A profitable home business is something that you should want to do for rest of your life. Recreation, and TV viewing have their place. We all need relaxation and recreation, but you might want to consider just how much time you spend recreating when you could be building a home biz that will give you something to do in your retirement years (not to mention help you get there faster).

Many dream of time when they will just lay around pool and do nothing for rest of their lives. Well, I'm here to tell you, that many wealthy or retired folks who get to do pretty much what they want will admit - it flat gets old doing nothing! Developing work ethic is one of biggest obstacles for most folks who would like to work from home. Start Now, by putting limits on your recreation, and you will find all kinds of time for building your home biz!

# 3 The Internet

"Now Wait Just a Minute" you might be saying, "I'm building my business with net". That might be true, but there are a LOT of things you can do online besides building your business. If you aren't careful, time can be focused away from your work and more toward pleasure seeking or just plain old surfing. Before you know it, you could spend hours in front of your PC without doing one thing to promote your business. A PC with an Internet connection can develop into your digital recreation tool. The very thing that is supposed to save time and make our lives easier could become our biggest life stealer! Again, you need to limit yourself.

In any of these activities, it would be good to take note of how much time you spend with them. Try keeping a careful record for just one week and you may be surprised. Each hour take note of what you spend time doing, and make a log. You will quickly isolate where time for building your home biz can come from. Learning to use your time wisely will prove beneficial for years to come.

3) Praise Others!

It is easy to tell everyone what they are doing wrong. Seems like that is what most folks concentrate on these days. We are all imperfect, and you would never run out of material. However, try to encourage others by expressing thanks for what they do right. It will go a long way toward forming lasting relationships with people.

When something does not go right, don't be so quick to complain. Here is an actual email we received from someone. Keep in mind that this is first time we had heard from this person. What would be your thoughts on them as an individual?

"tried to call at 7:30 CST, which is same as 7:30 MDT isn't it? Any way line was dead. tried 3 times past 7:30 before and past MDT. Dead. carelessness irresponsibiltiy is teh name of game. Screw somew over some how. hello arrogance"

(Misspellings and grammar mistakes as received)

Turns out that this person tried to call in on one of our conference calls, but mistakenly thought that Mountain Time was same as Central time. No biggie, an easy mistake to make. However, do you see how this accusatory and negative email was going to benefit anyone? Would it make you want to do business with them? We received several other emails from them - all were negative. It's easy to see that this is a miserable person who has a habit of tearing down others.

Don't let yourself fall into that pattern! Once you're stuck in it, things can really get bad and ugly. Focus on praise for things done right and you will win friends and influence folks to do even more for you!

Many times negative person as mentioned above will complain because they don't understand something. Again, take some time to learn. Once you learn new things, you life will become even more exciting for you. You won't get stagnant and defensive with every little thing that goes wrong. In fact, fewer things will go wrong for you because you have done your homework. You will still have to deal with inactive negative people, world is FULL of such ones - But you won't be one of them!

So there you have it, big 3 confidence and biz builders - take action, stay positive, and praise others. Why not start today?