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In the end, it may be because of the desire to learn from these same business owners. There is no need to be lonely and isolated, if you work for yourself, as long as the aim to participate in various social activities. Personally, I like to relax with other people to work for themselves. Yet people often energetic and active, that I rarely see in employees.
The regular work laid some inner socialization, but if you think about it, you'll see how it is limited. An employee can be fired for excessive socializing at work. But a self-employed person can socialize freely at any time of the day.
Working for yourself can be a wonderful meeting in the early stages, especially if both of you are working for yourself. When Erin and I started dating, I often dropped into her house in the morning and we spent half a day together. This has allowed our relationship to grow faster and in three months we began to live together. Of course, I have not worked a lot at the time, but the work itself has given me the freedom and the opportunity to put my social life beyond my work.
8. Working on people should do it yourself.
People self-employed may be responsible for what they take, but it is usually silly to do everything yourself. Scope of work is too large. Erin owns and manages the magazine "VegFamily", but it does not work on the publication number alone.
She has writers, filling the magazine and managing editor, looking after the details of each issue. Erin devised and created the system, but others support it. You do not even have to come up with their own system, you can simply enhance someone else.
I get advertising revenue from this site, but the majority of advertising served by Google AdSense. I do not sell advertising and do not work with advertisers - Google does it all. If I sell one banner alone, it would be horrible ... is too much work for me alone.
9. Work on too vague.
Working for yourself can be confusing because a lot to learn in the beginning, such as accounting, taxes, payroll, legal regulations, insurance and much more. It takes time to learn the basics, but most of them are not really that difficult.
Just take a good book on the subject and you are wonderful start with. I recommend to get a copy of the book "Small Time Operator". Do not let the initial learning curve to break themselves. You need to learn this only once, and only for your first business.
When you later start a second business, everything goes much faster. If you organize everything properly support running the business will no longer seem a nightmare.
10. You need a lot of money to start a new business.
This depends on the business. You can start an online business in a very small amount, starting with the purchase of domain and hosting which is very cheap. We are talking about less than 100 dollars needed to close the first year.
I spent about 20 thousand dollars of cash in my business of computer games in 1994, but I learned this lesson and decided that we should do it as cheaply as possible.
I spent only $ 9 (to register StevePavlina.com), and decided that any other waste can be made only out of profits. I did not get the money in the first four months, but after 22 months I get about $ 9,000 a month.
I am satisfied with the result, but until I reached the distant plans, so that the end still too early to think. I'm not saying that any fool can receive a decent income from the price of a movie ticket - have you noticed that this site is called "Personal development for smart people" (we are talking about StevePavlina.com - approx. Per.), Not is not it?
The bottom line is that there is no need to put the last of his money on the first business. You, however, must have thought out a way to add value to people. In the online business, the good news is that you can create value for a fixed period of time (an article, for example), and the technology can deliver that value millions of times moreover without increasing the cost of delivery.
You invest a little time in the original creation of value, but receive a fee for bringing a constant value. The technology does most of the work for you for a price, which is virtually zero, but you get a fee for the results (significantly greater than zero).
By contrast, people who work for themselves, workers can not normally get paid for bringing a permanent value. They receive a fixed fee or commission cross-sectional whereas employers are rewarded forever. The employees are very generous towards their employers.
Try it yourself
I hope I have helped to debunk some common myths about the work itself. These irrational fears that have nothing to do with reality. Of course, the only way to truly understand the work itself is an experience of such work.
I met with a large number of self-employed people in my life, but I never heard from any of them, it was a mistake and they would like to receive regular work, even when their financial affairs were not very good.
Working for yourself is a powerful tool for personal growth, and often the best value comes from the skills and knowledge obtained on the way.
Like many self-employed people, I would rather renounce all their businesses, rather than on the lessons that I have learned, failed them.
Steve Pavlina
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