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Do What you Love, Love What you Do

// March 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Home Business Income, Success Tips

A home business has allowed us to create a home business doing what we love and loving what we do. Our home business has been steadily growing in the last two years, we know that has happened because we follow the rule; do what you love. Here is an article from Steve Jobs from Apple and it is the essence of why our home business continues to grow and expand in 2009.

Love and Loss

I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a running a home business in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started?

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.

Steve Jobs
This was taken from Steve Jobs as his second story of his Commencement Address at Stanford University on June 12, 2005.

A home business is not for everyone, we do it because we love it. What is for everyone is to do what they love for the work  they do. If you love something you put full spirit and passion into it an for that the rewards are often and every increasing. Home business for us is that it provides the time to enjoy or kids, and also allows us to coach and inspire others in creating their home business.

We looked for a  home business that would allow us to love what we do and do what we love. We both felt that having a work from home business that would allow us to assist others and the time to be with our family and friends, then we could do what we love. Our home business lifestyle has led us to achieve so many great things, the key is love what you do!

Home business, work from home and working from home how do we mange the transition?

// March 19th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Home Business Income, Success Tips

With all the economic changes people are starting to realize work from home may be the best way to make the money. Starting a home business or working from home is the new economy.  The reality is that for most people when they start their home business is how to manage the distractions that come with work from home.

Here are some tips that will help you work from home, accomplish more and get out and play everyday. These are the tips we share with all the new people that join our work from home lifestyle design home business.

Home Business does not mean only work from home

Take advantage that you now have a home business, you do not have to just sit at the desk to work from home. You can grab your laptop and work from anywhere. If you find yourself wondering around the house looking to do anything but work from home, head out to the coffee shop, library, park anywhere that you would like. Call forward the phone to your mobile and go. You can now work from home or any destination you choose. We spent 16 weeks last year working from the road and our home business did not miss a beat.

Working from home can make you fat!

Working at home can make you fat! Let’s face it, having a home business means no commute but a walk to the other room. Believe it our not a lot people the only exercise they get is going to and from work. Now that you work from home you may have just removed your only physical activity of the day. Be sure to include a exercise program into work from home daily routine. Exercise will provide you with renewed energy and your home business will grow with your commitment to your own health.

With a break in the day for a workout, run, or even a walk in the park you will find yourself clear-headed and motivated to work from home. I find the best time is first thing in the morning and the great thing is that because you have a home business you can set your own hours. Go work out in the morning, then you can return to work from home.

Media Fast

Manage the time you spend on the distractions of email, Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook etc. If you do not plan the time you use these services and be disciplined in using the services you will find your productive time disappear. Your head will pop up from the monitor and you will say to yourself, where did the day go.

Take a page from Tim Ferris’s book 4 Hour Work Week (literally). Check email twice a day, I personally do it at 10am and 3pm. As for the social networks like Twitter, facebook, MySpace, Google Reader during business hours use it for business. Have a plan how those services fit into your home business marketing plan and be focused. You can catch up with your friends, family etc. in the off work hours.

Your office, your space

A lot of people start there home business and use the dinning room table as the workspace of choice. This will work for the short term however you will find yourself going crazy if you continue. Make a space for yourself that is inviting and you enjoy being there. Get a good desk, a great chair, artwork whatever you need to be creative and relaxed.

Take Time for Yourself

The pitfall of working from home sometimes can be that you never stop working. Remember, you started a home business because you wanted more time for yourself. Make sure you treat yourself to some well deserved recreation, get out and play. Watch a great movie, read a good book, whatever feeds your mind and allows you to recharge.

Set Your Hours

Plan your days, a home business needs a consistent daily effort to become successful. I posted an article on the importance of planning your day for outstanding results. Set your work hours, it does not matter when they are just set them to suit the way you like to work. Work during those hours be consistent so friends and family know not to bother you during those times.

Friends & Family

A common problem for home business owners is that we can become a hermit. I know sometimes I can go a day and not even get outside and I say to myself what happened. I start to feel like a vampire never seeing daylight. Plan sometime with family and friends. Let’s face it most of use decided to work at home because we wanted more time with family and friends, make sure you stick to this goal!

I have been running my home business for over 2 years now and I feel that this few simple tips make all the difference. Treat yourself, your family and your friends well. You started a home business for many reasons but the most common one is freedom! Take advantage of it and be consistent in your home business efforts and you will have all the success you seek.

Do you have any tips for our readers? How do you manage the work at home, working from home, home business?

Today I will Make a Difference

// March 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Success Tips

Today I will make a difference. I will begin by controlling my thoughts. A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances. I will not let petty inconveniences such as stoplights, long lines, and traffic jams be my masters. I will avoid negativism and gossip. Optimism will be my companion, and victory will be my hallmark. Today I will make a difference.

