When I quitted from my profession to start work from home business, I was tempted to go back to my old job when I didn’t earn money yet from my work from home online opportunity. However, I realized that if I didn’t ‘burn my ships’ then I won’t fight very hard to succeed in work from home business.

2. Set a monumental goal.

You deliberately set a highly challenging and monumental goal in work from home business with adequate time limit so that you will be forced to take a lot of thinking and efforts to achieve it. Tom Hopkins said, "You can’t rest unless you set goals that make you stretch." However, boldly saying that you’ll successfully do something without the capacity -- skills or resources -- to do it is just bragging.

In 1508, Michelangelo, the famous artist, was summoned by Pope Julius II to work on a painting project, which involved painting a dozen figures on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Once Michelangelo agreed to do the job (albeit reluctantly), he poured himself into it. He expanded the scope of the project to include more than 400 figures and nine scenes from the book of Genesis. He spent four agonizing years sweating in physical distress -- his neck, shoulders and back ached, and his vision was damaged -- as he worked to paint the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling to produce a real masterpiece.

What is your monumental goal in your work from home business? How much will you earn in 2010 by maximizing the work from home online opportunity?

3. Make a public declaration of your goal.

You make your goal and plans public, so that you will be more committed to following through with them. Thomas Edison called a press conference to announce his good idea for an invention. Then he’d go into his lab and invent it.

Who should you declare your goal of work from home business to so that there is no way you will leave the work from home online opportunity?

4. Get other people involved in the process of attaining your goal.

You share your goal in work from home business with some close friends or relatives, those who will be supportive to you. This will force you to be committed to achieve your goal, and at the same time you may also get valuable support, advice and information from them to pursue work from home online opportunity. Tennessee Williams said, "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends we choose."

5. Make a financial commitment on your goal.

You set your goal in work from home business associated with financial commitment, such that it will hurt you not to do it. What is the extra money you are committed to make in work from home based business? When it comes to real commitment on money, people tend to be more serious and determined, and put their thought and actions whole-heartedly. As Voltaire properly put it, "When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."

By putting yourself in a critical condition, you put yourself on the line and tell yourself that the only option is to succeed in work from home business. Failure is not an option regardless the immense obstacles. You force your mind, body and soul to focus your efforts and play all-out to achieve your big goal in work from home business successfully and pay the price to reach it.

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