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Are
you involved in your business, or are you committed to your business? There truly is a big difference between being
involved and being committed. If you are involved, you can pretty much do
whatever you want whenever you want. You can just come and go as you
please, work your business whenever you can find a few minutes.
Commitment, however,
requires dedication, passion, persistence and perseverance. If
you want to be successful, you must be in all the way. Many people work their business part-time
while working an outside job. They can
still be totally committed to their business if they work it on a regular
basis with an established work schedule.
Virtually all business owners are involved
in the business in some fashion; however, all business owners are not
committed to it. Commitment means setting up a schedule of
activities and performing those activities consistently.
It takes more than involvement to succeed. Commitment is required. Just like a brick and mortar business, hard, consistent and
frequent work must be done. Internet entrepreneurs
must market their products and websites just as store front businesses do. If no one entered Walmart’s doors or visited
their websites, they would collapse.
So, do they sit and wait for people to go to their stores or
website? Of course not. We see their marketing nearly every
day! Like Walmart, we must find ways
to drive traffic/prospects to our websites.
If people do not know about our products or business opportunity, we will
not be in business for long.
When
building your team in the home based business industry, do your best to seek
out those who are committed. Those who are involved, but not committed likely
did no research about your company, products or opportunity. It is doubtful that they studied your
website thoroughly to learn as much as possible. Their questions will help you determine
whether they have done “their homework.”
Those who have read a lot about your products and
business opportunity have excitement in their voice; they start talking to
you about how they plan to market the business.
Those who are committed don’t just talk about what they plan to
do, they do it! They do not make
excuses why they cannot do so.
If,
you truly want to succeed with your business, you can do it! Consider this… We all have the same 168
hours each week. We sleep an average
of about 56 hours a week. For those
with an outside job, they will deduct another 40 hours. Finally, we will spend about 35 hours of
each week commuting (if we work a j-o-b), eating and with personal hygiene.
Thirty-seven
hours remain to spend with your family and work your business. Give your family 25-30 of those hours. Then commit to working 7 to 12 hours working
your business. There are few people
who cannot work those few hours. If
you have no outside job, of course, you can devote far more time. If
you work smart and consistently, your business will eventually be successful.
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