Misconceptions About Working From Home
Research has estimated that by the year 2008 15 million people in the U.S.A will be "working from home".
This means that roughly 5-10 % of the population will have established a way to conveniently work from the comfort of their own home.
In North America you can safely double or in some locations even triple that number. Thanks to current social and economic trends, many people have shifted to become open to the working from home concept, in fact to many it is the a dream come true.
Equipment essential for setting up a home office is easy to find, relatively inexpensive and most of the time extremely user friendly.
Nowadays, People are seeking more flexible schedules for a variety of reasons. There has also been a trend to not appreciate having to answer to a superior who governs their every move.
Is this possible? Or are we just fooling ourselves by thinking it can be done with success?
Well, the answer is yes and no. Allow me to explain.
In my research I have come across many articles and written pieces regurgitating the same information stating that ALL home based business opportunities and those involved in them are doomed to fail.
In the business world saying that you have a home based business isn't normally associated with a WOW!! or How DID YOU DO IT?? response. Actually and not infrequently, the reflected thoughts are those of you must be a bum with no REAL job. UNLESS you drive a crazy top of the line car and live in a mansion then, the thought trend is that you must be involved in some illegal business.
Another example I like to use is in the medical world, where if and when a surgery is successful it is believed that it's so because the surgeon was an expert. However, when the surgery fails or results in a negative outcome not infrequently do fingers point at Anesthesia. I bring this up because we all know of the Anesthesia related deaths from the early days of Ether(1846). In the current day and 161 years later, the number 1 fear people have as they undergo surgery, where someone will cut into them and literally mess with their insides, is the fear of the belief that they might die from Anesthesia.
Why is that? The answer to both issuess, and many others, is that through the generations negative associations have been linked to certain things, people or places. These beliefs have transcended through time and have been handed over to each generation as a golden rule that cannot be challenged. Most of these beliefs also lack any physical or fully researched evidence.
The error is this; although it is true that in 1846 people died from Anesthesia. People are reluctant to believe and trust that Since then, other very hard working people who were very dedicated to the ultimate wellbeing of humanity advanced in research and in understanding of the human body so much , have been SUCCESSFUL in establishing the modern day SAFE Anesthetic.
People have been lead to believe that what ever a home based business involves, its just NOT a real job & that it WILL be easy money. As a result they slack off and stop working hard enough and finally When the money situation deteriorates or the business fails they immediately call it quits and believe that they have been scammed.
These disaster stories travel around and rumors develop, rumors then become facts and facts are believed. And as we attract what we believe, guess what ends up happening?
Having said that, every now and then someone comes along who believes they will make the difference and challenges theses so called facts. Some, who are factual and have the right attitude, become successful and others, by repeating the same common mistakes they internally fear, and by believing these misconceptions, simply repeat history...
A recent study showed that of those who CLAIM to work from home 25% spend less than one hour on their office work when working from home, 53% spend less than three hours and only 14% put in a full eight hours.
And you ask why most home businesses fail?
It is not because some one has scammed some one else, it is because we as humans have internal flaws built in us and without recognizing them, and correcting them we trip and fall and, by default, refuse to feel failure or incompetence so we deflect those negative feelings onto the external uncontrolable environment...hence the common phrases of (I was scammed, it was a bad company, my mentor was useless...etc)
Remember!
Expectations without preparation & participation will lead to ruin..
30 year old female physician residing in Halifax, Canada. As a health care proffessional, who works from home, and a member of the Fourpoint Group, she helps people establish a healthy,successful and ethical home based business.
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