Why You Should Start Your Own Business
I am so excited to be talking with you today about how to start your business.I have poured so much into the content that is behind this blog the podcast and the How to Start A Business Online course.
And ultimately I'm just so excited. The reason why is because it takes me back to when I first started my business over 10 years ago and it's so exciting to be able to have that dream and to be able to have that vision and being able to write things down and get ideas. And as you're moving throughout life you get new ideas and say “Oh! I can implement that in my business and all these wonderful things. And it just brings me back to that moment in that place of excitement and hope and desire and I love it. I love it.
When you’re starting a new business, some of the thoughts that can go through your head are:
Why should I start my business?
Should I do this?
Should I not do this?
I'm kind of confused.
How do I get to the next step?
I have all of these plans but I don't really know how to get it to move forward.
I don't know how to get it to market.
I don't know how to get clients and customers
By all of these thoughts coming and going in a moment, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and maybe a little fearful that things won't work out. And what I want to tell you today is No! Stop! Stop right where you are! Pause. Take a minute.
I want to tell you today why you SHOULD start your business, why you should start your business.
I want to give you a reminder of yes you're doing this! You're moving forward. I'm going to hold your hand and we're going to walk through the door together OK? The door of you owning your own business and following the plan that God has put it on the inside of your heart if he is the one who put it in your heart.
So I know that many of you may have had this idea in your head for years that you wanted to get off the ground. Yet oftentimes you feel like you slump back into complacency after things get a little inconvenient right? And then you get into this loop of discouragement where you get motivated and you're like yeah I'm gonna do it. This is the beginning of the year. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna knock it out or this is the middle of the year. Maybe this is summer for you and you really want to get things going maybe you're out of school or you're not having to worry about your regular schedule. But then you get into this place where it's like okay I don't have this information. Oh man I don't know how to do this or I don't know how to get clients or I don't know how to get customers and you start to feel discouraged about yourself. And I have been there. Trust me as a person who has started several multiple businesses. I get it every time you start a business. It's always the same feeling right? Is this gonna work? Am I investing correctly into this business? Am I wasting my time and my wasting my money? It's all the same. We all go through it as entrepreneurs. And for those who are just getting into this whole business landscape and into this entrepreneurial space maybe you've never seen someone that you know build a sustainable business or maybe you're scared that things will actually take off in your business right? And you won't have the bandwidth to sustain it right? Either way whichever place you fall in whichever category you fall in today if God has placed this burden on your heart to start your business then you need all capital letters. You absolutely need to start today. And we're gonna talk about the top three reasons. Why you need to start two days. So make sure you get a pin in a paper so that you can write some of these things down. First number one job security is a myth. Oh my gosh like I feel this in my shoulders in my bones. Job security is a myth. Why? Okay when I was growing up I was told that the three main industries that will always provide job security are healthcare education and the government. So I was always told you know if you worked in any of these areas if you were a doctor if you were a teacher if you were you know a government worker then you would always have job security. You would never have to worry about not having a job or you know being fired right? Now the rationale was you know healthcare people are always needing to be taken care of. People always need surgeries so on and so forth. I probably don't need to explain that to you you know that right? Doctors and nurses traditionally do pretty well in terms of salary and they do have some longevity in their career. Okay cool. Education education you know there's always gonna be children for the most part right? And children will always most likely need to be educated. Okay cool. There's always gonna be kids that are going to college. Okay cool I get it. I understand. Cool. Government same thing. The government is there to kind of control not control people but to be able to manage the population and make sure everything is flowing smoothly and support the population and things like that. So because everyone is paying tax dollars those tax dollars go into the government therefore you're likely to have a job right? Okay cool cool cool cool cool. However the reason why this is a myth is because if you look at the recent events of oh my gosh every single one of those industries that I just mentioned was severely impacted. They were probably the top three out of every other industry that was impacted right? Healthcare I mean if you were a doctor or nurse into the year oh my gosh like what are we even saying right? And it's not enough to just have a paycheck it's not enough to just have a job. If you're stressed if you have no fulfillment in your work can you imagine being a doctor or a nurse and not really having the genuine passion for it get your stuck in ? Like I can't not imagine. What is like education in the year of ? Can you imagine being a teacher in the year of ? Some of you listening might be teachers and I can't imagine what it was like in the year to be a teacher having to adapt to teaching online making sure that your students have their laptops some students were not attending school at all because it's like what were the checks and balances? I mean was just like what is actually going on? I mean same thing with the government the government because there is at least in the United States but I would dare to say likely in most countries no one knew what was going on so no one knew what decision to make right? So imagine being in a place or in a position where your office has to make decisions based on the current events but you don't know how this is going to work out because you've never endured a pandemic before. Like can you imagine the stress and the burden that comes with that? And so yes each of these categories each of these three areas do provide job security in some sense however what is it worth when you're stressed when your job is just completely turned upside down because of a recent event? So that's one thing that I want you to think about and I want