To try and start a business without goals could be compared to throwing a baseball pitch, blindfolded in dark. What would be your chance of getting your pitch on target? Never mind getting a strike-out. Unless you are very lucky it is unlikely that you will have any success without properly setting out goals.

If when you start your home business, in what ever field it maybe, if you have no goals and aim at nothing, is it not unlikely that you will hit nothing and achieve nothing?

To set effective goals there are a few things you need to know about yourself which will affect how you set your goals. You are affected by, environment in which you live, your experience and knowledge, your attitude and dreams and visions for future.

When you set your goals you need to decide what you want and when you want to achieve each goal. You should spend time writing down your goals and display them in a prominent position where you will see them daily to remind yourself to stay motivated and focused. Cross off your goals once they’ve been achieved, adding new ones to ensure your business keeps growing.

“Don’t set your Goals to low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much”. - - Jim Rohn - -

Type in phrase "work from home" or "work at home" into any search engine and we all know what will happen. How many millions of ads on internet use these words? It's what we all want, right?

Do we really want to work from home? I don't think so. What most of us really want to do is just STAY home. We want to PLAY at home. We enjoy sitting in front of our computer and PLAYING with it for hours! We don't want what we do at home to resemble what we do at work. If we really wanted to work from home...we might as well go to work! What would be difference? A commute?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. This isn't an assault against work ethic. It's just an honest look at our true motivations. Is it possible to flip switch from playing at computer for free to playing at computer for money? YES! We use same muscles, physical and mental. So what's difference?

Focus. I must make a confession. I play games on my computer. Role Playing Games (rpgs), strategy games, even online poker. Last night I finished 2nd in an online poker tournament with 156 players (brag), it lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes! One of my favorite rpgs (Baldurs Gate ll) has an estimated completion time of 200-300 hours. (If I live long enough I'll finish). So is there a way to get that kind of focus on internet marketing? Can it be that much fun?

Yes to first question, maybe to second. To get laser focus in internet marketing, first we need to identify activities that we're going to call "work". Unless you're a web designer or in some capacity work for an internet company, these activities fortunately are probably far removed from what most of us do at our jobs.

You need to learn to enjoy writing. Most of your "work" will involve writing. Writing articles, participating in forum discussions, writing and answering emails, helping solve peoples problems will involve email or telephone conversations. You will write ad copy for sales letters and websites, you'll write to your upline and downline, to affiliates and partners.