“Someday” Is Not a Desired Vacation Destination
By Byron Pulsifer

How many of us dream about leaving the 9 to 5 work world to run our own on-line or home based businesses? To avoid dressing up everyday, the daily commute being stressed from rude and aggressive drivers, the daily search for a parking spot, late commuter trains, crowded subways, or dealing with demanding or unreasonable bosses?

How many times, after a frustrating week, have we said, “Someday I’ll be my own boss and have my own business”? How many times have we gone on our yearly vacation determined to start our own business when we return? Does this sound familiar? So what’s stopping us?

Well, for some of us, we’ve taken a vacation to “someday I’ll”, and have never returned. We procrastinate. Why? In some cases, it’s because of “fear”, or, it’s because we already lead hectic lives and believe we just have “no time”. Here’s a few principles that we should keep in mind, principles that can help move us forward to where we want to be.

1) Make The Decision To Excel

We need to make the decision to excel, to start our on-line or home based business. It is nobody’s decision but ours. Life is like a “do it yourself project” – nobody else can do it for us. We are all responsible for our own lives. We need to be “proactive” not “reactive”. We need to not only take the initiative but also to accept the responsibility to make things happen. This means ridding ourselves of “excuses”. If we use the excuse that we have “no time” to start an on-line business, we are being “reactive”, not “proactive” – we are letting something outside of us control us – “time”. If we want something bad enough, we can find “time” – less time for TV; getting up earlier; reducing our discretionary time for non-essential tasks; or scheduling activities and sticking to our schedule (i.e., planning and goal setting).

2) Break the “Comfort” Zone

We have to be able to engage in activities or work that is unfamiliar. We need to break out of our “rut”, or what we normally do. Our comfort zones are all those thoughts and actions within which we feel comfortable – things we’ve done or thought often enough to feel comfortable.

When we do or think of doing things outside of our comfort zone, like starting our own Internet business, we feel uncomfortable, we experience fear. If we say to ourselves that “I can’t start an on-line business, I don’t know how”, then we are stuck with our own internal negative self-talk. We are allowing ourselves to be stuck within our own comfort zone. Our negative thoughts become a self-fulfilling prophecy – what we think is what we’ll get. Here’s the point – FOCUS on what you WANT, NOT on what you FEAR.

3) Adopt the TENPER Principle

What is “TENPER”? It’s a combination of “tenacity” and “perseverance”. Tenacity means we have the attitude that when problems, adversities, or setbacks come our way, we know we can handle anything that life throws at us. Persistence means that our attitude is to stay focused on our goals, to make progress consistently toward what we want to achieve.

Although, we may not attain our original goal immediately, refuse to make excuses. Instead, reaffirm your commitment to proceed, to keep taking action.

If we are waiting for that perfect time to begin developing an on-line Internet business, it probably won’t happen. Just like there is no perfect time to have a flat tire. What we need to ask ourselves right now is this:

What 2 things, 2 actions, could we take today to move forward in the direction of our goal?

The success formula is simple – TAKE ACTION, any action that moves us forward. It doesn’t have to be a huge step – one step at a time, and then another, and then another and then . . . For each action we take, we need to acknowledge our progress as a positive step forward.

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