Make a Living | Do What You Love | Stand by Your Values
You’re passionate about your idea. In fact, you’re often so excited by it that you can easily spend hours on all the tasks you feel will make your business a success.
You’re working on a logo. Thinking about your website. Working behind the scenes on developing your products or services.
You’re confident that once you’re finished, people are going to love your offering as much as you do.
But how can you be sure?Continue Reading
When you’re in business for yourself, there are going to be a million things to do.
Some of them will come easily to you. You may have past experience or acquired the necessary business skills. You feel confident. Maybe you enjoy them and lose track of time.
Others will require business skills that you haven’t mastered yet. So you tell yourself your no good at it. Or maybe they bore the s**t out of you, so you can’t motivate yourself to get them done.
But those tasks are just as important for your business success.Continue Reading
Get a life!
You’re working too much.
People remind me of this all the time.
They tell me to take it easy. Take a break. Get some sleep.
The list goes on.
I worked at least 30 hours a week while I was in school. Then 10-14 hour days in financial services was standard. Yet, no one ever told me I was overdoing it then.
So why do we face so much judgement when we work for ourselves?
Just like anyone in employment, if we don’t work, then we don’t eat.
