"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."

When you decide to build a career online, or feel that the time has come to start your own business, there are a few major pitfalls which you should try to avoid. I've outlined the most important ones to give you a head start. This way you will probably save a lot of time in the process.

Make sure that you take it serious, whatever kind of Work at Home idea you might have, promise yourself to fully commit yourself to it. There is no way to succeed with anything on line or off line, if you're not prepared to give it all you've got.

Don't expect anything to happen overnight. For any home business, or traditional business for that matter, to become successful you need to invest time and find the capability to be patient. There will be ups and downs, moments of glory and moments of despair. You have to invest in a learning process to improve your skills and in the end reap the rewards.

Stay focused on your goals, write down a list of things you want to achieve with your work at home idea. Once you have written your list you can break it down in sort of assignments.

Let's say that one of your goals is making $2.000,- a month. Start coming up with steps you need to take to achieve this goal. If you can't work these steps out yourself, there will always be a person in the same field of expertise who you can find to give you advice.

After you have done the above and started your new career, you should track your progress at all times. This way you can pinpoint when things work and when they don't work. Try to focus on the things that don't work first and bend them around. A lot of fine tuning might be needed to get the whole process to run smoothly.

A final word of advice, don't let anybody or anything keep you from your goals. If to you it is worth fighting for, then you should be ashamed not to fight. Not fighting for your own future will end up with a never to be answered question. What if? Me personally, I don't want that question hanging above my head the rest of my life. Take action and enjoy the ride.

Using the above guidelines are intended to help you to keep a clear picture of what it is you actually want to achieve.

Copyright 2006 Harrold Swalve

Harrold Swalve is a published author and successful online entrepreneur. He owns the Home Business Resource Center http://www.pocketmoremoney.com To read more off his articles just visit his blog at http://www.pocketmoremoney.com/blog/blogger.html