Small Business Entrepreneur Blog

I’m not necessarily talking about serial entrepreneurs or how is going to overtake your life. There is something more subtle about it. If you ever founded a company and tried to run it for a while, your way of thinking about regular life things will change dramatically.

Just the other day, I was talking with one of my co-workers at my official 9 to 5 job and we got into the usual thing about money, getting a house, a car and forming a family. It’s probably a very common discussion amongst young employees (I’m not so young anymore), and I couldn’t help myself noticing that while my colleague had some strong needs, she couldn’t see the connection between the current situation and the one she tries to accomplish.

I would say that between everything you want to accomplish and the current situation is always a connection. Because you need to set clear and achievable goals, evaluate the current situation, see what you need to perform in order to achieve the goals and set a time-frame and maybe adjust the final goals. That’s something an entrepreneur has to do on a 1-2 years time-frame, 1-3 months time-frame and each day. And if you, as an entrepreneur have goals each day, then each day you have to evaluate what you need to do. It’s a little different than the same thing as a simple employee, just because as an employee even if you have goals each day, you can do things in a limited environment, you have rules, bosses and an overall framework which you have to use.

But as an entrepreneur, running your business is like running your own life. You decide what are your goals, your current situation and what you need to do. And if you do that for your business, you will do it for your life as well. It doesn’t makes things necessarily easier, but it increases your chances to get that house, car and family.