Day in and day out you find yourself feeling “stuck” in your corporate job, so much so that the days just seem to blend into one another and professional atrophy has set in. You’re not recognized for your contributions and the corporate culture has begun to wear away at you leaving you feeling jaded.
Felena Hanson, the Founder of Hera Hub, has been her own boss for years now! With her experience in the business world, we would love to share what she has to say about being in business for herself. Learning from other women propels our own understanding and inner knowing of what we need to do for our own growth.
You’ve long had a personal passion that you’ve wanted to turn into a profitable endeavor. You are itching to rebel against what is expected of you in corporate culture, to reinvent yourself, and to thrive in your passion.
You are ready to flee the confines of the corporate world and set to launch your dream business. You want to be an entrepreneur!
Wanting to be in the driver’s seat of your business is the easy step. Entrepreneurship, however, in and of itself is not that easy.
Having a Dream to be Your Own Boss Takes Savvy And Discipline And Passion And Overcoming Fear, too.
But, when you can commit to enduring the challenges you will revel in the flexibility you’ll have over your time management and in the autonomy you’ll experience when it comes to your life’s work. Heading off on your journey to entrepreneurship will bring so many benefits to your life, all of them well worth any of the challenges you will face.
In order to remain successful on this journey you must begin with addressing your mindset.
It is the key to success, the ability to control your thoughts and master your psychology, and everything else becomes a byproduct of that process. You’ll find a lot of articles, books, and guides on becoming more productive, fitter, happier.
But it is your mindset that will determine whether you’ll truly be successful and live your life to the fullest. Once you have your mindset in place, it’s then much simpler keep these 5 important tips in mind as you become “unstuck” from your corporate cage.
You’ll wear every hat imaginable as an entrepreneur…
Unless you have the funds to outsource what you’re not good at or don’t want to do. Be prepared to wear the hat of a bookkeeper, accountant, customer relations agent, head of operations, and more. It will be tempting to do what you do well and ignore the other areas of your business, but you’ll be out of business before long if you only focus on what you do best and ignore all the other important parts of your business machine.
Multitasking and Wearing Different Hats Is A Daily Normal for An Entrepreneur.
You’ll need to learn to love numbers quickly…
Because it is YOUR sales, costs, and, hopefully, profits that will determine if you survive or fail. The most challenging can be managing cash flow, because you may be profitable on paper, but your business can sink if you can’t float month to month. It is especially true in a product-based business.
If you find you simply cannot bring yourself to fall in love with numbers, then it is time for you to consider hiring a good bookkeeper to keep your records straight, and maybe even a CFO to review numbers with you on a regular basis.
Numbers are the Key to your financial success – You gotta understand them!
You will have to be AND remain passionate about your business…
Because there are long hours ahead of you and a lot of effort that will be required. It’s not like when you were an employee when you could go on doing something you disliked simply because you were receiving a salary.
You have to constantly ask yourself: Why are you doing this? What bigger purpose are you serving?
Once you’ve decided to become “unstuck” as an entrepreneur, it’s up to you to remind yourself that you LOVE what you do, because as Thomas Edison once said, “I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun!”
Be prepared to be a rebel.
As an employee, your focus was on following the rules. You had little room for imagination. As you trek along on your entrepreneurial journey, you have to think of yourself as a rebel.
You will always seek ways to do things differently and not get caught up in absolute perfection in everything you do. You must take shortcuts, find loopholes, and do more with less. You’ll find that as a rebel you’ll be resourceful and scrappy in order to achieve good enough!
Just do it.
You’ll begin to give yourself anxiety when you think of the time it really takes to launch a business.
Most people underestimate the length of time they think they need. Knowing that you may be tempted to stay “stuck” and not blaze on through your entrepreneurial path. Don’t let this happen to you. Just do it, just start NOW.
One Tiny Step Each Day Will Lead to A Big Success.
If you can just get up one hour earlier each day and spend time planning and building your new business, this could give you the opportunity to develop skills and build experience while still enjoying the safety net of a salary – which, at some point, you will almost certainly end up giving up in order to grow YOUR own business!
Get Unstuck By Taking Small Steps – Please RETWEET!
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14 thoughts on “HOW-TO Get “Unstuck” Moving From Employee To Entrepreneur”
This is a really helpful post. My dad and mom managed a catering business outside of their professional careers as a doctor and accountant respectively. Eventually, my mom had to give up her office job to focus on the business. It went well and the business flourished. I guess you have to really focus and learn everything from logistics to forecasting to financial planning. Thanks for this post. I am thinking of going the same route as my parents did.
Having made the jump myself, and looking back I would encourage myself to be a bit more prepared. It’s always great to have savings and to start making an income outside of your job before you leave. Thanks for sharing!
This is exactly what I needed to read right now! I quit my job last week to start my own thing. I need the inspiration!
Becoming an entrepreneur is not for everyone but, if we decide to do it, we must follow a lot of these tips. There are no shortcuts.
These were great tips for those who are making the transition, and praise goes to them because it can’t be easy. I agree with your last statement about just doing it, it’s better to take the plunge sometimes rather than dipping your toe in a bunch of times.
I simply like that this is all about motivating someone to push through with being an entrepreneur. It definitely takes guts and dedication! I appreciate this article so much as I just recently launched my new business.
I did that myself, became my own boss. Now I could never be an employee again!
Ohhhh boy..I am a rebel..but not a numbers person. Also very prone to stress and bad at time management. I’m working on it though! I really want to be a freelancer..Thanks for the (somewhat daunting, but definitely valuable) tips!
I want to be an entrepreneur so bad through my blog but I lose focus very quickly. I am trying to remain consistent and learn as much as I can from my mistakes.
I agree with her that it starts with a person’s mindset on how successful they will be. This is great advice from someone who really knows how to get unstuck.
This is great advice! All these tips will really help to get someone who’s working for a boss to fully transit into the awesome journey of entrepreneurship!
This post resinates with me because I am a small business owner myself. Owning a business is a huge responsibility and we wear so many hats, but if you’re willing to put in the work you can be successful!
Nina,
Yes, as business owners, we gotta know a lot of things that are going into running a business.
Miss one – miss all. Being aware of that and learning how to manage our day, planning, learning – makes us more powerful in our decision-making.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time working. Unlike a 9 to 5 job, entrepreneurs cannot simply clock in and out.