Breaking Free Of A Salaried Existence - Being Your Own Boss

My friends constantly tell me how fortunate I am that I get to work at home - that I don’t have to face the daily grind at the office and worse still, the stressful 4 hours of commute to and from work. And at the end of every month as they see their salary disappear right before their eyes and they wonder if it’s all worth it, they wish they could work at home and spend more quality time with their family, but they just don’t know how to go about starting to work at home. When you have to rely on a double income that just isn’t stretching as much as it used to, it can be really frightening even to think about starting your own small home based business let alone cutting the life-support system that your salary has grown to become.

I really understand if you find yourself so dependent on your job that you end up in a vicious cycle or fear and insecurities that hinder you from exploring other income opportunities. Although most of the obstacles you face when you consider being your own boss are usually just your imagination acting up as you move beyond your comfort zone, there ARE real problems that you will face :

• You have no money.
  Starting a business takes money. Whether its a couple hundred bucks or tens of thousands, you need cash.
• You have no time.
  How could you? The boss expects you to be on-the-job ON TIME and for most folks that means leaving the house before sunrise and if you’re lucky, you get home before your kids are in bed!
• You have no experience.
  You need to know what you’re doing if you want to succeed in your own business. Unfortunately, most of us work at a job that is totally boring and unrelated to our passion in life.

These are real problems. They’re not problems that can be solved by simply wishing them away or buying yourself an e-book that guarantees financial freedom. However, before you can deal with these problems, there is the biggest and most important hurdle to overcome - your own mind. Your mind is your first and biggest stumbling block when you consider breaking free of your comfort zone. Add fear, insecurity and painful experiences of past failures, and it all becomes one humongous frightful monster of a vicious cycle. You end up pushing your dreams aside because not doing anything means you won’t fail!

The solutions to these problems will take time and conscious effort on your part, but if you’re really serious about breaking free of your “salaried existence”, you will overcome them bit by bit, day by day.

There are many, many people I know who would be good examples for me to write about, but I’ll use the best case study I know - myself. You can name any fear, any insecurity, any mental obstacle that you’re facing as you consider being your own boss and I will be able to emphatize with you. I went through it ALL because I was once the world’s worst scaredy-cat. Nothing would budge me from my comfort zone. Nothing. But life always has surprises in store for us. Join me in my next few posts as we discover solutions to the 3 main obstacles to breaking free of your dead-end job.

In this series :

1. Breaking Free Of A Salaried Existence - Being Your Own Boss
2. Your Mind - Your First Hurdle
3. Getting The Money To Start Your Own Business
4. Making Time For Your Home Based Business
5. Getting The Experience To Manage Your Home Based Business

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