You really want to build your home business, but things just don’t feel right.
It can be really hard to take apart why we feel the way we do. This may help.
Let’s take the “dirtiness” out of procrastination and see if there aren’t some honest reasons why, even you are excited about your business, why you are not making progress.
Note: It’s been several months since I’ve written a home business related article, but this post deals with an aspect of my experiences since last summer when a coach I was working with told me to stop blogging. At the time I was blogging virtually everyday and spending a lot of time doing it. It can be addicting if you enjoy writing. Yet, bringing it to a grinding halt was part of a larger effort to assess my goals and aspects of my life that contributed to fear and apprehension. From a business point of view, he intended to help steer me in a direction that would be the most efficient at building a team while reducing the demand on my time.
My last coach was a life coach, and working with him I back off completely from prospecting in order to concentrate on resolving old fear, anger and resentment. As a result, I feel a lot more relaxed, healthier, more confident in my family relationships and dealing with stressors. I’d say those are valuable rewards, trading in the general anxiety for peace. It’s a much better place to be when starting a new direction and choosing a strategy that comes from your inner voice.
Let’s get back to the article…
Not feeling right is one of the biggest mysteries you can experience in the effort to start building your home business. You may have feelings of being disconnected and confused with reality as it hinders you from getting started. You become constantly pulled in opposite directions as one part of you wants to build a business for obvious reasons and another part of you is saying “now, just you wait here.”
You’ve probably gotten an earful already about the benefits of running your own business. The honest benefits are all real. Your path to leadership in a home business is really no further than just beyond your reach, but those few inches could be like a mile. You can unlock the door if you find the right keys.
Sometimes we need to take a step back and survey your surroundings before moving forward.
It may take some time to figure out which activities you need to be doing, not just in network marketing but in many aspects of your life including personal finance. Building your confidence in how you are engaged with your interests will help you in moving forward with a home business.
Dealing with these issues can also help give you realistic and survivable expectations for yourself, your business, and, may I say, even your dreams. On one hand, you have every right to dream big and, on the other hand, life often has ways of fulfilling our needs in ways we don’t anticipate.
Time for reflection – photo by Challen Yee
So… What’s troubling you?
Some coaches, your dad or your up-line may exhort, “Stop making excuses.” There’s all kinds of buzz sayings to apply to what seems like procrastination, but the bottom line is, it is your life and you need to have the requisite level of peace with all that you do in order to have a defined “safe harbor” to operate from when building a business. You need to take responsibility, not only for your new business, but also each area of your life that you may be neglecting. This may seem to contradict the notion that “you must move forward despite fear.”
In other words, if your life feels unsettled, then jumping into a business, despite your fears, moving in a situation where you expect to take on serious responsibilities isn’t likely to be synergistic, but probably the opposite.
Don’t worry. When you’re ready to drive your business and become a top-earner, you can find the help you need. But right now what you may need is something a little deeper and interspective.
Some of the concerns you may encounter as a leader:
- How do I face the fear of being a parent who is going to take on added responsibilities as a team leader?
- How do I put my full time job in perspective?
- How do I make sure my home and marriage life stay healthy?
- How should I invest and manage my investments?
- How will being a rental property manager affect my time?
- How do I leverage my blogs and websites?
- How do I filter the advice of successful network marketers?
- Is what I am already doing with my finances good enough without adding another leg like network marketing?
- How do I deal with the impending lifestyle changes when starting a business?
- What are going to be my lead generation methods?
- To what extent do I mimic established leaders?
- How much information should I have online for visitors to reference? Is it too much or too little?
- How much social media do I use in marketing? (and how do I keep from looking spammie?).
- What are all the marketing methods I plan to employ?
- How do I appear to my social media community?
- How do I fit the business model to my lifestyle rather than change my lifestyle to fit a business model?
- How do I provide the proper amount of support and leadership?
- Which personal lifestyle choices can I compromise and which ones will I not compromise?
All of the above, and more, are serious considerations. Consider resolving these parts of your personal and professional development if they are burdening you because they all have an effect on your posture that you will carry to your brand and your market. You may not need to do much work on a given area (or you might), but being able to resolve it or come to terms with them will help you prioritize depending on the main thrust of your business (e.g. active or passive marketing, selling products, sponsoring business builders).
What else would cause a slow start in network marketing? Especially if you are married, have young children and a reasonably high paying job, you may ask yourself, “Am I ready to shake up the current reality with building a business?” or “Am I ready to change what I have now in effort to shoot for a future goal?”
For some of you, there is no question. For others, it is like standing on the edge of a cliff and needing to take a leap.
But there are some ways you can make that jump with some safety equipment.
“Take action, take action, take action.” But you don’t take action.
You might be struggling with your common sense. You do need to take action, but if you have many responsibilities already, you need to make sure you are reasonably confident you can survive your home business, not just externally with prospecting, managing your team, and serving customers, but internally, having reasonable expectations from the business and yourself, while having faith that network marketing can accommodate you how ever far you have the ambition and drive to take it.
Considerations without an established system
Before you as a leader take serious action, you need a system to plug your customers and network into. That takes some education and thought to set up, especially if you need a system that is tailored to who you are as a leader. Your style may not match someone else’s who is successful but you can incorporate whatever parts work for you from other leaders while leveraging your company’s resources, and your own insights.
If you do not agree with your sponsor’s (upline’s) method of business building, then it becomes a process to determine if in the old system there is anything that is salvageable and how to address the new system to existing team members.
You may come to realize that a complete severing of the umbilical cord is necessary to protect new people from toxic methods, attitudes and behaviors. So you need initial confidence in your new system and provide all the necessary support for your new team.
No matter how hard you try, you can neither hide your true self nor your true circumstances. Stop running away from your problems. Running a business is not meant to be an escape.
You may not be able or willing to give up your other activities, whether they make money or not. You need an ability to “focus in the present.” Time management skills are needed to make everything work out. If moving forward with your plans seems confusing, there are more areas in your life that require evaluation and resolution.
Being unable to move forward may be a matter of understanding your life’s purpose, not only at a “soul-level” but also at the life circumstance level. Ask yourself these questions or similar questions:
1. Do I need develop the discipline to maintain the connection with my children?
2. Do I need to strengthen my relationship and acceptance of my spouse and his or her idiosyncrasies that I should not bother trying to change?
3. Do I need to be at peace with the job I hate. Do I consider all of its benefits including medical coverage?
4. Do I need to shift my investments into real long-term growth so I don’t need to baby sit them on a daily or even weekly basis?
5. Do I need to evict bad tenants?
6. Do I need to take full control (or give up full control) of a long-term project so putting it on hold it does not it affect or involve others (or involve you)?
7. Do I need to give up expecting other people to change and just accept them as they are?
8. Do I need to get my income to debt ratio in order?
9. Do I need to build a stronger support system in every area that requires it?
Not resolving any issue in your life to a level you can live with will affect your business posture and your level of support you offer as a leader.
Yes, you will need to give your new business focus, but that doesn’t mean neglecting your other responsibilities. They will necessarily need to be fit enough to handle the extra time-sharing.
Remember the old personal development adage: Doing nothing is out of the question if you want to achieve something you currently do not possess.
Yes, action is very important, but which action is also important. If you are getting hung up, you may need to look at more than your new direction and resolve issues that could be holding you back in life.
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I’ll see you… on the next page
Challen Yee
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