Thoughts for a Successful Home Based Business

We have been talking off and on about how to make a Home Based Business successful. We have posted several suggestions, thoughts and observations that may help you to develop a successful home based business, or make your business more successful. Tonight we are going to review something that can give many the heebie-jeebies... Change.

As you know, whether you like it or not, change is a part of life. Change is everywhere, the seasons change, our body's change as we age, our work environment changes, etc. The key is how we deal with all of these changes. How many people do you know that have a hard time dealing with the changes in their body as they age? Even better, how many people have you encountered that have a very hard time dealing with changes in their workplace? There are always people very resistant to change, especially in the work place and may do whatever it takes to resist that change. In today's economic climate, change is the norm and we all need to learn to work with change.

What is important is how you personally deal with change. Change can be positive or negative. Everybody probably wants that positive change (like more money, or more free time) but actually change, positive or negative, is really how you personally view it. How well you handle change, especially unexpected change can be the difference between having a successful business and closing your doors for business. Millionaires look at change as an opportunity for growth and will usually embrace change for that reason. Part of the reason that millionaires may welcome change is that they may have developed the confidence to learn from the change. If you are insecure, you will probably not welcome change because it challenges your current situation. If you are unsure about yourself now, how much worse will it be after the "CHANGE"?

Confidence is believing that you can do whatever you set your mind to do, and do it successfully. When you started your home based business, didn't some people tell you that you were nuts? You didn't listen to them because you had the confidence in your belief of the business and your ability. You choose to be confident, you don't wish to be confident. If you can choose to be confident, then you can also choose to embrace change. Once you get over the initial fear of change, take a look at what may be changing and look for the opportunity in the change.

You may see this particular change as detrimental to your business, but there is always another side to that change. Perhaps the change is needed to help you streamline your business processes? Is there a change in your product line because one of your suppliers is going out of business? If that happens, there could be a large opportunity for you to grow. If the product has lived past it's useful life to customers (like the slide rule) it is time for you to see what else is up and coming in the market and then begin to promote that. Or, if the product you are offering is no longer being manufactured, is it something that you could manufacture? Perhaps you can take this opportunity to corner the market on that particular item and be the sole manufacturer?

No matter what the change is, change teaches us new things that we may have needed to learn but kept putting off for one reason or another. The more we learn, the more confident we become and the more we learn to embrace change. It is at that point that we can learn to look at the changes in our environment and look for opportunities in that change. Look at some businesses that didn't change with the times and went out of business. Those companies became complacent and refused to take advantage of the opportunities of change. Other companies, like Microsoft and Apple embrace change every chance they get. Those companies will continue to survive because they are always looking for the opportunity in changes.

In order for your home based business to become and remain successful, you will need to learn to embrace change and look for the opportunities in those changes.

If you are looking to start a home based business, or are looking to expand what you are currently doing, please feel free to check out our website, http://www.hawgwash.net/ for ideas. We welcome any questions you may have.

Until tomorrow...