I was one week into my new life.
Everything seemed to be on track and the world was my playground.
I was (and still am) the master of my destiny and nothing would stop me.
That was the first week.
Weeks two, three, and the rest saw the luster wear off the bright shiny thing called my home business and the hard realization that it's a sink or swim world that I just stepped into.
How do you stay motivated when you don't have a boss breathing down your neck to keep you motivated? How can you survive when you are at home with a ton of distractions coming at you from all sides? Well, I found some answers and I had a couple of people show me the way.
Are you ready? Motivation factor #1, enter my friend Jim Norris Jim started a very ambitious project some time ago.
Being an artist, he started "The Self-Portrait Project | One artist...
365 Days...
365 Self-portraits.
" This is such an unbelievable goal, not in the fact that every day he has to create a new piece of art, but I know this man and he has a problem with procrastination, which is a bomb in any business.
Jim solved this problem by giving himself a daily task to do, and no matter what, he had a deadline.
He put this project out to enough people that if he were to drop the brush, everyone would be on him.
Jim's motivation: A daily deadline.
How many of home based businesses fail because of procrastination? "I'll do it tomorrow", or "It's not that important, I'll put it on the back burner" are common sayings that I've thrown out and they do neither me, nor anyone else any good.
Motivation factor #2, enter my nephew Jared Jared is a very determined kid.
I've had the privilege of watching him grow up and turn into a man I very much admire, but this past holiday really kicked it up a notch for me.
Jared was telling me that in the business he was going into, he would have to spend about three years gaining experience in three main fields within his interest (oil).
Did he lament over the extra time he would have to spend once he graduated from college? No way!! This smart young man wants to extend the time to five years so he can gain a thorough understanding of how things work within his area of expertise.
This shows an amazing maturity from someone so young.
Jared's motivation: long term thinking A good motivation to growing your business is sitting down and thinking about the long term goals.
This exercise can be quite fun, since the goals are three to five years away, it leave you room to THINK BIG! If you couple these two tactics together, as I did, you have a powerful combination to keep your motivation alive.
You have your daily tasks to do that will help you get to your long term goals.
Procrastination won't even become a factor when you're excited about how wealthy and successful your business will be in years to come and you are too busy with your day to day tasks of building your successful business.