Question of Week: Hi Aaron, I love what you’re doing and would like to start up my own home business, but right now between work, the kids, activities, etc. I can’t find time to do it. What should someone do if they don’t have enough time?
My simple answer is: Horse Manure!
First of all, when you are looking to make the decision to started a home-based business, you need to decide how badly you want it. If you don’t want it that bad, then you’ll find every single excuse in the book why you can’t make it work. If you want it badly enough, you will make time to do it.
Second, find the gaps where you can make time. Do you watch TV for hours each night? Cut it out and use that time to develop your business? Do you need to get 8 hours of sleep a night? Lose a couple hours and use 2 hours to work on your business. Got kids? Wake up at 4am and spend a couple hours working on your business before the kids get up and need to go to bed.
Finally, when you make the decision, commit to it. I can’t tell you how many people have plenty of time to complain to me about how crappy their job is or how in debt their family is, but yet can never find time to do anything about it. Honestly, I usually don’t waste my time arguing with them because they will almost always have a comeback.
My wife and I have a friend who about once or twice a month, she will call us crying or upset about how bad her job is or how they’re treating her. Each time we get off the phone, we’ll be reading the newspaper when we glance over at the “Help Wanted” section and we’ll see a few job openings in her field that she may be interested in. My wife calls or texts her to let her know about the job openings and she acknowledges her with the same feedback that it sounds great and she’ll check into it.
<Insert ball drop sound here>
A month later the phone rings and its this same friend, who is crying/upset about the same thing. Repeat cycle. Do you think she ever checked into those jobs or threw a resume in to try and get an interview somewhere different? Nope.
No sympathy from me no more. Last time she called, I told her in the nicest way possible (which I still probably sounded like a jerk) to not call again whining, crying, upset, unless she’s applied for a minimum of 5 jobs.
Most people are like this. They want change, but they aren’t willing to make the changes themselves. Sorry, but I’m not the guy who’s going to tell the drunk to quit drinking, but then give them money to go the bar. They’ve gotta want it themselves. Once that happens, then I have no problem helping them out.
Again, if you can’t seem to find time to start a home-based business, then you need to re-evaluate how badly you want it.
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