Loading ...People who tell you what you want to hear as opposed to what you need to hear are most often just picking your pockets without any genuine concern for your well-being in business. Do you think that’s really going to help you build a successful, profitable business? If you’ve never owned a business or run a business, do you think taking your own counsel is the best choice you can make? The successful person is someone who is open to hearing and learning the lessons of others so they can be applied in their own situation.
When people who have been there, gained experience as a business owner and… tell folks about the pitfalls to trying to build a business while still working, it’s not to rain on their parade or shoot down their dreams. Far from it! Out of kindness and caring, they are giving of themselves and sharing their experiences in order to HELP you build a business in ways that will not set you up for failure.
Anyone who tells you you can build a business "on the side" is not doing you any service. It’s also one of the pieces of advice that people who don’t know any better give to others. That’s not to say you can’t do it. But an intentional, conscious methodology and understanding will get you where you want to go a lot quicker and more efficiently. There are not shortcuts in life or business.
If you have dreams of starting a business and working for yourself, staying in your day job IS a good idea as you go about your due diligence and research, getting things in place and setting up solid business foundations. It’s also the best time to start setting aside the funds that will sustain you once the time comes where you really do need to make the leap.
What those who share want you to understand is that you can do the planning and setting up of the business while you are still working, but there will come a time when you simply have to make the leap. And this is for a number of reasons. One, most important, is that you will find that trying to work your business, deal with clients and do their work will quickly overwhelm you if you are also working another job. Once you are ready to actually do business and take on clients, you will find that you simply NEED to be focused only on the business because trying to do both will only drain your time and energy. And that will serve neither you, your business nor the client who has paid you their hard-earned money to do a good job for them.
Setting up this way will take you far more time, but it can also help you begin on solid footing–which also sets you up for real success, rather than failure.
Setting yourself up for failure and burning out before you’ve even begun doesn’t serve you or anyone else.
When you’re worried about money, that’s not a good place to be when working on your business or looking for clients. Being in need causes you to step over your standards and "settle" for things that are less than ideal. I’m not saying you might not feel like you have to; I’m saying it’s just not a good place to make business decisions from… out of fear and need and desperation.
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