Welcome to Part 2 of my 5-part Momentum Series. In this series I’m going to teach you how to create momentum in your business in just six weeks without burning out.
And in today’s episode, we are going to be talking about how to stop treating your business like a hobby. I’m going to help you identify if this is you, and this is without any shame or judgement.
And I’m speaking from experience when I share this. I used to treat my business like a hobby and that’s all it ever was until I changed my mindset around it. So I really want to help you understand the importance of treating your business like a real business, including how that looks like and what to do so that you can start taking that approach.
Because if you are taking a hobby approach to your business, then you won’t actually be able to create the full time business that you want to. It really is such an important mindset shift.
If that sounds like you, this episode is going to be so helpful. All you need to do is hit play.
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Introduction
Hi, and welcome to another episode of The Perfectionism Project, a podcast full of perfectionism advice for entrepreneurs. My name is Sam Laura Brown. I help entrepreneurs release their perfectionism handbrake so they can get out of their own way and build a fulfilling and profitable business. I’m the founder of the Perfectionists Getting Shit Done group coaching program, which is otherwise known as PGSD. And for even more perfectionism advice to help you with your business, you can follow me on Instagram @perfectionismproject.
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[00:00:29] Sam Laura Brown: It is part two of this five part series on how to create momentum in your business without burning yourself out. Oh, I’m so excited to be talking to you today because we are going to be talking about how to stop treating your business like a hobby. And I’m going to help you identify if this is you, if you are treating your business like it’s a bit of a hobby, and this is all without any shame.
[00:00:52] without any judgment, but just a little bit of a loving kick in the pants. If you have been acting like your business is a hobby and maybe you’re like, well, yeah, I’m not making any money from it yet. Oh yeah. I’m only making a couple of hundred dollars a month or like a thousand dollars a month. I just can’t even support myself from that yet.
[00:01:09] So yeah, it is a hobby. If that is you, this episode is going to be so, so helpful. And I’m speaking from experience in this episode, as I am with all others. I used to treat my business like a hobby and that’s all it ever was until I changed my mindset around it. So I really want to help you understand the importance of treating your business like a real business, even before it becomes a hobby.
[00:01:31] It feels like one, what that looks like, what that will feel like, how to do that so that you can start taking that approach. Because if you aren’t actually treating your business like it is a real business, if you are taking a hobby approach to your business, then you won’t actually be able to create the full time business that you want to.
[00:01:50] It really is such an important mindset shift. So I want to help you with that in this episode So in part one just to quickly recap I talked about the difference between being behind and having momentum in your business because momentum Is the cure to feeling behind if you feel like The things that you’re working on your business like just aren’t adding up that you’re spending so much time and energy Thinking about it researching learning different skills and you actually don’t feel like it’s on track to ever be a full time business, something that could actually support you and maybe even your family financially that would allow you to have freedom, time off, then I want to make sure you learn about momentum and you learn about it in a way that really supports you as a perfectionist in particular because, and I was talking about this in part one, When I was googling and doing research on advice on how to create momentum in your business It was all a so vague and unhelpful, but also Just if you’re a perfectionist and you have that all or nothing mindset if you’re scared of judgment if you have a hard time failing Especially if you have a hard time publicly and this is so many of my clients are like i’m not really someone who’s ever failed Like you have put, and this is the classic perfectionist thing to do, you put yourself in situations where you will succeed.
[00:03:06] If you think you’re going to be bad at it subconsciously, you don’t do it in the first place. If you can’t do it well, you don’t want to do it at all. And so what will happen is, when you get to entrepreneurship, where failure is a requirement for you to be able to grow a business, It means if you’re following this advice of like, yeah, like failure is important and like, just show up and put yourself out there and tell your friends and family about it and, you know, give it a go.
[00:03:29] Like, oh my God, I could not do that in the slightest when I started my business. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. I was so scared of being judged. I was debilitated by that fear of judgment. I felt like such an imposter. I felt like, who did I think I was? I was never going to be able to be successful, but I deeply knew that I could be.
[00:03:46] And that was And so many of our PGSEs can relate to this, where you deeply, deeply believe in yourself and your capabilities and what’s possible for you. And yet you have the fear and the doubt and the worry that maybe you’ll never make it there. And that is just because you’re feeling behind, because you don’t have momentum, because no one has taught you how to create momentum as a perfectionist entrepreneur.
