The Easy Entrepreneur Dream
Imagine your perfect day.
You wake up without an alarm, feeling fresh and excited to start your day. You have some ideas for your business that you’re excited to try, plus fun personal activities planned later with your favorite people. You have focus, you have energy, and it’s going to be a great day!
You own a great business that is thriving and practically runs itself. Your employees are engaged, and proud to be part of a great workplace and a winning team. Your clients give you rave reviews. You are financially secure, with abundance to give back to your community through charity.
Best of all, you have freedom. You have a flexible schedule, and can work when and where you want, whether that’s from your office or a café in Paris. You can work on what you love and do best, and delegate the rest. You are the boss after all!
Long gone are the days of the corporate rat race. There’s no bad boss telling you what to do. There is no stress from artificial deadlines. There are no office politics to drag you down. There’s no annual review to tell you that the company doesn’t want to give you a raise this year. You own your accomplishments and get 100% of the financial gains.
That’s the life of the Easy Entrepreneur.
While this is just a dream for most people, this is the lifestyle that I’ve developed for myself since leaving my job, and you can too!
The Challenges of Business Ownership
That said, there are many challenges of business ownership that you need to overcome first. Many people struggle with these, doing things the hard way and repeating the same mistakes, and never achieving their dreams.
The first is not knowing your endgame. Many people hate their jobs and want to be their own boss, but get into the wrong business that’s not a good fit their lifestyle goals. Or they end up doing the wrong kind of work, instead of delegating it.
The second is not taking action. Many people dream of business ownership, but never actually get started. They are afraid of taking the risk, and there is risk, but don’t calculate the cost of inaction and staying stuck in a mediocre life.
Another challenge is burnout. Many people don’t set the right work/life boundaries, work too hard, and run out of energy. They blame others for their challenges, instead of taking ownership and focusing on solutions. They put work first, not themselves, and the business suffers.
There are other challenges — isolation, overload, negativity, indecision, procrastination, stress, and fear, to name a few.
Many people get stuck facing these challenges, doing things the hard way. There is real risk and stress to business ownership, at least until you grow it to become stable and profitable, and you need to learn how to overcome that. It takes new skills to succeed as an entrepreneur than as an employee.
But you are the boss! You are in total control. If you invest in yourself, you can overcome these challenges, and end up where you dreamed of. That is the Easy Entrepreneur way, and I can teach you how to become one!
Goals of the Easy Entrepreneur
The Easy Entrepreneur is a lifestyle, leveraging business ownership to live an extraordinary life.
What makes a life extraordinary? That’s up to you, it’s your life! But here are some ideas to get you started:
- Wake up every day excited to grow your business.
- Never wake up to an alarm clock again, except when you need to catch a flight to your next vacation.
- Build a business that’s really cool and does something you love.
- Have fun every day!
- Own a business that you’re proud of.
- Build a following of loyal customers who love your business.
- Write your own job description, doing what you love and delegating the rest.
- Do work that has a meaningful impact on the world.
- Give back to the world through charity.
- Be an ultra-high performer with multiple businesses at once.
- Learn new skills and never be bored.
- Develop your career to become a CEO.
- Be the boss, and don’t have to answer to anyone.
- Permanently escape the rat race, bad bosses, and office politics.
- Grow your income as you scale the business, not limited by your time or an artificial salary cap.
- Put life first, not work.
- Spend with your family whenever you want.
- Have control of your schedule, only doing things you want to do.
- Have more time to play and master your hobbies.
- Master new hobbies, like cooking or an instrument.
- Take a vacation every month.
- Grow your spiritual connection to God or nature.
- Have the freedom to travel all over the world, while still making money.
- Live an adventurous life, always trying new things.
- Overcome your fears, and learn to enjoy getting outside your comfort zone.
- Find happiness and joy in everyday life.
- Semi-retire and only work part time, on your own schedule.
- Run a side business, while keeping your job.
- Run multiple businesses at once, diversifying your portfolio and creating multiple streams of income.
- Grow a large business empire that spans a large area.
- Build a legacy that you can pass on to your kids.
- Retire early.
Whew, that’s a long list! It would be too ambitions to try for all those at once, but each is a valid choice for the Easy Entrepreneur lifestyle. Which ones appeal to you?
Now that you know what an Easy Entrepreneur is, and hopefully had some ideas what means to you, let’s get started in the real work: How To Become and Easy Entrepreneur.