Grow Your Home-Based Business with Help from the Power Habits® System by Noah St. John

Do you want a successful home-based business? 

Having a successful home-based business means you have the FREEDOM to do what you want, when you want…and also have the LIFESTYLE you desire…along with the EXPERIENCE of knowing you’re making great money while making a difference. 

Would you like me to give you the exact framework that has empowered my clients to find a way to add over $2 BILLION dollars in sales? 

In less than 90 days from now, you could be living a richer, happier life…with more success in your business and personal life…while working LESS than you are now. 

How do I know? Because those who follow my Power Habits® System regularly double their income while working less…sometimes in just a matter of weeks! 

For example, Ray Higdon, who has a successful career in network marketing, reflected after employing my Power Habits® System, “I made my annual income in just 44 days!” 

Prem Jantarapet came to the United States from Thailand with just $18 in her pocket and didn’t speak any English. She wanted to start a home-based business. She learned the Power Habits® System through my Freedom Lifestyle Experience workshop and now makes over $10,000 each month. 

One of the key strategies for creating a successful home-based business is getting rid of your head trash. Head trash is what keeps some entrepreneurs from growing their business. It’s formed from unconscious beliefs that hold you back by producing unproductive and unhealthy behaviors. Have you been missing out on potential customers because you’ve been prey to either fear or procrastination? Have you lost clients to someone else because you didn’t believe in yourself enough? Are people regularly passing up your offers? Head trash is likely the culprit in all these scenarios.  

In order to get rid of your head trash, you need to change your subconscious beliefs. So many people get it wrong by focusing on the external behaviors, but those will only change once your beliefs do. Using my Afformations® Method, one of the components of the Power Habits® System, can help you combat self-defeating beliefs that drive your actions. 

First, identify the habit you want to change. For example: “I want to reach out to more potential clients.” 

Next, FORM what you want into an empowering question that assumes that what you want already happened or is already true. So for this example, you might ask yourself the following: 

Why is it so easy to reach out to potential clients? 

Why are so many people interested in learning more about my business? 

Afformations® are significantly more powerful than affirmations because statements alone do not change your deeply held self-limiting beliefs. If you state, “I am good at reaching out to potential clients,” your brain will likely respond with more head trash like “Hah. No you’re not.” But when you Afform® the same idea and ask yourself about the positive result you envision, your brain is forced to provide a positive argument for your success, which, in turn, alters your belief system in an authentic and profound way. 

Third, you must give yourself to the question. Read your Afformations®, write them, say them out loud, and listen to them—daily, even hourly. Using all four modes of human communication will enable you to change your subconscious thought patterns that have been limiting the success of your home-based business. 

Finally, take new actions based on your new assumptions about life. Right now, you are making hundreds, perhaps thousands, of unconscious assumptions about life and your relationship to it. These assumptions form the basis of how you go through life—positively or negatively, confidently or hesitantly, from love or from fear. However, the problem is that we usually don’t recognize our own unconscious assumptions. 

For example, if you hold the assumption that “Things never work out for me,” your actions will be hesitant, your posture will be one of defeat, and you will tend to give up at the first sign of resistance or rejection. But if one of your assumptions is “Things always work out for the best for me,” your actions will tend to be confident, your posture will be self-assured, and you will persist even in the face of temporary failure. Which means that no matter what you assume, you always make yourself right. To continue our example, act on the assumption that “People are interested in learning more about the products or opportunities offered by my home-based business” by reaching out to them without fear or hesitation.   

Don’t let your head trash hold you back from living the Freedom Lifestyle of your dreams. Preorder a copy of my new book, Power Habits®: The New Science for Making Success Automatic®, and learn how to leverage the five systems of support to: 

• Make a definitive difference in the world 

• Have a genuine impact on the people you’re here to serve 

• Supercharge your ability to attract more wealth and abundance 

• Enjoy more time off without the guilt 

• Overcome the fear of failure so you can achieve more while working less 

By preordering your copy by September 21, you’ll be able to claim up to $599 in free bonuses, including live video trainings to empower you to live the Power Habits® System. 

Are You in the Work-at-Home Doldrums? Here Are 5 Strategies That Will Help by Jennifer Janechek

This article originally appeared in Thrive Global.