I will be grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before me. Time is a precious commodity. I refuse to allow what little time I have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety, or boredom. I will face this day with the joy of a child and the courage of a giant. I will drink each minute as though it is my last. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. While it is here, I will use it for loving and giving. Today I will make a difference.

I will not let past failures haunt me. Even though my life is scarred with mistakes, I refuse to rummage through my trash heap of failures. I will admit them. I will correct them. I will press on. Victoriously. No failure is fatal. It’s OK to stumble…I will get up. It’s OK to fail…I will rise again. Today I will make a difference.

I will spend time with those I love. My spouse, my children, my family. A man can own the world but be poor for the lack of love. A man can own nothing and yet be wealthy in relationships. Today I will spend at least five minutes with the significant people in my world. Five quality minutes of talking or hugging or thanking or listening. Five undiluted minutes with my mate, children, and friends.

Today I will make a difference.

Max Lucado
From On The Anvil
Copyright (Tyndale Publishing, 1985) Max Lucado, Used by Permission

Get The Money You Want Part 3

// March 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Personal Development, Success Tips

The Steps To Wealth and Happiness

To continue from yesterday’s post, you are now on a journey, at the end of which you shall know how to create all the wealth and happiness you ever wished for, now, without any limits. You shall soon also know many timeless truths about who you really are, what you are doing here, and what this game of life is all about.

Here are the steps of the journey you are now taking with this book:

1. You shall first take a simplified look at Quantum Physics, for knowing what you and the world are made of is the first key to knowing how to make it your way. After this, you will never look at the world in the same way again. You shall have an amazing sense of involvement and power in the universe…
2. Then the secrets of time shall be unveiled, beginning with the fact that time does not exist. You shall learn how to use this illusion instead of being used by it. There is only Now…
3. You now will learn how to create your universe out of the quantum field using images of your mind. This is the first part of the creation lessons.
4. You then learn how to create using your thoughts. You will learn the right way to think, and what the mind is really for, and when to shut it down for your own benefit…
5. You will then look at the power of true goal setting in the thousands, in a way you may never heard before, a most powerful way…
6. Next will come the most powerful creation tool of all, your state of Being…
7. The final creation tool, action, will then be uncovered in it’s true position and purpose to you…
8. You shall then learn the magical and vital ingredient of certainty, and learn how to have it in plenty…
9. Now, it will be time to look at the prime Law of the Universe and how to use it to have happiness and wealth in abundance. The is the law of Cause and Effect…
10. While still in this law, we shall look at what conditions really are. This will shock you, make you laugh, empower you, and free you…
11. While still on conditions, you shall see how you are and shall realize ever-present success and never fail…
12. Then, you shall look at a prime killer of wealth and happiness and how to totally avoid it…
13. You will then move on to progressively larger things. You will start with your self-chosen Purpose here on earth. Why did you come here? You shall see…
14. Then the gift of giving and the gifts it brings in return will be fully given to you…
15. The power of gratitude Now shall be unveiled. This will prove to be extremely powerful for you…
16. Finally, it will be time to look at Consciousness, what makes you Here, Now, awake…
17. And then it shall get really interesting when you have a look at your Self, the First Cause of all that is in your world. Get familiar with your Self and your world will change dramatically…
18. After that, you shall see what is larger than the Self, that which you and all else are part of. It is the One. Knowing how you relate to All That Is, The Source, then experiencing this, will put you in a position of immense joy and abundance…
19. And on that note, you shall see how abundant you really are…
20. From there, you shall look at your real nature and how to reclaim it. It is the nature of pure joy…
21. Then, coming around full circle, you shall see how to best handle paper money, as you know it now, to increase wealth…
22. And to close this part of this journey, you will be guided into the next empowering steps you may wish to take after you first finish this book…

How to read and understand this book

The way to understand this book is to read it once in its entirety. As you read, you will have many questions, and some things may not make sense to you when you read them. Never mind; just keep going. Further chapters will make clear some things that you may have not understood or found true in earlier chapters. Language is a linear thing, yet wealth consciousness is wholeness, a non-linear whole, and one whereby step one may be connected to step seven and so on. And wealth consciousness is a state of being, while language is a symbol; states have to be experienced and symbols cannot represent experience accurately – they can only show the way, be a guide. So, as you read it you will find many amazing things that make sense right then, but it will only totally make sense when you finish this book and have the whole of it in you. That is when you will start to go ah-ha!

Once you read it fully, read it again slowly. In the second read you will be able to more fully understand things, since you now will have the whole in you. The material you will find in this book contains many layers of understanding. What you understand today will reveal an even deeper hidden truth, application and identification when you read it again tomorrow. Read a small part of this book every day, even after you finish it the first time, and your internalization of wealth and happiness and becoming of wealth and happiness will accelerate.

