Is your attitude holding your business back?

Tonight we are continuing our discussion on attitude and where your business is focusing. The other day we talked specifically about where your business is focusing, and started talking about how your attitude could negatively affect your small and home based business decisions. As promised, tonight we are going to cover some myths about attitude and how to overcome the feelings that trigger some bad decisions.

Is your attitude holding your business back? From the time we are born, we are conditioned by family, friends and environmental conditions. Perhaps you grew up with your parents telling you that you won't amount to much, so why bother working so hard. Perhaps your parents were saying that not because they believed it in you, but because that is what their parents taught them. Or, you may have had parents that believed the only way you would ever succeed is by going to school, studying hard, get a good job and work until it is time for you to retire. So when you strike out and start a business of your own, your parents are telling you that it is a dumb or crazy idea. You almost believe them because you have been pre-conditioned to believe the only real way to succeed is by working a regular job.

The key here is to identify the beliefs you have held for years, or even decades and determine if any of those closely held beliefs are misleading, or false. This is not an easy task, mostly because we tend to react emotionally first when one of our core beliefs is challenged. What we need to do is to stop and examine the emotional reaction and see if the reaction is in line with what caused the reaction. You also need to see if your emotional reaction is reasonable.

Some people may have been conditioned to believe that if they do not work a regular job, they will amount to nothing. Or that if they start a home based business they are doomed to failure. They may try the business, but if they fail once, they will never try again, because that one failure, in their eyes, is proof of what they have been pre-conditioned to believe. We all need to look at our own personal emotional responses to stimuli and determine if those responses are reasonable, or if perhaps we need to re-train ourselves to a new emotional response.

Most of your prospects do not make a purchase based on logic alone, they are purchasing products and services more based on emotion rather than pure logic. If you have managed to tap into their emotional triggers, then you should be able to look at your own emotional triggers and work to make the triggers positive instead of negative. By discarding the beliefs that are misleading or false and replacing them with positive beliefs, you will have a much more positive attitude and be more positive about focusing on your business decisions. The positive attitude should allow you to make more positive business decisions. If nothing else, the positive attitude will allow you to think more clearly about what decisions need to be made with regards to your small, home-based business.

We must keep in mind that even if outside events and challenges have some influence over our business situations, it is us alone who have the ultimate outcome and ultimate decision making power. Once we realize that we are in the driver's seat and that outside factors can be made to work for us instead of against us, our attitudes will be much more positive and will reflect positively in our business dealings. We then learn that our attitude is no longer holding our business back.

If you are looking for a second income business opportunity, we may have something that would interest you. Please feel free to contact us with your questions, perhaps we can help you earn that second income or help you on your way towards financial freedom.

Until tomorrow...