Characteristics Of Success For Home Business Owners 4: Hardworking Mentality

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve fallen for this at least once:

“Start Your Own Home Business, Then Lay Back at the Beach and Laugh as the Profits Roll In!  No Work Involved With This Turnkey, State-of-the-Art, Automated System!”

Wretch.  Gag.  Puke.

Now I’m not saying there are no opportunities that eventually become automated, I’m saying that there are heaps and heaps of sharks out there to mislead us and give false hope so their wallet gets fatter and we get chewed up and ground down into mince.

There is no replacement for learning how to become a marketer.  No magic pill that will give 100′s of leads daily with some spectacular new technique requiring no ground work or foundation.  Now having said that, there are indeed ways to generate as much as 1000 leads daily (my Adwords/PPC mentor does just that) and I promise you it takes hard work, dedication, passion, commitment and a strong foundation.

You want to build your ‘skyscraper’ of a business on a proven foundation don’t you?

Which of the following type best describes you?

• “I’ll try this out and see what happens…”

OR

• “It’s clear to me through completing due diligence that this opportunity is for real.  It is working each and every day for hundreds or thousands of others, so I choose to make it work just as well or better in my life too.”

There is a glaring difference between the two, eh?

In your opinion, which one is the Hardworking Mentality?

Napoleon Hill teaches us that to be a great leader and  turn into a great success, we must adapt the habit of ‘Doing more than expected of us, and/or more than we are paid for.’

We create our habits, and our habits create us.  So which came first?  The habit or the egg? ;-P

You have the power to create your supportive, empowering habits and then be shaped by them.  Pretty cool, eh?

If you are always willing to do what’s hard in life and in business, then life and business will be easy.  If however, you are only willing to do what’s ‘easy’, life will always be hard for YOU.  That’s a guarantee.

One of my greatest inspirations for hard work is the legendary Bruce Lee:

Lee Sifu became the highest paid Chinese actor of his time.  His film ‘Enter the Dragon’ marked the very first cinematic collaboration between China and the U.S.A.  He founded his own martial art, wrote books and can apparantly jump-kick Kareem Abdul Jabbar in the head (with no ‘wires’, mind)  =D

Do you think Lee Sifu ‘tried these things out to see how they would work’ or did he ‘work his ass off and chose to do whatever it took to reach his goals and dreams’?

If you picked the second one, you’re my kind of entrepreneur.

Have fun, and always do more than is expected of you.