| To make money takes money, right? Or so many of | | | | growing only as far as they can afford it. They pay |
| us have heard and believed for years. Thus, when an | | | | for their business items with cash, including inventory |
| individual seeks to open his own home business, he | | | | and supplies. When they pay in cash, they purchase |
| first seeks a way to obtain that money that he | | | | inventory and supplies much more carefully, because |
| needs to make the money that he wants. The | | | | they are using money that they have already |
| majority of those in this very situation will take the | | | | worked hard for. Thus they select their investments |
| quickest route possible: straight to the bank. They will | | | | wisely. They also understand that when they grow a |
| borrow the money they need and in the process risk | | | | business slowly, the business has time to establish |
| items paramount to their ability to live, namely, their | | | | roots and thus longevity. They have the time to |
| homes. Across the country individuals risk those | | | | manage it because it does not grow out of control. |
| things that they need the most, namely their homes, | | | | Finally, if the dreaming-of-a-home-business individual |
| in the name of establishing a home business. | | | | cannot afford to open his own home business with |
| However, the successful home business owner, the | | | | the cash he has on hand, he keeps his dream but |
| ones that end in the black every time, shun the idea | | | | does not sacrifice his home to get it. Instead, he |
| of borrowing money. Instead of drinking the kool-aid | | | | transforms that dream into a goal, and he works all |
| of debt, they have discovered a way to pay their | | | | that much harder at his present job to make the |
| way to success. | | | | dream a reality. Once he has saved enough money, |
| First and foremost, these individuals do not, under | | | | then he begins investing in the dream, the home |
| any circumstance, borrow money. They understand | | | | business. At that point, the home business no longer |
| that the borrower is slave to the lender, and thus in | | | | is a dream that may turn into a nightmare, but it's |
| order to stay free, they run far away from the | | | | the beginning of an end, with the end being the goal |
| shackles that bind so many of their contemporaries. | | | | and the beginning being the dream. The home |
| How do they do this? They have a vivid imagination. | | | | business owner then has a reason to celebrate: he |
| They imagine the foreclosure notice coming to their | | | | has just opened his own business without any debt. |
| door via the postman, and they imagine their family | | | | Home business owners across the country are sadly |
| selling nearly everything they have to keep the home | | | | declaring bankruptcy and moving their families to |
| they live in simply because they put their home up as | | | | smaller homes or apartments because of |
| collateral against a loan so they could open their own | | | | foreclosures. The home business does not have to |
| business. This image alone motivates them not to | | | | be that same nightmare for every home business |
| borrow against their home or anything else important | | | | owner. Let your home business turn into a dream by |
| to them. | | | | paying off your debt and then paying for what you |
| Instead of borrowing, these successful home | | | | need with cash only. Doing so will lead you to a much |
| business owners establish their business slowly by | | | | more successful and peaceful end. |