Do You Have Clarity and Commitment?

by Mary Bachert
(Seaforth, ON,CA)

After being involved with my candle business for 4 1/2 years, there were many times that I became discouraged as it seemed nothing was working.

Now, I realize that the majority of it was that I was not focused on what I was doing!

After reading an email from Charles Stanley talking about our Christian walk, he suggested two things we need in our life; clarity and commitment.

The more I thought about this, the more I realized that this didn’t just apply to my spiritual life, but to all areas of my life.

My home based business was one of them. So I decided to start putting them into practice and am truly amazed at how the LORD is blessing in all areas of my life. For without HIM, I can do nothing!


Clarity... do you have a very clear picture in your mind "Why" you are doing this business?

• Does a picture come into your mind of what things look like now?
  
  
• Can you picture what you need to change, so it doesn't look like that anymore?
  
  
• What do you want out of your business?
  
  
• What do you want your personal life to look like?
  
  
• Do you have the picture in your mind of what things will look like when you are successful?
  

Remember if you believe you can succeed, you will!

Commitment... Are you truly committed to working your business? Or are you doing the things that I was, like cleaning your office, re-arranging it, organizing things, sharpening your pencils, copying things off the computer so that you have mounds of paper work to try and file, etc.?

Is that really working your business and being committed to helping others succeed? In my case it wasn’t! It was just treating my business as a hobby and with it, came a “hobby income.”

I needed to put a certain amount of real working hours into my home-based business and to treat it as a business.

You too, are going to have to take advantage of the free training, conference calls or webinars to help you grow your business. You are going to have to make those cold or warm calls; follow up with those leads; talk to others about your products and business and to do the things that you don’t want to do because of fear and having to step out of your comfort zone!

Above all, you are going to need to build a relationship with those you have talked with, and those who have joined your business, so that you will have the joy of watching them grow and becoming successful also.

So now after thinking on clarity and commitment I have asked myself, and I urge you to do the same as you are go about your duties, “Is what I am doing now helping me to bring in the income I need to succeed in this business?"

Only you will know the answer to that! If it is, that is great and the results will show! If not then you need to change what you are doing.

Remember... one of the greatest things of having your own business is that you can lifestyle it around everything you do.

"Jesus, please show me how to help others succeed!"

Mary Bachert
www.candlesandcosmetics.com