[00:04:10] If you’re someone who has an easy time failing, picking yourself back up, keeping yourself moving, you don’t need to listen to this series. If you’re someone who tends to have a bit of a shame spiral or you tend to not actually go all in or you’re a complete over preparer and you exhaust yourself with over preparing because you’re so scared of failing, you’re so scared of disappointing anyone, you’re so scared of doing it wrong or wasting effort, this series is for you.
[00:04:33] So let’s get into what we are talking about today, which is how to stop treating your business like a hobby. So with this topic, and again, I just want to be so deeply compassionate if this is you, and It was me for so many years, even though all I wanted, all I wanted was to be full time in my business.
[00:04:54] Like that was what I wanted. And yet I was so scared I’d never be able to make it that I didn’t even want to admit to myself. And it’s so interesting to think about it, how it shows up that it’s like these two contradictory ways of being. So on one hand, I was trying to squeeze in working on my business whenever I could.
[00:05:14] So I started my business when I was a uni student. So when I was meant to be studying, I’d be working on my business. I’d be listening to business podcasts on the way to uni, on the way back from uni, on the way to work, on the way back from work. Like, you know, When I was cleaning up at home, like all the time, all I thought about, all I listened to was anything business related.
[00:05:34] I was constantly thinking about my business and working on graphics and different ideas that I had. I was really, really, really, I wanted nothing more. then to not have to become a lawyer or work in finance because I was studying law and finance and I remember having this goal. I was like, I want to be full time in my business by the time I graduate, which was July, 2015.
[00:05:57] And I was just like, I believe it could be possible. And I don’t really know how, but I like just wanting to kind of hold onto that. And yet, because I treated my business like a hobby, because I, even though I was so busy working on it, I was just really in this mindset. Of like, well, I’ll be fully committed to my business once it’s successful and like I felt it’s so interesting to even think about like I felt so committed but I wasn’t doing the things required and that can be a hard pill to swallow because I was working so damn hard and maybe you are too.
[00:06:35] My guess is that you are so For me, what it meant was I wasn’t in any position to go full time in my business come 2015 in July when I graduated, I hadn’t made a single cent. I didn’t have anything for sale. Like there was literally no way that I could make an income. I had a blog, so I, I was wanting to have an online course.
[00:06:56] I didn’t have that yet. I hadn’t had the courage to create that yet. I hadn’t taken the action thanks to my perfectionism to create that yet. So I didn’t have that. I didn’t have any ads on my website. I didn’t want to be salesy about that. I didn’t even have that much traffic on my website. So I wouldn’t have made an income from that.
[00:07:13] That would have been sufficient to sustain me. I just like, I wasn’t doing the key things that I needed to be doing. I was treating it like a hobby, like, Oh, I get to work on these graphics and like write these amazing blog posts. That also I put so much pressure on myself to write perfectly. And then it was really hard to post consistently.
[00:07:32] So I’d do like one post every three months. And then because I hadn’t posted for so long, there was so much pressure to actually do the perfect post because I’d been so quiet. So I better come back with a bang. And I just actually. Even though I was so busy on it, I wasn’t actually doing the things that I needed to be doing to build a business.
[00:07:52] And in those early years, and I want to say this, I want to make sure you hear this. If you have been treating your business like a hobby, and maybe you’ve had a lot of businesses you’ve treated like a hobby, you’ve been jumping from one thing to the next. If that has been you, And you’re either working in your business a lot or you’re not working on it that much, but you’re just squeezing it around anything else you can and just trying to figure out a time to work on it.
[00:08:13] That has compounded for me. And it might not have compounded as much and created momentum for me. Like I didn’t have that momentum until after I started to treat my business like a real business, even though it couldn’t yet support me and wasn’t yet making a single dollar. I didn’t actually have that momentum until after I stopped treating it like a hobby.
[00:08:33] But that time wasn’t completely wasted. And so I don’t want you to be feeling bad about that time. If you’ve been like, well, I’ve had a hobby business for 10 years now, that’s not a problem. You will have valuable lessons and experiences that you can take from that time that will begin compounding even more quickly when you start treating your business like a real business.
[00:08:57] And when you’re able to be in that identity of like, Even though this isn’t supporting me yet, even though it’s not making the money I want to be making, this is actually a real feasible business that could support me and my family or whoever else you want to support, your parents. It could support me full time and be my full time thing.
