You need to wake up
I woke up today and I didn’t want to work. If you are reading this there is a good chance you woke up and you didn’t want to go to work either. If you have a salaried job you knew you had to go into work or maybe could get out of it, but either way you were going to get paid. I don’t have that luxury. We don’t have that luxury. Yeah we make money while we sleep, but if we stop doing work the money stops coming in.
Some people like to assume that working on your own is a luxury. That you can do whatever you want and honestly you can do whatever you want. You choose if you want to work. You choose how hard you want to work. You choose when you want to get something done. The problem is those decisions all effect your money and status.
Miss a deadline at work and you get yelled at for a bit. Miss a deadline with your own company and who is going to yell at you? The consequences go deeper than that. You miss a deadline and you start to miss out on a lot more stuff.
But at least you are doing what you love if you are on your own right? The problem is you can get so caught up in the loving part and forget that there is a business part behind it. There is that part where you have to keep in mind how the money is going to come in. Everyone always says to do what you love, but nobody says do what you love for free.
If you want to go out on your own you are going to have to learn to wake up. Trust me, it can be easier said than done.
Deb Smouse # —
I’ve had my own company for four years now and I am always amazed at the number of people in my life who seem to think I can just take the day off…. Amazingly, my mother is the one of the ones who gives me a hard time about my travel schedule or the number of hours I work.
I truly do love my business and am so thrilled that I am following my passion. But like you said, it isn’t always easy.
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