Can you tell if you are able to run a successful home based business? The answer is yes. There are behavior patterns and a personality type that will make it easy to build a successful home based business. This doesn’t mean that you can’t build a successful home based business without having the ‘personality type for success.’ It just means that you’ll have to make adjustments and focus.
With the work at home professional, it isn’t so much the personality type that predestines someone for success, but their personality traits. These outweigh social status, education, or experience.
Every personality type has the ability to succeed in business. They all have strengths and weaknesses. While the true leader who works independently and is focused on work – not easily distracted – can succeed faster, this doesn’t mean that the artistic or amiable personality types won’t do well.
The first step is to determine what your personality type is. There are several ways to measure personality type, and many titles, but they all break down into 4: logical, driver, amiable, artistic.
Leader
A true leader is someone who brings out the best in others. They are not the type to become loud or abusive if others are not doing things ‘their way.’ They naturally know how to make others feel good. In fact, their goal is productivity, and they are willing to invest in others, mentor, train, and swallow their own frustrations to reach the goal of maximum productivity.
These people often fit well into a network, and have others who are ‘loyal’ to them. They may not know why others ‘flock’ to them, but they can establish a network where everyone succeeds. This is opposite of the ‘salesman’ who drains others for their own success. The salesman uses charisma, and feeds on other’s emotional weakness to get what they want.
Problem Solvers
The driver personality type holds both the leader and problem solving traits. It is important to know that the driver does not define people who bully, manipulate, or coheres people to do a job. The driver refers to someone who can motivate themselves. They do not stop work because it is ‘the end of the day.’ They are organized and can work for 8 hours without being distracted. If they are responsible for home and business, then they work through business hours, and then do the housework – they don’t try to blend both.
Thinkers
The successful entrepreneur doesn’t buy into the emotionally hype. They don’t buy a vacuum because the sales man says ‘how much do you love your wife.’ They don’t buy into a work at home scheme after seeing a picture of a man on a tropical beach doing nothing. They get all the facts and figures.
They don’t look for the easy way. They look for the way that works.
Risk Takers
They are risk takers, high in self confidence, and self motivated. Jumping into a business venture without research is not taking a risk. Building the tools needed to succeed and then jumps into a highly successful fields.
Mature
It is naïve to think that you can start a business and start making money immediately. The successful person will have read enough books on their topic before going into business. You can assess a person’s ability to succeed fairly accurately by asking 2 questions. First, have they read a book on running a business? Two, do they just start working and expect they can succeed on their current knowledge. If the answer is no to the first, and yes to the second, then they will wait a long time to succeed.
The entrepreneur doesn’t waste 3 – 16 months doing ‘what they think is right’ before they (in most cases) accidentally discover why they are failing.
Determined
They are determined. If a program doesn’t work, they start learning. They don’t quit. They will have a set of goals, and even an exit plan. Their projects usually work because they have a plan – in writing. They have created a business plan. They have prepared themselves for success.
Most people push themselves through a business to a certain point and then hit a dead wall because they don’t know what to do next, and they don’t know why their project is not working, so they quit and try the next thing that ‘looks good.’
If you give each of these a 1 – 10 scale, and then put yourself on the scale realistically, then you’ll be able to measure your natural ability to succeed. If you rank lower, then you need ‘aids’ like schedules, books, courses, and networking groups.
No comments:
Post a Comment