Who is better than you to start a profitable business at home? No one. Care to know the secret behind it all? Believe it or not, the majority of people assume that there is a secret to creating and profiting well from a home-based business. Yes, there is a secret and that secret is… there’s no real secret. A home-based business has no mystery to it and its success nor is there mysteries behind the people who start a profitable business and have great monetary funds from it.Whether you realize it or not, these self-starters are just like you; they weren’t gifted or special. They just started a business and were able to profit from it. If you think you can’t do it because you’ve done it before and failed, try again.If you thought that, then you should know that governmental statistics shows that about 95 percent of small businesses tend to fail in the initial year. You may have actually been a part of that 95 percent number. Some people may have actually been a failure more than one time. That word failure can be quite intimidating and may even keep you from trying to start a profitable business again. Why is that?Think of this way:A man who fails 10,000 times can see his failures as 10,000 discarded ideas that would eventually lead to the right idea. For instance, Thomas Edison, known for the light bulb invention, had attempted 10,000 times to make a light bulb; only when he found a carbonized bamboo filament did he have a light bulb that could last more than 1,200 hours.If you think about it, Thomas Edison was highly responsible for a lot of the modern conveniences people enjoy today. In essence, Edison shaped the cultural makeup for today’s civilizations, which makes him in influential figure for the millennium. Edison can be attributed to about 1,093 patents.Edison once said, “One percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration”. This saying can be applied to your lucrative home based business.Don’t think there’s a “Get Rich Quick” scheme; there isn’t one. Not a single one. If you’re looking for one, you might see people advertising information that says that there is a get rich fast road. However, that only lasts until people figure out that the information is untrue.Even if you’ve gone down the wrong path, you don’t need to consider that as a failure on your part; just think of it has another step in the right direction. After all, you know it’s one more way that does not work.It’s hard to believe that there is no magic secret to make you start a profitable business at home. However, it’s better to identify this now than down the road after you spend thousands and thousands of dollars, only to learn all you lost was your money and all you gained was absolutely nothing.Do you want to be a successful home based business owner? If so, then something must drive you and you must have the desire to see yourself achieve your success. However, if you don’t have these things, then a home based business is not in the cards for you (at this time).If you desire to achieve your success, you must not give up even when times are tough. When you don’t give up, you can become a very successful home based business capitalist.

Operating a business can be a real challenge and a home-based business in particular has its own unique challenges associated with running it. Before you venture out to start operating a home-based business, maybe a very good question to honestly ask yourself is, do I have what it takes?The following are some critical questions you should be addressing before you venture out into a home-based business. These are questions particularly concerned with your own temperament.* Are You Well Organized?Being well organized is a critical aspect of running a business from home given the interruptions you are likely to face and the lack of administrative support when just starting out.* Are You Focused?Working from home is going to pose a challenge with regards to being able to focus on your business and not get caught up with whatever else is going on in the home. If you are not able to stay focused on what your business require from day to day and allow minor interruptions in the home to take up your time, then you are going to find it very difficult to reach your goals and be successful.* Do You Normally Take The Initiative?One of the disadvantages of running a home based business is that you have little or no support with regards to feed-back and motivation. In this regards you have to be prepared even more than is normal to take the initiative to get things done. You will not have the support of colleagues, unless you have managed to develop an effective network to help along this line, but even then the initiative to even ask for help will have to come from you.* Do You Have An Abundance of Energy?We may feel that working from home makes our job easier as there is no commute and less office politics and corporate stress. While this may be true to some extent, you would be surprised to know how those very same things give us energy to get up every day and perform. We may not like commuting but when we know we have to get to that office to meet a deadline with a boss on our backs, that energy level spikes up.Working from your home you will not have the same motivations. So you need to plan carefully how you are going to keep your energy level up in order to get your work done.Running a home-based business can be extremely rewarding, but if you are going to make a success of it you will need to ensure that you do have what it takes before making that full commitment.