Being your own boss gives you certain kinds of freedom.

First, you can now decide for yourself in which direction your work, and your life, go much more than under the constraint of a job.

Second, you can decide when you do your work and, of course, online you can work any hours you like. Especially, as your marketplace is global.

Third, you can decide where you want to work. Being online you could work at home, in an out-of-home office, at a cafe, outside. You’re also not limited by geographical area – you could be anywhere in the world, or even different places at different times. It really doesn’t matter where you are as long as you can get online.

Fourth, you can decide who you work with – online or off-line. Or work by yourself as long as you like. You can vary these, so that you may have got to the point of having local or outsourced staff but can still focus on the work you need to get done yourself, like product innovation.

Fifth, you can decide how you work, so that you organise your work place as you please. That would include how you keep your administration and computer arranged, to fit your circumstances and your business.

Sixth, and most important, you decide why you’re working. That is, what the long-term reasons, aims and purposes are for you and your business, as well as why you’re doing any particular task on any particular day. You’re the driver of what you’re doing.

Guess what, though. Everything is down to you – you get the freedom but also the responsibility.

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You could be told how to make money from home by getting a job on the internet: such as, doing surveys, typing or whatever. The trouble with this is that it’s just another job. Of course, if you’re low on money, having a job is probably the quickest way to get an injection of cash on a regular basis.

However, there are advantages to having your own business online, using internet marketing.

  - You have freedom to work where you want, how you want and when you want. You only need a room, a computer and an internet  connection. You can organise yourself and your workplace any way you choose. No more times set by the job as to when to start, finish  and have breaks – your time is your own.

  - There is no boss dealing out the above restrictions to you, and worst of all, making judgements about how you’re doing according to others’ criteria. You set your own quality standards for your work. Your bottom line is for you: did you make any money, did you get any subscribers, did you get any visitors?

  - There are no limits to possible earnings. A job, on or off-line, sets a limit as to what you can make – it’s called a wage. In your own   internet business you set your own targets – big or small, to suit you.

  - Best of all, you make your own decisions. You can think for yourself – most jobs don’t like this. That means you can create your own future. What happened in the past is no predictor of the future – you decide what that future will be for you.

These are massive advantages. Of course, you still have to work to make the business work. And you have to persist. But if you do, you’re also gaining new learning, an education: an “internet education”. That’s how to make money from home, by growing your own business and growing with it.

For part of what I mean by “growing with it” see this post on mindset.