What Makes A Successful Home Business Entrepreneur?

Studies have shown that in order to be a successful home business entrepreneur you need to possess the following characteristics. Do you?

Do you have Self-confidence?

This is the magical power of having confidence in yourself and in your strengths and abilities.  This isn’t bravado or braggadocio but an unshakeable belief in yourself. This is an essential quality for any home business entrepreneur as if you don’t have this, how do you assure yourself that you will succeed?

Are you Achievement Oriented?

Results are gained by focused and sustained effort. You concentrate on achieving a specific goal, not just accomplishing a string of unrelated tasks.

Goal setting is very important when it comes to getting results. Try using a program like Simpleology to train yourself to focus on the important things each day and get more productive.

Are you a Risk Taker?

There is a chance of loss inherent in reaching for any goal, yet you have the confidence necessary to take calculated risks to achieve your goals.

So What Does It Take To Be A Successful Home Business Entrepreneur?

So which characteristic of a successful home business entrepreneur is the most important?

Believe it or not, it is self-confidence.

Without self-confidence, nothing else is possible. If you don’t believe in your abilities, then the first challenge that arises may knock you off the path to achieving your goals.

Here are a few things to keep in mind for maintaining a higher level of self-confidence for yourself.

Positive Thinking

It all starts with a positive attitude!

Believing that something good will happen is the first step.

Negative thinking is just not allowed for any home business entrepreneur (so stop it right now). You must truly believe that there are no circumstances hard enough to deter you from reaching your goals.

Why not try this exercise created by French psychotherapist Emile Coue – every morning repeat “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” You might be surprised that this simple exercise has been getting results since the early 1900s!

Remember too, that positive thinking can be contagious. When positive thinking spreads, it can open doors to new ideas, customers, friends, etc.

Persistent Action

All the positive thinking and believing in the world is useless if it is not applied towards a goal.

You have to take action, no excuses allowed. This action must also be persistent. Trying once and then giving up is not going to be enough. Keep at it one step at a time. If you can’t get by a certain step, then find a creative way to try again or go around it.

Successful entrepreneurs are people who make decisions, they take action and control their own destinies. They are often motivated by a spirit of independence which leads them to believe that their success depends on raw effort and hard work, not luck. In other words, their success is totally up to themselves.

As Ronald Regan pointed out: Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Look ahead and see yourself where you want to be, maintain a strong belief in yourself and your skills, stick with it, and never give up. If you can do that, you’re already halfway there!

I will now leave you with a couple of quotes from Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965):

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

and

“For myself, I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”

Onwards and Upwards!