Every moment of the day, daily work and daily play, we are affected by our inner psychology. We repeat mistakes over and over. We stop something just before we make progress. We ruin our work and make ourselves fail because of forces inside that we don't see. These things are especially crucial in our work and money-making efforts.

We are constantly helped and hurt by our strengths and weaknesses. We are thrown off by the tricks our minds play on us and our work is made hard by our misconceptions and negative emotional forces (fears, and unrealistic expectations) we don't see or understand. This is particularly true when we are changing to new endeavors and establishing new operations such as starting a work at home business.

Each of us lives in a psychological world. We don't think of it that way but it's true. The center of each of us is inside, back in the inner side of our eyes. It's where who we are is. It's the real dwelling place of our being. Because we live in this very personal psychological world, we naturally study and learn about psychology and it is particularly important that we come to understand the psychology of how we respond and operate in a work situation. Studying psychology is completely natural. It's a part of our normal functioning and our normal development. It's like walking and making friends and it's very important in many situations and areas of life. Work is one of these.

The trouble is we don't learn psychology very well. Our culture doesn't teach us psychology very well. The inner, psychological and spiritual world where we live is so familiar and so much a part of our being that we assume we know it and its working fine but it's also so familiar that we don't notice many important things about it. We remain asleep to it. We let it run on automatic.

We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for doing business, selling, and making personal entrepreneurial profit on the internet. But the internet is a very subtle marketplace. It's hard to learn about. It's quite wild and wooly. It has many secrets and in order to really start making money we have to learn a lot of these secrets. We must learn a lot of rules and subtle little operational wrinkles that are hard to learn on our own. But most of us don't know anyone who can teach us so we have no choice but to set out on our own.

In a situation like one where we are trying to transition from a job that involves going to a workplace each day and spending a set number of hours that are highly structured to a situation where we are our own boss and we're learning and building a business at home, we not only have to learn to understand and solve the mysteries of the internet but also the mysteries of our own inner attitudes, assumptions, and emotional forces that so quickly lead us to form misconceptions about how things work and lose faith in our own abilities. It's easy for us to go round and round as a result of our fears and foolish expectations spinning our wheels in the sand of misunderstanding and unrealistic dreams. Many times we don't really notice but we have continuous urges to decide it's an impossible thing we're trying to do and we may as well give up.

It is important to know ourselves and become more accurate in our psychological understanding so we can learn more about ourselves if we intend to make progress.