Saturday, June 17, 2006

Home Staging Business Success

You've done all the right things.

You took some training, hopefully from me because, if you did, you saved a ton of money. But if not, so be it.

You've chosen a business name. Done all the legal stuff. Got all your materials together. Told some people. Had a few appointments.

Nothing has happened.

Don't give up. You'd be amazed at the number of people who get this far and then decide it's more work than they imagined - and they quit.

Gee, if it just magically fell into your lap, and kept doing that, everyone would be doing it.

Sure, you can get lucky once in a while and something just comes to you, but let's be real. Most of the time you have to work hard for what you get.

But stop for a minute and think about it. If everything was super easy, the success wouldn't mean much to you.

Case in point: a person wins the lottery. They win big. They suddenly have all this money, this gigantic loot, and they didn't do anything to earn it except play a few numbers.

Ever wonder why in no time at all they are flat broke again? Is it because they are stupid? Lazy? Ignorant? Maybe. But I'll tell you for a fact that most of them didn't appreciate their situation and they blew through the money as if it was water, making no plans for the future.

It happens also to kids who inherit an estate they didn't work for from their parents. All too often it is totaly squandered and wasted.

Decades ago my husband and I borrowed on our home to give his brother and wife enough money for a downpayment on a home. They were appreciative and went and bought a home. A few years later, the wife decided she didn't want to work any more. She quit her job and lay around the house reading while the home went into foreclosure.

She didn't care about saving the home because she wasn't the one who slaved to earn the money for the downpayment. She had nothing invested in it. It was many, many years before my husband and I paid off that loan. How sad.

There is a saying: "Nothing ventured; nothing gained."

Success is a choice you make yourself. It may take you some time. You may have to work and work and work. But if you hang in there and do everything you are trained to do, you will eventually become successful. But you have to stay the course with determination.

posted by Barbara Jennings @ 5:27 PM