Many women these days have big dreams of starting an online business to help them achieve financial stability and independence. Unfortunately, ninety nine percent of them will never even get started, and that’s a shame. Starting an online business is a proven way a woman can get ahead, and still manage the responsibilities at home. What stops all those women from getting started? Motivation. They simply can’t get past the “I’ll do it as soon as I can get to it” mentality. The truth is, if you don’t get motivated, you are never going to “get to it”. It has to become a personal priority. Here are 3 great ways to get motivated to start your own online business!

1.Whenever I coach a woman starting her own online business, I always tell her she needs to have a mission statement. A mission statement is something that you write down that helps keep you on track and identifies what you are trying to do and how and why you are trying to do it. Make a list of the top reasons you want to start a business, and then prioritize your top three. Now put your top three into positive sentence form. An example? “I will create a profitable business where I can create a better financial future for myself and my family, create pride within myself, and make a difference in this world and my community.” (Feel free to steal that one if it works for you!) Now print and display that mission statement at your work station, or make it your computer background. Read it every morning, and never forget that each day is working towards that statement!

2. Make a collage of your life after you achieve your mission statement. Print pictures of where you want to live or travel. Include a bill you are trying to pay off with the words “PAID IN FULL’ written across it. Pictures of your family to remind you who you work for… a smidgen of that beautiful fabric you are gong to be able to recover the sofa in… If your new life after business success includes nothing more than retiring on time, then include pictures of hobbies you will have time for, or that RV you are dying to travel the country in. This collage, too, belongs right where you can see it every day. What you can see, you believe. It’s concrete. And the whole idea behind motivation is getting you to understand that you can have all these things, do all those things, and have that life you dream about.

3. Create affirmations that will inspire you to make each day count. Pick up inspiration word stickers in the scrapbook aisle of your local craft store. Use these stickers on your day planner, stick a few to the bathroom mirror, place one in the center of the steering wheel of your car… whatever it takes to get through your head that not only can you do this, you need to do this!

Small, simple things. Might even be fun putting them together. But don’t underestimate the power of motivation to make a difference between “I will get to it” and “I did it!”

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