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How Starting Your First Business Will Change You As A Person

It’s Monday morning. The all-too-familiar sound of your smartphone’s alarm penetrates the deafening silence with a vociferous demeanour. Typically, a resentful tug-of-war snooze ritual ensues, where your ruthless electronic nemesis inevitably ends up victorious. You hate this recurring episode with such a passion, that anxiety and apprehension invade your Sunday evening, sometimes pillaging the entire day and leaving Saturday as the lone, meager survivor representing the latter part of your work/life balance.

However this Monday morning is different. The once obnoxious reminder that your unquenched thirst for rest has been abruptly disregarded, is now a refreshing and alluring melody seducing you out of bed with the promise of exciting opportunities in the day ahead.

The life of an entrepreneur certainly has its drawbacks. Financial stability and security are unforgivingly correlated to each and every decision you make, and yet sometimes even the most exceptional and valiant efforts can fail to bear fruit. This is heavily contrasted with the path to remuneration that you were perhaps naively accustomed to during traditional contractual employment.

Mediocrity and complacency are unwelcome adversaries in the world of sole proprietorship (and indeed the upper echelons of limited companies, if you are fortunate enough to afford the implementation of a hierarchy). In the spirit of rationality disguised as ambition, such traits are happily relegated to hobbies and other endeavours which your business takes precedence over. Without detracting too heavily from other personal goals and commitments, you are simply acknowledging the logical breadwinner and thereby prioritising it.

Ironically, the romanticised weekend which you longed for impatiently, greeted with euphoria and nostalgically departed with such cyclical precision in your previous life, is now very much like any other day, if not an inconvenient obstacle on your path to success. The paradigm shift has occurred.

Ultimately, it’s all a matter of perspective. The weekend’s activities haven’t become any less anticipated or desirable. Simply put, entrepreneurship has reinvigorated you by reinventing the working week and all that it represents; allowing you to relish Monday mornings like never before.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Vasco Dimitroff .