What Does It Take to Become Boss-Free?

Living in a boss-free world may seem impossible. Despite the bad day you just had, the constant micro-managing your supervisor puts you through, and the monotony of the daily work routine, it may seem like there’s no other alternative.

So you continue to tell yourself that it’s just a rough patch. “Once we get through this busy period, things will improve.”

So the days go on, and on, and on. But nothing gets better. Every day, your attitude declines, and your disengagement skyrockets. But you keep going to work every day because in today’s competitive job market, it’s not always easy to just switch careers or companies on a whim.

And even if you did do that, what’s the guarantee that your new company, or new boss, is going to be even better?

Do you want to know when I finally reached my breaking point with my J.O.B.?

I was sitting at my desk, doing my work like normal. And I found myself looking at the clock. And I asked myself, “What task can I do that will kill the most time?”

Kill the most time?! Was this why I was here? To watch the days of my life pass me by as I slaved away on mundane tasks that consumed the minutes of my day until I could clock out and go home?

This is not how I want to spend the rest of my life. And instead of complaining and making excuses about my lot in life, I decided to do something about it.

So I started my home business, and having had experience running a business in the past, I knew I wasn’t going to become successful overnight.

I knew it was going to take time, effort, and a positive attitude. And over time, the results I’m looking to gain would come.

You cannot fake your way to the top. That sort of behavior, in my opinion, is reserved for the corporate world brown-nosers who operate under the adage of “It’s not WHAT you know, but WHO you know.”

Call me traditional, but I feel hard work, dedication, and absorbing knowledge and applying it should be the keys to your success. Not the fact that you play golf with the boss every Sunday and laugh at his outdated jokes.

But I digress. Here are some tips you can apply to any business to begin building success:

1. Set Goals and Commit To Them. In order to achieve success, you have to define it first. To do this, you must set goals from the very beginning, and keep those goals in focus. It is important to set short-term and long-term goals.

To achieve your goals, it’s important to revisit them as often as possible. There are several things you can do to make sure your goals are always in front of you so you don’t lose sight of what you’re working towards.

Type them out and paste them where they are always visible. i.e., your computer monitor, bathroom mirror, day planner, etc. My goals are in a Word Document on my Centro. When I turn the phone off at night, I pull up that document so when I wake up and turn my phone on, it’s the first thing I see.

It doesn’t matter what your goals are…as long as you have them. Your reason why is going to be what makes or breaks your level of success with your business.

2. Develop a positive mindset. When learning something new, there’s no doubt there’s going to be mistakes along the way.

Think about it. When you learned to ride a bike, did you hop right on and take off at full speed? NO! You started with training wheels. And when those training wheels came off, you fell. Chances are, you fell alot.

But you kept getting back on, and trying again, because you were committed to riding that damn thing! You stayed positive because the more times you fell, the more you learned.

And what about your current job? Did you walk in the door on your first day and set record numbers? NO! It took time to learn your trade. And during that learning period, chances are you made some mistakes. It’s natural. It’s human.

And even as you progressed through your company and gained experience, you made a few mistakes along the way.

But you didn’t stop going to work because of it. You learned from your mistakes and stayed positive as you moved forward.

That’s what boggles my mind about the network marketing industry. Despite having to work for everything their entire life, people enter this industry and instantly expect to rule the world.

And when that doesn’t happen overnight, they quit. Or, they try another opportunity. Because they feel they are ENTITLED to a fortune simply because they signed up.

It simply doesn’t work that way.

But what DOES work?

The same thing that’s worked your entire life! Developing a mindset that allows you to stay positive through the growing pains.

If you are willing to develop a positive attitude and can keep that attitude in tact as you LEARN how to be successful, you’ll open yourself for great opportunity as you strive to reach your goals.

3. Treat Your Business as if it’s Your ONLY Source of Income. Today’s world constantly reminds us of a struggling economy, outsourcing, and people losing their jobs left and right.

The days of “recession-proof” companies are long gone.

To that end, many people are turning to home businesses and the Internet as an additional, or primary, source of income.

So ask yourself: How much harder would you work on your home-based business if it was the only source of income you had?

I think the answer to that is very simple. At least it should be.

So if your true desire is to build a business from your living room that can sustain you and your family, that will allow you to reach all of your goals, fire your boss, and escape the “9 to 5” world, act as if the only income stream you have is through that business!

Don’t become complacent and say “You know what, I worked some overtime at the office this week, so I can afford to not update my advertisements for my business.”

Do that once, and it’ll become routine. Avoid this trap at all costs.

If you put the same type of effort into your home business as you do your “9-5,” your business will grow by leaps and bounds.