The next lesson won’t be until next Wednesday, but I really feel this needs to be said and soon about the course.<\/p>\n
You probably won’t follow through on this.\u00a0 Chances are good you’ll quit.\u00a0 Either you’ll decide that the insecurity is too much to take, you’ll look yourself in the face and realize that you need a boss to tell you what to do and when to do it, or you’ll get discouraged and disgusted and think I was “lucky” or am blowing smoke about this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I doubt that more than one in a couple of hundred have the requisite character traits and skills to make self-employment a genuinely viable option.<\/p>\n
Thing is, it’s not necessarily about self-discipline.\u00a0\u00a0 Certainly not in my<\/em> case, as I’m hardly a self-disciplined person.\u00a0 It wasn’t self-discipline, it was desperation<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0I had a secure job with the best boss I’ve ever had, fantastic benefits and cool people to work with.\u00a0 And the idea of spending the rest of my life in an office, even in what was genuinely a great working environment, made me gag.\u00a0\u00a0 I was willing to crash and burn hard<\/em> if only I could say that I made a real, genuine, honest effort to be my own boss.\u00a0 If you’re desperate and there’s Just No Other Way to bring in money, you might very well succeed.\u00a0 “Root hog, or die!” has spelled the success of more than one entrepreneur!\u00a0 But, I wouldn’t risk a nickel that anyone reading this will actually do<\/em> it.<\/p>\n This is not something you can do because you’re looking for the easy way to do something.\u00a0 If you are out of a job and you’re not combing the want ads for work, pounding the pavement and knocking on doors and willing to turn your hand to anything honest, if you turn down jobs that aren’t “good enough”, skip it.\u00a0 Stop reading.\u00a0 This isn’t going to do you a bit of good.\u00a0 You have to have a passion<\/em> to work – either for the idea, or because you don’t want your kids to go hungry.\u00a0 If you’re thinking, “Oh it might be nice if…”\u00a0 or\u00a0 “I could pick up a little money doing…” you’re not coming from the place that will really work.\u00a0 You need all the focus of “I WANT” that you did when you were two.\u00a0 You have to be on fire<\/em> to make this work.\u00a0 Though, sometimes that fire can be banked coals…<\/p>\n To give you an idea of what I mean, I’ll give you a little story.<\/p>\n My family goes to Virginia Beach every summer.\u00a0 We’ve been doing it since I was a small child.\u00a0 So, this was our week at the beach.\u00a0 I was sitting on the balcony about sunrise, with the bright orange disc beginning to push over the edge of the water, lighting a glistening golden path between myself and the horizon.\u00a0 It was a clear morning with a gentle, rhythmic surf, and weight of the damp, bone-soothing heat you get on Southern beaches in August.\u00a0 I had a cup of coffee at my elbow, laptop in my lap, writing an email to a client while my family slept behind the sliding glass door.<\/p>\n My father came out on the balcony with his<\/em> laptop and a cup of coffee[1]<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 He opened up the machine, looked over at me, nodded to my computer and grinned, commenting, “That’s been a lifelong dream, hasn’t it?”<\/p>\n Yes, it was something I’d wanted and worked for from childhood.\u00a0 That’s passion<\/em>.<\/p>\n Intro to Work From Home Course<\/a><\/p>\n
[1]<\/a> Yep, I’m second generation work\u00a0 from home.\u00a0 Part of my unsuitability for offices was probably a result of specific training!<\/p>\n
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