The
#freedom of working for yourself is necessarily limited by your own skills & abilities. You have the opportunity to charge of your own career and take responsibility for your destiny. No amount of failure or hard work or tough times can take that away from you. When you’re making something for yourself — trust me, it feels a lot better than making it for someone else. 🔑Side note. If you’re running a startup that’s taken on investors, you are no longer your own boss. You’ll find that out when you start disagreeing with the money In the beginning, a bootstrapped startup lives hand-to-mouth. You have to be prepared to deal w/ that. Which is tough, because it means your lifestyle is going to be hard to plan in advance, & your quality of living will rise & fall w/ your revenue. It’s unavoidable. You will need to start making good decisions about money. At this point, you either begin to find ways to cut corners in your own life to fund your business, or cut corners in your business to fund your life. The first option is the right one, but it’s tough. The second option is the easy one but It will ruin you. I’ve been on this ride for a long time, 21 years, & I don’t regret it. I could do anything else, & I’d still choose to be an entrepreneur, to work every day trying to grow my businesses & build. If you go into
#entrepreneurship fully understanding that it’s going to be difficult, that it’s going to take years of your own time and a lot of late nights, that it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do, you are going to be okay. You can embrace the tough parts of it & appreciate the good. And maybe, just maybe, if you get far enough and you work hard enough, you can end up on a beach with a laptop, drinking cocktails and running your
#business the way you want. But if you go in there thinking that you’re about to get your dream
#Lifestyle out of the gates and live free, there’s a rude awakening around the corner. If you’ve battled through all that and you’re still reading, congratulations. I have some good news for you. No matter how hard it is, being an
#entrepreneur is worth it. Let’s Get It!! 💪
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