Business From the Home

Is “Business From the Home” the “New Normal” for 9 to 5?

More than ever, both the employed and the unemployed are seriously considering conducting business from the home. Many employees are asking permission to remain working from home permanently. https://www.forbes.com/work-from-home-jobs-from-remote/

So, what has changed? Why the sudden desire to keep working from home?

As we work with so many business owners and C-level executives in helping them to write their books, our most recent book interviews have revealed something interesting…

Business owners are surprised by the desire of their employees to hold business from the home.

“I thought my staff would be chomping at the bit to come back to the office,” mentioned one CEO client, baffled by the numerous requests to keep working from home. Many other clients mentioned similar sentiments.

Conducting business from the home has been the best-kept secret for a very long time. Much of the delight that people picture in their initial dream state of how they see their lives unfolding for the future is often only possible with a home-based business.

There are plenty of responsibilities with a home business, but many are less drastic than a brick-and-mortar business. For one thing, there are less overhead costs just to conduct business.

And unless you’ve been in business before, you likely don’t know that the utility companies charge MUCH higher fees for the same exact services for businesses! That’s right. Your telephone, Internet… you name it… it’s all a lot more expensive when you have a business space.

Significant Savings Working from the Home

You are already paying to have your lights on at home, Internet service, phone and so forth, so conducting business from home cuts out significant business expenses.

Even for the mid-size companies and large corporations, having a percentage of their employees operating from the home significantly lowers their overhead costs. Many pay their employees for travel and so forth. But even simply being able to turn off a few lights, turn down the thermostat, etc. for larger working spaces can mean significant savings—and higher profits—for companies.

Also, if starting out, your startup investment for a home-based business is a lot lower, and there’s no commuting and other liabilities of the “normal” brick and mortar business.

Employer Concerns

Without a doubt, employers are very worried about their home-based staff not being productive, and this is a valid concern. Smart owners and executives are requiring Productivity Course Training before they will even consider approving their employees’ requests to continue to work from home.

A great idea for employees is to include in their request to their employers proof that they have taken a reputable Work From Home Productivity Course.

That so few people have taken notice of how Apple, Microsoft and so many other mega-giant business successes, ALL started from their garages is beyond me.

Hidden Opportunities Become Obvious

The perfect storm of a pandemic and increasingly user-friendly technologies have given hundreds of millions of people the opportunity to consider a business from the home or; at least stay-at-home employment.

Authors and entrepreneurs (one and the same) are a resilient type of human being. Something like a down economy or a world-wide pandemic may knock us off balance, but never do we cave.

And why not? To work from home offers so many different benefits. As I note below in the “Business From Home Ideas” section, the options mentioned for what to do as a from-home worker or business owner are just a few of what great ideas you could imagine for yourself. Consider them triggers for more great ideas.

One of the remarkable aspects of the pandemic has been that suddenly millions of people who had never worked from home before are now doing exactly that – some for over three months now! And according to pollsters, they LOVE it. Many are publicly stating that they don’t want to go back to commuting and punching the ole clock at the company offices. Even more remarkable: employers are, in large part, agreeing that this is a good thing. Here’s why:

• As I alluded to above, commuting stinks, and the American worker has disliked it for decades. A business from the home saves on fuel costs, automobile wear and tear and, most importantly, most attractively, TIME.
• Fewer employees in a traditional office means companies can lease or buy smaller offices, saving them money. For larger corporations with multiple locations, such savings can multiply by thousands.
• Contrary to the old thinking, working from home is more efficient than working at the traditional office. Study after study shows that a worker in their home office can be more productive with just a small amount of training specifically for the home. I’ll address the issues of productivity and efficiency, from the worker / entrepreneur’s perspective, later in this article.
• There are countless other benefits of a business from the home and of a work-from-home office for the employee / freelancer, for the employer / contractor, and for the author / entrepreneur.

BEING YOUR OWN BOSS

Being your own boss means different things to different people. Generally, the phrase is associated with attaining a certain level of freedom. Even the word “boss” sounds a bit antiquated, though it yet retains a clear connotation that the person using it values humility, order, and good work ethic.

On the other side of that coin, one might imagine the fearsome bosses of the American Industrial Revolution. For most workers in the factories of yesteryear, the dream of being released from under the iron fist of the “boss man” was fleeting – even foolish. Never mind becoming one’s own boss some day!

Those days are thankfully long past, and today anyone at all can dream of being their own boss, and know that – through smart work, diligence and discipline – they can make that dream come true. 

Work From Home Tips

The dynamics and overall feel of working from home are usually quite different than working in a traditional office. It’s bound to be more casual, and while that can put you in a better state of mind for greater clarity and creativity, there are also some pitfalls to be wary of. 

Let’s look at some work from home tips and tricks that can help ensure each day is enjoyable and productive:

1. Create a Work Area

You might notice a theme as we go through these: the are “best practices” meant to help keep you focused and highly productive. While working from home can be a great option, it does NOT mean “anything goes.” It’s not a free-for-all, and having a dedicated work space is one of the most important things you can do in order to make the most of your time at work.

