One of the challenges of working for yourself is that you have no supervisor telling you that you have to meet a deadline. You don’t risk getting fired or not getting paid if you don’t follow through on your commitments. This is the blessing of entrepreneurship but can also be the difficulty.

However, if you want to have a successful business you have to consistently show up and follow through. That is not always easy, especially if you are working at home or in isolation. It’s easy to get distracted and lack focus with a flexible work day.

I have had the Science of Getting Rich in my library for some time. I have it near the bed side and have been coming back to it recently. It really resonates with me how each of us are born with an innate desire to reach our fullest potential and how the desire to earn more money is simply an extension of that.

“Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No person can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money. In order to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.