Online Business Success Is Possible, Take It Seriously

It's very possible to have online business success, but it takes commitment. You must take yourself and your online business seriously. I once had a successful online business several years ago. However, for various reasons I had to go back into the rat race. Among the reasons is that I did not take my online business seriously. I was having fun. I was making money, but I didn't plan ahead. The old adage that says, "If you fail to plan, then plan to fail" is right.
I was a seller on eBay. I was successful. I even reached the coveted "Power Seller" status. It was fun. I loved it. I was in a niche that had repeat buyers. I had customers who would buy from me even if my competitors had lower prices.

What happened? I didn't plan. I made bad choices that left me having to go back to a regular JOB working for someone else to support myself. After that, I got into the daily grind and spinning that big mouse wheel in the rat race. I was so much into it that I lost interest in even working online in my spare time. I was also into affiliate marketing while I had my eBay store. I lost interest in it. When I finally checked my account. I discovered that I had earned money and it was left sitting in my account for over a year. I lost the money because of a policy that said you lose any money left dormant in an account for over a year. Boy, did I feel like a "big dummy". I was so stupid, so sloppy. I was pitiful.

After spending time in the rat race and enduring all the things I hate about it, I regained my entrepreneurial spirit. I decided to get myself out of that place in hope of never having to go back. In a first step I was able to get a job working at home. In the beginning of having the job, I was pretty content. Albeit, it's still working for someone else, I'm at home not having to ask some pimple faced "kid" who was my "supervisor' if  I can have a particular day off or if I can take a break. I can work in my PJ's and have a flexible schedule. But, reality set in one day when my salary, my schedule, my duties and other things were "modified". I realized it's still a JOB. I'm still wearing a collar and chain. Someone else has been yanking that chain; choking me and I can't do anything about it! I realized that other people can unjustly decrease my standard of living and even take away my livelihood at any moment they choose for just about any reason they want.

Since then, I have been determined to be successful online again. I was successful once working at home for myself. I can and I will do it again. I will take my online business seriously this time. It may or may not be on eBay again, but I will not let others who couldn't care less about me or my family control my financial future, or my livelihood. That is up to me and God alone.