Lots of people are starting home businesses today in response to the harsh economic times and the scarcity of jobs. You may have thought about starting a home business but been met with all kinds of reasons why you would fail. Unfortunately, well-meaning friends and relatives often do not have adequate faith in your abilities. Your reasons for wanting to start a home business are probably perfectly justified, and your chances of succeeding today are probably very good. Read on to find out why.

👉 Life isn’t worth living if you are unhappy every moment of every day. If you hate getting up in the morning and dragging yourself off to a meaningless job, you have a very good reason to start your own home business. Other people can tell you that you have to adjust and try to make the most of it all they want to. It won’t help your suffering one iota. Your life is yours to live. If you are miserable, you are perfectly justified in taking steps to alleviate your misery.

👉 If you feel as if you are paying and paying and paying for your home, family and lifestyle, yet you are never able to enjoy any of it, you are justified in wanting to work at home. Why should you pay some teenager or anyone else to take care of your kids or your aging parents? Why have kids if you can’t spend any time with them? When the time comes for your parents to pass on, will you sit by their bedsides wishing you had spent more time at work? When you work for someone else, you have to let that entity set your priorities. Your life depends upon it. If you feel as if you have put your enjoyment of your life on the back burner for your job, you are justified in wanting to work for yourself.

👉 If you are distressed by the amount of time you spend commuting and the amount of resources necessary to cart you from Point A to Point B every day, you are justified in wishing to work at home. Commuting is expensive, and it doesn’t profit anyone but the oil industry and car manufacturers. This is less true if you ride the bus or train since these types of transportation don’t consume fossil fuels at the alarming rate of personal vehicles. Nonetheless, working at home will dramatically reduce your carbon footprint and your expenses, and it is a valid reason to choose to work at home.

👉 If you are happy with your job but the company you work for is undergoing strange and mysterious changes at the corporate level, you are very smart to start looking for an at-home business opportunity. Begin taking the steps you need to take to be able to make it on your own long before you find yourself holding a pink slip, locked out of your building and unable to access your company e-mail along with dozens or hundreds of other workers. When you work for someone else, you do not have control of your fate. It’s always a good and justifiable idea to have a Plan B ready to pull out of your hat at a moment’s notice.

In the past, it was much more difficult to start and succeed at a home business than it is today. Now the Internet offers a wealth of opportunities for enterprising people to succeed, and there is no reason you can’t be one of them. Choose wisely, plan well and work diligently and you will soon prove just how justified you are in starting a home business.