[00:09:18] That just making that shift means that all the time you spend in hobby mode will compound relatively quickly. And so it’s not a waste, it’s not a bad thing, but I just want to make sure that you are able to change your posture and to understand what it means to be treating your business like a real business, rather than treating it like a hobby.
[00:09:42] So a few signs that you are treating your business like a hobby. Let’s get into it a bit more. So the first thing is that you are trying to squeeze business stuff in around everything else. And sometimes it doesn’t even happen at all. So this is especially related to perfectionists. Well, for so many reasons, but a big one is people pleasing.
[00:10:03] And this is what I used to do. So when I was a uni student, so I had my uni timetable and like that. But I also had friends. I also had a boyfriend, my now husband, Steve. I had things like social commitments, whatever, health and fitness goals. And so business, even though I thought about it more than anything else.
[00:10:23] in terms of where I put my action, it was actually the lowest priority. And I still spent like a good amount of time editing my Pinterest graphics and like fiddling this up. But in terms of like spending time on the actual things that would build a business, like having a way to make money, making decisions and moving myself forward, things like that, taking action on the things that will create a business that I was giving that the lowest priority.
[00:10:50] And so what would happen, for example. And this even happened, I needed to work on this once I left my full time job and then I was available. And for me, actually, I’d say really when I had the most momentum and really had that feeling was after I left my full time job, though I did have to create a certain amount of momentum to do that, but after I left that full time job and I had more time, that was when I really had to do this work on not treating it like a hobby.
[00:11:17] Because we kind of assume like once you, uh, like, It makes sense in some way that we think about it of like well, okay If i’m working a full time job, then like yeah, it is a hobby It’s like I can’t really spend much time on it But then once I went I left my full time job and I went into my part time job and I had more time I was like, oh I can see the work I need to do here Like it made it so obvious and i’ve heard from so many perfectionists as well Who have gone full time in their business and maybe their business is Supporting them financially or not, but they have a lot more time for whatever reason, or maybe they’re on maternity leave or whatever.
[00:11:52] They have more time and they aren’t doing with that time. Maybe the kids have returned to school or whatever. And they’re like, Oh, I have more time. And I thought that would fix the problem. And it actually hasn’t. And that Um, and I a big realization for me. I thought that once I’m full time in my business or at least not working a full time job.
[00:12:11] And for me, my part time job was only a few hours in the late afternoon. So I had pretty much the full day until 3pm to work on my business. And that’s when I work best, like up until that point at 3pm, I hit a wall. So I was like, cool. I basically am full time in my business. And I came up against so much perfectionism that I needed to work on.
[00:12:29] And this was a big one, like shifting into treating the business like a real business. rather than treating it like this hobby project. And so what happened for me once I left my full time job and I had most days free is that I would have a lot of requests from friends who were shift workers and different things like weren’t working nine to five.
[00:12:52] Basically anyone who was free in my life who wasn’t Working during the nine to five hours that I had been or like family members and things like that Like people asking me like, hey, do you want to go out to lunch? Hey, do you want to catch up on this day? Hey, can you help me move? Hey, can you help me with this like all those different requests and for a lot of it?
[00:13:09] I was like, yeah, I can i’m actually free which is great. I’ve left my full time job. And so what I would do Is I would deprioritize the business and I’d be like, well, yeah, technically I am free. So I would shuffle it all around to fit whatever requests have been made for me. I wouldn’t even say back to the person, like, actually, I’m not available at that time.
[00:13:32] Could you do this other time instead? I just literally like, well, they said that’s what works for them. So I have to accommodate that. Such perfectious people pleasing 101. And so a big part of this shift for me of actually treating my business like a real business was the same way that if someone, when I was in my accounting job, if they’re like, do you want to meet up for lunch?
[00:13:51] I was like, well, no, I’m at work. Sorry. I’ll have to do another day. I wasn’t like, Oh yeah, let me just ask my boss if I could take a three hour break today. It’s like, no, I actually have this commitment that’s really important to me because I want to keep my job. And so I’m going to show up to work. And so I started treating my business like that and power planning.
[00:14:09] Once I developed that, Really helped with that so much Because when I didn’t have a clear plan about what I was doing and when I was doing it Then it was very easy to just say yes to everyone else and just be like, well I’ll just squeeze it in here and there But that was a big thing. So I just want to invite you to think about that This is something we coached a lot inside pgsd is the Fear of disappointing others, friends, family, clients, customers, followers, those people pleasing tendencies that we have often stop us from treating our business like a real business.