As any remote worker or entrepreneur knows, working from home can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, your schedule might be more flexible, with opportunities to squeeze in chores or childcare responsibilities in between work commitments. On the other hand, it’s easy to fall into a rut and feel disconnected from the other people in your organization—or, if you’re a solopreneur, to lose the drive and energy necessary to maintain your momentum. 

When you feel like all you’re doing is slogging away at your tasks, you’re not particularly excited about the work that you’re doing, you feel fatigued—or perhaps restless—by the early afternoon, and your productivity has declined as a result, you’ve entered what I refer to as the work-at-home doldrums. It can be difficult to pull yourself out of the listlessness and lack of motivation that are characteristic of the doldrums. It requires a conscious effort to make a change to your daily habits and your work rhythm. Below are five strategies for regaining your dynamism: 

1. Identify your great motivating desire.  
   One of the advantages of working in an office setting is that you’re surrounded by people who can boost your energy and inspire you when you’ve lost your verve. (Of course, if your team tends toward the negative, the opposite can happen too.) When you’re working remotely and/or independently, it can be easy to lose sight of your guiding purpose and become enmeshed in the minutiae of the day to day. If you’ve been feeling unmotivated lately, take some time to reflect on your great motivating desire. Napoleon Hill said that “the subconscious mind may be likened to a magnet, and when it has been vitalized and thoroughly saturated with any definite purpose it has a tendency to attract all that is necessary for the fulfillment of that purpose.” To attain that definiteness of purpose, journal daily about your long-term goal and your reasons for wanting it. Rather than just writing a bullet-point to-do list, take time each morning to contextualize your daily tasks in the scope of your motivating desire. Doing so will give you the purpose and energy you need to pull yourself out of the work-at-home doldrums, for as Earl Nightingale explained, “The key that unlocks energy is desire.” 

2. Add exercise to the mix. 
   I have noticed that on the days that I skip my workout in the interests of “getting more done,” my productivity plummets, along with my energy levels. Depending on your work-at-home situation, you might be able to arrange your schedule so that you can fit in a 30-minute workout somewhere in your workday. Doing so is a surefire way to regain mental clarity, enhance performance, and reignite your passion for your responsibilities. Determine what works best for you: for some, exercising first thing in the morning helps drive their motivation for the rest of the day; for others, taking a mid-day exercise break enables them to step away from their work and get the energy boost they need to return to their work refreshed. 

3. Reconfigure your work rhythm. 
   I’ve written previously on the importance of creating a daily work rhythm. Charting the ebbs and flows of your energy levels and time-blocking your activities to suit your biological and emotional rhythms is a very effective way to maximize your productivity and not feel drained at the end of your workday. However, maintaining the same routine for too long a period of time can have the reverse effect, causing you to fall into a rut. If you feel like you’re just going through the motions, it might be time to switch up your routine. Answer e-mails at the end of the day instead of at the beginning, move your planning and creation period to the early morning instead of the late afternoon, call clients after lunch instead of before it—reconfigure your schedule so that you’re doing different “types” of activities at different times of the day than you normally do. 

4. Change your workplace. 
   Sometimes all it takes to regain your momentum is to change where you work—even for a day or two. If you can do some or all of your tasks at a local coffee shop or library instead of in your home office, the change of scenery might help give you the mental space you need to refocus on your action items. What’s more, getting out and around people can boost your energy and help you get excited about adding value to others’ lives. 

5. Schedule a regular call with a team member. 
   One of the biggest complaints from entrepreneurs with home offices and remote workers is a sense of isolation. These feelings of loneliness and disconnection, coupled with anxieties about not appearing busy enough to those in a central office, can really take a toll on your productivity and, more detrimentally, your emotional health. Scheduling a regular time to check in with a team member via phone or video call will help you feel more connected and energized. In addition, talking through your current projects will help lessen any concerns about the quality and quantity of your contributions.   

Whether you are growing your business out of your home office or are working remotely for a larger organization, it’s likely that you’ll experience the work-at-home doldrums at some point in your career. Knowing how to identify when you’re in them and implementing strategies to free yourself from them will be a crucial part of your success journey. 

How do you avoid the work-at-home doldrums—or pull yourself out of them once you’re in them? We want to hear from our readers!