The most empowering thing about running your own business is that you get to set the rules. You get to decide how and when you work. You get to decide what you create. You get to decide what you charge.
But most of us are not used to getting to set the rules—at school, in traditional workplaces and in many other spaces, we have to follow the rules, not make them. Even if you’re completely new to business, or have always followed someone else’s rules, you have what it takes to set your own, I promise you. This post is a peptalk to get you going.
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You get to set the rules in your business
You get to decide when, how and where to work. Whether you want to work early in the morning, or late at night. Whether you want to take a day off, or work 3 hours a day. Whether you want to work on your sofa, in your studio, or in a favourite coffee place.
You get to decide what you create and sell. Which products you want to stock—the ones that light you up, not necessarily only the ones that are most popular.
You get to set the rules about availability and working hours. You get to set boundaries around the hours you have available for clients, when you ship your products and what your turnaround time is.
You get to decide how much work you take on—and set the prices that make that possible. Making the money that supports you doesn’t necessarily mean working more: it’s often a case of no longer undercharging (which, as I write in this post on money in slow business, is what many of us do).
There is a slower, gentler and more profitable way of running your business.
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You get to make the rules around every single part of your business.
It starts with you: not with what you think your clients and customers might want, or with what the world might expect of you.
More resources
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