The good news is that you can customize and design it to fit your work processes and aesthetics. Focus and fun are not mutually exclusive.

2. Dress (semi) Professionally

This is the part where it’s suggested that you don’t work in your pajamas, even though you’re not planning to see anyone that day. “Dressing the part” really works. That’s not to say you must work in a business suit all day if you run a carpentry business, but do wear whatever signals your brain that you’re serious about getting your work done, according to the type of work you do.

3. Customize (and take) Your Breaks

Here’s an area of work from home tips where you’ll probably have more discretion. Even as an employee, your employer will generally understand that there’s no need for rigid scheduling of breaks for people working from home. So do whatever works for you. Maybe that’s 30 minutes for lunch plus two, 15-minute coffee breaks. Maybe you need an hour to pick up items for dinner that night. Breaks will usually be up to you, so make the most of that freedom.

The video above is an excerpt from our Work From Home Productivity course. To see the full video, go to:  entrepreneursuccesstraining.com

BUSINESS FROM HOME IDEAS

Before listing the top online jobs and great small business from home ideas, let’s notice that the top online businesses and jobs fall into one of three broad categories:

• Employment
• Gig economy
• Passive income

You can find a company to work for (sending your work in remotely); you can sell your skills to online clients on a freelance basis; or you can create an online business where you sell products or services, sometimes even making money while you’re not actively running the business. That’s the “passive” part of passive income.

Job / work roles can fit into any or all of these categories. As a programmer, for example, you can:

• create apps to sell directly to users (passive income)
• provide code for clients that are working on apps (gig economy)
• work remotely for a software company as a full-time employee (employment)

Here are some ideas for working from home, just to give you a starting point for what you might find in your research online for good, work-from-home careers.

Our Work from Home Productivity course has some amazing recommendations for work-from-home ideas – for making good money. Here are a just a few:

1. WRITER

This is the broad category of employment that includes everything from creative writing to authorship of books in your field of expertise. Through decades of experience, Writer Services has discovered the sweet-spot in combining authorship and entrepreneurship.

2. EDITOR

Editing work can be abundant and well-paid. The need for quality content online engenders a healthy market for writers, which then creates demand for good editors to “clean up” articles and make the content fit better with branding, marketing initiatives, and the clients’ needs in general.

3. PROOFREADER

The proofreader is also an important role in presenting clean copy of the sort used on millions of web pages. Proficiency in grammar, spelling, a wide vocabulary, and exceptional attention to detail are prerequisites in providing the valuable product of typo and error-free, professional text.

4. COPY WRITER

Another member of the content / marketing / publishing team is the copy writer, who is a more specialized version of the writer. This professional usually wields a wide range of knowledge to create compelling text for web pages, marketing materials, and interdepartmental communications. They’re often part of a marketing department, but can also work freelance with individual corporations and/or public relations firms. A good copy writer can earn good money, double as an editor or proofreader, and even move upward into a career as an author.

5. GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Are you an artsy type? Graphic design can be a great outlet for your creative energy and it pays well, too. Did I mention its potential as a small business from home? Advances in technological tools and file sharing make it possible to create and sell logos, splash-page designs, printables, wearables, and tons more – all from the comfort and convenience of your home

6. DATA ANALYST

Talk about an exciting, ever-growing field to explore as a small business from home idea. The term “data analysis” is an umbrella for various activities involving the use of tech in helping companies make decisions and operate on a more scientific basis. Some of the work data analysts do involves data mining, which helps businesses with predictive information. Another subcategory is business intelligence, which uses aggregation of business information to answer questions that arise in operations, marketing, sales, or any other aspect of a going concern

7. ONLINE MARKETING PROVIDER

The key words here are “online” or “Internet.” Online marketing service providers use the whole of the Internet to drive traffic, sales, and sales leads to brands and/or businesses and their products or services. As you might imagine, this position offers nearly endless opportunities to individuals and teams who bring a variety of skill sets and who have the flexibility to adapt quickly to changing technologies and trends

8. DIGITAL MARKETER

The digital marketer or digital marketing manager works in the same fields of promotion expertise as the online marketing provider, but usually has more responsibilities, often including supervision of marketers on the team. They are also generally involved in the development, implementation, and management of marketing campaigns

9. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Software development is yet another field where a diversified skill set is desirable. Design, research, implementation, and management of software programs are the core capabilities of a software developer. They also work with other developers, and business and systems analysts, and test and evaluate new programs.

PRODUCTIVE THINGS TO DO AT HOME

The pandemic, besides its horrific toll on human lives, hasn’t meant instant golden opportunities across the board. Yes, the employment and entrepreneurial playing field is new and somewhat more level, but unemployment is very high. What to do if one is still partially or fully sheltering in place AND unemployed? Few jobs or business opportunities can be had from one day to the next. What are some productive things to do at home in the meantime?

1. Keep Learning!

Did you know there are literally thousand of free classes you can take online? If you decide to continue your education or professional development, it doesn’t have to involve formal courses. Chances are that any learning you do in your down time will be well worth while.

