Monday, March 30, 2009

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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