The second most common hurdle that young entrepreneurs face is believing they don’t have the time or the money to start a business or to devote to making it work. This article is going to focus on finding the time they need to start and to work a business. It’s a really simple exercise.
The first thing to do is start two pie charts that look like clock faces without the hands.
Ask your teens to answer these two questions:
- What do you spend most of your time doing?
- What would you like to spend most of your time doing?
The answers to the questions should be put on the pie chart so they can see a physical representation of how much time they are actually spending on something versus how much time they want to be spending on something else.
Most often they spend a lot of time doing things that waste their time. If they want to create a business, they need to focus on doing the things that will get them more of what they want in life, which are the things they listed in the second question.
By eliminating some of the time wasters, which usually include watching television, playing games, spending time on Facebook, over sleeping and so on, they can find the time they need to do the things that need to be done to create that business.
In the next post we’ll look at motivating teens to focus on doing the things that will get them more of what they listed on the second pie chart. To motivate them to move in that direction, we’ll take a look at the benefits of living a lifestyle rather than a workstyle which will allow them to have the life they want.
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