What they never tell you about starting your own business

 I filed for my first LLC with some monies received from a car accident pay out. An accident that took me out of work for a full year while I tried to recover, after spending almost a year working in excruciating pain because I was too afraid of who I'd be without a job. I was hobbling around, taking medication to mask the pain while avoiding one resounding truth. 

That which had once made me happy, was no longer making me happy and I didn't know what to do.

I tried everything. I cut my hair. I gained weight, I lost weight. I stopped eating meat, I ate only meat. Nothing mattered, there was a gaping hole in my life that would only filled with some quiet time between me myself and I. 

I took a year off to heal mentally and physically. I took a lower paying Admin job that I could do from home, and things were supposed to be better but they weren't. Not yet. I still had work to do. So I started to dream of what my life would look like if I were self employed. What would I do and who would I do it with? What would I call myself and my company? After coming up with a name, I contacted Legal Zoom to file my LLC paper work and then promptly put that dream aside because I was afraid. I wasn't sure what I was afraid of, or why, but I wasn't ready to jump. 
 

  Fear is the thing that keeps us from enjoying where we are, as well as preventing us from getting where we want to go. The key is to feel the fear and do it anyway, but often times the fear is stifling and we are stagnant. 

It would be three more years, a new job and a lay off before I would finally brush off my dreams, and my paper work and get started on the business of growing my business. But no one ever tells you this...

• There is a difference between being an employee, and entrepreneur and a employer. You have to work a different muscle and you cannot switch gears physically, until you'd made some changes mentally. 
• Being an entrepreneur is being a risk taker. You can gamble on the penny slot machines in Vegas and they will still bring you drinks, but you won't win as much. If you are going to gamble on yourself you have to be willing to put it on the line. 
• It take money to start a business. Bottom line, there will be over head, this must be accounted for it's apart of the process. There is nothing for free out there, not even freedom itself. 

 

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