Work At Home - Are Your Goals Realistic or a Daydream?

I always tell people who work at home that vision without action is a daydream, but action without vision is a nightmare. Such an easy, but true, quote and will worth exploring as it will bring you many answers in your business. Let us break this down for a second. I am sure that most of you have some sort of plan for your home business. You plan to earn more money, you intend to pay off your bills, you plan to buy a new house, you intend to spend more time with your family, and you plan to do this by working at home.

A past common notion in the work at home industry was that if you built your online business, they customers would come. The only problem is, do you actually know how to complete your plans? Not just follow a system, but exactly what you will need to do to get to where you would like to be. This could seem obvious, but look slightly deeper at it, and you may see that your business plans are nothing more than a daydream.

For instance, if your goal is to pay off your $20,000 debt in exactly one year, precisely what will that take? You not only need to realize that you have $20,000 in debt to pay down, but precisely what you will need to do to repay the debt. Thus, if you earn a thirty-seven dollar commission for each sale that you convert, you will need 541 sales to pay down that debt.

Break it down even further. You will need 10.4 sales per week and 1.5 sales per day to earn $20,000 in one year. This, of course, does not account for the fact that you will also need to pay taxes. Just think about what you need to do to earn $100K in a year. You are now looking at 52 sales per week, and 7.4 sales per day.

Now, back to your plan (or daydream). Although you should have already done this at the beginning had you planned, ask yourself if your business capable of accomplishing your goal. If so, the next step is to figure how long that will take you, and how much money it will cost along the way in advertising expenses, allowing for taxes, etc.

So, here is what you want to do next. Investigate your plans and your goals, then break them down into how many sales per day you need to make in order to accomplish your goals. Thereafter, determine whether your current home business, or the one which you are considering starting, is going realistically achieve your goals. I have to warn you to be objective here. Often times emotional attachment with one's business, or business idea clouds judgement, and leads to poor business decisions.

If your current work at home business makes your goals achievable, then you must decide exactly what you need to do make those sale, how many leads per day, cost per conversion, etc. If it does not fit, then find a work at home business which does enable you to achieve your goals. Then, and only then, will your business plan be your future and not a daydream.