In order to
BE a self-employed person I had to start thinking like one. I found myself
reverting to that nine-to-five mentality.
If I wasn’t accomplishing a task every hour, then I must not really be
working.
Sometimes a
self-employed person has to make decisions about his business. Sometimes he is just thinking about a solution
to a problem. Sometimes he just has to quiet his mind so new ideas can come.
Just because you’re not pounding away at the computer system every minute
doesn’t mean you’re not working.
I’ve also
learned that it’s okay to answer the phone every time it rings. That’s why SMS and chats are also created to
add value to business communications, and the same goes for email. At my nine-to-five job I would leave the email
program open all day and answer each one as it arrived. It took me a while to realize it’s okay to
only check email several times a day instead of constantly being interrupted.
It’s actually more productive than having to stop your thought process every
time “you have mail.”
You’re going
to have days when you feel you didn’t accomplish much. Then again, you’ll have days when you’ll feel
you can conquer the world and you’ll be amazed at
how much you got done. Some
days you may not finish many tasks, but you’ll make a decision on a problem
that needed to be addressed. Or, you
will have learned a valuable lesson about yourself.
And, I had
to learn to stop breaking down all my tasks into Naira and Kobo. I tended to worry about how much I was or was
not earning every day. The truth is,
some days you’re going to make more than other days. If I spent my day on marketing
issues, even though I didn’t earn any money from it that day, I would benefit
from it some other time in the future.
Rather than
worry about what benefits I do or don’t have, I realized the benefit I have in
my business is that I answer only to me. Everything I do will benefit me sooner
or later. Instead of my income being
dependent on somebody else’s budget, I can go as far as I dream.
And because
I’m now doing what I truly love and not what someone else tells me to, I’m much
happier and more content. I learned if you start THINKING like an entrepreneur,
then you’ll actually be the BOSS you desire to be.
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