Simply Home Business

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are many choices to make as you embark on choosing a home business. How do you sift through the amazing number of opportunities out there? And, how do you know whether a possible home based business is the right type of business for you?

To get started, I suggest taking a quick inventory of your own knowledge, skills and interests before you make your choice:

1. Broadly speaking, are you more of a people person, machine person or information person?

In other words, if you were sent away to an isolated island for a year and could only choose to take one "companion", would it be a person, your toolbox or a box of books (or i-Pod or Kindle)?

2. What's on your list of topics you know something about, would be happy to learn more about, and enjoy talking about to other people?

3. What do you know how to do that is practical and you would enjoy helping other people learn to do?

4. Do you consider yourself more of a:

• technician (know how to do something really well),
  
• manager (really good at organizing processes and things to make something work),
  
• or leader (have a vision of the future and want to communicate that with others to keep them focused and motivated)?

Knowing a bit about yourself and the strengths and challenges you bring to choosing the right type of home business is invaluable. To explore more about the fit between you and any type of business you are considering, try this exercise, no writing:

Ask yourself: Why is someone with my talents, background, strengths, skills, knowledge.....a strong candidate for building this type of home business?