Top 3 Excuses for Not Starting a Business

So you want to start a home based business. I know you do. Or I know you have at least thought about it right? Maybe it's the idea of not having to commute to work. Or maybe it's the attractive notion of working for yourself. Maybe it's the lure of spending more quality time with your family. Whatever the reason, you have your reasons.

Yet for many people, it never goes beyond a thought, a wish or a desire. Too often, one or more of these excuses get in the way.

I don't have the time! Time is the one thing that everyone has an equal share of. Everyone has the same 24 hours in each day. So the real question is how are you spending your time? Many people spend a great deal of their time at a job which may eat up 40, 50 or more hours per week.

This is a main time eater, so get rid of it! How? Start a home based business. Ok, well it may not be realistic to abruptly quit your job and start a home business, but you should consider ways to free up some time to start up a home business if that is what you really want. You may have to look to your non-working time to free up those hours or maybe you can make a deal with your employer for a modified schedule or a reduced schedule. Get creative and you will find the time. Also choose a home based business (such as a Network Marketing company) where you can start on a part time basis if you are short on time.

I don't have the money! As they say, it takes money to make money. But the biggest advantage to a Network Marketing (NM) home business opportunity is that it takes very little startup capital to start one. Many NM business can be started for less that $200. For example, a MyWireLessRep home business can be started for $199 or $399 depending on the options you want. Compare the cost of starting an NM business to say, a franchise business. For example, if you want to open a McDonald's franchise, you'll need between $600,000 and $1.2 million to start one! Network Marketing offers the lowest cost of entry of any industry that I know of.

I don't have the know-how! Another strong advantage to a Network Marketing home business opportunity is that when you join, you join a team of people. In an NM company, you are not just sailing along by yourself. For starters, you will have plenty of training material provided by your company. You will have a sponsor (commonly called an upline) who enrolled you in the company. A good upline will network his or her team together and that will give you access to the collective knowledge of the team. So in an NM business, while there is plenty to learn, you can get that know-how fairly quickly.

So if you are considering a home based business but stopped at the 'excuse step', try to look beyond those excuses and go for what you really want.