Your Internet Business–Strategic Planning
In the context of this blog, starting an Internet business belongs to same subject family as starting a small home business. However, starting a home Internet business is not necessarily the same thing as making money online. Of course, you and I start our home Internet business with every intention of not just making money online but making gobs of it. Read more
Update and Stumbling Onward
This blog really is about starting your own home business online and developing its profitability. However, I’ve been sidetracked thinking about motivational issues that might underly your/my business success. And I’ve also been trying to put together some software but ran into a few snags that I’ll have to unbug.
One of the things I want to do is offer a number really simple, easy to use applications to help with various aspects of business organization. I was working on a scheduling program but ran into problems with the installation. Anyway, I want to make these so inexpensive that they’ll cost little more than pocket change.
I have some great video course material that I need to upload on how to use the Internet to make money, and I also want to get the small business basics series of articles up. And then, of course, there is the programming problem. Anyway, my point is that I have to go step by step, persist, and not be distracted from immediate goal. Reaching the long term goal/s depends on meeting the more immediate short term goals.
Ok, so that has the ring of platitude. Still, identifying short term goals and meeting them does help chart the course toward your primary target, and as you and I recognize the completion of the smaller goals, we are able to mark our progress along the way.
I thnk one of the big obstacles for single person setting up his or her own business, whether online or off, is staying motivated and not getting discouraged. It is one thing if you have an MBA and funding sources and quite another if you are somewhat in the dark about business practice and trying to start your business by pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, as it were.
Getting Rich–Are We Missing the Point?
I was thinking about all the money talk in my last post, and that started me thinking about what we all think about when we think about starting our very own online home business and making money online. To wit, getting rich. So, is getting rich the end point? And, what is "rich," anyway? My notion of rich is probably different from your idea of rich, and your definition is probably different than the next guy’s. How much money does it take to be rich, and then when you reach that point, is the game over? If so, what next?
I’m asking you. I don’t know that I have an answer. I know–without defining "rich" or trying to quantify "rich,"–that I want to be rich. So, without ever having been rich, I’m assuming that being rich is good. The point of being rich, in the context of this blog, is to allow you (me) to be free, or more free. So, I see "rich" moving me from some less desirable condition to a more desirable condition. And to me, the point of being in the more desirable condition is to enhance my choices for doing.
If I follow my thinking, if such a thing is possible, the point of being rich or attaining "rich," is really a sort of transition to occur. Or another way of putting it could be that being rich enables expanded options for "doing" or for action. Sort of like a battery needing so much charge before it can "do" anything.
In my last post I said that I associated freedom with an intangible sense of infinite space. If getting rich were to be the end point, then to me that would have to be diametrically opposed to freedom. I mean, the game would be over, and then what do you do, die? Getting rich has to be intimately connected with enhancing the value of our lives, but I don’t see that from just being rich that it automatically follows that my life will be enhanced and have greater value.
Swerving from the subject line just little bit, when I started this post, I was really thinking about self-esteem and what relationship, if any, exists between self-esteem and being rich. How much self-esteem do you need to be rich? Are those of us who have high self-esteem more likely to be rich than our low self-esteem friends? Is self love–and I don’t mean vanity–more of an indicator of success than self loathing? You tell me. Personally, I think self-esteem and confidence are highly correlated, and I suspect there is at least a soupcon of correlation between self-confidence and success.
I think that we have to have a certain measure of self-respect, self-esteem, and confidence to have a greater chance of undertaking a bold, new venture such as starting a home business and turning it into a successful online income. So what do we do to reach that measure of self-love that allows us to see and act on new possibilities?