Getting to the "change" necessary to manage a successful home business is difficult. I offer the assertion (the reason) people do not succeed is due to their inability to incorporate change into their daily habits and routines.
A big part of knowing "how to go about it" is tied to taking intentional steps on a daily basis. This inherently has to be a "plan" of how you are going to invest your time doing "what" it takes. Most people do this on Sundays. On Sunday, you know what your week looks like for the next 6 days.
If you work, you know when that is. You know how much time it takes to get there. If you exercise, you know when that is. ...when you prepare food and then eat. When you walk the dog. All the rest of the time is "potentially" when you can work on building your business.
If you write it in a schedule, you are making a commitment to yourself. It is a mental contract that says, "Tuesday at 6:30 after the kitchen is cleaned up, I am going to (what you are going to do). This presupposes that you have defined the activities that constitute your "what"... i.e. your business building strategy.
This is how success is built. It is thoughtful and intentional. These thoughts and this intent happen on Sunday night for the coming week. Otherwise, you are just "winging it". Your Google or Outlook calendar need to become your best ally. You can color code different activities... blue for work, green for food, red for exercise.... then you can copy this template week to week and then fill in WHEN you are going to "work" on your business... in say ORANGE.
Online: posting to groups, placing classified ads, creating a blog, commenting in forums, doing paid advertising... if none of these... then...
Offline: belly-to-belly talking to people in Retail, tagging doors and cars with mini flyers, making signs and posting them around town, going to flea markets and talking to all the vendors, going to events and approaching people...
WHAT are you going to do? Then... schedule when you are going to do it.
Do it as if your future and your life depend on it. Why? Because it does.
The simple, bold and brutally honest truth is: most people are incapable of making this sacrifice and commitment and will not take one hour on a Sunday night (morning?) and plan their coming week.
No fault of the business model. If you are on-boarded correctly, and you have a strategy of what-to-do that you have agreed upon... and you fail to invest the time in doing it...
The results you get will be obvious. Don't let that happen to you. Learn to use your calendar and allow it to become your best ally and friend. Then teach others to do the same.
Be a mentor, be a role model. Be an accountability partner. Be a success.
