Melvin Feller Illustrates How to Set Work at Home and Small Business Goals

Melvin Feller Illustrates How to Set Work at Home and Small Business Goals

Melvin Feller Business Group in Burkburnett Ministries and Dallas Texas and Lawton Oklahoma. Our mission is to call and equip a generation of Christian entrepreneurs to do business as ministry. We provide workshops and resources that help companies discover how to do business God’s way and provide a positive outreach as the director. When the heart of a business is service rather than self it can be transformed into a fruitful business ministry earning a profit and being of service to the community and their customers. Melvin Feller is currently pursuing another graduate degree in business organizations.

Work at Home and Small Business Goals by Melvin Feller

An unknown author once said that, “In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” Moreover, boy is it ever true, especially if you work from home each day where it is far too easy to get distracted from the job at hand and do something other than what you should be doing. Yard work or laundry anyone?

Work at Home and Small Business Goals by Melvin Feller

Let us be honest here. One of the major upsides of owning your own home-based or other small business or franchise is that you are your own boss. You set your own hours and you have no commute. You have the freedom to spend your day getting the job done at your own pace, without someone hovering over you. The only trouble is that same freedom can easily become your downfall, especially if you are a one-person shop and you need to stay self-motivated day after day, year after year in order to remain profitable. That is not always easy.


Fortunately, the simple exercise of setting specific, attainable and measurable goals can keep you going and actually provide you with a source of inspiration when the going gets tough. Goals can be short-, medium- or long-term, depending on what it is you are trying to achieve. They can be service-oriented, profit-driven or all about growth.

Work at Home and Small Business Goals by Mel Feller

The best way to clarify what your business goals are is to write them down in the context of a business plan. The plan should state your goals, delineate the objectives it will take to meet those goals and then set reasonable timelines to meet each objective until the final goal is reached.


Any goals that you set should be clearly stated and as specific and descriptive as possible. “I want to be rich!” is a nice goal to have, for sure. “I want to earn $25,000 this month and every month thereafter this calendar year,” is much more effective. It more clearly paves the way for you to set concrete and measurable objectives that will allow you to meet your goal one dollar at a time, where the first statement is just too vague.

Work at Home and Small Business Goals by Melvin Feller

Of course, one of the keys to setting goals that will actually motivate you is that they have to be realistic. Is earning $25,000 per month this year even possible given your history in business or the nature of your product or service? As nice as it is to dream, you will not be motivated to tackle something you know you don’t have a prayer of achieving so be honest with yourself.

Creating realistic goals that will inspire you means choosing them carefully. Make them too challenging and you are more likely to give up before you even get started. Make them too easy and you run the risk of that yard work and laundry looking excessively interesting!

Melvin Feller Business Consultant, Business Owner, Burkburnett ministries and Graduate Student Candidate in Business Organization

Melvin Feller Business Consultants Ministries Group in Texas and Oklahoma. Melvin Feller founded Melvin Feller Business Consultants Group and Burkburnett Ministries in the 1970s to help individuals and organizations achieve their specific Victory. Victory as defined by the individual or organization are achieving strategic objectives, exceeding goals, getting results or desired outcomes and a positive outreach with grace and as a ministries. He has extensive experience assisting businesses achieve top and bottom line results. He has broad practical experience creating WINNERS in many organizations and industries. He has hands-on experience in executive leadership, operations, logistics, sales, program management, organizational development, training, and customer service. He has coached teams to achieve results in strategic planning, business development, organizational design, sales, and customer response and business process improvement. He has prepared and presented many workshops nationally and internationally.