ask: "What’s your motorcycle?" Contact me with your answer now! When people ask me about how to make money at home, one of the first things I talk about is my motorcycle. What does that have to do with a work at home business opportunity? Quite a bit! I love going for a ride any time of day. Making money from home gives me the chance to do it. Looking forward to benefits like this is the best way to commit to a work from home business. There are two basic ways to look at any chance to be your own boss. Each one suits a different stage of your home-based business. I’m at the second stage, but let’s look at the first.

In the first stage, your motives for making money from home are often centered around avoiding pain: the pain of having a boss telling you what to do, getting up early, paying for gas to commute to the office and of anxieties about getting promoted, filling out reports and having team meetings. Meditating on all of this is a great way to push you into action. Negative feelings are powerful because they show us what we should get away from, and for many of us, that includes the 9 to 5 grind! Use those feelings to get started, but learn to move past the negative situation you’re leaving. Turn your point of view toward the future!

Use the lifestyle perspective to drive your long-term success. This point of view grows from your joys and aspirations. For me, my motorcycle represents the easy freedom I enjoy in life. I like hiking, bird watching and the natural world. I like taking my wife on big vacations to interesting places. My home-based business makes these things easy for me to do so it motivates me to get more done in less time and burn through the day’s tasks. If I had a boss that wouldn’t matter – getting five hours of work done in three hours would mean either more work or less pay. Making money at home, I have the power to reward myself for performance and do the things I’d only get to dream about if I worked in a cubicle.

The lifestyle perspective is the key to successfully make money from home, but that key needs to open a door: a practical business opportunity. That’s what I offer at pencilthemin(dot)com: a "turnkey" business opportunity to make money from home. Find a lifestyle perspective and use that to seize the opportunity. Answer the question I often.