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?
Think about it: Long hours. Your boss breathing down your neck. That coworker you just can’t stand.
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?
“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.
“But what if I fail?” You ask. “What if I loose everything I have? I can’t accept failure–I 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.
So for a minute now separate yourself from your emotions. See your situation as it really is–not the way you “feel” it to be–as if you were analyzing your friend’s dilemma and informing him what to do.
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.
But remember that you shouldn’t listen to all the voices in your head. Some are good; others bad. You need to tell the difference, and the way you do that is to separate yourself from your feelings.
So give yourself permission to take the plunge and look into some home business opportunities. Who knows? You may just find something you like better.