Work At Home But DON'T Be Average

Successful Entrepreneurs Keep Working Hard

Average people say, “Don’t stand out. Don’t work so hard. You’re ok as you are.”

Seriously, if you've ever worked in an office and started really producing results, hasn't SOMEONE dropped by your desk to ask you why you're working to make everyone else seem bad?

WHAT? Your good work makes THEM seem bad and they want you to slow down?

When working with lots of other people or working from home, following this line of thinking you run the risk of sacrificing your individuality, your goals, and the very ideas that make you unique.

In the end, your life is determined by group preferences...and this is certainly not the path to success for most of us.

Do you hear the clock ticking on your dreams? Do you find yourself wondering when you’re going to get "there," or why you aren’t "there" yet?

Achieving success has no restrictions. Anyone, of any age, can find success.

Like Thomas Edison, who saw his thousands of failures as successes because each failure taught him what did not work, achieving success is not something you can predict. It happens when it happens, and no matter what age you might be when you get "there," you will enjoy it.

Maybe playing by others' rules is what is fencing you in, keeping you from succeeding.

Pretty funny looking back on it, but I remember a very good client calling me to tell me that when I work with friend of his (another client of mine) I shouldn't charge so much for my photography services. "You just can't charge that much, Charlie."

WHAT?!!

When you analyze that, he was really saying that HE wouldn't be comfortable charging that much if he were in my shoes.

But since I don't march to someone else's drummer and since my business is going quite well, I establish my own rules and pricing and people who want me to photograph for them know up-front how I operate.

Are you looking for that freedom too? Perhaps this short movie will speak directly to you:

Take Me From The Rat Race - Please Watch This Short Video - Click Here.

By the way, I got exactly what I expected to get from that other client... and they LOVED my work.

Charlie
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Now Is The Time To Build

Successful Entrepreneurs Don't Stop

What would have happened if Noah waited for the rain before he started to build?

Hmmmmm.... I wonder how many two-by-two pairs would have remained alive.

And what will happen to entrepreneurs if they don't build their businesses before the new economy turns around?

They'll be washed away just as Noah's friends and animal companions would have been had he not taken the correct steps to move forward.

Successful entrepreneurs are working extra hard right now to be ready. Sure it takes extra effort, but successful people are willing to do what the unsuccessful ones aren't - and being ready when things turn around is one way to accomplish that.

But don't think people have stopped buying. Don't allow your rat race environment cloud your thinking - lots of money is still changing hands... and your job is to get in the middle of all of it.

Did you see the statistics about how many more people are deciding to work from home? Work at home dads. Work at home moms. It's a whole new mindset, but you can do it with some help.

If you're thinking about it, Please Watch This Short Video - Take Me From The Rat Race - Click Here.

This will work. Don't let others decide your future for you.

Charlie
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Choosing Your Own Path For Work

Take Charge Of Your Life

My wife is terrific at what she does: computer-aided-design for large pharmaceutical plants. Processing lines, offices, major complexes, rehabs.

She even went to Basel, Switzerland last year for three weeks to work on a project that will be built in Singapore.

Do you get the feeling she works for a large, international company?

And she loves her work. And they seem to love her (she's been there for 11 years).

But she worries about lack of work at the moment. The pharmaceutical companies are hurting. Patents are running out. People are holding back on spending. Stock prices have plummeted. Fewer expansion projects are on the drawing board (well, the computer screen, these days).

But my wife loves the security of a regular paycheck. She could no more be an entrepreneur than fly.

My dad was the same way: he was a Real Estate Appraiser and Counselor and though he helped to bring in the large assignments he worked on (including the largest appraisal in the world: the Penn Central Railroad, which he led, he would have died if he had had to be a salesman, the way I was).

One time I worked 3.5 years on a project (The Curtis Center in Philadelphia, PA USA - across the street from Independence Hall). 1,000,000 square feet. Former home of Curtis Publishing: Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Jack and Jill, and more. Beautiful old building whose time for rehab had come.

3.5 years and I didn't earn a dime. Was paid nothing. Had to survive on my own.

Until...

Until settlement day. And the payoff was huge to me, my company, and the owner. And Philadelphia now has a beautiful, historical office building with a gorgeous lobby complete with a Maxfield Parrish, Tiffany glass mosaic.

But if I had given up, where would all of this have been? Heck, the idea for the transformation was mine. The owner wanted to sell and I showed him how to transform the building and created drawings to show others.

And all this time, though I worked for a large real estate company, I was a work at home dad - I seldom was in the office in Center City - couldn't make any money sitting in there!

So use this as a lesson: don't give up, take charge, take control of your life. If you love what you're doing now, GREAT! If not, it's time to believe in yourself and make a change.

Perhaps a work at home career is right for you too? Let me know.


Charlie
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Will You Stay In The Rat Race Or Take Charge

Do You Feel Helpless Or Can You Leave The Rat Race For Your Work At Home Work?

Seems to me in life you are part of the problem or part of the solution. Willing to teach people how to treat you or get walked over. The flow of the river or merely a rock in the riverbed.

Do you let the river flow over you hardly creating a ripple? Hardly making your own wake? Hardly ever letting those around you know you exist?

Do people all go around you or do you get in the river and make things happen?

Are you ready to stand up for yourself, take charge, not wait for "them" to "do it to you"?

You see all of those people leaving your company - they've either been fired or they're taking charge and leaving on their own to work at home.

You can do this. Maybe it's not what you are used to doing (standing up for yourself so boldly). I remember how put off some people were when I told them I was going to work at home as an entrepreneur.

"How can you do that? I could NEVER do that!"

Oh, yes you can!

Set your goals. Set your calendar. And take the plunge. Now might be just the perfect time.

Do you keep hearing people say that the savior of our economy is small business? People with good ideas? Self-employed leaders to take charge?

I believe they are right. Come join us. Save at least a part of this economy.

Charlie
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Do You Think President Obama Likes The Rat Race?

OK... so President Obama hasn't been in office long enough for a routine to set it. Meetings, dressing up, being photographed, trips, and precious little time with his family.

But since he works at home, Gayle King on Good Morning American called him today a Work At Home Dad.

When does the newness rub off? When does he get tired of all of that?

Unlike you and me, probably never for a guy like him.

But you and I don't have all those trappings, people waiting on us, people standing when we walk into a room.

So we get tired of the Rat Race pretty easily, especially these days of high commuting expenses, meals, parking... to say nothing about all those boring meetings!

So, if you're looking for some help, a way to get OFF the Rat Race Carousel, maybe this can help: http://TakeMeFromTheRatRace.com.

Charlie

Is it YOUR time to say Take Me From The Rat Race?

How long have you worked there? Hard to remember at times, isn't it.

When you've been asked to pitch in, you're there. When others were fired, you were spared but then had to take on much more work at no additional pay. You like the work, but hate that commute and all those expenses of working there.

Is it time to take control? YOU decide when and where you'll work? Not wait for the next shoe to drop when the company calls you in, says it's "not personal, only business" and then they fire you too?

Maybe this will help: http://TakeMeFromTheRatRace.com. Be Sure To Follow On Twitter!