A Major Temptation When Developing A Home-Based Business

From what I have seen and experienced, to quit is the greatest 
temptation during the first year of working at a home-based 
business. If smoking was like working at a home-based business, 
the occurrence of lung cancer would be dramatically reduced. 

It is a known fact that a majority of the people that undertake 
a work at home business do not achieve real success. There are 
several reasons for this, but one of the primary reasons is that 
these people get frustrated and do not allow themselves enough 
time to succeed. 

In the early going, one of the most difficult things about 
developing a new home based business is dealing with the emotional 
roller coaster that can result from the highs (successes) and lows 
(temporary setbacks) you are almost certain to experience. Once 
you have done the research and decided on a particular home based 
business opportunity, you really need to focus on persistence and 
realize that any real business will not just automatically become 
successful in a matter of days or weeks. You should be prepared to 
give it your best sustained effort for at least 6 to 12 months in 
order to begin to build a solid business base and begin to see 
some good income. 

Highs and lows were something that I began to notice when I first 
started a home based business. I have many years of top level 
management experience in "traditional" corporations and have 
experienced lots of business cycles (corporate "ups and downs"), 
but the natural "ups and downs" that occur in a home business 
(particularly in the early stages) can be brutal from an 
emotional standpoint if you don't prepare yourself in advance for 
the fact that it is a basic law of nature...it will be a rocky 
road until you have spent enough time and effort to build your 
business to a level that sort of smoothes out the peaks and 
valleys. 

The impact of the highs and lows you will probably experience in 
developing your home based business is amplified by the fact that 
you are now in business on your own. You are the boss and get to 
make all the decisions, but you are also on your own in dealing 
with the frustrations that will occur along the way while you are 
developing your business. 

When working at home a person can, at times, experience a feeling 
of isolation which is probably brought on by the lack of 
interaction of a work force environment. 

There can also be periods of doubt in the early going...gee, did 
I pick a viable business opportunity?...am I doing the right 
things to develop my business?...when will I start making a 
profit?, and so on. 

You are most likely going to experience the "two steps forward 
and one step backward" syndrome and the ever-looming temptation 
to become discouraged. However, keep in mind that as long 
as you have more steps going forward than backward, you will 
eventually get ahead! Simple, but often overlooked. 

Relatively minor setbacks can seem huge in the early stages of 
developing a work at home business and can really contribute to 
some noticeable "mood swings". For example, if you are just 
starting out and you have four customers/clients and you happen 
to lose one...that's a 25% drop! However, if you fast-forward in 
time to the point where you have hundreds of customers/clients 
and you lose one...that's just a mere fraction of 1%! Exactly 
the same event, just at a different point in time. 

Hang in there and just keep on keepin' on. If you have chosen a 
viable home business opportunity (one that has been around for 
awhile and in which some other people are having success) you 
will achieve success, but it takes time and there will be ups and 
downs along the way. Remember the old saying..."it takes a long 
time to become an overnight success"