
3 THINGS NEW ENTREPRENEURS NEED TO KNOW
There’s a lot of advice out there for new online entrepreneurs, so I figured I’d add my two cents to the mix.
Here are a few things I wish I knew when I first started out.
1. INVESTING IN YOURSELF DOESN’T GUARANTEE RESULTS
I throw up a bit in my mouth when I hear the term ‘invest in yourself’. While I think it’s absolutely important if you’re into personal/business growth, it’s also been marketed as a magic bullet (THERE IS NO MAGIC BULLET!!).
You don’t NEED to invest in yourself to make money in your business. Will hiring a coach or outside help accelerate your results, make this ride a lot easier, and probably help you make more money faster? Hell YES.
Will you be more likely show up and do the work if you’ve paid for something vs. grabbing freebies all the time? YES.
But throwing money at every new course, or hiring someone who’s not the right fit for you just for the sake of ‘investing in yourself’ won’t automatically make you money.
This might seem super obvious, but I did this in the early days of my business and I’m probably not alone.
Oh, and you need to actually do the work. Again, pretty obvious right?
It’s easy to scroll through the testimonial page of your favourite coach and assume that with a swipe of a credit card, you’ll get the same results. Umm…no. The people who wrote those testimonials, did the bloody work.
2. IT’S NOT ALL RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS
Working for yourself can be a blast! I’ve been self-employed for about 5 years now and I can’t imagine working for someone else. I have friends with regular jobs and when I hear about what they deal with at work, I know without a doubt I made the right decision to do the entrepreneur thing.
But being self-employed also means you’re 100% responsible for EVERYTHING.
Nobody’s handing you a regular pay cheque every two weeks. Nobody’s covering your medical expenses and giving you health benefits. Nobody else can create new programs for you, show up for you, and do the work that YOU need to do to make an income.
It’s ALL on you.
So yeah, there’s more time freedom, there’s the ability to work ONLY with clients you love, and there’s the potential to grow your business into whatever you choose it to be, but in the end, it’s your responsibility to make all that happen.
3. ALWAY GO WITH YOUR HEART AND GUT (AKA YOUR INTUITION)
When I first started online, I wanted a coach to tell me what to do. I actually wanted someone to tell me what the hell my purpose and message was, and exactly how to box it all up into pretty packages I could sell. I mean, I had ideas…and of course I already KNEW what to do, but I didn’t want to do the internal work to bring that out.
I kept searching outside myself for answers instead of listening to my intuition and learning how to act from that deeper place.
Your intuition is a built in guidance system you have free access to all the time, and it will be your greatest asset in business. Following your intuition is key as you (higher self YOU) always know what’s best for you (the YOU walking around in your little meat suit).
Your intuition will let you know what types of people you love working with, what kind of content feels best to create, and how to run your business in general.
It will guide you to the best opportunities, and guide you to the information you need to help you figure out the ‘how’s’ in your business (because yes, there is some boring af stuff you need to know how to do).
Will it lead you to crazy awesome success overnight? Maybe? Most likely not. It will always lead you where you NEED to go though, and help you become the person you need to BE to create the life and business that’s right for you.
xo
Kelly
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