[00:14:41] Even when it comes to things like refund policies, pricing, that when we’re in this hobby mentality. That we don’t actually allow ourselves to create a real business. And we don’t allow ourselves because of that to actually feel successful or to feel powerful in the business. It kind of feels like, Oh, I have this, this cute hobby thing that I do in my spare time.
[00:15:02] Even if it’s your full time thing, it’s so easy if you don’t intentionally do this work to shift this mindset that you end up. full time in your business and have it still feeling like a hobby and you’re still treating it like a hobby and people pleasing. And when my people pleasing others, we are letting ourselves down and that doesn’t feel good.
[00:15:20] And that’s probably not why you want to decide a business to continuously let yourself down. So this is something really important to be thinking about. Again, we work on it a lot inside PGSE. Another sign is that you’re inconsistent and that really when you’re showing up, it’s It’s based on your emotions and what you do want to do and what you don’t want to do.
[00:15:40] And it really is like how you would approach a hobby is like, Oh, do I feel like playing tennis today or not? Do I feel like doing some art today or not? Do I feel like reading my book today or not? And that because you are doing a hobby. for enjoyment. If you don’t feel like you get enjoyment from it, it’s like, well, okay, I’m not going to do it.
[00:16:00] But when it comes to business and I’m all for working in a really aligned intuitive way, I personally love that. I love that so much. So I’m not saying here, and I’m definitely not, I mean, perfectionists, we don’t need any more forcing ourselves to do things we don’t want to do. Like I do not teach you how to force yourself to do things you don’t want to do, but I do teach you how to follow things with.
[00:16:23] of how to follow through with things that you do want to do that in the moment you might not feel like doing but your future self will thank you for. Something that is actually aligned but might be a little uncomfortable because of a perfectionist thought or some other reason, how to actually take action on that.
[00:16:39] So if you are treating your business like a hobby, You are just very much too heavily on that side of only doing things when you feel motivated, only doing things when you actually want to do them. Or, and this is a big way it comes up, say for example, you wanting to do Instagram reels and you’re like, Oh, well, I’m going to edit all the videos myself.
[00:16:57] Cause I actually really like editing. Even though it takes you two hours to edit a reel and that is two hours that you are not spending doing something else for your business and you could pay someone 10 to edit that reel for you and you could learn the skill of how to actually delegate it to them so they edit it not even like worse than you because that’s what we think like okay well I can settle for things being worse.
[00:17:21] Maybe no, they’ll edit it better than you better than you quicker than you have time to do other things. But if you’re like, well, I actually really like editing video. So I’m just going to keep that on my plate, even though it’s stopping me from showing up in another area. And this is typically why we do it because if you’re busy editing a reel, you’re not having to be publishing the reel.
[00:17:41] You can just be editing. polishing and tweaking and perfecting and perfecting and perfecting. And it feels emotionally safe to do that. I get it. I totally get it. I know what that’s like, not just in my brain, but in my body, I know what that’s like. But if you were choosing what you do in your business really based on like this is, if it was a hobby, this is what I want to do.
[00:18:01] I want to be editing videos all day. Then you are treating it like a hobby and it will continue to be a hobby. Unless you are literally a video editor for your business. If you’re not a video editor as the thing that people are paying you for, I’m not saying you have to not be the one to do it, but you just need to be on the lookout for where you’re like, okay, I’m doing this because I actually really, really, really enjoy this bit.
[00:18:26] I enjoy recording podcast episodes, but I don’t let myself just do that all day, every single day, because there are other things required to build a business. I’ve also delegated out a lot of things. So I get to only do the things about podcasting that I enjoy, which is amazing, but it requires more vulnerability.
[00:18:45] Cause when I was doing the backend stuff, then I got to hide. I don’t get to hide as much when I know this is going to be published. I’m not going to be the last one editing it. I’m not going to even edit it really at all. So anyway, all that to say, just be paying attention to. When you are choosing what to work on, is it really heavily based on what you enjoy doing?
[00:19:04] Basically what you would be doing if it’s a hobby. The next thing that I want to talk about is when you are, and this is kind of a flavor of the same thing, you are getting stuck for months on a certain decision and wanting to have it be just right or just jumping from thing to thing to thing based on what’s really inspiring in that moment.
