Archive for September 2007

Can You Really Manage a Family and a Work From Home Job? By Matthew Bredel

Today, many people dream of working from home. Is working at home something that will work for you?

First of all, if you are looking to get rich quick, you might be better off buying a lottery ticket. Work-at-home successes all have a commonality: work. Those who have found success and made money by working from home on their computer did at least two things: 1) They worked hard to discover how to make money and 2) probably worked even harder to actually start bringing in that money.

Some of these successful people are willing to share their ideas with you either for a fee or even out of the goodness of their hearts. Good information can be available for a fee but there are many free resources as well that can get you started and help you find out more about what to and what not to do to jumpstart your work-at-home career.

Many people take a stab at an entrepreneurial telecommuting job and then give up quickly because: a) It’s hard to find out what to get into b) It can take time before you see the fruits of your labour c) It’s such hard work that they have trouble finding the balance they sought in a work at home job in the first place.

If you are willing to put in some time learning through some trial and error, you could find your way to a profitable work at home business that lets you balance work and family without commuting and daycare costs.

Can I juggle work with family in a WAH career?

Many mothers panic at the idea of leaving their babies at a few weeks or months old to go back to work. Many parents want to stay home with their children at least until they are in school full time.

Others Moms and Dads want to home school their children and plan to stay home indefinitely. The harsh reality though is that many families need two incomes to survive. This is where the dream of working at home comes in.

There are many different niche markets such as: multi level marketing opportunities, affiliate marketing, drop shipping businesses, freelance writing, technical and consulting work, auction businesses, virtual assistant positions, transcription or data entry services and more. Can you really make a full-time income working from home? The answer is a resounding yes. Will it take work and time? That’s a yes as well.

How do you juggle demanding family responsibilities and work? At first, you may have times where the laundry or dirty dishes will sit or where you order take-out for dinner three days in a row. At first you may have to set your alarm to get up before the rest of the family so that you can get some uninterrupted work time or stay up after the house is quiet at night so you can finish a project. At first, you may work seven days per week and find that you now work harder than you ever did when you worked outside the home but is it rewarding and fulfilling? Absolutely!

When you find your niche and find that you are replacing your old income (or surpassing it) you can find it worthwhile to occasionally work with a toddler on your lap or ask Grandma to baby sit for an afternoon because you have important conference calls or meetings. Many women and men juggle working at home with family responsibilities and wouldn’t trade it for the world!

Law of Attraction and Mental Imagery by F. Kuhn

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton

Every one of us possess the most powerful and inspirational tool and that is our imagination. Using our imagination and visualization will create a positive change in our life.

The more vivid and clear our imagination, the quicker we will achieve our dreams and desires. Start out by laying down a foundation of what you want to create in your life. Write it out; draw it and start from the bottom and work your way up. This becomes your success foundation. Once it is written down or drawn, then you want to start visualizing every detail and the feeling associated with that desire.

Focus on one idea at a time. If you try and focus on more than one success, then you may not succeed at anything.

If you want a new house, draw the house or get a picture in a magazine or on the internet. Put it on a board. Look through every part of that house. Look at the bedrooms and your new furniture. How many bathrooms you have in the house and what each bathroom looks like. Do you have a pool, a tennis court, a trampoline, a golf course? Whatever it is, draw it or visualize the picture you have.

Ask yourself what changes need to be made in my life to accomplish this?

Again, action, action, action. By building up a foundation, you can see each step growing upon each other.

In taking advantage of the wonderful possibilities opened up to us through the law of attraction, we must remember that we ourselves contribute nothing to its efficacy. We can do nothing to assist in the manifestation except crystal clear visualization and some kind of action. We simply comply with the law, and the All-originating Mind will bring about the result.

The Universal Mind will find the ways and means for bringing about any necessary manifestation. We must, however, create the idea, and this idea should be perfect.

Abundance will not come to you out of the sky, neither will it drop into your lap, but a conscious realization of the law of attraction and the intention to bring it into operation for a certain, definite and specific purpose, and the will to carry out this purpose will bring about the materialization of your desire by a natural law of transference. If you are in business, it will increase and develop along regular channels, possibly new or unusual channels of distribution will be opened and when the law becomes fully operating, you will find that the things you seek are seeking you.

Welcome to the New Setting Your Sights Blog!

Welcome to the new blog for Cre8 Your Wealth.  The intention is to share ideas and provide new information for readers interested in Personal Development and Home Business and reaching their personal goals through both topics.  Please feel free to contribute and make comments at any time.

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