The idea of a successful home based business can be your reality after you’ve determined that you have these qualties:
1) The ability to work alone
2) The ability to generate lots of ideas
3) And the patience to learn
After you've done your research on how to start your own home based business, you should be ready to be a home based business owner.
Here are 2 kinds of home based business ideas worth thinking about:
1) Open your own home based business as a bodywork/massage therapist: Check out the yellow pages and find out where you can learn to do massages. Sign-up and take the course, and then set up shop in some small corner in your home. You can make customers come by appointment only. The better you are, the higher the pay.
2) Desktop publishing home based business: Have you done the companys posters, banners, and streamers? Do you love making business cards and newsletters on your computer? Put a sign out and announce that you're open for business.