2. Planning

Time in between jobs can be a good time to revisit your goals and plans. Tidy up your calendar, and make sure all your appointments and events are logged. It’s rewarding to do so, not only because it will save you time later, but because it also gives you peace of mind now regarding what lies ahead.

3. Relaxing

It might sound obvious, but you might be surprised at how many people could benefit from practicing relaxation. Science in recent years has confirmed what Eastern practices have shown for centuries: mindfulness and relaxation benefit the mind, body and spirit. What type of relaxation routine would you enjoy? Learn about them, choose one and, most importantly, practice it daily.

You can get more tips from this course at entrepreneursuccesstraining.com

HOW TO STAY PRODUCTIVE AT HOME

I mentioned earlier that there are certain elements of your from-home work that can make the difference between failure and success. When looking at staying productive at home, these fall into three main categories:

1. Focus

Earlier, we went over things we can do to stay focused in your work from home: creating a dedicated work space, dressing appropriately for your work, and taking customized breaks can go a long way in keeping you on task. I would also add that being aware of potential distractions, and having a strategy to avoid them, is key. This is one of the secrets of the super successful entrepreneurs.

2. Efficiency

This category helps us remember another fact known by the wealthy and successful: you CAN do more in less time. It helps us remember to check our habits, procedures, and protocols. Is there a faster way to do this that works as well or better? This is a question we can ask ourselves several times a day.

3. Productivity 

This category combines focus and efficiency into a measurable: How much work are you getting done each day? Of course, the quantification of your work must be customized to your field. Measuring your productivity is essential to success in your from-home job or business.

Whether you’re looking to join a company, work freelance, or start your own business, now is a wonderful time to create your success at home.

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Work From Home Indeed

Well, here we are; most of us spending day after day – for months – at HOME, in an almost unprecedented, sudden shift in our national economy and in the way we WORK. There are the obvious changes: millions of people unemployed, Wall Street in tatters, financial crises ad nauseam. 

But as we learn the most when facing adversity, there are lessons here. If not “a blessing in disguise,” the pandemic certainly has its silver linings. Seeing them requires only the desire and willingness to take a closer look.

Who are the people who still have jobs? Who is doing better now than ever before? One answer is: those who WORK FROM HOME.

As the economy slowly reopens, something remarkable is happening: workers are telling reliable sources that they don’t want to return to their previous place of employment. The pandemic has, in effect, doubled as an experiment in employee satisfaction. Before, few of us had the option to explore working from home. Now that so many of us have gotten a taste of it, there might be no going back.

Most of us, however, don’t have the luxury of simply staying home and doing nothing. Even if we did, we’d probably want to do SOME kind of work. Most people, by far, want to be productive.

So, all of this adds up to doing rewarding, profitable work from home. How does one go about finding the right job, career, or business to do from home. As with most good things, there’s a process if you want to do it right. Oh yes, and plenty of homework before you really begin working from home. 

 

Work From Home Reddit

Anyone can work from home, but what kinds of jobs are available? A good resource for lists and descriptions of today’s work-from-home options is Reddit, the Internet aggregator and ranker of articles, videos, and threads.

Here’s a list of some of the major categories of at-home employment:

1. Entrepreneur/Author – That’s right, think big! One of the great advantages of a home office is that you can be your own boss. Here at Writer Services, we put into practice daily our core value that every entrepreneur should be an author and every author should be an entrepreneur. What are your dreams and passions? This could be the perfect time to pursue them through a successful home-run business
2. Customer Service – Literally thousands of companies hire outside customer service agents, and many (most nowadays) work from home. Through phone calls or live chats, they help customers with concerns, questions, and returns
3. Court House Researcher – Background checks and other legal research
4. Teaching/Tutoring – Several companies are pairing qualified instructors with students in online learning
5. Data Entry – There always seem to be jobs in data entry, and doing it from home makes it more pleasant work
6. Search Engine Evaluator – Large tech firms are always hungry for data, especially data pertaining to their own systems
7. Social Media – Marketing through social media is still a fast-growing industry, which means jobs. Through streamlined tech assets, these marketers make it easy and rewarding to work from home.
8. Translator – Know a second language? You might be in the money with at-home work translating everything from legal documents to poetry
9. Transcriber – Transcripts provide valuable documentation of oral arts, speeches, and even television programs. (You’ll even find one later in this article!) The companies paying for them don’t need you to sit in their building. They just want the goods.
10. Virtual Assistant – Many smart, successful people have worked as assistants of one kind or another at some point in their lives. It can be a great opportunity to learn and hone a variety of skills that come in handy later. Employment now available via Internet platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams

Work From Home Tips

Here’s a crucial fact for your success in a home-based business or work-from-home employment: You must be EFFICIENT. I find that most people in my success-training seminars take this one word too lightly. “Efficiency, okay, work full, eight-hour days, take 30 minutes for lunch and not an hour… Got it.” No, it’s much more than basic time management and “putting in your hours.” Success in the home office means developing the habits of highly productive professionals. Efficiency means developing extraordinary FOCUS. Remember, very little from this point on is optional. Rather, these are indispensable pieces of the success puzzle. Don’t expect to do well while cutting corners. Every part of this special formula is essential.

