Your Own Home Business

Time goes by and you have changed your sales copy, maybe you have even tweaked your website design a little. You have, in an instant, gone from feeling despondent and bemused to suddenly feeling like climbing Everest with one hand tied behind your back and your trousers missing would be no problem whatsoever.

Okay, your domain name is registered, you have found a host, your autoresponder is set up, your website is all ready to be introduced to the world. So, you start publication the way you have been taught, you buy leads, you join traffic exchanges, you write articles, you use pay per patter promotion and so on. You are now highly excited at the prospect of earning a fortune overnight. DOH!

The very next day finds you in your website host statistics area, assurance to see how many visitors have been to your website. You feel quite impressed that over one hundred people have been to your new site and had a look around. So, you then go to assurance out how many sales you have made. WAIT! None ? Zilch ? Zada ? What the hell happened here ? You were expecting at least a couple of sales, surely !

Oh well you say, never mind, let me freckle how many have signed up for my newsletter. Wow ! You have gained twenty five new subscribers. This is an instant high and you feel like you have realized a miracle.

A week goes by with lots of visitors and maybe more subscribers but still no sales. You are now starting to feel a little despondent but strangely still optimistic as long as you are still publication like you have been taught.

Time goes by and you have better your sales copy, maybe you have even tweaked your website design a little. You feel that some you can do to improve what your visitors experience when they visit your website will surely improve your sales. You try and try and try. You scratch your head and twiddle your thumbs, waiting with hounded twitch for that first sale.

Boom, bang , zap, wallop ! You have received notification of your first sale and now your feelings travel dramatically. You have, in an instant, gone from feeling despondent and half-awake to suddenly feeling like vault Everest with one hand tied late your back and your trousers missing would be no problem whatsoever. From just one sale the transformation in you is amazing. Of course, now you are hoping for more sales, so you repeat your advertisement techniques hoping and praying that you will reconvert rich in a short space of time.

Now, as all internet marketers will tell you, getting rich quickly does not happen unless you happen upon a miracle. Internet businesses need to be grown, like a seed, from baby into fully grown adult. Obviously this takes time and over this period of time you will probably experience a multitude of emotions. I know I have !

Anyway, from my own experiences with this pursuit all I can say to you is this, do not give up, no matter how low you feel, seeing that with perseverance, your online pursuit can succeed. No, I am not a massively successful guru but like thousands of others I am willing to learn and put the effort in. You can too, regardless of what emotions you go through. You have to stay focused.


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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".

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