The other thing you should do is to not only read with your logical mind but to also feel the lessons in this book. Some of the things in this book are logical, but many pertain to a realm where logic cannot fully grasp, yet your Self knows it all and perfectly understands. As you read this book, keep yourself open, feel the essence of what you read. Many things will not make sense to your brain, for it is finite and four-dimensional. Some things are infinite and multidimensional and only your Self will know them because it is multidimensional and infinite in nature. Sometimes you will feel that you understand something at a deeper level, but your mind cannot picture it, yet you understand deeply somewhere. Honor the deeper level, for the mind may never fully grasp it any way. In any case, your mind is a tool, but all you know is in your Self. You are a Self with a mind as a powerful tool, as long as it does not take over you. However, most people have unfortunately identified with the mind and believe they are their mind – and that is where the trouble and limitations start. You shall now go higher than that.

Read this book and take it to heart, live by it. And wealth, affluence and abundance will automatically come to you in ways and amounts you never before imagined possible, by laws that never fail. Carry it around with you where possible. Leave it by your bedside and read it for a few minutes every morning when you get up and at night before you go to sleep. When you are done, start again, a few pages every day. Repetition causes internalization, making it your second nature.

You will understand this book to the extent that you are willing.

Ready? Still interested? Lets begin…

This text was extracted From the book Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron. Here is my affiliate link to the site if you would like to have a look » www.imagesofone.com

Get The Money You Want Part 2

// March 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // Personal Development, Success Tips

We continue from yesterday to look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people. Our internal value, is what creates money. Money is the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others and your external money and wealth will correspondingly rise automatically, without fail.

Know this however: Money represents an aspect of a person’s internal value, but that does not mean that it represents a person’s entire internal value. That is very important. It is not about self-worth. Money only represents an aspect of that internal value that pertains to wealth. You cannot therefore say that a wealthy person has a higher self-worth and value than a poor person, but you can correctly say that in matters that relate and pertain to money, the wealthy person has a higher internal value in that aspect of value or that the person chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this internal value. This section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money, when exercised, is called Wealth Consciousness. It is available to all people equally and can be developed by and within all people equally. Like everything else that is important to our being alive, such as air, wealth consciousness is free to all. But you can choose to develop it or not develop it, or to exercise it or not. At any time, you can change your choice, and nothing outside of you can stop you.

You require nothing outside of yourself to increase your wealth consciousness, and therefore your money. All you need is within you right now. You may have forgotten it, but it is right there. You will now remember it. And the first step to that is to always remember that money is not real; it is the shadow of something else.

And here is another secret: Wealth consciousness is simply the expansion of your consciousness and awareness into the wealthy parts of your Self. That is why all that you need to increase your wealth consciousness is within you already. You are already wealthy, but you have been taught to choose to not experience your wealth. This insight changes everything. Like the wealthy people, you can now know how to and choose to start experiencing the wealthy you.

You have more wealth capability within you than you can possibly experience in a lifetime. You need not worry that you have reached your limit of becoming wealthy in any way or because of any condition. Neither do you need to know how to convert wealth consciousness into paper cash money – as you will see, it will happen automatically. All you need to do is expand your wealth consciousness and exercise it, act on it, be it, and the situations and opportunities for the equivalent conversion into cash money will present themselves automatically to you. None of the extremely wealthy people today could have, at the time when they were not wealthy, possibly predicted and planned the exact sequence of events that would lead to their immense wealth. They most probably had a set of goals and a plan, but any one of them will tell you that they met countless ‘coincidences’ and opportunities that ‘joined the dots’ for them in ways they could never have predicted. Their goals were their own doing, but the paths that led to them coming into being, and exceeding them, we amazingly intelligent yet unforeseen. You shall now see how to make them happen in your life – you may not be able to predict their sequence, but you can certainly make these ‘fortunate coincidences’ happen to you every day of your life.

By the way, it is not only paper money that is not real. A lot of the things around you that you hold so real are really not real at all either. You are about to embark on a beautiful, empowering and liberating journey that will show you exactly what your world is in a way that you have never looked at it before. It is a journey that will open your eyes and free your wings. You are about to look ‘under the hood’ of the Life, you are about to learn how to customize your world to your liking.

You are about to attain Wealth Consciousness. Once you do, avoiding success and wealth will become very difficult. Yes, you read that correctly. Once you have wealth consciousness, it will be very difficult for you to not have success and wealth. Success and wealth will follow you automatically wherever you go. You will not need to concern yourself with their quest, yet they will find you. You will be free to experience other aspects of life that you may not have even dreamt of before, dimensions of Self and Life that are truly amazing. The same goes with happiness, for you will see it here in this book as well.

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post to get to the real stuff this book has to offer, if you are still interested…

From the book Happy Pocket Full of Money by David Cameron. Here is my affiliate link to the site if you would like to have a look » www.imagesofone.com