Growing your Home Based Business

We have been spending a fair amount of time talking about how to make your home based business either successful or more successful than it currently is. Just because you have a home based business doesn't mean that you are not interested in growing your home based business. In the last several weeks, we have proposed several ideas on steps you can take to help to grow your home based business. All of these articles actually have the same idea running through them, which is, if you want to be successful, you need to ask yourself empowering questions.

I know that sounds odd, maybe even cliche, but in all the articles, aren't there always questions in them asking you what else you would do to grow your business? In Keith Cameron Smith's book, "The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires And The Middle Class" his number one distinction is that Millionaires ask themselves empowering questions where as the middle-class people ask disempowering questions. The same set of rules do apply to home based businesses, and businesses in general. You cannot look at the business you are in and not ask yourself what you can do to grow your business. Successful businesses are always looking for ways to improve, grow, increase customer loyalty, lots of things.

All of these questions and thoughts are empowering questions. You would not look at a business and ask yourself when you will fail. The object is to look at where you are and ask yourself honestly where you really, really want to be. That type of thought provoking question will cause you to stretch your imagination and possibly see opportunities where you thought there were none. Empowering questions will cause you to look beyond tomorrow and 5 - 10 years into the future. If you just look at how you are going to pay your bills tomorrow, you will only be able to pay your bills tomorrow. Whereas if you look at how you could triple your income by this time next year, well, most likely, by this time next year you will have tripled if not quadrupled your income.

The key is to pose questions that will make you stretch to reach the answers. Think of questions that will expand your mind. Write them down and propose answers if you have them at the time. Track your progress. You may be surprised about how far you move as you measure your progress. Keep your questions fresh, don't forget to review them and constantly think about the answers. There may be times that the answer to the question may change over time, or that you may finally find the answer to one of your questions that you have had trouble solving.

Asking these empowering type questions will impact the way you feel about yourself, your family and your business. Empowering questions will ask what you can do, not what you cannot achieve. You don't want to ask why life is hard, or why you are struggling. You need to flip the question around and ask how you can improve your current business situation. By changing how you view the question you are essentially changing how you fell about the situation. Once you get used to asking empowering questions, you will find that you become more and more successful, you begin living up to the potential you saw in your idea.

Your questions should continue to lead you towards more success. As Keith Cameron Smith states, this idea is summed up in the phrase: "As a man thinks, so is he." So, take a good look at how you look at yourself and your situation. Instead of asking yourself how you got into a particular situation, ask yourself what opportunity is in front of you and how can you make it work successfully for you? You will be amazed at how much more positive you will feel and how success will start following you.

If you are interested in starting a home based business, or have questions about growing your current business, please feel free to e-mail us with your questions at hawgwash1@yahoo.com. We will be more than willing to help you grow your business or help you on a path to becoming financially free.

Until tomorrow...