1. Maintain discipline in your daily routine. You’re working from home and your more comfortable than at a traditional office. That’s fine, but your work – your success – deserves your respect. Get out of your pajamas, take care of personal hygiene and grooming. Dress (at least moderately) professionally. Eat balanced, healthful meals and get your doctor-approved exercise in, during breaks, after work, or both. It all adds up. You’ve now taken the first steps to maintaining a focused, nimble mind, and it will SHOW in the quality and quantity of your work.
2. Optimize your home office or work area so your work flows smoothly (no taking five minutes to find the stapler). Give everything a permanent home: the files live here, the scissors live there, copy paper lives there, etc. Label all these areas if you must. You might be surprised at how much time such organization saves you.
3. Set a measurable goal for your productivity. Here’s the fun part: If you reach your goal of doing the same amount of work in two-thirds the time, for example, you’ll have one-third more FREE TIME, to enjoy your life, family, and friends.
4. What are the roadblocks you might encounter? Here’s the main one: distractions. They destroy focus and efficiency. It might simply take good old-fashioned practice to let your smartphone rest while you work at peak performance. Maybe you need to keep the phone in another room and set aside a few minutes every hour or two to listen to your voicemail. Again, it’s paramount that you respect your own time and profession. Anything that distracts from that is something to remove, if possible, or mitigate in lieu of removal.

 

With these tools – and many more available at Entrepreneur Success Training – you can transform the way you work and increase the biggest factor in your making more money – PRODUCTIVITY.

Work From Home Benefits

So, with all the changes and toil needed for work-from-home success, why not just gas up the car on Sunday instead, and join all the commuters on Monday on the old highway? Why not go to work where, you know, where your boss WANTS you to work? It was good enough for everybody before the pandemic… Why not now?

Well, assuming that your boss actually wants you to work outside of your home – something that’s becoming less and less popular, for many reasons – YOU are ultimately in charge of what your career and work-life looks like. YOU can choose to become an author/entrepreneur or an off-site employee for a new company, or you can ASK your supervisor or the human resources person at your current job if there are options for people who prefer to work from home. Corporations with such protocols available can be found in greater numbers every day.

Let’s have a quick look at some of the benefits of working from home.

1. In the home office, you are in charge of the pace of your work – efficiency and productivity – which, as I mentioned above, is the KEY , sooner or later, to how much money you make.
2. No commute. This can save you anywhere from one to three hours each day. That’s PRECIOUS time, of which I also spoke. Of course, you also save on fuel costs and mileage. And let’s not forget the very important factor of commuter stress: traffic jams, diminished punctuality, and the physical strains of sitting in your car for extended periods of time.
3. Even breaks become more efficient and productive. You’re at home, where you can have more affordable, healthful meals. You can take any doctor-approved exercise. If you take a total of an hour break during the course of your workday, it will be time well spent. Time that’s an investment in you, and activities that make you a better person and worker when you’re on the clock or off.
4. If you decide to go the author/entrepreneur route, there are even more benefits, not the least of which are major reductions in overhead expenses like office space rent, utilities, and insurance.

Work From Home Policy

As I noted earlier, if you decide to remain with your current employer or take a job with another company, it’s important to acquaint yourself with their rules and guidelines for working from home. If you’re not sure, you might want to ask if your employer offers work-from-home options. If so, find out what they expect from you and what you can expect from them should you both agree to go forward with it.

Some jobs, such as those in the medical field, have special requirements for ensuring patients’ privacy through compliance with HIPAA laws. You might need to put in place certain protocols at home so that patient or client information is secure.

Higher Productivity = Higher Earnings

We often hear current affairs described as “uncertain times” and, fair enough, they are. But they are also unprecedented times for examining and reflecting on the ways in which we go about our lives.

Think about it: The world has basically hit a giant “pause” button. This gives us a chance to rethink – redesign, if you will – our lives. Many Americans have already gone public, saying they DON’T WANT to go back to the old ways of doing things. Reopen, fine, but we’ve learned a lot in these few months, and some of us want to use that knowledge for the greater good.

Understandably, the long commute to work to then sit in a cubicle for eight to ten hours sounds even less appealing today than it did in March! But let’s think positive and look at the flip side.

Working from home can mean everything from a part-time customer service job to becoming a tremendously successful author and entrepreneur – in my view, the highest echelon in the business world. Really, only the sky is the limit.

I’m reminded of an article I read a few years ago about a “serial entrepreneur” from Florida. A start-up expert who successfully launched several companies before writing his first book with the assistance of a professional writer/editor.

Since publishing the book, he has launched or re-launched about a dozen corporations, including national brands, to the tune of many, many millions of dollars for himself. Here is a REAL influencer. He’s often consulted by other entrepreneurs for his insights and expertise. He’s perhaps the model author/entrepreneur, and every time I read about him it’s yet another success story.

His is the story of nearly perfect synergy between the life of the author and the life of the entrepreneur – all wrapped up into one.

