Home Business - Did You show up for work today?

"Eighty percent of success is showing."

- Woody Allen

In their bestselling book "Younger next year: A Guide to Living Like 50 until you're 80 and beyond," the authors Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge echo that sentiment as it pertains to health and fitness. Chris speaks often of how to "present" for what is required even if retired. If you want to maintain health and fitness, particularly in recent years, you have to make the personal commitment and personal discipline, to present to perform the required tasks, just as they were required to do during the years that you worked a job.

If you have not worked a job in a long time, but have been successful in a home business, or even a showcase for traditional business, you know what I'm talking about. If you're a successful lawyer, accountant, doctor, dentist, or any other self-employed person, you are well aware that this concept of the show to work, even when you're the boss, was an important contribution to the success you have enjoyed.

I am a network marketer. I am my own boss. Sunday, my boss told me to get out of bed and do some work ... and I complied. As the leader, I was aware that the tasks had to be done, and how dependent I have performed the duties diligently and to the best of my ability, as well as I would if I was still working in someone else's office.

Before we go further on this subject, I answer a question that is on the tip of the tongue. Good thing is that the boss if you still have to work just like in a job?

Well, I can make executive decisions, I work in my pajamas (every day is dress-down Friday), I wear when I want, pull out early if you want, take my keys, jump in the Prius and make a turn, or pull some clothes and a laptop in the car and go to Florida now and then. I can take my wife to lunch when I want and I can drink a beer with my dinner and not worry about the boss or clients to smell on my breath. I just told a friend on the phone last night that the next time he was in town, give me a call and I would like to come and dine with him. I could say that because I'm at work right now, and if he calls, I can not stop what I'm doing and go see him.

Oh yeah, I did a six-figure income last year. That part helps.

But none of this would have been part of my life right now if it did not show up for work every day and I should be there.

This is where many who are new to network marketing or running a home business internet home based business or make their mistake. They are not aware that they may now be the boss, but still the employee as well.

A few years ago, I worked for a big national business. I have trained people who had never worked in industry before going to work almost independently in a field where they could make a great income. The key was that they had to "appear" to work without any supervision and guidance shortly. A large number of them simply because they could not or would not have met a very important requirement.

Among the people I taught were different, with very little education or intelligence, but those who had a great work ethic, those that occur day after day, were able to take care of themselves and their families more than they ever could have hoped for.

Network marketing business and the home are well. They do not run, and what must be done are not done just because the "boss", he says, "Do so, Number One!"

If you want to succeed in network marketing or your business at home, show up for work .......