The Home Business Pro

Welcome to a fantastic resource for anyone considering a home business or just looking for some help with personal growth. The goal of the website is to share news, ideas and teaching from myself or where ever I find things of value to us as a community. Put your email address in the form to the right so you wont miss out on any updates. Going into business for yourself can be one of the biggest decisions … Continue reading

Solving the top four pitfalls of working from home

This is just a quick post to share a post I came across. Yes there are some pitfalls to working from home and this gives solutions to four of them. Another I do is use Skype to have kind of water cooler office chat with people I know who also work at home. we can chat away as we work without feeling the need to concentrate on the conversation too much, even long silences are fine because we know … Continue reading

Seven steps to stay on track

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A new skill I have been working on lately is learning to recognize when I have drifted of course mentally. I have given myself the excuse that as a creative, right brain person I will naturally be thinking laterally and going outside the box. That’s fine in some circumstances but it isn’t always helpful. Learning to tune in and pay attention to where my thoughts are at any precise time is a challenge. The internet is the greatest … Continue reading

“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars”.

I just came across this quote and felt inspired to share it. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars”. What a great attitude. If things in your life aren’t taking you in the direction you would like or they aren’t taking you anywhere at all, there are always the oars. Yes it’s not as easy, but yes they do work and yes they will get you where you want to go, eventually. A good question to … Continue reading

Get your head in the clouds

Cloud computing

  Several recent events have brought home the importance of backing up our ever increasing digital property. Whether you are in business or not, we are all rapidly accumulating digital property. This might be in the form of family photos, business accounting records, software programmes, emails and calendars, passwords and logins, receipts, invoices, music, videos and on and on. You might want to look at the options for cloud computing, which in case you aren’t … Continue reading

Rent, Try and Die or Try, Buy and Live.

Popular advice to school students is to work hard at school, probably then work hard at university get a good job, borrow some money and buy a house. Typically the advice is always, get a job, but buy a house. Rarely are we advised to rent a house. Usually we rent a house out of necessity because buying houses is seen as the best alternative and there are some very good reasons that. Having a … Continue reading

Two ways to handle discomfort in our life.

As I look around the people I know there seems to be two very different ways people deal with discomfort. I’m not talking here about the discomfort you get from a too hard bed or an uncomfortable chair, although sometimes we deal with those in the same way. I am talking about the mental discomfort that can come into our lives in a thousand different ways, things like a friendship or relationship that once was … Continue reading

Tackling Habits Fast or slow??

A recent Quote from Mark Twain which goes “Habit is Habit, and not be thrown out the window by any man, but rather coaxed down the stairs a step at a time” Got a lot of response suggesting it is a common thing. (Actually I think all struggles are common, as in we all have them but just the degree varies). Anyway I got me thinking maybe we struggle with habits because we underestimate them. … Continue reading

How to demonstrate self-confidence without even trying.

A recent editorial by Nathan Statz at Nett magazine struck a chord with me; he spoke about the air of confidence and self-confidence that comes from being a successful entrepreneur or small business owner. This is because each and every small business owner carries with them an air of confidence that is unmatched by even the highest paid executives from multi nationals. It is the tread of a self-made entrepreneur, but it’s a confidence that … Continue reading

The value of evaluating

When I grew up (Pre Internet) and I wanted to know something I either, went to an adult and asked them, or as I got older I went to a “knowledge resource”. That was maybe a reference book, Library, Dictionary or Atlas. It occurred to me the other day it’s been a long while since I did that, now like most others, I just “Google” but I have had some recent experiences that reminded me … Continue reading