The author/entrepreneur with multiple streams of income controls their own destiny. S/He might have physical products, services, books, information products, and more in their portfolio. If you’ve ever wondered if this type of success is for you, now might be the best time EVER to delve deeper into your dreams and find out how to make them happen!

 Video Transcript:

There are two sides to every coin. Nobody asked for a pandemic or another recession, but that’s what we got.

The other side of this coin is opportunity. We now have an unprecedented opportunity to learn and explore new ways of living and working.

Working from home is a wonderland of vast opportunities.

Once you’re in the groove of running your business from home, you might find you’re getting all kinds of unexpected inspiration and motivation. Working from home can mean an opportunity to spread your wings and soar higher than ever in your business or career. There are certain freedoms of agency and goal-setting that, combined with discipline and efficiency, can result in never-before-seen success for you.

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Take The Self-Care Test

Working in sedentary careers like Book Writing, Authorship, Freelance Editing … or any type of sit-down entrepreneurial activity, self-care is more relevant than anyone might first realize.

Self-care is often overlooked and pushed aside for “more important,” more pressing commitments. The truth is that self-care should be a priority.

Strong Immune System

Being healthy and keeping your immune system strong isn’t about doing one or two things, like eating well or exercising. It requires a daily regimen — a lifestyle — of numerous activities.

Without it, we’re unable to function at our optimum level, and so, many areas of our life can be detrimentally impacted. If you talk to most people, we treat exercise and other healthy activities as “luxuries” we can do “when we have the time.” But self-care has never been something nice to do — it is a necessity of life, more than most people have ever realized.

Pandemic Influences on Writers and Authors

Without question, the pandemic we’re living through today has changed a lot of perspectives about health and self-care. But once this is all behind us, we cannot slip back into a complacency with our health.

The modern lifestyle is a busy one, with individuals often rushing between commitments. However, there are still ways you can implement self-care in your life.

Here are eleven ways to add self-care to your routine so you can maintain good physical, mental and emotional health.

Take your own test to see how many of these you actually do regularly. You may be very surprised at the results:

1. Identify What Self-care is to You

We all have different needs and different ways of unwinding. Identify what kind of self-care is most effective for you. It may be taking a walk and getting outdoors, or curling up by the fire with a good book. It may be surrounding yourself with good friends, taking a bike ride or soaking in a long, hot bath. For some, it is a grueling workout at the gym or a tough, sweaty run for many miles.

Whatever it is, learn to define self-care for you as an individual so that you can better take care of yourself. Your litmus test for whether it is right for you is, do you feel better mentally or physically after you’ve completed it?

2. Establish a Routine

Once you understand what self-care works for you, add it to your routine. Commit to engaging the activity regularly until it becomes a habit, something that is simply a normal part of your life.

3. Get Regular, Good Quality Sleep

Establish a sleep routine so that you are getting enough high-quality sleep. Sleep is a critical part of maintaining good health and should not be underestimated. By implementing a sleep routine, you can ensure that you are getting enough rest and are therefore optimally prepared to perform at your best.

4. Eat a Balanced Diet

Diet is an important part of self-care and has a significant impact on your health. Make sure to eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, avoiding soft drinks and processed foods.

5. Exercise Regularly

Exercise is great for physical, mental and emotional health and should be a part of any self-care routine.

6. Get Some Sun

Catching some rays may seem like what slackers would do, but there is scientific evidence that there is something more to it than meets the eye.

The sun gives off an electrical charge that assists in our attitude. That’s why we’re more cheerful on sunny days! The sun also provides the best source of Vitamin D found anywhere, which is essential to boosting the immune system.

So on your lunch break, go outside and catch some rays for 20 – 40 minutes a day. The best concentration of vitamin D can be gotten from the shortest rays between 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. The sun has to reach your skin, so roll up your sleeves and get as much skin contact as possible.

7. Learn to Say No

The ability to establish boundaries can be important to self-care. Rather than simply saying yes to everything until things become unbearable or seemingly impossible, learn to say no when you are busy or feeling under pressure.

8. Get Organized

A little organization can go a long way in regard to your self-care. Implementing strategies to be more organised can really help reduce your stress and improve your mental health.

9. De-clutter Your Environment

Get rid of the rubbish and excess goods in your house; a cleaner, less cluttered space is great for your mental health as it will help to reduce stress levels.

10. Schedule Time to Yourself

It can often feel like we are being pulled in a million different directions. Make sure to schedule time for your self-care and donít allow this to be interrupted.

11. Take a Break

If things are getting too much, take a break. That might involve taking a few days off of work or a certain stressful project in particular; getting away for the weekend or, if really necessary, taking a longer vacation. Regardless of the length, sometimes simply stepping out of the environment can be great for perspective and self-care.

This can be a godsend in so many ways, for instance, when you come back to your manuscript — or whatever major project you’re on — you are able to take a fresh look at what you have developed so far. It offers a clearer view of what you really have done to date. It’s actually one of my “secret weapons” to writing bestsellers!

