Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Find Motivation

Today’s lesson is an exercise in finding motivation to move forward to create your dream life by building a business based on your passions.

The benefits of a lifestyle are many.  Let’s take a look at nine of them and see if you can come up with any others.

The greatest benefit of having a lifestyle is that it gives you the freedom to do several things.

#1:  focus on what is most important to you. Typically, people with a workstyle have jumbled lives.  A jumbled life leads to self-abuse and lots of stress.  People with cluttered lives normally have disorganized minds.   Chaos in thinking leads to burnout and eventually can lead to self-destruction and illness.  Who do you know that has a cluttered life?  Is it you?  Someone in your family?

Your goal is to create a simple lifestyle.  The acronym KISS can help you remember.  It stands for Keep It Simply Simple.  A simple life gives you:

#2:  freedom of time.  Look back at the pie charts you did where figured out how much time you actually spend on things and compare it to the time you want to spend on things.  Can you find a way to simplify the things you do to create more time?

Simplicity leads to:

#3:  more energy.  A simple life gives you the time to focus on your purpose, gain clarity, and to get the results you desire.

A simple life also leads to

#4:  balance and harmony.  It gives you the time not only to create financial freedom, which is the fifth benefit of a lifestyle.

#5:  financial freedom provides the opportunity to focus on the sixth benefit which is:

#6:  happiness and health.   If you have money, you can focus on having fun, eating in great restaurants, having the equipment and tools you need related to any sport, hobby or recreation you love and so much more.

A simple life allows you to focus on:

#7:  fulfilling work.  Doing work that you love that also helps others benefits us in ways that speaks to our heart and soul and makes us very happy and satisfied.  It also gives you time to create the eighth benefit:

#8:  positive habits which include eating well, exercising, and having more fun.  It also gives you the time and resources for:

#9:  giving back to your family, friends, community, and the world.  Can you imagine starting a successful business that creates enough wealth to be able to hire family members, friends, neighbors and others to help them have a better life?  You can become one of the real job creators.  You can donate money to your favorite charity or help your community improve..

As you think of all of these benefits of simplifying your life so you can live a lifestyle, can you think of any other advantages you would like to add to the list?  Let your imagination free here.

 

 

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Alan Miles - July 4, 2012

Great post Julia – and there’s already a boom in people taking the self-employment route – UK figures last week show record numbers since they started counting in 1992. I think it’s inevitable that numbers will explode as conventional jobs become ever harder to get – just as there’s been an explosion of self-publishing when writer’s finally got tired of waiting for the letter that never came from the publisher or agent.

After 30 years of building my own businesses, I can vouch for the satisfaction and fulfillment that comes from independence – I love what I do … and never want to stop. I’m just starting with another venture now … preferring the starting to the routine.

I’m not sure about the freedom – time and finance though. With money, it’s sometimes up and sometimes down. You need to be sure that you – and your family – are comfortable with uncertainty. You don’t always know when the next pay-check is coming. And time … well here I am typing this at just after 7.30 – and I’ve already spent an hour this morning dealing with one of my Mid-East clients. If it’s yours, then your customers are always vital … and it’s very difficult not to let work flow into every corner of your life, particularly if you work from home. Again family support is vital, and the need for self-discipline – not only to get down to work each day, but also to stop getting down to work.

Good luck with UBC!

    Julia - July 4, 2012

    Thank you for your comments Alan. Those are good observations you state. I suppose it depends on the type of business you have and how much can be delegated and automated. I’m a workaholic but I do have a flexible schedule and can work when I want and or not work as the case may be.

    I’m loving this challenge except for the things I have not yet figured out about Word Press.

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