Running your own business gives you freedom: freedom to say what you want your business to say, work in the way you want to work, and call the shots as you want to call them.
Or does it?
Think about your non-work life: chances are, you give yourself the freedom to schedule your non-work life how you best see fit: time for exercise, eating, cleaning the house, reading books… whatever is important to you.
But do you do the same thing in your business? Or are you letting the conventions and norms of society dictate how you work?
Ask yourself this:
- Regardless of how it turned out at the end of the week, did you have the intention going into last week to work around 40 hours? Monday through Friday? Nine to five, or thereabouts?
- Do you check your email when you want to, or when you think you should?
- How about your phone? Do you let it go to voicemail, or stop what you’re doing (even eating) to answer it?
- If you have clients, when do you schedule them? Whenever they can work with you?
