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Making Home Business Lemonade
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Life happens….whether it’s in operating your home business or living your life. How you react to the stresses and roadblocks placed in your way, will have a direct impact on your successful your home business becomes.
For instance, yesterday I headed back down to St. Pete Beach for about ten more days. My folks condo is exactly 121 miles – driveway to driveway – from our home. The drive usually takes between 1 1/2 and 2 hours depending on traffic.
It’s actually a pretty simple drive – Take the 417 tollway to I-4 to 275.
But it’s not always an easy drive. Yesterday it took 4 1/2 hours.
They’ve been working on I-4 as long as I can remember and that, combined with a rainstorm laid the foundation for not one – but two – serious accidents.
Rather than get mad because this was screwing up my plans, I first said a prayer for the people in those accidents and thanked God that I was safe, albeit sitting in an immovable block on cars. (I learned later that one of the accidents resulted in a fatality…I am sure that person would have be grateful to be in traffic for 4 1/2 hours.)
So, I tried to think how I could take advantage of this “bonus” time for myself.
I got out to meet my car “neighbors”. The guy behind me, Tom, said he makes this trip 2–3 times a week and it’s always bad. He’s in sales and mentioned that it just depresses him that he’ll have to do this another 20 years until he retires. Of course, he and I exchanged business cards and I shared with him that there are alternatives out there that may be of interest to him.
Couldn’t work on the computer, as I’d forgotten to bring my car adaptor. Then, I remembered the book, “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield, which I’d just bought for my trip. What a perfect opportunity to start reading this book.
I had a deja vu moment reading this passage:
On Page 7, it said, “If You Don’t Like Your Outcomes, Change Your Responses” and gave an example of a CNN reporter interviewing people sitting in traffic after the 1994 earthquakes in California, where many of the main thoroughfares had been damaged. While most complained about the traffic and frustrated in their incapacity, one guy had a smile on his face. He knew there wasn’t anything he could do about the traffic, so he decided to take advantage of a situation he couldn’t change. He had a thermos of coffee, Spanish tapes (he was trying to learn the language), the newspaper and some CD’s.
So, what ingredients do YOU need to make Home Business Lemonade?
* Know up front that just because success can be simple, it’s not always easy.
* Be prepared for obstacles thrown in your path. Where are your weaknesses? What could go wrong? Who / what should you have at your disposal in case these obstacles show up?
* Remember that your ATTITUDE has us much to do with your success as your talents.
* Stick to your goal. It might take you longer to get there, but if you don’t take your eye off the target, you’ll make it eventually!
Act In Spite of Fear
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A note from Debbi: I first learned of T. Harv Ecker from a good friend of mind in Canana who attended his
She said it completed changed her mindset and how, within days, her home based business opportunity was simply taking off. So….I decided to see for myself and will be attending his evening seminar in Orlando in March. If there’s not one in your town, you can listen to the seminar on audio.
Act In Spite of Fear
by T. Harv Ecker
The formula for manifestation in our physical universe is known to be “thoughts lead to feelings, which lead to actions, which lead to results.” Most people have plenty of thoughts and feelings, but the breakdown for many seems to be ability to take “action.” The culprit, of course, is fear. That is why to succeed in life, you must cultivate the trait of courage.
Courage is “taking action is spite of fear.”
In fact, you can only experience courage in the face of fear. Fear is our greatest obstacle to living happy, peaceful, and powerful lives. The true definition of fear is “anticipation of pain.” Since anticipation is based in the future and the future only exists in our imagination, fear does not exist in reality. It only lives in our head. Therefore, it is our own protective mind that prevents us from taking the actions necessary to attain our dreams. As the cartoon character Pogo so appropriately states, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
The protective mind is like an over worried mother. It is constantly creating “doom and gloom” scenarios trying to scare the heck out of us, in the hopes that we won’t try anything new. Its favorite words are “what if.” “What if this happens? What if that happens?” Even though none of these things have actually happened, and chances are none of these things will ever happen, this “soap opera” script continues to blare loudly in our head.
Unfortunately, we tend to take this mind trick as gospel, and our wonderful ideas of growth and opportunity become full of uncertainty and doubt. Recognize that our protective mind is not necessarily to be believed; that its agenda has nothing to do with making us happy or successful, but only to keep us in a place that is safe, secure and familiar. Unfortunately, many people wait for their fear to subside before taking action. Big mistake!
It is not necessary to get rid of fear in order to act.
It’s not necessary to “kill” the cobra! The more effective strategy is to learn to “tame” the cobra of fear by acknowledging the feelings and then taking action anyway. “Fear itself holds no real power over you.” You, and you alone, give fear its power. If you allow fear to stop you, it will. If you recognize it as the protective part of you, doing its job (far too well), you can simply say to your mind, “Thank you for sharing” and then proceed into action.
Realize that successful people have fear. Successful people have doubts and successful people worry.
The only difference between those who succeed and those who don’t is that successful people act in spite of their fear, doubt, and worry. So can you!
The darkness of fear begins to disappear in the light of action. Because your protective mind (where fear resides) lives only in the past or future, fear cannot exist in the present moment. Actions, however, only exist in the present moment, meaning that in the midst of focused action, fear dissipates.
The voice of fear is not you. It is only a conditioned ‘tape’ from the past projecting into the future. Once you can recognize that you are the one playing the tape and not the tape itself, you are free!
Ask yourself, ‘What would I do, if I absolutely knew I could not fail? ‘ The answer will give you a good indication of what you would do and who you would become if you lived based in heart and spirit vs. fear!
Where in your life are you letting fear, doubt, or worry stop you from taking the necessary actions for happiness and success? What would you do if you could not fail? From this day forth, begin to act as if you could not fail and watch as miracles unfold!
Declaration:
I act in spite of fear, doubt, and worry!
I take action toward my happiness and success!
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