When will you feel like a proper business owner? What inputs and outputs will it take? What definitions and ideas have you created around what a proper business owner does? Because these are key to feeling like a proper business owner.
- Is it when you have a certain number of clients?
- Is it when you make a certain amount of money?
- When you have certain amount followers on Facebook?
- Is it knowing what you need to do each day and each week to move your business towards six figures [or multi-six figures or seven figures or even just making $2000 this week]?
- Do you need to take your business seriously? Stepping up and being the CEO of your business. Needing to have meetings with yourself to decide what strategy you are going to pursue next in your wealth acceleration creation journey?
It’s not a number
All sarcasm aside, you already know there’s no magic number to make you feel like a proper business. It won’t happen just happen when you are consistently signing 2 clients a week, or making $5k a month or you have four figures in followers. Or when all of the above happen together.
Having it all sorted is a feeling and you are in control of your feelings. What actions are going to give you the proper business owner feels?
You need to decide what the rules are for you around feeling like and becoming that proper business owner. And to be honest you create the rules and there doesn’t need to be any rules. You can feel like a proper business owner today, in the next 5 minutes or even now. If you choose to feel that way.
But that isn’t particularly useful advice for HOW to start feeling like a proper business owner. So let’s think practically about how you can feel like you are in charge of your business. CEO. Chief. Founder. Proper Business Owner. Whatever you’d like to call yourself.
1. Define
You need to discover what is that ‘feeling’ for you? Give it some detail and definition to take it from a vague concept to something more concrete. Is it:
- how you spend your time
- only working in your zone of genius
- having people supporting or helping you
- feeling in control
- sticking to a plan of daily and weekly actions
- figuring out what you need to nail in order to grow
2. Areas
Once you have expanded your definition of the feeling then think about the different areas of your business where you can create that feeling or activity. What areas are lacking the specific feeling that you can change right now:
- finance and money
- social media and engagement
- your website and SEO
- weekly content
- clients and appointment
- marketing more generally
- systems and processes
3. Create
Now you know what feeling you need to create and the different places you can create it. You need to go and do that. It doesn’t have to be complicated either. Often the simplest solution is where we need to start because it’s the one we can use with the least work.
Some suggestions
- control over your finances > set a weekly bookkeeping date and list out the essential tasks. Commit to that time every week and adopt the good money manager persona.
- knowing what to do everyday > write down ALL the things, ask if they will help you reach your goal, remove any noise and schedule time into your calendar for everything that will help you to reach that achievement.
- having people support you in finishing that website and making it SEOable > check your budget and ask what it’s costing you NOT to have that website sorted. Then ask your business friends if they’d recommend anyone who would be a good fit for you and hire them
- knowing what to post on social media > start an experiment and be curious, pick an aspect, test it and pay attention to see if it works, repeat, repeat and repeat. Remember it will change over time. What you post and works today probably won’t be the same in twelve months.
4. Repeat
It isn’t just one feeling that will have you feeling like a proper business owner. But tackling one thing at a time will make it seem achievable. And it will change and adapt over time. Right now regular help and support might not be in your budget. But maybe at $8k months it will and you can add that string to your CEO bow.
My example. For months I kept trying to force digitised client notes and a complicated follow-up system of gates and automated reminders. But I spent more time managing this than it saved me. I now have a list of clients, when their last session was, any actions and a date to check in with them. Plus I keep my notes on paper in folders. Easy and for now it’s perfect. In time, that will change, maybe my table will become an action list in Asana, maybe I’ll go group training and those reminders will be automated. But I only need to deal with right now.
Finally, what’s makes other people feel like the CEO of their business is, well, their business. It’s tempting to emulate but you could do exactly the same things as them and still not have that feeling. But it’s about your attitude, beliefs and rules about your business. It’s how you think about your role, responsibilities and ownership in the aspects of your business. You can still ask people but use it for inspiration rather than instruction.
So what do you need to do to help you start feeling like a proper business owner?
If you need help in stepping up to your CEO self and becoming that proper business owner then reach out for a free chat.
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