To use another illustration, businesses are like plants. They take time to grow. You have to water them with an investment of time and money. You have to prune out dead wood, getting rid of things that don’t work (maybe an ineffective ad campaign). The more you understand how to nurture them, healthier they become and eventually produce fruitage you can be proud of.

Runners have coaches to teach them how to utilize their physical strengths wisely over duration of race. Landscapers study attributes of individual plants and trees so as to best know how to cultivate them, and then they are patient as their efforts bear fruit.

As business owners, we can learn from both. We need to get to know our business, what will make it grow, as well as what will drain it until it dies. We need to be coached by others who are willing to share their experience. We need to be able to evaluate our assets, our strengths, and know how to use them wisely. We need to have patience of landscaper and perseverance of long distance runner. And we need to pace ourselves, having reasonable goals and expectations.

If you do all this, your work at home business will grow and like long distance runner you will reach your goal.

But you must remember, along way you will need to work hard while striving real hard to WORK SMART!