Obviously one of the great advantages of being your own boss is choosing your own hours.
In addition to the convenience, it’s also helpful to clarify what hours you will work in order to focus your efforts during those times and then NOT work outside of those times. That’s how you can have a life 😉
Of course sometimes the world (clients, family, circumstances, etc.) will require you to work outside of your normal hours, but those instances are rare.
The idea is: Design your workdays and hours, and then outside of those times live the rest of your life fully. Don’t get sucked into the trap of working everyday all the time.
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It’s well known that self employed people work longer hours for less money. That is done in the belief that the investment will grow the business and this usually works in the short term.
The danger is that you become the business.
What do you intend to do with the business long term? Sell it? If so, that you need to be able to extract yourself out of the business and not reduce the value. A failure to do this will mean that you build your own dungeon. The business will have no value without you and thus you are trapped.
Understanding this from the outset means that you can plan to delegate and sidestep to reduce your role to that of a name.