When starting a home based business it is important to understand your potential and what you can accomplish. We can accomplish anything we truly visualize and work towards, but in order to succeed we need to aquire the skills to succeed. Some people are born with the skills to be a leader and some people have to work to acquire the skills to be a leader. In a book called, "Magnetic Sponsoring" the explains that their are three different groups of people. The first group is the Alpha's and they are the leaders. The next group is the pre-alphas that are able to do many things that the Alpha's do, but haven't polished all of their skills. Pre-alpha's aren't able to produce consistently. The last group is the beta's and they have a long way to go to becoming producers. Beta's often have excuses why they aren't successful, like the system doesn't work, my warm market won't listen, I have run out of people to share my product or service with. The thing to remember is that no matter where you are at now with the desire to improve you can progress to the next level.