Your bed’s warm and comfy and you no longer have a clock to punch or boss to answer to, so why not sleep just a few more minutes… but wait, you ARE the boss and have a business to run! If you don’t get out of bed and make things happen, who will? How would this behavior translate if you lived in the jungle? Read on and find out:
It doesn’t matter whether you are a gazelle or a lion, when the sun comes up… you better be running. Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion… or… it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle… or… it will starve to death.
With no boss breathing down your neck or clock to punch, It can be so tempting to stay in bed one hour longer, to postpone picking up the phone and contacting that prospect, or to focus your time and energy on the easy and fun stuff and put the unpleasant stuff off until later.
Being disciplined is a major trait that you need when working from home, it’s simple as that! You have to take full responsibility for your success or your failure, so the obvious thing to do is wake up early and get to work. If you don’t earn money, how will you eat?
To truly succeed as a serious home-based business owner, you need to be strong-willed and self-disciplined. You also need a solid, thorough, written plan to keep you on track and in constant motion.
If you are not moving forwards, you are moving backwards. So start planning where you want your business to go… and then follow up with inspired action! You might like to plan different tasks for different days as such:
Monday – Adding A New Blog Post
Tuesday – Article Marketing
Wednesday – Follow Up With Prospects
… and the list goes on.
Others prefer to perform a variety of tasks on any given day, for example:
Monday – Email Marketing in the morning, Blogging in the afternoon
Tuesday – Customer service (morning), Webinars (afternoon)
Without planning you will fail… so whatever you do, make sure you have a plan!
A structured plan is critically important for creating the freedom that you want and deserve. Disregard that and you will fail dismally.
Without planning, you don’t have a business, and this no freedom!
Just remember, be disciplined enough to get to work (even if it’s at home) every morning, then reap the rewards. Are you the lion or gazelle? Doesn’t matter as long as you’re moving forward!