But you can start building something you believe in and keeps you up at night with excitement in 90 days. More on that at the bottom of the post.
Contrary to the late night infomercials, this is just the reality. Could you come up with an idea, do the work to get it ready to launch, and start selling and making income quicker than two years? Sure. If you devoted yourself full time to it. But that doesn't happen.
You have a life that is packed full now and you'll be doing great to squirrel away a few hours per week for this. And that's sufficient if you make a longterm commitment to this, sacrifice some of your comfort, do the work and be patient.
Really, the bigger question is…would you commit to something for that long, to get a payoff you believed in?
For me, two things kept me fully committed to self-employment:
- I wanted to work at and build my own agenda (and profits), not someone elses,
- I wanted to be certain that my family could come first
That was pretty much it. All of my friends were putting in their time, some making a lot of money, some making just a little. Some doing work they were OK with, some doing things that meant nothing to them (and always a few doing work they really didn't believe was moral).
Question #1:
What are your two things that you desire most that self-employment could make possible?
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Now, I did so many things wrong. Mainly I had no financial plan. Ever. And for a long time I didn't step back and ponder what I really wanted and was good at. I just went after things pell-mell. Today I'm at the best business health of my life, though let me tell you, it ain't easy street. In my family, we have the same time issues, money issues and stress issues that you do. Our house that we built is still missing most of the trim after two years now, we drive old cars with high miles (1999 Suburban and a 1984 Jeep CJ7), we shop at Goodwill a lot, rarely eat out and the last movie I saw in the theater was The Passion of Christ in 2004.
But the fact is every day my work is building an asset that I own (my retirement fund!), I'm working at what I truly care about and doing tasks I believe in, and when my family needs me…I'm here. I spend breakfast with my kids from around 7-8:30am or later, I usually transport kids somewhere during the day, we almost always have a big lunch with the whole family, I normally go for a run or mountain bike ride, we fix dinner together and talk, then I spend the evening with my wife (though it's often on the couch or bed getting more work done or writing our passions into blogs!).
Question #2
What life-balance do you believe in and how do you want your life to look like in two years?
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Otherwise, the only question left is not "When do you want to start?", but "When will it be too late?"
Agent Kevin Miller
What makes it possible is hope and inspiration. And that come from having a plan. See what you'd be getting into with Free Agent Academy membership here with our 40-questions. In starting with us, it's not only possible, but probable, to know what you'd be pursuing, in 90-days. Check out the Questionnaire here