It’s so easy to get caught up into work, so much that we put our health and well-being aside. But this is an unhealthy mindset that turns ourselves into martyrs. Life becomes less enjoyable, and the spiral continues downward.

Most Important Tools of Your Trade

One way you can look at self-care is to realize that your mind and your body are two of your most important tools of your trade. More important than your fast-running computer or amazing software you’ve invested in.

We invest a lot into our equipment — our tools of the trade — keeping the printer working properly, the computer virus-free, and so forth. But the most important thing we need to invest in and keep tip-top shape is ourselves.

Avoid the Downward Spiral

If our health declines — and the early level of decline is a weak immune system — the quality of our products drop as well. We become unable to work a few weeks per year because we’re too sick to get out of bed. And on the days you tough it out with a box of tissues on your desk, your productivity suffers, sometimes as drastic as if you were intoxicated. When health declines, success potential drops. Soon enough, one will be out of a job.

Self-care is not a luxury. YOU, personally, are the most important piece of the puzzle of success. Tale care of your most precious tool in your arsenal for success.

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Amazing Facts About Success

There are amazing facts about success that you have likely not been told. Creating successful long-term growth requires a deep level of understanding of what the success journey will be like.

Facts About Being Successful

True success is the most intricate, challenging, elusive aspiration in life; and the most misunderstood of all desirable things. 

It’s the grand slam in baseball and winning the pennant. It’s making it to the playoffs and winning the Super Bowl in football…. 

For the individual, it is getting to a point in your life where you’ve achieved the more important things. But that in no way means having more wins than losses.

In fact, when we are on our way to achieving great things, we can often feel like we’re failing miserably, IF we put more attention on the wrong things.

If Babe Ruth had obsessed over how many times he struck out, or if a billionaire concentrated on the number of times s/he lost money, or if Payton Manning had worried about how many interceptions he threw in a previous game… their stellar outcomes would have been very different.

One reason for success’ elusiveness is because it is disguised as failure.

Success is Failure by Any Other Name

The first thing to know is that success has the appearance of failure. This is because of how many times we do not achieve what we set out to do. 

The truth is, success requires the brutal runway of a sequence of failures. But it only looks like failure, and it is NOT failure at all, but the path to success. 

True success is something that holds; it has staying power long-term. But visually on a statistical graph, its line has peaks and valleys, with an overall average line angling upward. This is because there are many failures along the way.

The two things that cause most people to give up on their dreams:

1. Having incorrect expectations
   and
2. Giving a rat’s ass what others think.

These are the most prominent and most lethal of all dream killers.

Expectation

Incorrect expectation causes you to think you’re doing terribly when you are, in fact, well on your way to having exactly what you want in your life. Thinking it will happen sooner than it really takes causes a false sense of failure.

This ties into understanding that succeeding at something always looks like failure during the journey. But also realizing that it takes persistence and patience. Success comes to those who remain steadfast in their goals and intentions. 

And just as important is taking notice of your achievements and remaining positive.

Worrying What Others Might Say

Succeeding at anything is hard enough, but when it comes to critics, success becomes almost impossible if we let them bother us.

Having great concern about what your colleagues might think or say is even more insidious to dreams.

When you worry about what others might think or will say about you, you become their slave. Every thought, idea and action you make is tainted, and you personally oppress them all in fear of being ridiculed.

Know this…

ANYONE WHO HAS ACHIEVED ANYTHING WORTHY OR VALUABLE IN THE WORLD DID SO WITHOUT MUCH CONCERN FOR WHAT OTHERS MIGHT THINK OF THEM.

None of us are free from ridicule, but we have to be impervious to it. 

The Power of Empathy

Understanding why people make fun of others is helpful for anyone who wants to make great things happen, if we are to save ourselves from being wardens of our own self-erected prison cells.

Empathy is a very rare quality that only the doers of this world have the luxury of suffering; it is an ability you acquire through experience.

Empathy is an ability to feel what others feel. It is a super-power of great entrepreneurs.

In order to be able to have it requires that you have walked in similar shoes and struggled to a similar degree as someone else.

Anyone who would criticize another for trying to do something constructive has never tried to do something constructive. Or they failed and now are resentful that someone else might try and actually succeed, which would make them feel pretty bad about themselves. Again, the power of empathy at its finest here. 

But to have walked a similar path as another requires a great many rare qualities most people simply cannot muster. 

Things like braveness, passion, duty, burning desire, caring for others… are what drive us to obsess over making a better world even though there are so many risks. These qualities are what drive us to do admirable things no matter the consequences.

The Thick Skin Required for Success

Understanding (having empathy for) why people ridicule can help with remaining unaffected.

So the next time a colleague laughs at your “failures” to build your empire, remind yourself that you are well on your way to succeeding and that they simply are not as brave, passionate, dutiful, desirous, caring… as you, and that’s okay.

Ignorance is what makes some people laugh when they see you try to do something worthwhile. Maybe they think it should happen overnight. But that’s just part of having no idea what it takes to make something great… because they never really tried themselves.

You can’t worry about what others think of you or what you’ve not yet accomplished.

