Have you ever kept a time sheet on yourself? Looked at where your time goes, hour-by-hour, throughout the day. Can you just make some rough guesses at it? I’ll bet that you spend about 8 hours at work, and 1 hour commuting to and from work. You probably sleep 8 hours. So what happens during those other 7 hours?
Don’t tell me that it’s “quality family time” because I don’t believe it. Sure, you might spend an hour a day talking to your wife and kids – but that’s it. So you basically have about 6 hours per day that is wasted in reading magazine, watching TV and the like. That’s a huge amount of time – about 1/3 of your life – that is wasted on nothing productive.
What if I told you that you can change your life – both financially and mentally – in only a few hours a day. And that solution is starting a business. You can take the same time that you waste right now, and convert those lost hours to a productive effort with a start-up business. And by starting a business, you can improve your income, your stress, your mental health, your relationships – everything. And it’s not that hard to do.
Have you heard the term “multi-tasking”? What if I told you that I am writing this article right now while I’m here on the sofa with the family watching a DVD? With the cell phone and laptop, you can now work from all types of places that were impossible before. Make a sales call while driving? Sure. Talk to a client while sitting in the crowd at your daughter’s soccer match? No problem. Write from your laptop while sitting in the bleachers at your son’s football practice? Absolutely. Modern technology has made the ability to maximize your time easy.
Working out at the health club is great. You look good and feel good. But starting a business is like going to the health club with a turbo booster. Think of how good you’d feel if you built something of value, and created financial freedom for your family. Think of how empowering it would be to be your own boss – if only for a portion of each day initially. Imagine how confident you’d be if you controlled your own destiny and didn’t have to worry about being laid off or the whims of a corporate boss.
America is in the biggest economic recession of the modern era. Nobody knows what tomorrow holds. But the best shot you’ve got at having a happy life is to be in control of your future. When you own your own business, you build a financial future that others can’t influence. Even if that start-up business is only a part-time enterprise initially, that extra income may be the difference between covering your mortgage or not. In no way, can starting a business be a bad thing – only different levels of good.
O.K., you’re convinced that devoting some of your free time starting a business would be the right thing to do. But how do you translate that into action? Well, the first step is learning about the correct methods to starting a business. Go to the website www.StartThis.com and get a copy of “The Five Steps to a Successful Start-Up” for free. It’s one of the best books on the market for starting a business – and it’s free. The next step is to look over the list of businesses you can start up for under $1,000 – over 1,500 of them – and it’s also found at www.StartThis.com. With these two resources, you can get started on the path to a better use of your time immediately.
Your time is your most valuable asset. Put that asset to its highest use today, and start earning dividends.