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When you work at home, do you take the opportunity to take good care of your body’s need for quality foods or do you just go for convenience with whatever is in easy reach?

I admit to the latter much of the time, but it’s a habit I’m trying to change.

At the best of times, I’m really not much of a home maker, let alone a kitchen goddess, lol!  I’d much rather be on my laptop researching and writing and shaping my business.

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This is one that trips up a lot of people – particularly if it’s the woman who’s trying to claim for herself the freedom that success can bring.

There are enough excuses for failure – not enough time, not enough money, too technical, don’t like reading, not enough energy, mother never loved me enough, teachers hated me, husband doesn’t believe in me. Pick one. Any will do.

These all mask the fear of success, of claiming your own power, of becoming as great as you ever dreamed of being.

As Marianne Williamson writes with profound insight: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”

In this world, you begin it alone and you end it alone. You are the only person you can ever TRULY rely on to be there for you.

The ONLY belief that really matters is that you believe in yourself. That you believe you CAN achieve what you intend to achieve.

If you have people in your life who don’t support you – and honestly, that would be almost all of us – they simply reflect your own belief about yourself.

I was continually frustrated, but not discouraged, by my husband’s lack of interest, let alone belief, in my ambitions. But one day it struck me Click here to read the full story.

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I admit I’ve been dilly dallying with getting my online business up and running.  I’ve made a few false starts, and my credibility is at risk with my husband, family and friends.

However, I’m not disheartened because I know that I was just going through a learning phase to get my technical knowledge ready for when I found the right “vision” to implement.

Ideas are precious things,  and they need ripening.  Very rarely is an idea ready to go with immediately.  It needs refining and deepening.

And sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know, until you do certain courses, and for a while, it’s back to square one.  Other businesses have Research and Development sections – why not for solopreneurs?

Many technical courses about putting up an online business presume Click here to read the full story.