to do it effectively so that you�re not wasting your time and burning yourself out.
You�ll also have to learn to rest since your muscles grow while you�re resting.
Give it a little time and soon enough, you�ll have the body you�re after.
Now, let�s relate this to our home based businesses.
If you want to taste the sweetness of success, you�ll have to WORK for it. Don�t buy into the idea that you�ll make money while you�re sleeping because your �system� will do all the work for you. Obviously, in order for that �system� to work, you had to �work it� first (you had to promote your business using the system).
So, just like in our example above for putting on muscle, procrastination and excuse making are the culprits.
If our businesses are failing, we have to look deep within ourselves and ask ourselves, am I truly doing those things that contribute to building my business?
Am I complaining and whining about not making money?
Did I put out some ads today? Did I expose my business to at least 5 new people today? Am I learning how to write ad copy?
If I want to promote my business online, am I learning how to generate my leads online by using various methods for online promotion.
In other words, if you want the sweetness of success for your home business, there is no getting around it, you�ll have to work for it!
Building a home based business just as building a strong, muscular, firm and well defined body is a matter of personal discipline and personal responsibility.
Are we willing to DO those things that create the six figure income? Are we willing to DO those things that create a well defined and toned body? What sacrifices are we willing to make?
Just as the person who really wants the muscle has to give up the �goodies�, the person after a six figure home based business has to give up the couch and the excuses.
Can you honestly say you�ve done everything to grow your business and it still didn�t work? I�m not talking about working aimlessly. I mean, have you applied the right training to your business? Have you really learned how to market effectively?
If you feel you have, then have you been shooting yourself on the foot by a negative attitude?
Just as a plant grows with the right ingredients, so a business will grow with the right ingredients. It�s kind of like gravity. It�s almost failure proof.
So the first thing we need to do is quit the whiner�s club and join the leader's club. Surround yourself with other successful marketers. Get training from those who are obviously successful. Most important of all, DO what you learn! Put the training into practice.
Just as the body builder needs to be patient and consistent with the process, so home based business builders need to do the same. We can�t expect to be successful if we work our businesses sporadically.
Lydia De Leon is a work at home, homeschooling mom. She has been a network marketer for the past 6 years and currently operates a successful network marketing business.
She has an online marketing newsletter where she shares tips on building a successful home based business.
To learn more about her and how she builds her business online, visit her website at: CeoMomByDesign.com CeoMomByDesign.com