Starting a home-based business is a great way to earn a supplementary income for your current job, or even to build it to a point where you can leave your current job. While starting a home-based business is not for everyone, many who are driven and determined can overcome many of the roadblocks that seem to come with starting your own business. While a great idea is necessary to succeed with your home-based business, the main factors that determine success are often personal characteristics and not necessarily just luck and determination.There are many important characteristics that are necessary if you want to achieve success, so let’s take a look at five of the most important that will help you not only get started with your business, but succeed and build to be highly successful, they are:1 – Determination2 – Work-ethic3 – Discipline4 – Focus5 – PositivityThose are five personal characteristics that will help you go far in building a successful home-based business, let’s take a closer look at each one of them.1 – DeterminationDetermination is not only having a dream, because almost everyone has a dream of success in their lives, rather it is the ability to self-start and continue to work hard no matter how grim the circumstances may look. Determination will ensure you work through all of your struggles and through all of the roadblocks that are inevitable when you start your own business.2 – Work-ethicNo matter how determined you may be, you really do have to have a strong work-ethic in order to achieve big successes with your home-based business. A strong work-ethic is not necessarily something you just have, it is gained when you make a decision to work hard regularly, consistently, and no matter what your current circumstances may be.3 – DisciplineDiscipline is definitely a requirement if you hope to achieve success in business, and especially important if you work from home. There are so many distractions when working from home, so you have to be disciplined in order to get things done and move forward with your business.4- FocusOne of the biggest problems when starting your business from scratch is that there are so many things to get done. It seems at times that you will never be able to get everything done, but the key to overcoming this problem is to attack one thing at a time, focus on it and get it done, then proceed to the next thing.5 – PositivityThere will be times when you think you will never be able to make money, that you are in the wrong business, or that you are wasting your time. This is common and runs through every entrepreneurs mind at some point in time, but the key to pushing through is to remain positive and be able to use positive visualization of what you will achieve once you are successful