Habits to help grow your Home Based Business

Yesterday we talked about being proactive with regards to your home based business. I would like to expound a little more on that and then move onto other habits that can be helpful in growing your home based business.

To be proactive essentially means that you go out and meet the challenges that are looming on the horizon. If you choose to be reactive to those same challenges you may find that more problems will develop. How many times have you worried about a particular situation happening only to discover that once the problem came and went, your worries were far worse than the actual event? By being proactive, and striving to resolve the situation before it becomes a problem, you reduce the worry and fear that may occur. You are essentially taking the situation on, head-on and choosing to respond and resolve the problem before it really becomes a problem. If you sit back and wait for the situation to fully develop and then react, your fears and worries about what might happen will in all likelihood be far worse than what actually took place.

If you choose to actively take a role in the upcoming issue, then you are not allowing your fears to guide your decision making. By taking a proactive role in resolving the situation, you are taking command of the situation before it takes command of you. This way, you don't spend nights awake worrying about what might happen if so-and-so does one thing. You will have made a decision, followed through with it and then, whatever the outcome, at least you didn't let the situation take over your life. Many people worry far more about an upcoming event than the event actually warrants. Being proactive allows you to take charge of your life and your business so you have no room to worry, you get it done.

Another habit to refine in order to help your home based business grow is that of prioritizing. You want to put first things first and focus on the important instead of the time-filling tasks. As we have talked about before, you started your home based business with an end in mind. I know that sounds odd, but why else would you start a small business and take time out of your already busy schedule if you didn't have a desired end in mind that you were working towards? You may want to make more money, or you may want more time to spend with your family. These are all end goals. So basically since you are starting a home based business with a specific end in mind, you are beginning with the end.

After being proactive and taking advance steps towards a situation before the situation takes you over, and starting with the end in mind, you can now begin to prioritize the tasks that need to be done in order to allow your home based business to grow and prosper. Prioritizing can also be looked at in one way as time management. Time is something that once lost can never be recovered, so it is critical that you maximize the time you have.

We will continue talking about time management and prioritization tomorrow.

Until tomorrow...