A Few Very Simple Keys To Success

1. Know why you are doing what you're doing. This may sound quite simple at first. In self-evident fact, it can be as simple or complex as you like. Why is a very powerful enforcer. Why is never as simple as 'because it was there' or 'to get to the other side'. You must drill down to the core of your Why. Ask yourself, 'Why do I want to work from home?'. If your rejoin is; to make money, to be happy, since I don't like working at ABC Co., you need to ask yourself Why again. Keep drilling down until you get to the very footing of your reasoning. Don't give faith to generalized answers. Doing so will only ensure generalized success. To help get you started, I'll tell you a little in regard to my Why. I want a riverside, rustic log love nest in the mountains with a front porch where I can sit and watch my family playing in the water. Now that is only the in embryo of my reasons. If I were to list them all in the detail that I have pictured and written down, this entry would go on forever. I hope you're getting the idea though. Be very detailed and specific. Picture it in your head. Imagine how it will make you feel. Now, you must write it out in detail, find pictures in magazines if possible and post it where you work. It will serve as a daily reminder and motivator on those not so great days that we all encounter.


2. Have one major goal (the finish line), with lesser, more easily workable goals (mile markers) furthermore the way. Again, write out your goals! Goals are different than your Why. A goal is the the finish line, while your Why is the reason you start the race. Goals must have specified time periods to them. They must be realistic and achievable, yet they mustn't be too easy. You must get a sense of satisfaction from achieving your goals and they must lead you to your next goal.


3. Make a plan for your success. I know, I know - you hate making plans. Sorry, but in reality you make plans every day without ever realizing it. Is your success worth the time it will take you to write out a specific plan? Schedule time to draw up your plan. It's really that important! Not having a plan in place is the single largest reason why people fail at a home business. And this is one time where you really must start at the end result and work head over heels to figure out your plan for achieving your goals. If your goal is to get 8 new customers within 4 weeks, replace that down into weeks. Now, you're looking at 2 customers per week. Let's say that averages have proven that it requires you showing your product or service to 5 people in order to get 1 new customer, that's 10 people per week you must show your product or service to. Let's go back even further. Let's also crib that the averages have proven that half the people you speak to will not even take into consideration you to get past 'Hello, my name is ...' up ahead they say No. That means you must really speak to 20 people each week to get 2 new customers. That's 4 people a day you must speak to. That's how you make a plan. It's not difficult but it is a little time consuming. In my humble opinion, it's well worth spending the time to plan better rather than spending that same become of time frustrated and confused in the air why your undertaking isn't going as well as you thought it would be.


4. Be accountable. Laziness is a very easy habit to get into when working from home. Making yourself responsible helps stop that habit from likely permanent. At the very least, be amenable to yourself. Using the example above, write at the top of your daily planner - 4 contacts today! As the day goes on, resist off your progress forward the way. Even uplift though, get an responsibility buddy. Tell each other your required plan for each day and at the conclusion of each day, let the other know exactly what you did to bring to completion your daily goals. For example, I may tell my friends Greta and Terry that I intend to call a minimum of 8 people each day, set 4 installations and enroll 1 new person. At the end of the day, I'll email Greta and Terry and tell them how many calls I made, how many presentations I did and what my results were.


5. Celebrate each success. Regardless of the size of your accomplishment, you must observe it. Even if that means giving yourself an extra 10 minutes of quiet time at the end of the day to sit and relax with a cup of tea. Your celebrations need not be elaborate but they must have a recognizable reason stern them. The larger the success, the larger the celebration! (In my case that means new shoes - Wahoo!!!)


6. Don't beat yourself up if you don't carry out a set goal. Instead try to figure out why you didn't dispose of it and what you may have done differently to get the results you were seeking.

Relax! Once you get the hang of this stuff, it does ripen into habit forming and Yes, it does go with enjoyable. You will see your success skyrocket when you know your Why, have viable goals, set up a plan, change accountable, consecrate your success and try to understand your near-misses.

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I have just finished counselling with a client who was depressed. She is a young mum and initially she was in a very low mood. She hadn't experienced talk therapy before but her friends were pushing her to do something about how miserable she felt.
We talked about her life: the husband that loves her, her 7 month old daughter who she finds difficult to enjoy, her house, her friends and her relatives. About session three, I was wondering where the depression was coming from - her circumstances seemed good, she was healthy and she had several close relationships.

Then we started to talk about when the depression had started - just after her daughter's birth. She mentioned in a 'give away comment', her mother had come to see her then for the first time in 2 years. Well apparently her mum and dad had separated when she was 13 years, had gone off with their own lovers and in the intervening 10 years, my client had seen them separately, irregularly.
Then we started to unfold her memories of being left "in the family home" with her elder sisters (18 and 21 years), being expected to get herself up every day and out to school, feeding herself from whatever food was available in the kitchen, with her sisters at home only when they weren't at work or with boy-friends.

Apparently some days she bunked off school and sat on a wall near the shopping precinct, watching people pass, knowing that no one cared what she did or where she went.
So here was the root of her depression: my client had given up a lively job in a busy office when her baby was due, she was now stuck in her house with a new child and her husband was working long hours to support the three of them - for much of her day, no one cared what she did or where she went.
My client actually broke into tears as she uttered this phrase - no one cared what she did or where she went.

It has taken another six sessions to tease out all her pain and to counter the thoughts that were feeding it - what had she done to be discarded by her mum and dad, how was she going to cope with the world without her parents to love her, and how could she find someone to care about her?
It was easy for my client to project these thoughts into her new daughter's life: what would prevent her from abandoning her daughter on a shopping trip, why couldn't she feel any love for her daughter or her husband, and would anyone care if she went away?

Happily we have now worked through my client's difficult teenage years. She has recognised that her mum and dad were poor parents - so besotted with their own affairs that they hoped the other was doing the parenting and not realising that neither was. She knows she can make her own parenting different - she can choose to stay married to her husband, she can choose to love and cherish her child (or children, later) and in caring for her family, she can enjoy how much they care for her. A tipping point in my client's recovery was when she noticed how much joy her daughter has seeing her after an absence of a couple of minutes. Another important factor was becoming aware that her husband was always glad to see her, to hold her and to cherish her.

So now the depression is lifted. I don't say that it is gone forever because I cannot tell what the future will bring to my client. However, for now, she knows how to manage and chase away those low feelings: to see how her daughter and husband love her.

So now my client's first question to me 'Why am I feeling depressed?' is answered by "No one cared what you did or where you went" and we have found the antidote - 'They do now".