There are hundreds of thousands of home Internet business opportunities and it is impossible to discern which one is an honest one. Keep in mind that all honest opportunities are offered free. If you find one that asks you to pay in order to start, just walk away.

Your search may take you to some that will promise you big earnings in a week or a month. This is simply not true. Don't be fooled by believing that you can get rich in such a short period of time. These claims are made to impress you, but they really only want your money. Many legitimate home based business opportunities are affected by companies that make such claims. Choosing right home business opportunity doesn't have to be difficult, but it will take time.

Building your own website, finding products and learning how to operate is time consuming and expensive. You may want to consider a turnkey business opportunities as they already have been set-up for you. Some work will be involved, but all of initial obstacles have been taken care of and easy to overcome. And of course, don't expect any overnight miracles. Building a business will take time.

One of most popular home based business opportunities online identified as network marketing or multi-level-marketing. Corporations have been using multi-level-marketing systems for years. When JP Getty once said: "I'd rather have 1% of efforts of a hundred people than 100% of my own efforts", he was talking about residual income, (network marketing). Network marketing received a lot of bad rap because previously people thought of it as a pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes are illegal, network marketing or multi-level-marketing are not.

For over half of century, network marketing has grown quite a bit. Most network marketers earn only a few hundred to a few thousand a month but rather enjoy freedom of working for themselves. Since there is no cap on earnings, amount of income it can produce is really dependent on individual.

In United States, pursuit of happiness is a god-given right and Americans have a document to prove it. But I wonder why Founding Fathers deliberately phrased it, ‘the pursuit of happiness’, as if to say --- happiness in itself cannot be granted because it was, and still remains, tied to materialism. In “pursuit” of happiness, it is each person’s own definition: riches, health, religion, etc.

Take, as an example, pessimist and optimist. If anything bad happens, pessimist believes it will not last long but will surely undermine his life. He feels deck is stacked against him, yet being more realistic than optimist, he prepares himself for misfortune.

The optimist regards it as a temporary setback and goes about removing obstacle. He risks more but these efforts give meaning to his life and he makes best of it. To acquire is to be happy (so culture teaches) therefore blessed are they for among them are corporate executives in their mansions.

There is enough on subject of happiness to fill an ebook, but let’s measure just one facet: Internet. How much would it take to make you a happy Interneter? Has your ‘big break’ eluded you thus far? What kind of Internet success would give you a sense of control over your life – because when you think about it, “control over your life” is a huge slice of happiness.