[00:19:23] And both of those things are really a sign that you are treated like a hobby. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck on a decision for months, That is you treating it like a hobby. That it’s optional to make that decision. Even if, and I know it’s so frustrating because you’ll be trying so damn hard to make that decision, to get that clarity on the niche, or the messaging, or the name, or whatever it is that you’re trying to figure out, or the social media platform to be on, or the target market.
[00:19:49] But that is a hobby approach to business. If it was a real business, you would make the decision and move on. Because there are people to help. There are things to do. There are, if you had a real business, a bigger real business, there are employees to pay. We can’t afford for you to sit around for months and months and months and not have a decision and not be able to move forward at all in a direction.
[00:20:15] And there are so many ways that I did this in my business. that I just really wanted to feel like I had everything perfect before I took action. And I talked about the misconception relating to this in the last episode about the fear of wasting effort and just being so scared of putting effort in the wrong direction.
[00:20:34] So scared of putting all this effort into a social media platform or into a niche or into a name and then you do all this stuff and then you decide actually later on I didn’t want to do that thing. The only way, the only way you can ever have that realization that something did or didn’t work is to actually do something.
[00:20:53] And it’s so comfortable. This is one of the biggest ways that you probably need to overcome perfectionism. And this is what I teach and there’s like if you’re if this is you there’s nothing wrong with you There is nothing wrong with you You just need to learn how to release your perfection and heartbreak in this area So your business cannot be in a standstill and so it can actually grow but you need to learn how to make decisions You need to learn how to overcome the fear of wasting effort That has you being indecisive or jumping from one decision to the next.
[00:21:24] Decision making is a key skill in entrepreneurship. That doesn’t mean you have to make decisions in every single moment. Like I personally like to make a decision for a big one, make a decision, sit on it for two days, sleep on it, feel it out. And then in two days, that’s when I’ll be like, okay, this is the decision I want to make, or actually I need to make some adjustments.
[00:21:44] But when, especially if it’s anything more than A month, two months, you’ll know if this is you, you’ll 100 percent know if this is you, as I’m saying this, but if you are constantly jumping around, looking for the perfect thing, getting yourself stuck on different decisions, then that is you treating your business like a hobby.
[00:22:04] Especially two as well, and that’s This is just another way I guess another sign if you are someone that and this is like what I was sharing right exactly what I Was sharing before if you are someone who is really doing a lot of work on the back end things in your business systems processes admin things Replying to comments or DMS checking emails It’s updating website copy, things like that, especially as well, if you’re creating content for social media and you don’t publish it, or at least you don’t publish most of it, or maybe publish it after it’s sat in draft mode for a month.
[00:22:42] But if you have a Google doc of Instagram captions that are 80 percent written, that’s fine. And you haven’t published them and you are, if you don’t have anything for sale or if you do have something for sale, but you never mention it, or if you do, it’s like, Hey, by the way, I have this thing and I’m not really sure if it’s any good, but maybe you’ll like it.
[00:23:02] So DM me like that kind of vibe when you’re selling, that that is treating it like a hobby. And there is emotional work that is required as a perfectionist to be able to confidently sell. And I’ll teach you that in PTSD. But it’s just knowing that when. Like it’s, and again, it’s a hard pill to swallow sometimes because we’re like, uh, I just like, for me, I was like, I’m trying so damn hard to build a business.
[00:23:27] And I want nothing more. I remember listening so many times. I’d find these different podcast episodes from some of my mentors about being able to go full time or make six figures and I’d listen over and over and over and over and over again just to instill the possibility in my mind and try to figure out what it was I needed to do.
[00:23:45] But the reality was that I didn’t know what I needed to do, but I wasn’t doing it because of the perfectionism, the selling, putting myself out there, showing up consistently, not perfectly, not having to be every day. But actually showing up like it was a real business. And this is the final thing I want to say in this episode to leave you with, that we can be in this mindset of like, well, once it’s a real business, then I’ll treat it like a real business.
[00:24:12] And this can show up if, especially like, Deprioritizing when you work on the business, if someone else wants to hang out with you, like, okay, well, I’m technically free. And like, once it’s a real business, well, then I’d say, yeah, I have my business to work on, but until then I need to prioritize everyone else.
[00:24:25] And like, just things like that, where we’re like, well, I’ll invest in it once it’s a real business. I’ll put more time or effort or thought into it when it’s a real business. Like all those things that we think like, well, when the business has proven to me, it’s worth the investment, then I’ll show up fully.
