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9 Mindsets to Lose if You Want to Work from Home
It’s not easy to start working from home as a career, or even as a way to supplement your existing income …
Especially if you’ve been accustomed to working a nine-to-five job up to this point.
Sometimes, even though you are determined that working from home is the right choice for you, self-doubt and other negative mindsets can cripple you from stepping out in the direction of your dreams.
Whether they come from your own mind or from well-meaning (and rather downcast, Eeyore-like) individuals, certain thoughts and perspectives will hinder you from garnering the courage to step out and try something new.
If you want to work from home, you’ll want to search out and destroy these debilitating mindsets:
1. “I don’t have enough education.”
I started my work-from-home career with nothing more than a high school diploma.
I’d always had a knack for grammar and English, and had been both writing stories and tutoring students “for fun” since I was a teenager.
But at the time I began to work from home, it had been over ten years since I’d graduated from high school.
I had spent those years involved in various social work and mission-minded…