You can’t afford a lot of things when you’re striving to create an empire. One of those things is most definitely worrying about people who just don’t know any better. They have no idea what they’re doing, and you scare the hell out of them.

There are many facets to creating successful long term growth. These have been a few that you, for whatever reason, won’t ever hear much about. But they will make or break your dreams.

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GOALS TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE AND WORK

As entrepreneurs, authors and small business owners, we have Goals to achieve in life. They are often about achieving greater success such as becoming a best selling author, and this is excellent.

Goal Setting Definition

Iowa State University gives a great goal setting definition as: “Goal setting gives your life direction and empowers you towards positive behavior change. It confirms what your desires are and may minimize distractions or obstacles. Why is goal setting important? Goal setting is important because it focuses on what you wish to achieve.”

Goal Setting PDF

A concise quick read goal setting pdf from Goucher.edu offers a clever goal setting strategies with the S.M.A.R.T. goal setting theory of motivation. This pdf also gives goal setting, difficulties that you may face along the way, and 10 main goal setting benefits.

Every Person Should Have These 5 Goals for work and Life

Often, we hear people who are not business oriented talk about off goals that sound a bit like dreamy, fanciful wishes that change from one year to the next. But that’s okay too because one of the greatest things stating goals does is create hope.

Whether monetary, achievement or self-growth bases, goals are good and necessary. here are 5 fundamental goals that everyone should strive toward every single day:

1: True Happiness

Happiness is not really a destination as much as it is a state of mind. A billionaire could be miserable about what they don’t have, while a homeless dude could be happy to score a hot shower and a cooked meal at the local shelter.

Happiness is all about perspective. While goals relating to tangible things like money can prove unsatisfying quests, the search for genuine happiness is one that will help you gain a more fulfilled and serene life.

2: Integrity

From business to interpersonal relationships, when you live life with honesty and commitment to ethical values, you’ll find that a rewarding sense of wholeness awaits you. Integrity is a goal that will help you feel like you’re making the world a better place with your presence.

3: Fulfillment

You can plug away at a nine-to-five job until you retire, but chances are that’s not going to make you live life to the fullest. You’ll be one of those faceless people in the crowd who live for the weekend—then trudge back to work.

Instead, reflect on who you are, your strengths, your desires, and act accordingly. Whether it’s learning to find meaning at work, a career path that challenges you, or engaging with some satisfying hobbies, fulfillment in life is a great goal.

4: Connection

Human beings are social creatures, so forging good relationships is the key to thriving and feeling happy. Family, professional, and personal relationships are all crucial components to providing a sense of connectedness with the rest of humanity—so make good friendships and foster existing links with family.

At the same time, relationships do need boundaries, so learning how to create healthy interactions is also crucial for developing your sense of identity.

5: Self-Worth

Nobody can be successful in life if they’re down in the dumps, so fostering a sense of self-worth is an esteemed goal that every person should pursue. There are many simple ways to do this—for example, treating yourself with dignity and respect by wearing clean clothes and practicing good hygiene.

Education is also a key component to developing a sense of worth, because with that knowledge comes better opportunities a sense of security.

Goals to achieve in life are important to health, happiness, success and wealth because they give us hope, drive and something specific to achieve. Goals allow for a purpose-driven life.

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How to be More Positive: 6 Simple Ways

Coming up with ways on how to be more positive has been challenging for us all lately. With the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment and the economic shutdown, that’s no surprise. 

But we know as entrepreneurs, authors, small business owners and executives how important positive thinking is to our success in being able to make sales and produce quality products so we can help make a better work… and pay our bills.  

A hard-pressed fact when it comes to succeeding in business, we have to stay positive or risk losing everything. 

Positive Thinking How To

So where do we find inspiration and positive thinking how to measures to keep us upbeat and productive? Here are 3 ways to think positive:

1: POSITIVE THINKING QUOTES: 

Certainly, reading positive thinking quotes are one of the quickest ways to cheer ourselves up. 

There is something effective and instantaneous about about positive thinking quotes—reading something hope-filled—that give us a better outlook on things.  

Remember that what we think, we are. We are greatly affected by what we ourselves think. So seek out positive thinking quotes  https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/positive-thinking  at places like Goodreads and other places on the Internet.

Success.com for instance, has 11 moving quotes about the power of positive thinking quotes.

You can find positive thinking quotes everywhere: office supply stores and big box stores often times in frames within the office furniture section. Gift shops have lots of wonderful sayings on driftwood, on mugs or in frames.  

2: STAY PRODUCTIVE: 

Don’t sit idle. Stagnant water becomes undrinkable in just minutes. Like clean, crystal water flowing down a stream, motion and activity keep us in higher spirits. 

In fact, PRODUCTIVITY is the secret to health and happiness through purpose and the sense of accomplishment. 

Being productive raises our sense of survival and causation—being on control, not the effect of whatever is happening around us. 

Productivity is the “best-kept secret” of happy individuals who are making BIG IMPACT in the world. They seem to go un-phased by the constant negativity being pumped into society through the news media. 

