To Work from Home Ya Gotta have a Positive Attitude

Do you have a positive attitude? Are you always looking on the bright side or see the world as a great place to be? Or do you find fault with everything and make up problems as you go along?

It is hard enough working from home, trying to stay motivated, meet the demands of your children, your family and your house. You need to stay away from those who like to complain just to complain. I mean come on, do you really have time to listen to someone complain who doesn't want a solution? You know the person who complains for complaint sake, just to hear their own voice, don't you ever wonder if anything good happens in their lives?

Turn off the news and start getting RSS feeds instead. Huh RSS feeds? Most blogs, news websites etc have the little orange symbol (shown at the top) that will enable you to get the headlines into your Microsoft feeds or other feed reader. It will provide you with headlines, read the ones that matter to you and your business, ignore the ones that don't. If it bleeds, don't read it.... You have better things to do with your time and your business then to read the negative news.

Watch less TV, skip the reality shows, where's the reality in them anyway? Pick a few of your favorite shows, I admit I love to watch CSI and Without a Trace, not your most uplifting shows. Try to watch a few shows that make you laugh everytime you watch them. Laugh more, smile more, and take your vitamins.

Staying positive when you are on your own in business is difficult because you don't have the rah rah sales meetings or the patcha on the back managers meetings. The only time your spouse is going to give you a high 5 is after you've cashed the 10th big cheque. So to stay positive you will have to find positive places to be. Networking meetings, supportive online forums, and coffee with supportive friends.

Stay on top of the little stuff so the stress won't overwhelm you. Do you have someone who can do your filing? or listen to your voicemail for you? Do you have real support around you, the kind that will lend a helping hand before the cheques arrive? If not, where can you find it?

Other women out there are in the same boat you are, you are not alone. You need to find others who like you work from home and need support, the helping kind. Form your own little positive support network and together create a cooperative to grow your businesses together and offer each other a positive word of encouragement and motivation.

So where do you find them? Sign up for my newsletter for positive support nuggets, email friends and ask them who they know, go to The Work at Home Directory to see if there is anyone in your area. -- While you're there you may think about adding your business to the online directory. Put a notice up at your local coffee shop and create your own little work at home group.

Whatever you do, wherever you find it, be positive. You can only stay self motivated and offer yourself up encouragement if you stay positive.

Do you have some ideas about how to become and stay in a positive frame of mind? Add them here so we can form our own positive attitude in business group.

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