Having a home business may set you on the path to your dream. However, are there times a home business can distract you from your dreams? You may have started a home business to follow a dream but ended up on a different path due to demand or the inability to afford the intended plan. You may have followed the dream to work from home but the work is not your cup of tea. Perhaps, you started a business to fund your dream and you are spending so much time funding it your dream got pushed aside.
The next step in following a dream is to take a step. Ultimately, we want our dream to become a reality. The only way that will happen is if we take those first steps. For example, I began blogging to house my writing in the hopes that one day I would get paid to write and eventually write and publish a book. I even had the boom idea in safe and secure in my head. Soon after blogging, I found opportunities to write for pay. I was following my dream. Yet, in the middle of all of that, my ultimate dream to get my story out of my head and on paper was being pushed aside. Finally, one day I decided it was time to write my dream. So I did. It felt great. I knew that no matter what happened I had accomplished a huge step. Quite excitedly, I sent it off to a publisher. It was turned down. So, was the dream dashed? Honestly, no. Not only had I written my story, I took the next step and sent it to a publisher. Once turned down, I decided to make it into a unit study. The book’s theme is suited to a bible study. I now sell my story along with a study on my own site. I have sold over 100 copies so far.
Moral of the story: follow your dream and allow it to mold and bend into success. I am not through trying to get published. However, I feel a sense of accomplishment and success for taking the steps to turn it into a reality.
What is your dream? Find fifteen minutes a day to devote to making it a reality.