[00:24:44] And it doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t work that way out. There’s Earl Nightingale. who was a figure in the personal development world, a great speaker. And he has this saying of like, when we’re like, um, Oh, now I’m going to mess it up. Like we want to have the fire and then we’ll put in the wood into the fire.
[00:25:04] And I’ve just butchered that, but hopefully you get what I mean. That we’re like, once it’s successful, then I’ll do the work. And at the same time, we’re so busy trying and trying and trying, but we’re not doing those key things. Like that was a PGSTM. Who came in and she had a YouTube audience. She had been showing up on YouTube, but she wanted to do an online course about sock knitting.
[00:25:28] I’ve interviewed her on the podcast before. She wanted to create an online course. She had invested in creating an online course, like a program to help her do that. And she had to put it on pause because she couldn’t get herself to actually do it. She couldn’t. Emotionally because of the perfectionism get herself to actually work on it.
[00:25:44] And there was also like she had comments she needed to reply to like there was so many things and she was working all the Time she wasn’t taking breaks. She was saying it was just like chaos Like she’d feel behind before she even opened her eyes in the morning. She couldn’t take any vacations without a laptop and that she was treating her business like a hobby, even though she was in a place where she had made money in her business, but she was still in that hobby mindset, which meant when there was a moneymaking activity to be created and one that would also create an impact and help a lot of people because of that perfectionism, she wasn’t actually creating momentum in that way, in that area.
[00:26:24] And it meant, that until she got into PGSD and she learned power planning, she learned how to treat her business like a real business, and she actually not just intellectually understood that, but she stepped into that. She was able very quickly to launch that course and it was very successful and to just be in such a different place in her business, like she was able to create momentum very quickly.
[00:26:48] Because of this mindset shift and then taking action accordingly showing up and it’s going to be a little bit uncomfortable in the beginning. And we really support you with this in BGSE, like navigating that discomfort of showing up for your business before it really feels like a real business so that you can turn it into a real business.
[00:27:09] If you are waiting for your business to be doing better before you’re willing to do the things you need to do and put yourself out there, you’ll be waiting forever. And I really want you to hear that, that I know we can just think, but, but if I just make this perfect decision, if I just figure this thing out, then everything will fall into place.
[00:27:30] And I can definitely help you make great decisions and move yourself forward, but you need to actually change your posture. and start treating your business like a real business. That means showing up for your business. I’m going to be talking, I think it’ll be in the next episode about momentum time, what this is, how many hours you need to spend on your business per week at minimum, why it’s not as many as you think it is, and how to actually prioritize that time.
[00:28:00] And this is a big thing about it being a priority. Making your business a priority doesn’t mean it has to be the biggest thing you spend time on. And that’s a misconception we perfectionists can definitely have is that we think if something’s a top priority for me or something that’s very important to me, it has to take up a lot of my time.
[00:28:20] And so we’re scared to treat the business like a real business because we have time commitments elsewhere. But shifting into really seeing your business as a real business is understanding you can be all in on your business and it doesn’t have to take all of your time. You could do that in only a few hours a week.
[00:28:37] It’s not about the amount of hours that you’re spending. It’s about the mentality that you’re approaching it with, what you choose to focus on in that time. And are you setting yourself up in a way that will actually allow you to create momentum? Or are you putting effort into so many different things?
[00:28:54] You’re not really sure exactly what you’re working on. You’re squeezing it in. Maybe you’re trying to work in the morning, but then you keep snoozing your alarm. Maybe you’re trying to work in the evening after work, but you’re too exhausted. Maybe if your partner’s like, Hey, are you free? You’re like, yep, yep, yep. I’m free. Nothing, nothing to do over here.
[00:29:08] But actually you’d love to be like, Hey, I would really actually love to spend the day working on my business. And we can have our quality time another time. So just really being able to treat your business like a real business is so, so powerful, so crucial. So if you’re making that mindset mistake, if you have been treating your business like a hobby, this is your invitation to start treating it like a real business because it is.
[00:29:34] You have the foundations of a real business. Even if you choose to have a completely different target market, completely different name, Completely different direction. You have the foundations of what will soon compound. If you treat your business, the business you have now, not withholding from it until it’s perfect and then you’ll put in the effort, but the business you have now, if you start treating it like a real business, it will become one. [00:30:01] And if you don’t, it will never be. It’s never going to prove itself to you first. You’ve got to lead the way. So with that said, I hope you’re enjoying this series so far and I will talk to you in the next episode where we are talking about three steps to creating momentum in your business without burning out.
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