by Home Office Success Guru Jeff Landers

Don’t be fooled. Just because you have a desk and a stapler, that doesn’t make you an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs do not define themselves as they are today. They define themselves by who they will be tomorrow. They are visionaries. They are always moving toward the future.

Today is the time for you to become the visionary for your own business- to take one small, tiny step toward the company you dreamed of having when you were sitting in that cubicle working for your overbearing bosses and that soulless corporation.

If your business is just treading water, the first thing you need to do before you can transform your home-based business into everything you dreamed it would be, is to figure out what type of entrepreneur you really are. To be successful, your business ought to match your personality. Do you only want a small business that meets your needs and provides a decent livelihood? Or do you want to build it into a mini empire? Try to visualize the perfect business for you.

I have found two particular and extremely different styles of successful entrepreneur, the ‘Growth Maven’ and the ‘Lifestyle Guru.’

‘Growth Mavens’ are fiercely ambitious. They do not think small. The Growth Maven starts her business in her home office to keep expenses low, but is chomping at the bit to raise the company to new heights. Her dream is to grow from a single person company to a multi-employee company and maybe even larger. She thinks someday she will be like the mega-stars who originally started their companies as home-based businesses: Bill Gates, Martha Stewart, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell. She knows there is no limit to the amount of money she can make, and she is dedicated to constantly innovating her products and services. But she has to get out of her house first.

The ‘Lifestyle Guru’ saw his dream come true the day he didn’t head back to his little cubicle. His goal was simply to leave his miserable job behind and finally become his own boss. He hates commuting back and forth, the endless and useless meetings and working for little-minded people who can see only as far as their next progress report. He wants to feel like his work is more than just pushing paper until 6 o’clock. He wants to feel pride and accomplishment in doing something he truly enjoys. And he wants to do it his own way.

The Lifestyle Guru wants to trade his suit and tie for a bathrobe and slippers and his morning commute for a relaxed breakfast with his wife and maybe the daily crossword. He never wants to miss his kid’s softball game or school play. He’s perfectly fine with taking care of customer emails at night after his wife and kids are asleep. Some weekends he works on his business, and some weekends he takes off. He fits his work schedule around his leisure time, and puts his loved ones first. He knows there’s a limit to how much money he’ll make, but he’s comfortable with his six-figure income and he gets to enjoy his life. When it all comes together, it really feels good.

I’m sure you already know whether you’re more of a Growth Maven or a Lifestyle Guru, but if you want to verify your gut feeling, I have a short quiz available on the web and in my book that will help you know for sure.

About the Author:

Jeff Landers is a veteran Home Office Success Coach, bestselling author of “The Home Office From Hell Cure,” and He is Helping Us to Find Infinate Success Strategies about How to Turn Our Dysfunctional Home Office into a Booming Success!