Why Work from Home?

The biggest advantage you will gain from starting a home based business is that you will be forced to expand your mind. You will be forced to learn proper money management practices, time management, and controlling income. Naturally, money management is a key to security for everyone. Those depending on week-to-week income are not very secure. The same goes for time management. Those who don’t effectively manage their time tend to resemble crazy chickens, stumbling along, never really knowing what they are doing. Income management is a skill that most individuals don’t even know exists. Income can be controlled. This is the key to unlocking true success. Only when you learn to control your income will you be able to control your entire life. Individuals working from home are forced to learn this all-important skill.

Have you ever heard someone say, “I wish I had a tree that grew money. I would be set for life!”

Every time I hear that, I have to keep myself from asking them:

Would the money tree grow ones, fives, tens, twenties, fifties, or hundreds?

How are you going to prevent vampires aka lazy freeloaders from stealing money from your money tree?

How would you harvest the money?

How big is would this tree be?

Really big?! Then (assuming it’s outside) what would you do during winter? You know, when you can’t harvest money from it?

You see, even with a magical money tree, one would need to learn how to manage it. I’m not trying to burn your money tree fantasy. I’m just making a point. Now I’ll make another one.

Business owners do have money trees – no really, they do. In the beginning, they plant seeds. They then nurture those seeds until they sprout. After which, they cater to it until it starts to flourish into a full-fledged business. At that point, they are growing money and harvest it at certain intervals. Those harvests are better known in the business world as profits. So in essence, something they planted many years ago has grown into a system that automatically generates money for them. How is that different from a money tree?

The whole idea of working from home is to plant seeds that will eventually grow into profits. Think of every opportunity as a tiny seed. You need to take care of it while it grows. Then at the end, you are the proud owner of systems that are churning out money on a regular basis.

Advantages from Working from Home

Working from home has its perks. Some are obvious while others take pointing out in order to see the true benefits. I will start by saying that individuals who work from home are looked at much differently than those who work the typical nine to five.

The friendlier of the misconceptions is that those working from home have more freedom than others. For example, your friends and family will tell you that they understand that you’re working but in the back of their mind, they will think that because you “work from home” you’re always available to do their bidding. While working from home does allow for much greater flexibility with their scheduling, you must still put in the hours if you expect to get paid. 

The other forms of misconceptions are not so friendly. Larger businesses have spent millions to convince the majority of citizens that those who are not going to work on a daily basis are lazy and will be unsuccessful. So when starting out, you might find judgmental eyes glaring in your direction from time to time. Just ignore them. When you become successful, those same people will still glare at you – although the reasoning changes from judgmental into jealousy.  

Why would I open up a section on the advantages of working from home with this? The perception that those who work at home generate is not always friendly. It’s important to understand that all of the negatives that larger businesses have spent millions to instill upon the world are in fact, the greatest benefits. Learning to turn them to your advantage will get you started down a path to success.

Let me take one more moment to explain why this instilled opinion is wrong. Business leaders don’t want people working remotely because it removes productive individuals from their employment. Look at it this way. Just because someone works eight hours a day doesn’t mean they accomplish eight hours worth of work. In reality, most people accomplish four to five hours worth during the course of an eight hour day. Those who work from home are forced to manage themselves. So if they work for eight hours, then they must accomplish eight hours worth of work. They set personal goals. They manage their time better and learn how to avoid distractions. If they don’t do these things, then they can’t possibly be successful. This will be discussed in more detail later. For now, it’s important to understand that individuals who are successful by working at home actually have the talent to be managers.

Large corporations want this caliber of employee on their payroll – and they want them at a discount. Imagine how many people are working an average paying job that have the potential to be making much more money. These larger companies are truly getting a great discount! That’s why they are so desperate (and willing to spend millions) to force their opinions on society.

With that said, some of the advantages of working from home should be obvious by now.

- Higher Income

- Getting paid for your talents

- Learning to manage your life

Some of the more informal beliefs are:

- More freedom

- More family time

- No boss

Those informal beliefs should not be used as motivation. In fact, I would go as far as to say they are the biggest myths surrounding working from home. For starters, you will be required to work just as many hours as a nine-to-five job. Second, everyone has a boss. Customers are the equivalent of a boss in that you must meet their demands. Starting a home based business for any of these three reasons is the prelude to a huge letdown. In fact, that letdown is the most common reason for failure.

Instead of focusing on motivation that is not true, sit down and make a list of what advantages working from home might have for you. Some examples are:

- Better hours (not less hours)

- Better work environment

- More productivity

- Controlling your income

- Save gas

- Learning experience

There are hundreds of possibilities and each person’s life will lead to different discoveries. Write down the things you seek most. One example might be if you’re working night shift and you really hate it. Although working from home will still require you to work for eight hours a day, you can choose which eight hours it will be.