Working at Home-How Do You See It?
Copyright 2005 Donnie Baird
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their
hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." Lady
Nancy Astor
Fear of the unknown and doubting ones ability to achieve success
have stopped many good people from achieving their goals.
If we could see the future, we all would be rich. Our lives
would be almost mistake free and we would have very few
problems. But, alas, we can't see what will happen down the
road. It's this fear of the unknown that has held many people
back in many areas of their lives, especially in the area of
starting their own business, particularly a work at home
business. I realize there are many scams out there but there are
also many legitimate ones that you can make money with and the
negative mindset has stopped many people from even trying.
Many people see themselves as failing before they even start.
They see themselves as not having the time, money, or know-how
to make their own business work. They see what they "think"
should or will happen. They are also influenced by others who
tell them they can't do it. The basis of what they see is a
mindset - one that says,"Others can succeed in this but I
can't." So you see, people don't start their own work at home
businesses not because they don't have the time, money, or
know-how. They don't start because they have a negative mindset.
They simply believe that it won't work for them. They feel they
are cursed to failure, cursed to live week to week, cursed to
always work for somebody else, cursed to working 40 or more
hours a week, for 40 years, and hope they will have enough money
to survive, much less do anything else.
"You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal
you can set for yourself; there are no limits." Brian Tracy
So, how do you change this mindset? Well, it isn't easy. All of
our lives, we have been told that, "You can't do that" by
friends and family. We have been programmed to think negatively.
Reprogram your mind by flushing out the negative thoughts and
replacing them with positive ones. I am not talking about some
magical or mystical formula here. Although volumes of books have
been written on the subject, here a couple of simple tips.
First, try to surround yourself with positive people and avoid,
as best as you can, the negative folks. Begin to read books
written by motivational speakers such as Napoleon Hill, Jim
Rohn, Dale Carnegie, and others that deal with thinking the
right way and sit in on seminars and teleconferences that deal
with changing the way you think. There are even work at home
opportunities whose sole basis is showing people how to be
successful by changing the way they think.
It won't happen overnight but eventually you start to see
yourself thinking in a different light. The "I can't" will
become "I can." You will stop doubting yourself. You will begin
to see that you can do it. You will step out and do things you
thought you would never do. In closing, let me share a quote
with you from Napoleon Hill.
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can
achieve."
Think about it!