Consider a partner for your home bussiness startup
February 192010
I’ve had some great ideas over the years and I bet you have too. I’ve seen lots of opportunities come and go. Many of them I could kick myself for missing, I’d be sitting on the beach in Fiji right now.
But a few years back I made a dramatic change and it has me heading towards that beach faster than I ever thought possible. I stopped bouncing ideas off of my friends and business associates and found
myself a partner. Or, more truthfully, she found me. She’s been a life changer, especially for my business.
Now, I consider myself a pretty intelligent and motivated kind of guy. I can figure out just about anything and am a pretty good planner. But a few years back I was just stuck. I’d either not get started, get sidetracked or just never quite give a new business the opportunity and time it needed. Don’t get me wrong, I was far from poverty. I just wasn’t getting ahead.
Then somewhere along the way, mainly by luck, Jennie started asking about ideas I had talked to her about the month before. I gave her all kinds of good excuses for not making progress. Well, lo and behold, she had been doing the same thing. Whether it was money, time, knowledge or interest nothing ever seemed to get going for her either.
When the next idea came along I told her about it. This time she didn’t just listen she asked if she could be part of it. I could bore you with details that interest me, but I won’t. I’ll just say that was the question that that took both of us from wall flowers to successful business people.
The simple truth is, it’s a lot easier to accomplish something when you know someone else is counting on you. Instead of just personal motivations a whole new level of incentives were suddenly in the picture. Some days I worked for myself, some days I worked to impress her and some days I worked because I didn’t want to tell her I didn’t accomplish anything. And we started getting business done.
I’m lucky – I found someone that I like working with and that has lots of talents. Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t been a fairy tell every step of the way. It’s just been what I needed and what she needed.
The moral of the story? Consider finding yourself a partner. Someone to keep you motivated, someone to complement your talents, someone to pull the weight when you need a day off. It could be the difference between no home business and the best home business.
Bamboo Jones