What Is Holding You Back?

What Is Holding You Back?

This is a question I’d love to get answers to in the comments below. What is holding you back? What is preventing you from getting your online business off the ground?

Fear of the unknown?
Worried that you aren’t capable?
Not sure how to get it going?
Don’t have time?
Think you need more money?
Think you need more knowledge?
Something else?

I’ll always be grateful that one day I decided to jump into the online business bandwagon. I was just having a conversation today about the fact that it’s going to be raining all weekend. Back in the day, when I was still working in a cubicle “out there”, the weekends mattered…a lot! So a rainy weekend would have been a huge disappointment. But now that I work from home, I can make any group of days a weekend. I decide when I take time off, not some corporation. So the fact that this weekend will be rainy doesn’t affect me in the least. I’ll just move my weekend plans to mid-week instead.

Working from home, for one’s self, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. But if that’s what you dream of…if that’s what you would LOVE to be able to do, but haven’t…. I want to know why.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to tell people to quit your day jobs, right now, without any kind of plan or savings. That would be foolish. But the great thing about this business is that you can get started slowly – part-time. You can do a little work when you’re at home at night or on those cherished weekends, to “get things going”. You can slowly build up to the day when you don’t have to get up and go to some j-o-b “out there” in some stuffy office.

So why haven’t you? I’m not judging, I’m just curious. I truly want to know. Maybe if I know, then I can turn around and help a few people get past those problems and get started on their goals of not worrying about the weekend weather report.

So if the question applies to you, I’d love to hear your answer in the comments. Thanks!

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What Is Holding You Back?
	This is a question I’d love to get answers to in the comments below. What is holding you back? What is preventing you from getting your online business off the ground? Fear of the unknown? Worried that you aren’t capable? Not sure how to get it going? Don’t have time? Think you need more money? [...]

6 Responses to “What Is Holding You Back?”

Sharon Hurley Hall (4 comments) says:

Too many ideas, too little time. I have lots of half finished projects which keep getting sidelined so I can complete client projects, and lots of ideas that are nothing more than a couple of lines in a file. But I’m thinking positive – I’ll work on them one idea at a time and won’t let anything hold me back.

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Wit (6 comments) says:

I think my main problem is that I’m too fishin’ lazy. So far I haven’t found a cure yet. Bummer.

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Trisha (1 comments) says:

There always seems to be a lack of enough time for everything. But also, its the marketing stuff. I don’t have that many regular visitors to my site yet to get me where need and want to be.

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Lana (1 comments) says:

Hi Donna, I was just going to email you to ask you for coaching with this very problem. I am literally ‘dying’ to get started in an at home online venture and I have all the skills needed and then some! I currently work from home part time for someone else. I can not move forward because I simply don’t have an ‘idea’. That is essentially what is holding me back. The idea. I can’t get past it.

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Donna (583 comments) says:

Lana, I’d bet we could pull quite a few good ideas out of you pretty quickly. And since you’re already working from home part time, you’re half way there!

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