Jobs from home make a living from home

Review of Barbara Winters Book In her book winning ways for creating work that you love Barbara Winter http://www.barbarawinter.com/ shares her experiences and those of others who have left corporate life to go it alone as a self-bosser. Some of the inspirational chapters in the book explore becoming joyfully jobless, finding your lost passion, uncovering your assets, overcoming the obstacles, creating multiple profit centers, getting ideas, marketing on a shoestring, starting small and thinking big, and making the transition. In the first chapter she writes about the quiet revolution that is taking place in the workplace that is seldom shown on the nightly news or attracts media attention. People are questioning how they will earn their living. So start Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love

Increase in those working from home

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/ the number of those working from home in 2004 is 20.7 million did some work from home. Here is the work at home summary CPS News Release http://www.bls.gov/news.release/homey.nr0.htm I am guessing the number of those working from home is greater, since this news release is of reported cases. So the unreported cases lets us know that working from home will continue to rise.

Some of the advantages people have experienced since leaving their traditional nine to five workplace is that they:

• Feel more relaxed working from home
• Enjoy healthier eating habits
• Have more time to do other things
• Excercise more often
• Overall happier in their life

How do you look at work?

The rewards go beyond long commutes and hassles of incompatible coworkers, or glass ceilings or low paychecks, its a lifestyle a new way of looking at work and what it means to our overall satisfaction and fulfillment. How do you want to spend your time? Who do you want to spend your time with? What is your dream or passion?

First step is to:

1. Creative visualization - Create a mental picture of what you want to accomplish. Close your eyes take several deep breaths and picture a specific goal you want to achieve. Use visualization to create a clear picture of a happier, free lifestyle. Thats where the saying: What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve---comes from. Many sports professionals use this technique.
2. Set achieveable goals - Start by assessing what assets you have, compile a written inventory of everything that might be a benefit. Your experience, your self-knowledge, your talents, your personality and the tools and equipment you already own. (computer, printer, fax machine, sewing machine, etc.)
3. Putting it all together - Research some of the different types of businesses you can start from your home.

• Delivering Personal Service - More and more people are finding their lives so busy that they are looking for help, with cooking, shopping, cleaning, childcare, etc. Personal service businesses offer a service which attracts customers because it saves them time and money.
• Packaging Information - Our informational society has created the need for collecting, packaging and distributing of information. All that is required is doing research, do something that can be taught to others, have good communication skills.
• Marketing a product - Many sites now offer a way to sell new items for wholesale or if you like to make items like pottery, needlepoint, handbags, jewelery etc. You can sell other people's products or create your own.

Winning Resource Guide

Personal Growth books:

• How to get control of your time and your life by Alan Lakein

Remains a favorite for time managers.

• How to find freedom in a unfree world by Harry Browne

Read for courage

• MoneyLove by Jerry Gillies

Points out the link between self-esteem and prosperity.