For one thing, they’re too busy creating good results. But more than that, being productive not only increases your survival potential, it gives a sense of well-being. In my opinion, work is a drug-free solution to depression. 

In any case, to the degree you increase your productivity, you increase your success! 

3. AVOID NEGATIVITY:

Like I said, negative people do nothing, they only complain. The solve no problems but only add to the current problems of life, and they create new ones all the time. 

Negative people and groups are poison. What groups? Take a look around and see who is spreading bad news and complaining all the time. You will see individuals and the groups they uphold or work for. 

They alter what really happened or was said. They seek out ways how they can spin something positive into something horrific. These people and groups are killing our society, bringing us all down and pitting us against each other.  

Much closer to home, we have “friends” who enjoy passing on the negativity they’ve heard or read recently. 

AVOID THIS NEGATIVITY AT ALL COST!

This means getting out of the negativity loop. Stop watching or listening to the news media. And for goodness sakes, stop talking to people who spread negativity. Your health, success and happiness depend on it.

4. EXERCISE: 

Getting your body moving is great for changing your mood and raising your thoughts. This is how to be more positive and happy. You don’t have to run a marathon or swim across the English Channel to make that kind of change…you can just step up, take a walk, do some jumping jacks, or dance. That’s right … dance. Try turning on your favorite music and moving and grooving for a few minutes; see if you’re feeling negative afterwards.

5. PRACTICE GRATITUDE: 

How to be a more positive person involves taking a proactive approach. Build a list of gratitude. Make a list of all the things you’re grateful for. Having trouble coming up with a list? How about your breath, your pulse, your sight, and all the other basic amenities we take for granted. Once your start writing your list out, you will find that it snowballs and fills your mind with positivity.

6. CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE: 

How to be more positive in life? Take stock of the vocabulary and phrases you use regularly. Eliminate negative phrases and words from your lexicon, and watch your thoughts change as well. You should also take note of your body language and posture. Avoid slouching, and above all, smile! 

There are plenty of ways to remain positive and optimistic. These are just 6 quick and simple ways. If you look for them, you will find even more all around you. With your negative people out of the way, the rest of your positive friends will be sure to share their positivity with you. Interesting, isn’t it?

Being positive is part and parcel to success. Like food, water and air, being positive in thought empowers you.

Remember that negativity comes from people who do nothing—they ONLY complain. Staying productive keeps us away from the negativity of others by focusing on getting things accomplished. And as you work to produce something or complete a task, it feels great!

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WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER

A very wise philosopher once taught that in order to do the right thing, we have to look at all of life and livingess. We can’t just help ourselves and think that’s good enough. 

And the gauge of whether we are really making a difference or not is to the  degree that we work to positively affect OTHER people, places and things, than our own. So you have to do something broadly. And this is the reason for this video today.

Hi, I’m Robert Nahas, CEO of WriterServices.net

I wanted to find out if you were aware that, though most people are stuck at home with nothing to do but wait this pandemic out, there are some people who are still able to be very productive at home making money.

There are some businesses that can be conducted from the home, and even a few that allow you to work from anywhere in the world.

Seeing so many people stuck at home and worried about their bills piling up, I decided to do what I could to help alleviate the stress of this situation we’re in.

I know firsthand that there are people being very productive and making money right from their homes, because all of my book writers, editors, cover designers and marketers work from their homes.

I’m a bestselling author and professional ghostwriter of books. Though I believe, from my own experience, that this is the best job in the world, I’m not here to suggest you become a writer or a published author—though I would highly recommend it to anyone at any age—I’m here to let you know that I created a website that’s about to launch which offers training and empowerment on how to work from home successfully. 

You can learn to be highly productive, and find your ideal work-from-home business. Courses will be coming out regularly on things like how to effectively promote and market your products or services and add additional streams of income to your life by working from home.

It could be weekend work or a full-time career; whatever you feel would be really rewarding and a lot of fun for you. Most of all, it’s a way of getting some control over things that are happening with our economy.

We are in uncertain times. There are politicians who want to keep us shut down for longer than we need to. And who knows what the future will bring? Is this going to happen every time flu season comes around? Are some politicians going to demand that we shut down again and again?

To get you started immediately, download this 5-Minute Guide Special Report where I share some excellent tips on how to work and get more done while working from home.

There ARE work-from-home businesses that are unaffected by economies.

Because this website was born out of a desire to help with the situation we’re currently in, we are—for a short time—reducing the course fees by 89%.

So I hope you will take advantage of the great effort, talent and passionate purpose I and my team have done to contribute to a silver lining to this pandemic and economic setback we’re in right now, and spread the word to others so they can immediately feel some palpable hope for the future.

There’s no reason to wait this pandemic out, doing nothing for your future. Waiting is the worst thing you can do. Time is on your side right now, so take advantage of this opportunity to expand your knowledge of how success is made from home. 

It’s time to take control of your life the best way you know how. You’re going to get the knowledge you need at: EntrepreneurSuccessSolutions.com 

Learn how to become more financially independent for yourself and your loved ones.

Thanks. I’m Robert Nahas. I’ll see you at this new and exciting website!

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