Whatever your reason for wanting to work from home uk, you can get help in finding ways to start earning money fast. Whatever work at home business you choose there are going to be obstacles. How do you overcome these obstacles?

1. Obstacles Are Windows Of
Opportunity
“If you can find a path with no
obstacles, it probably does not lead
anywhere” – Frank A Clark

2. Are you still struggling in your online business? Are your struggles
causing you to think about quitting or have you already quit?
I am going to share with you my story and maybe you can relate to it
or not. Either way, I feel that if you know my story, you will see that
you are not alone in your struggles. You will discover that hardships
in any business is part of growing. We all have to go through them
in order to become better at what we do.
Before I knew anything about internet marketing, I was a software engineer. I went to
school, was a very good student, went on to college with the intentions of becoming a
doctor, but that all changed when I became very ill. Instead, I ended up graduating with
a Bachelor of Science degree in math and a minor in computer science.
After graduation from college, I got my first job as a junior programmer for a
manufacturing company. Because I was a hard worker, my career took off. Over time I
went from junior programmer to senior programmer to software engineer to senior
software engineer. I oversaw multi-million dollar projects as a tech lead and on a
number of occasions was offered managerial positions which I turned down because I
enjoyed the technical aspects of my job more.

3. Things were going fairly well. I was making good money, but I can't say that I was
happy. Somewhere inside of me, I felt that there was something missing. There
had to be more. Have you ever felt this way or are you feeling this way? I just
could not put my finger on it, but these feelings I had would sometimes lead me
to lose my temper during times of stress. At one time, one of my managers sent
me to a anger management course in Clearwater, Florida. At another job, I was
labeled as a "Difficult Employee". I did my job well, but my unhappiness was
starting to seep through. I had also started jumping from job to job. Never
staying more than two or three years. I think I stayed at one job for seven and
that was my longest and it was my very first job. All the rest were short and it was
causing some problems with getting hired. Employers wanted someone who
would stick around and I wasn't one of them.
Around 2002, things in the technical industry started to change. After almost 10
years or so into my career, I experienced my first layoff. That was depressing. I
went home and cried. I had just bought a bigger home with a higher mortgage
and this layoff could not have come at a worst time. But that wasn't the worse
part. The worse part was, despite my experience and years in the industry where
it normally took me less than a week to find a job, was now taking me four to six
months. Thank goodness I had a savings. But, that layoff lead to more layoffs. I
think I had three layoffs in 2002 through 2003. Altogether, I went through six
layoffs and my savings was quickly dwindling.

4. But, one night, after having been laid off one of my jobs, I made a
decision that I never wanted to work for anyone else again. I
remember that night as if it were yesterday. I had just finished off a
bottle of wine and was feeling really down. I was browsing through
a women's health magazine and there was a test to determine
happiness. I answered the questions and the results from that test
told me that I needed to change my life. Seriously! I thought how
surprising! That is exactly what I was feeling I needed to do.
So, I started looking for home business opportunities on the internet. It wasn’t long
before I found one and joined. It was with a very well known MLM where I was taught
primarily offline marketing. I joined this MLM back in 2003. I used to put out fliers, go
to parking lots and try to talk to people. I used to get kicked out of parking lots by the
police. I had prospects get angry with me. I even had one threaten to "kick my butt",
or something along those lines. I was not able to talk people into buying my products
or joining my business Later, I found out why I struggled with getting people to join
me and I will share that with you later. I was with this company for almost 4 years;
which is longer than the amount of time I spent at most job.

5. Anyways, after 4 years of that misery, I started looking into moving my business to the
internet. I really didn't know what I wanted to do. During the time I was browsing on the
internet, looking for something that would help train me, I was introduced to an online
marketing program, that really opened my eyes as to marketing strategies and making
money online. I learned a lot and at one point was even one of the leaders on the leader
board. I can tell you it was a struggle, but I studied hard and practiced everything I had
learned. But still, I had not quite found the success I was looking for.
I am a pretty quiet person and very good with the technical stuff, like ppc, seo, creating my
own websites, and other technical techniques, but the people thing was still hard for me. I
had started acquiring more success online and making money and more people wanted to
learn from me, but what they really wanted me to do was to create their websites and hold
their hand. I initially tried to do this, but the end result was my business started to falter. I
still had my own trainings to tend to and my own work to do and here I was trying to do
other people's work and still do mine. I was worn out, frustrated, and very unhappy. When
I first got started, I did not have anyone hold my hand or do anything for me other than
point me in the right direction. I studied and worked hard and I expected others to do the
same. So, I stopped doing other people’s work and just started to focus on my growth and
development. Sure enough, my business started to grow again.

6. Oh, and I also found out why I struggled so hard with getting people to join me. I did not
possess the skills in talking to people. I was always an introvert and most times enjoyed
being by myself. In fact, I didn’t learn to talk until I was nine years old. This is what I have
been told by my mother. Because of my mother’s suspicions, I had some tests done to
determine whether I was autistic and yes as it would turn out I am. I suffered many years
as an adult with this and never really quite understood why there were some things I
struggled with all of my life. I have suffered from this since childhood, but during my
childhood, autism was not very well known. I remember being put into a special
education class when I was in the second or third grade, but my mother took me out. She
wanted me to be in a regular class with regular children. Her thoughts were that this
would be better for me in the end and it was. My education started to thrive and I
became a straight "A" student.
And yes, adults do have autism too. If you are a child
with autism, as adults, it doesn’t go away. We just learn
how to live with it just like any other type of disability.
Some other adults who are autistic you may know are:
Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Daryl Hannah, Sir Isaac
Newton, Michelangelo, Charles Darwin, Wolfgang
Mozart, and many more.

7. I tell you all this to show you that we all have obstacles to overcome. Life does not
always go the way we want it to, but those that succeed are the ones you learn from
their many mistakes and learn to overcome the difficulties in life. You see, if we didn't
have these problems, we would not improve. The obstacles or walls are placed there
to help prepare us for what we want to become. We can’t do our best if we don’t
know what our best is. Hardships and obstacles force us to improve. When we don’t
improve, we may never reach our goals of becoming that which we desire. For
example, my desire to improve my people skills has helped me at learning how to
handle those individuals who are serious hard workers versus those who are not. I
know now that doing the work of others was a big mistake and I had been forewarned
by some top internet gurus and chose not to listen. Live an learn.
Being in business, things are never going to stay the
same, so when things change, so must we. This
includes learning more and doing more at times and
yes, even overcoming many hardships. I hate to tell
you this, but just because you make a five, six or
even seven figure income, does not mean that the
struggles and problems stop. It just means that you
have more to lose if you don't learn from your
mistakes or overcome the obstacles.

8. In this presentation, I tried to show you my failures and misfortunes. I lacked people
skills, I have failed many times in business, struggled with learning new things which
lead to more failure, and I am autistic. But none of these have ever prevented me
from succeeding at anything I wanted. I may have to work harder than most people,
but that is ok as long as I reach my goals and I often do reach my goals because I
choose to stay in the game and take the punches.
Learn to accept the experiences in your life, good or
bad. You are responsible for your own success. No
one else is. Work hard, study hard and learn from
your mistakes. Keep in mind that the difference
between successful people and unsuccessful people
is that successful people do what most unsuccessful
people won't do. So, keep striving and continue to
dream those BIG dreams.