Are You Ready for a Home Business?
Copyright © Katie Ford


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Before you venture beyond the idea of your dream of a home
business, you need to ask yourself some serious questions
and determine if you are ready to operate a home business.
This has to be something that you are willing to do with
the same loyalty, devotion, and zeal that you would extend
if you were working away from home doing the same thing.
You cannot take the attitude that you can work whenever
it suits you rather than when your customers need you to
be available. You cannot treat a home business like a hobby
and simply devote only those hours that you choose to
devote. There are some home businesses where this is
possible to a greater degree than others, but if you have
a product-oriented business or a service-oriented business
where you deal directly with your customers (accountant,
hairdresser, builder/contractor, cleaning service), you
cannot set your own hours. If you are a freelance creative
artist (writer, editor, copywriter, copyeditor, et al),
you can set your own hours as long as you meet the
deadline for the project.

You have to be certain that you have both the time and the
desire to work at home. Some people are not goal-oriented
enough to work at home and must be in an environment where
they know they have to work certain hours and complete a
certain amount of work within that time frame. If you are
that kind of person, a home business is not going to work
for you because there is not going to be anyone to tell
you that you must work certain hours nor is anyone going
to give you work and expect you to have it finished by the
end of the day. You are the only one who can set these
goals for yourself in a home business, and if you are
unable to do that, it won't work for you.

The thought of working at home and not having to report to
an office or shop every day is appealing, especially
during the winter when the roads may be bad because or the
weather or during the summer when you want to be outside.
It takes a special person to work at home and be able to
prioritize projects so that work, family, and leisure
activities all take their rightful places. If you do not
feel that you are able to devote the time that you need to
a home business, take some time to work on learning how to
do that. If you aren't goal-oriented enough to work a home
business, you would be doing yourself and potential
customers and disservice by pursuing it. Knowing this
doesn't mean you can never operate a home business, but
rather that you aren't ready now. Keep these thoughts in
mind, and when you are ready to commit to working at home,
you are ready.

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