Working From Home Won’t Make You Happy!

Coming up in May I’ve been working from home for three years.

Over the last three years I’ve had ups and downs in my business. I’ve earned money that some would consider great for working out of my home and others would consider a waste of time. I’ve also learned a lot about respect, money and myself.

One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that working from home (online or offline) won’t make you happy.

You see I was miserable in various jobs I had. I went through college for Chemical Engineering Technology – Environmental and then got a job working for the government in a lab. I hated it.

Then I got a job working for an environmental waste company which was less ‘stuck in a lab’ kind of environment and more ‘hands on’. I thought I’d like that more but I hated it.

Then I decided to grab a job closer to home so I didn’t have the hour commute and ended up spending three years at a car bumper painting factory and I was absolutely miserable there.

I really believed the jobs just sucked and that’s why I was unhappy. I thought being a full time business owner was what I needed to make me happy and everything would be perfect if I could just quit that factory job and make a new life for myself working from home online.

So yay, it finally happened! If I remember correctly on the third week in May I left my factory job to come home full time.

I had a plan. I was doing virtual assistant work at the time and I had clients lined up so that I could scale up my business services.

Things seemed dreamy at first. And then a new reality set in. Clients were making unreasonable demands on me, work was piling up that I didn’t feel like doing, money was going out faster than it was coming in.

All of a sudden (it seemed) I had an out of control business.

And you know what? I had created it all.

You see I was wrong. Working at home can’t make me happy and it can’t make you happy. The only thing that can make us truly happy is our own minds.

Happiness is INTERNAL, not EXTERNAL.

I know to some of you this is common knowledge. You’ve lived all your life knowing who you are, what you want and you truly believed you deserved it. If that’s you, awesome for you and I bet you don’t know how seriously jealous I am of that quality!

For me (and I KNOW I’m not alone here) it’s been a long, long struggle to figure out who I am and what I want out of life. It’s been a constant fight against what some people in my life tell me I should be and that voice buried deep inside telling me who I’m MEANT to be.

I heard Oprah say on her show a little while ago that she always knew she was meant for greatness. I believe we all are. I believe I am. I believe that NOW because I know the happiness I seek is going to come from making a difference to others and from finding out how I can make the biggest impact.

So no, my current happiness and growing peace with myself didn’t come from owning my own business.
It came from day by day work on:
- believing in myself
- knowing who I am
- knowing what I want
- being willing to work through the fear
- forgiving my past ‘mistakes’

Let me repeat myself here: The only true happiness won’t come from other people, from a successful business or from anywhere else. It comes from you and from the knowledge that you are the real, true, authentic, amazing and relevant person you were meant to be!

p.s. For those of us who’ve spent years burying who we really are it take a lot of hard work to dig up our ‘true selves’. I’ve created a special report to help with actionable tips called “Market From the HEART”.

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