You can find many wonderfully supportive people on various home business forums scattered all over net.

Enjoy process. Find things you enjoy doing in your business, and enjoy every day activities that you engage in. Remember to appreciate people who help you on you road to success, whether advisers, customers or employees. Have fun!

> What to do when this happens: Just go ahead and do some work. You will most likely find that once you start, you will get absorbed in activity, that you will forget that you did not feel like working in first place. Do one thing you enjoy about your business first, and use other things you enjoy as rewards once you have completed less fun aspects of your business.

Work for just five minutes. Tell yourself that you will work for just five minutes on your business, and after that you can either stop, or continue as you wish. After all, five minutes will not take that much out of your day, will it?

If this technique does not work, than most likely, you are dealing either with fatigue (Reason 1, above), or self-sabotage (Reason 3, below).

REASON 3: SELF-SABOTAGE This one is very subtle, even more so because it can disguise yourself as any of other two. We, as human beings fear change, even change for better.

You might feel like you will never make it, or that only way that you can become successful is by neglecting your family and all things that are important to you. Or any of a number of other negative pre-conceptions, some of which you may not even be consciously aware of.

As you can probably guess, this particular area is highly complicated, and I will devote a full article to it in future (or perhaps, even a series of articles). In meantime, here are a couple of things that you can do:

> Prevention: Be aware of any negative feelings and preconceptions you have, and make sure that you deal consciously with them. Surround yourself with supportive people, and do not listen to those who try to fill your mind with negative feelings. Working with a life coach would also be helpful.

> What to do when this happens: Acknowledge any negative feelings, and try to focus on positive aspects of your business. You may also find 'Five minute' technique from above helpful. I hope that by reading this article you have gained a better understanding of why sometimes you just feel like taking evening off, even if you have planned to work, and what to do when that happens.

Look for these things in interview. Ask questions and set up behavioral situations that test this. Intentionally interrupt candidate, or arrange a disruption and observe what happens.

Ask yourself “Do I like this candidate?” and “Would I want to work with her?” Use your intuition, your gut feeling … an EQ competency.

7.GIVE THEM AN EQ ASSESSMENT.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) means how they handle themselves and other people in social and emotional areas. The best qualified person on paper may be a failure in real time because they can’t get along, are abrasive, scattered, emotionally out-of-control, or lacking in empathy, flexibility, or common sense.

The higher up person goes, more important such EQ competencies as Conflict Resolution, Integrated Self, Intentionality and Resilience.

EQ assessments give you valuable information about a candidate. Studies have shown that people with low EQ burn out quickly. 8.LOOK AT SPECIFIC EQ COMPETENCIES.

An EQ assessment will give you an overall score, and also ranking on separate competencies.

It’s been found, for instance, that best predictor for good salespeople is Optimism, and EQ competency.

The US Air Force found their most successful recruiters scored high in Assertiveness, Empathy, Happiness and Emotional Self Awareness. They put this knowledge to use to increase their success rate by 300% and save $3 million annually.

9.ARE THEY RESILIENT?

An article in Wall Street Journal names Resilience (an EQ competency) most important factor in stress management. It amounts to being change-proficient.

10.WHAT HAVE THEY LEARNED?

Lifetime learning correlates with resilience (Siebert, Ph.D.). The ability, willingness, cognitive ability and flexibility to keep on learning is one of most important things to look for in Information Age. “The illiterate of 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,” said Alvin Toffler, “but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

In sum, hiring in today’s workplace requires more than a look at credentials, experience, training and academic degrees, and onus is on you, hirer. People don’t always know themselves, and they can’t know everything about your company culture. They apply for jobs for money or with lack of self-knowledge, not because they’d be good at it, or enjoy it, or be able to tolerate its stress, or work in particular culture of your office, i.e., they apply for jobs for which they aren’t well suited.

Work Emotional Intelligence into hiring process, and pay attention to innate talents and personality. Work with an EQ coach for best results. It will pay great dividends in end.