The Entrepreneur’s Work Day

The greatest benefit of starting your own business is that it’s all yours. You have the freedom to work the hours you want, decide on the work to be done each day, and run your schedule to your choosing. A second substantial benefit of starting an your own business is that, like many successful entrepreneurs before you, you can pretty much decide how much income you want to make and then get after it.

The key to realizing the best in both of these benefits lies in the successful blending of the freedom that comes with starting a business with the structure required to reach the goals you’ve set for yourself and the business. In essence, it’s really a matter of exercising your freedom to decide on what you ultimately want and then structuring your activities so that you can get what you want out of your business.

What you ultimately want out of your business will be defined by the long term goals you set. Whether that goal is to generate some extra money while moonlighting or panning for global domination, your long term goals will be the determining factor in the daily activities and tasks that you have to perform in order to reach your end goals. In effect your long term goals will set your short term goals which then be used to develop your action plan. Here you can set the monthly, weekly, and daily actions you’ll need to take to make your business a success.

Your progression of activities will be the most specific at the daily level because this is where the “doing” part of your business takes place and why defining your schedule each day is absolutely essential. Whatever your business is you’ll likely be scheduling marketing activities client meetings and the like. By compartmentalizing your work you’ll feel more in control and also be in a position where you get to feel the experience of succeeding along the way.

Building your business brick by brick will also require time to continue learning, upgrading certain aspects of your business and staying on top of trends in your industry.

Is defining and scheduling your workday more work? There is no doubt about it. Is it worth it? There’s no doubt about that either, especially when you’re starting a based business to reach your goals, dreams and aspirations.