Think this positive thought

Finding work-at-home opportunities was fairly easy in pre-Internet days. Flip to the classifieds in the back of most magazines, and entrepreneurs found enticing possibilities like these:

Learn to repair plastic furniture or car seats. (First, you bought the program, and practiced, practiced, practiced with the materials they supplied);

Make doormats from used tires. (You merely cut tires you got free or bought for cheap into strips, then assembled them into attractive, useful mats);

Sew and sell baby bibs. (Even skilled seamstresses like my friend Kathy failed to sell her bibs back to the company.)

Not only did you have to be skilled enough to produce desirable products buyers wanted, you had to learn where to find those buyers. Every program required an investment. If you didn't succeed, more than likely, you were out the money. It was difficult to make a go of these businesses, let alone make and sell products consistently enough to say goodbye to the day job and the security of a steady income.

Writing is the best of the best at-home businesses, no doubt. Do it anywhere, full-time, part-time. This work-at-home job doesn't require an inventory of costly materials; instead, your inventory consists of ideas. And the market is big enough that you will find buyers of your product, your words.

Which leads me to this positive thought, by Wayne Dyer: "There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
Apply those 24 words to your writing (or making rubber mats from tires, for that matter) and you'll keep your feet on the path to success.