Home Based Business Opportunity - The Top Ten Things To Consider

You are frustrated. You yearn to break out and do something by yourself for yourself. Everyone is starting a home based business (NOT!) and being wildly successful as an internet business entrepreneur. Why not you?

I agree - why can’t it be you as the person who takes a work at home business opportunity and turns it into a successful small business.

You can – you have all the elements within yourself and you can have them in your life. At Pathways Business Associates, we all do more then ‘practice what we preach’, we live what we practice and therefore know what we have to offer is obtainable, practical, and applicable.

My list – our list – of what makes the Top Ten Things to Consider for Starting a Successful Home Business differs from what I’ve noticed written about the topic on other business sites. I invite you to look:

1. Do you have a curiosity about the world around you and the people in it? Can you at least say that you would like to develop that trait? Before we can improve ourselves, we have to be cognizant of our fellow men … and women… and children…and different cultures, approaches, and feelings about life and living.

2. Do you have a sense of self worth? You must be able to realize or to be open to realizing that you have a role to play in life and that factor alone makes you worthy of receiving instruction, knowledge, and training.

3. Do you have a sense of humility? Wait – I know your thinking – How can I have self-worth and have a sense of humility? I am not talking about ego here! I am talking about being humble enough to recognize that you don’t know it all. You must be receptive to new information and ideas that might not mesh with your current views and knowledge. This also increases your worth.

4. Do you have an inner desire, whether it be a small flame or a raging bush fire, to do something that enhances not only your value, but also those that will also be served by your home based business opportunity?

5. If it is, true that ‘everything we learned, we learned in kindergarten’, then can you share? Can you be honestly generous with others and share your training and pass on your education? The true mark of an adult is not by what they have but by what they are willing to give.

6. Do you have a sense of appreciation? Can you honestly appreciate or attempt to appreciate that, although something is new, that it is a gift of great worth regardless of how it is packaged.

7. Do you have common sense? You must be practical enough to assess your current situation, realize that building a work at home business is something that will take time, and the use of assets, either physical such as a computer, or the investment of assets for the modest and practical costs associated with the start up of a home business.

8. Do you have a sense of humor? You must have or feel open to learning that is OK to laugh, let your hair down, and not only see the humor but encourage the humor in your approach to doing business with your fellow human beings.
9. Do you have a sense of empathy? To empathize is to go beyond offering sympathy. It is a deeper sense of feeling that the pain and joy of others is as much yours as your own is.

10. Do you have a sense of courage? Courage is not about being not afraid; it is about being afraid and doing whatever it is you need to do with a sureness that the universe and even your own immediate world supports the movement of forward effort. Even failure can have courage about it, if you get up to try again.

I know these are different then the lists that mention if you have a quiet room to devote to an office, the latest high-speed internet connection, and money to invest in an advertising campaign. All those things can be gotten or bought.

What we look at a PBA is the actual heart that makes a small business opportunity a reality; that heart lies inside of you!

Tim McKee is Senior Partner at Pathways Business Associates, PBA’s mission is to develop leaders, coaches and entrepreneurs through the shared values of passion, courage, service and home business opportunity success.

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