Self Starters Wait for No One - Starting a Small Business
In my last post I asked if you were a "self starter and problem solver that can tackle a necessary task without being told what needs to be done?"
When it comes to being able to run a home based business, this quality is a biggie, but not necessarily the biggest.
It is essential to be a self starter, someone that can tell themselves to get up from the sofa, sit down at the computer, and work on a specific work related task.
If you can come up with a million and one reasons why the dishes need washed now, the floor needs vacuumed before you can work, the car has to be washed, groceries need bought now... if you can procrastinate with the best of them, then you really should reconsider if running your own business is the right thing for you.
And when I say sit at the computer and work - Farmville is not work. Not unless you work for Zynga and get paid for the game. Neither is Collapse, Tetris, Bejeweled, or solitaire. If your work computer has any games on it, you should consider removing them. If you have a computer that is dedicated to work, that one should never have any games on it. Leave the games on the family computer.
Self starters do not wait for someone else to say "stop playing the game and do that work" they see the work sitting there waiting and make sure that it is taken care of before they move on to something else.
That is part of what makes them a problem solver. I think any self starter is an innate problem solver as well (but not necessarily vise-versa - problem solvers are not necessarily self starters). A self starter can see a task and solve the problems associated with that task, or can find the right person for the task that can solve the problems.
This makes it essential that those who want to run a small business be good self starters that can make sure the necessary jobs get done, that they get done on time, and that they are handled to the best of their capability to handle them.
When it comes to being able to run a home based business, this quality is a biggie, but not necessarily the biggest.
It is essential to be a self starter, someone that can tell themselves to get up from the sofa, sit down at the computer, and work on a specific work related task.
If you can come up with a million and one reasons why the dishes need washed now, the floor needs vacuumed before you can work, the car has to be washed, groceries need bought now... if you can procrastinate with the best of them, then you really should reconsider if running your own business is the right thing for you.
And when I say sit at the computer and work - Farmville is not work. Not unless you work for Zynga and get paid for the game. Neither is Collapse, Tetris, Bejeweled, or solitaire. If your work computer has any games on it, you should consider removing them. If you have a computer that is dedicated to work, that one should never have any games on it. Leave the games on the family computer.
Self starters do not wait for someone else to say "stop playing the game and do that work" they see the work sitting there waiting and make sure that it is taken care of before they move on to something else.
That is part of what makes them a problem solver. I think any self starter is an innate problem solver as well (but not necessarily vise-versa - problem solvers are not necessarily self starters). A self starter can see a task and solve the problems associated with that task, or can find the right person for the task that can solve the problems.
This makes it essential that those who want to run a small business be good self starters that can make sure the necessary jobs get done, that they get done on time, and that they are handled to the best of their capability to handle them.
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