Is Working from Home, Worth the Risk?

Starting up a work-at-home business requires a lot of things, the most essential of which is the willingness to take a risk. After all, there are no guarantees that your business will thrive or even if it will make it at all. Sadly, fear of failure is what keeps many from stepping out and taking a risk.

Take a moment to consider the following:

• Winston Churchill failed 6th grade and was defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at age 62.

• Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.

• Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old. One of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams."

• Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded.

• Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

• Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper editor because he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.

• Charles Schultz had every cartoon he ever submitted rejected by his high school yearbook staff. And Walt Disney wouldn’t hire him.

• The first time Jerry Seinfeld walked out in front of a live audience, he froze and stumbled through a minute-and-a-half of material and was jeered off the stage.

• Lucille Ball was told by a head instructor of a renowned drama school to "find another profession."

• 27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’s first book, "To Think I saw it on Mulberry Street."

• Hank Aaron went 0 for 5 his first time at bat with the Milwaukee Braves.

You get the picture. Those "failures" went on to become some of the most well-known successes in history. What would have happened if they just gave up? If they had allowed their losses and rejections to keep them down and let the fear of failing keep them from trying again?

This is what would have happened:
today, their names would mean nothing to you (and your kids might not know the magic of Disney!)
It’s true that starting a home-based business is risky. There are many potential pitfalls and a million things that could go wrong. What if you don’t like it? What if you don’t make enough money? What if you fail?
It may be tempting to focus on the fact that taking a risk greatly increases your chance of failure. But also remind yourself that it is only through taking a risk that you will reach the level of success you’ve always dreamed of.

*Facts taken from: http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/efficacynotgiveup.html



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