What do you want to accomplish? Is it a new home or to fund your children's further education, or a million and one other things I am sure you can think of. You can have whatever you want.

However, this will only happen however, if you want it enough. Are you willing to do what has to be done in order to get it? When you set your goals, write them down and set a target date for reaching them. You need to set both short term reachable goals and long term higher goals, yet don't set them too high. You will become discouraged if you do not achieve them.

Work CONSISTENTLY towards accomplishing your goals each day, each week and each month until you reach your short-term goals. Once you have attained your short-term goals, set them a little higher each time. This will ultimately lead to achieving your long-term goals. Goal setting is necessary in every area of life.

Another must do is SELF-DISCIPLINE! Just simple things like making sure you get up early each day, get ready for your job as if you were working outside your home. Make a "to do" list of all things you want to accomplish during day. This helps to give you an organised approach to each day. You will be amazed how much you can get done using a "To Do" list.

You need to be self motivated so set up a schedule and stick to it. Be ENTHUSIASTIC, as enthusiasm generates its own energy. Energy and good health are synonymous with motivated, happy people, otherwise known as achievers.

Knowing how to start a home based business is first step to actually creating your own home based business.

But knowing how to write effectively is difference between “having a home based business” and “having a very successful home based business”.

There is an old adage in bridge: “Everybody makes mistakes, beginners and experts alike. But by time expert makes a mistake it usually really doesn’t matter; beginner has already lost hand!”

These words of wisdom apply equally to effective writing: either you have already learned to write effectively, you are going to learn to write effectively, or you never will learn to write effectively.

50 years ago a friend of ours, John, started a business raising chickens. He did all work himself – fed, watered and cared for chickens, butchered them, took them to market and sold them. He made his first couple of million doing business this way. And he didn’t hire outside help until his volume of business forced him to do so – he did it all himself.

The first secret of a successful business – Do it yourself until you can afford and need to hire outside help.

John decided that he’d been doing chicken business long enough and he wanted to do something new with his life. So he “leased out” his chicken business and bought a 48-acre farm. Now you may wonder what, in this modern day and age, you can do with a little 48-acre farm? Well, John planted trees – nuts – on 10 of those acres. He turned several acres into blueberries, more into red currants, more into black currants, more into raspberries, more into thornless cultured blackberries, more into several other fruits. And he devoted central 4 acres to his home, a bar for his farm equipment, and a couple of larger outbuildings for this ‘n that.

This ‘n that turned out to be a jam- and jelly-making enterprise. He made specialty jams and jellies. Well, how are you gonna compete with big jam and jelly makers, Kraft, , etc., nationwide, with only 44 acres of fruits? You aren’t. Well, John found his niche. He began producing specialty high-quality products for sale from his farm in gift baskets and stand-alone. And he began producing little packages that you get in restaurants with your toast, and developed a local market for these products

The second secret of a successful business – Find your niche, make sure it fits what you are doing and can do, and develop it. Expand only to meet expanding demands.