Have you ever considered working from home? It sounds like a tempting idea, doesn’t it? No more commuting, valuable time and nerves lost in traffic. No more stiff business suits. No more fast food or some indifferent catering lunch. You are living and working in the place where you are relaxed and at ease, in a place decorated to your taste and where you feel free, creative and uninhibited.
These are the top perks of working from home, but are you really fit for this type of work? Let us be straightforward, working from home is not just for anyone. Some people need the office environment and a boss charting tasks for everybody. Others need to have their schedule made for them for a few days ahead. A person who works from home has no one to do that for them.
Therefore, I have compiled here the core traits of personality that you need to have in order to be successful running your internet home business. Let’s go through them:
1. Self-Starter
You don’t need anyone breathing down your neck to get you started on your work. As soon as you’ve drunk your coffee, you have planned the work day ahead and you have started with the most important task. Although you may have an unfinished game of World of Tanks or you feel like going out for a little shopping, you know that work comes first, especially in the morning when you are full of energy and creativity.
You are very good at working independently and you find motivation within you even on a cold, rainy day, when you’d rather sit on the sofa and watch Turner Movie Classics.
2. Disciplined
You do not get sidetracked by things happening in your house or your neighborhood and you don’t start making unnecessary trips to the kitchen and the living room just to “check things out”. You know that, although you are at home, you are working right now and you cannot waste time and miss deadlines. This sense of discipline allows you to keep a fair balance between your work and personal life. It does not allow you to become slack and inefficient in your tasks, even if you do not have a supervisor checking up on you every now and then.
3. Open to Continuous Learning
Working from home involves using a lot of modern and ever-changing technologies. You will be using various software programs, voice over IP (VoIP), webcam, virtual office platforms and so on. You must have an inborn curiosity to keep learning and never state – “that’s it, I’m done learning!” You have to keep an open mind and accept that what you know today may not be useful tomorrow and seek continuous education and self-improvement.
4. Cheerful and Optimistic
Working from home deprives you of the office chitchat (though no company encourages it, it always happens). How will you cope alone in your den or home office, with no one to exchange little tidbits? Will you feel tempted to bring in a TV set to keep you company? This will be a major distraction from work. People who can keep their optimism without being permanently entertained or engaged by others are the ones who can do well in a work from home environment on a long term basis.
5. Problem Solver
You do not wait or ask around for solutions, you search for them and find them. You are the person who, even in a work environment, is highly independent from others in terms of finding solutions to everything from a little computer problem to dealing with complex situations.
Do you see yourself in this description, at least partially? You do not have to score a perfect 10 for each of these traits of personality, but you definitely need to find a combination of 2 or 3 which are your strongest points, and the others can be worked on in the future. If the answer is yes, then you can go ahead and start working on your internet home business.