Working for yourself

Posted on April 24, 2007
Filed Under Working for yourself |

Slight panic while having my shower this morning. I have no idea what I’m going to do in the long term, no exciting business venture planned or entrepreneurial project to carry out.

A friend said to me recently that if you are going into business for yourself, you should try to do something you have a real passion for. I am basically trusting that a plan will emerge sooner or later.

“One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is…absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.”

That rang bells with me when I read it in Steve Pavlina’s 10 reasons you should never get a job. If you ignore the slightly hectoring ’self help guru’ style, it’s an intriguing article.

Stumble it!

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