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Can You Afford to Work At Home? - Part
3
Plan B
If you assess your financial ability to make the transition to working at home and believe you can do it but
understand that you may be on relatively thin ice, it is a good idea to have a back up plan.
That might mean finding a way to leave the door to your old job open. It might mean knowing someone who will be
willing to give you enough hours at some other job to keep you afloat if things don't work out. Hopefully it
doesn't mean cashing in IRAs or running up credit card debt.
A responsible back up plan is a great thing to consider when looking at your financial ability to start a new
business.
There may be something romantic and exciting about working without a net, but it certainly would feel quite as
wonderful if your hands should slip from the work at home trapeze bar. Having some sort of reserve plan just makes
sense.
Do You Really Want It?
If you are reading these articles is is pretty obvious that you are interested in working from home, right? Why
even bother asking "do you really want it?"
Well, being interested, fascinated, attracted or entranced just isn't the same thing as wanting. You need to be one
hundred percent sure that you truly want to run your own business from home before doing it.
It's easy, in the abstract, to be a go-getter. When you are asked if you will work hard, you can immediately
respond in the affirmative. The idea of struggling with new concepts on the way to success seems exciting. Those
mentions of extra late hours or developing a thick skin seem manageable, too.
It's different, however, when you close the ebook and start feeling those things in real life. They can beat you
down. They have beaten many others down.
You don't want to believe this, but running your own work at home business is hard. It will challenge you, upset
you and will give you a million opportunities for self-doubt. Some whether the storms. Others crash.
The difference, in large measure, is want. How much do you want that home business? If it's just a passing notion
or a "maybe" possibility, you might want to try to shoot for employee of the month next month.
If, on the other hand, you really want it, you can do it. If you need that work at home business to succeed. If
your motivation comes from deep within and longs for the opportunity and its eventual rewards, you can make it
through.
Ask yourself, in all sincerity, if you really want to do it. If you hesitate at all, you might want to think about
something else. If you feel compelled to move forward, however, you might just have exactly what you need to run a
successful work at home business.
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