I Want To Own. I Want To Be. I Want To Have. How?


Question:

"I want to own my business, to be self employed. To have financial stability. Not to afraid of retirement. To be healthy. How do I achieve all these...???"

Answer:

Whoa!

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time!

First - you need to focus on your MAIN priority - because quite often, many of the things you strive to achieve may well result in a negative effect in something else you think you want to achieve!

For example...you could spend twenty hours a day running your own business...but end up with an ulcer because of over-work and stress!

But...if your need to be self-employed is that much more greater than your need for excellent health - then one is certainly going to suffer at the expense of the other!

I believe in what I call 'wave moderation'.

Think of the normal wave signal - the consistent peaks and troughs of a nice, good quality 'bell curve'.

My life is a little like that.

Some days I goof off.

I'm at the bottom of the WORK wave curve - but at the top of the LIFESTYLE wave curve.

Other days I may be so caught up with a deadline for work that I might be at the TOP of the work curve - and completely at the BOTTOM of the lifesstyle curve!

The problems only begin when you spend TOO much time at the top of EITHER curve.

In an ideal world we'd like to think that we would spend our days doing nothing much - but even billionaires need something to do to tax their brains a little.

Also...if you are working all hours at the expense of your health or your relationship with your family - then no amount of money will help you.

Let's also look at financial stability.

Can I be a little blunt here?

The easiest way for SOME degree of financial stability is to do the job that you currently do to the VERY best of your ability!

If you are viewed as someone who 'goes the extra mile' as Napoleon Hill said - then you will stand the best chance of surviving - even in the severest waves of redundancies.

If you want to run your own business...then, in my opinion, in the short- to medium-term - that certainly ISN'T a recipe for financial stability!

Ask any entrepreneur what it was like for the first few years after they started out on their own.

The best way is work on YOUR business during the times which you might otherwise waste on watching TV, reading newspapers or novels...or idly surfing the Internet.

And...if you can't dedicate yourself to even FIVE hours a week developing your business idea further - then what chance would you have to stay motivated for a FULL working week?

Unless your business becomes part of who you are and what you do - and you NEVER have that 'Monday morning feeling'...then you might as well stay in a salaried job.

By proving to yourself that you CAN devote some 'play' time to working on your ideas - then it's pointless to just quit your job and go it alone.

Remember...motivation is always easy to come by when you are starting out. Believe me...it's much harder to keep going after months or years of constantly focusing on earning enough money to pay the mortgage.

Now...I'm not trying to be negative here...just realistic.

It's great to have dreams...but it's just as easy for those dreams to turn into nightmares if you aren't doing what you really LOVE to do.

So...make sure that you take it one step at a time...and you might very well find out that, with some adjustments, your life might be THAT 'bad' after all.