NOW THAT YOU'RE THE BOSS -- ARE YOU SCARED?

  Written by Maria Miranda on Oct 15, 2009 12:50 am

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Hello Everyone,

Here is Maria Ines again with some information that you will received and apply to your self for good, read it!

One of the most common reasons people give for starting their own business is this: "I want to be my own boss."

Sounds great, right?  No one looking over your shoulder, nobody giving you a nasty look when you show up a couple minutes late, nobody blaming you when things go wrong and taking credit when things go well.

Surprisingly, though, psychologist Colleen Long tells us that this newfound freedom can create feelings of instability and a lack of direction.

Says Long, who specializes in entrepreneurship, "It's the feeling the entrepreneur first gets when he starts any kind of business: the feeling that he's operating a lemonade stand, this low-budget operation that doesn't feel real."

Jim Koch, founder of The Boston Beer Company, agrees.  "The instability is scary.  It feels very uncomfortable because you're in a new setting that doesn't have the order and the structure."

When nobody is actually telling you what to do, how do you decide what to do?  One way is to create the "structure" yourself, and be a tough boss to be sure your new employee— you— sticks with the structure.

In Koch's case, his start-up company had no coffee, computer, telephone, distribution, or formal accounting.  To combat such a complete lack of structure, he set a simple goal for himself: Gain one new customer a day, even if it took him late into the night.

Setting daily, achievable goals is one easy way to impose some structure onto your new workplace.  You might also try:

• Setting consistent hours, including break times, and sticking by them
• Starting each day with a detailed to-do list, and ending the day only when all items are complete
• Rewarding yourself with clear-cut vacation time, during which you completely set your work aside or turn it over to an employee
• Scheduling your weekly tasks or new projects into a calendar; in effect, making "appointments" with yourself to get things done.

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Maria Ines Miranda/Miranda's Essentials Founder

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