Lessons From The gold Coin

The headlines blurted out the news:
"Gold Coin Could Fetch $100,000." The
story told of a gentleman in Arkansas
who purchased a roll of the new
Sacagawea gold dollars from a bank.
To his surprise and eventual delight, he
discovered that one of the coins had
the correct back but on the front was
the impression that is stamped on a
quarter. It is reported to be the first
error of its kind in the 208 year history
of the United States Mint. Plans are
under way to sell the coin at auction
and experts say it could fetch as much
as $100,000.

I believe there are several lessons
which those of us who work from
home and those who want to can glean
from this incident. Please carefully
consider with me the following.

GREAT THINGS CAN HAPPEN
TO YOU

Right now there are several million
men and women who are at a regular
"job" but who would much rather strike
out on their own and open a home-
based business. Why don't they?
Certainly there are several reasons, but
in my opinion, at the top of the list is
fear of failure. Feeding that fear is the
nagging notion that "Nothing great ever
happens to me." Tell the truth now.
When you first heard the story about
the gold coin, how many of you said or
heard someone else say, "It must be
nice. Nothing like that ever happens to
me."

Many times, the reason we don't
receive is because we don't expect.
Stated another way, we find that for
which we're looking. If we don't
expect a home business to be the
greatest thing that ever happened to
usprofessionally and financially, then it
never will be. If we envision ourselves
slaving away at a "nine-to-fiver" five
days a week for the rest of our lives,
then that's all we're ever likely to get.

I'm not saying the gentleman from
Arkansas went into the bank expecting
to make such a find. I'm simply asking
you to consider the question, "Why
shouldn't great things happen to me?"
I'm glad the coin wasn't discovered by
a prominent person like Donald Trump
or Ted Turner. It just goes to show that
each of us, not just a privileged few, is
a candidate for having great things
happen in our lives.

KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN

This ties in with the previous point. Again,
I don't believe that the gentleman went
into the bank looking for this particular
coin, but he did have the presence of
mind to recognize its uniqueness when he
saw it.

Opportunity is all around us. We must
become observers. We must keep our
minds and eyes wide open. The business
opportunity for which you've been looking
or the opportunity to expand your current
business may be staring you right in the
face.

THE BANDWAGON IS MORE
CROWDED NOW

All I have to support the following
assertion is my years of observing the
human race. Here it is: Since the
discovery of this coin, the number of
people looking for errors on coins has
increased dramatically. Some have even
gone out and purchased rolls of the gold
dollars to see if perhaps there were two
mistakes made. Mark it down. It's
happened.

On one hand this is fine because it's an
indication of people looking for
opportunity and keeping their eyes open.
On the other hand, it's a lottery mentality
that is fed by a desire to get rich with little
effort.

If you are wrestling with a fear of failure
that is keeping you from launching a
business from home, perhaps it's time to
sit down and take a look at your frame of
mind. If you're already in business from
home and you're doubting yourself, it's
time for you to do the same. Great things
can It's sad that so many view business
opportunities as chances to get rich quick.
If you don't believe that this is a popular
viewpoint, just take a look at some of the
hype that you see on the Internet or that
you receive in your mailbox. It's
absolutely ridiculous. Nonetheless, every
day scores of people are buying this
skewed view of working from home.

The cold truth is that your $100,000
"windfall" from a home business will only
come after a considerable amount of
effort and time. Success from business at
home is the result of diligence, not luck or
fate or any such uncontrollable
circumstance. In the words of one wise
individual, "The best way to predict the
future is to invent it."

MISTAKES HAPPEN

Finally, let's note that even the biggest
and best of us makes mistakes. The
Mint misprinted a coin and all it really
cost them was a little pride. Coca-Cola
introduced their new formula a few
years back and it caused a major uproar
and eventually led them to "reintroduce"
the traditional drink.

When a major league baseball player
commits an error that loses the game,
tens of thousands if not hundreds of
thousands of fans see it and, in many
cases, will never let him forget it. So,
you see, there are mistakes being made
out there. Some are memorable. Others
are not. Some are disastrous. Others
are insignificant.

You're going to make mistakes in a
home business. Do you suppose the
Mint is going to close its doors because
of this error? If they're not, then why
should any of us toss up our hands and
surrender when we make a mistake?
Consider the mistakes you make in your
home business to be the building blocks
to your ultimate success. Our mistakes
are often our greatest teachers.

YOUR "$100,000 GOLD COIN"

So there you have it - lessons from the
gold coin. My wish for each one reading
this is simply that you will realize that
YOUR "$100,000 gold coin" is probably
within your grasp at this very moment.
Don't go digging in your pocket for it.
Dig much, much deeper than that. Look
inside yourself to find the courage and
determination it takes to launch your
own business. Search diligently to find
what type of business you want to own.
You CAN be successful in business
from home. If not, why not?

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Michael Gifford and his wife, Shannon
have more than 30 years combined
experience in operating successful
home businesses. They are the owners
of NoBizLikeHomeBiz.Com, an
unbiased and objective resource for
home business. Visit
http://www.nobizlikehomebiz.com.
Michael can be reached at
expectgreatness@nobizlikehomebiz.com
.