you to think about how secure is that job when a natural a global pandemic takes place right? Which it did recently okay? Now that's number one job security is a myth for all of those reasons that I just mentioned okay? And if we're really talking about job security are we we can really get into a conversation about idols right? Are we looking at your job as an idol? Are you looking to your jobs? You provide for you rather than God especially if you're a Christian that's a whole another topic for a whole another day but I just wanna throw that out there okay? The number two reason why you need to start your own business is so that you can have flexibility in your schedule and more time for God more time for God and family and things that you enjoy. Listen my pastor said it this past Sunday life is about more than just gaining a paycheck. God wanted you to do more with your time and with your resources within with your talent and with your skill and with your wisdom that he has given you he wants you to do more than just gain a paycheck right? And really think about when you're at your job not saying that jobs are bad I mean jobs aren't bad some people are meant to be in specific places but I'm talking specifically to you who you know that you are an entrepreneur you know that you are called to lead in the space of entrepreneurship and you know that God has placed that burden on you. You have more you got work to do okay? You got work to do baby. And there is no time for you to waste in you know spending your time giving your talents to someone else. What comes to my mind is casting your pearls to swine for them to trample on it because if you're I believe if you're operating outside of what God will is for you you're not setting yourself up for the best success okay? One scripture that I wanted to really look at and think about is Matthew chapter verse which says "For where your treasure is "there your heart will also be." So where is your treasure? I talked about this in the last point is your treasure in your job security quote unquote quote unquote job security is your treasure in the money that comes with your job is your treasure in your family right? Is your treasure in God? Is your treasure in you know the things of God serving your community supporting the people who you are supposed to support you know using the talents and the skill all of the talents and the skills and the gifts that God has given you right? So really think about how God wants you to be spending your time and you know does your entire life revolve around your job or getting money? And if so it's time to cut that out. Like we're in it's a whole new year like we don't have time for that we're not playing no games and God is not playing games with us. So let's go ahead and get to where we need to get to in order to do what we're supposed to do so that we can under God with what he's given us okay? So that's number two. Number one just as a reminder of why you should of why you need to start your own business. Number one job security is a myth. Number two you would be making more time for God for family and for the things that you enjoy as you are starting your business okay? Number three number three reason on why you should start your own business is your health. Oh my goodness your health is so important. And a lot of times we don't realize how important our health is until it is taken from us right? I'll share my story on how this impacted me when I was working in corporate America. You know I and I was also like you know like I mentioned in point two I was also one of those people who was working a job but knew good and well that God had called me to something completely different right? So I was working in corporate America I was working for a healthcare company. And you know I had this I guess you could say luxurious position I had this amazing title as a project manager and I was managing projects and leading teams and you know the company was you know just so great right? You know and nothing against the company at all. But you know in terms of what they offered you would think one would think that oh they're giving you all the perks I mean they gave you they gave me an onboarding bonus they said oh here's a thousand dollars just go. We want you to work from home and we want you to you know take care here's a thousand dollars you just go buy anything that you need for your office equipment or anything like that. Like what? So I mean in terms of the perks that come with working at a corporation this place had it right? And so you know I get into the job and I'm doing the things and all of this going well so far which it really wasn't because even when I was in training I was like okay halfway through training I'm like what are we even talking about? I don't I don't even know. So as time went on I began to become more responsible for different projects and different teams and one would say that I was even progressing quite quickly right? Considering that I had only been there for anywhere from maybe four to six months at the time I was after only four or six months I was leading my own projects I was managing several different teams I was managing multi-million dollar projects and it was just like wow you know it was amazing that I was able to have that opportunity to you know lead on those projects and still it was affecting my health in such a negative way. Behind the scenes y'all I was having panic attacks I was depressed I was anxious all the time. It was a hot mess. It was a hot mess. I mean it there were days where I literally did not want to get out of bed and open my computer because what seemed like it was a blessing at first being able to work from home it almost seemed like it turned into a curse because my work was in my home it was there. It was there was no escaping it because it was in my home. Now this was during you know of course during and you know we were still very much so in somewhat of the throws of the pandemic and so you know I was inside for most of the time I couldn't leave and so what ended up happening? I started traveling a lot I started calling off a lot I started taking more PTO which we were supposed to have unlimited PTO but they were like "Angeles you've only been here for six months and you've already taken off a month worth of PTO." Like what are you even doing? (laughs) So by my actions you could tell and you can see that I wasn't really invested I was I was stressed I was burnt out and it wasn't because I was overworking it was because number one I was not being obedient to what God had told me to do. God called me way way back years ago to be an entrepreneur and you know I listened to the voices of others I listened to the voices of those people who would say you know you need to work in health here you need to work in education you need to work in government and those things will need to will be the thing that keeps you stable and keeps you safe in terms of finances and that was all a lie that was all a lie until June of when I started my own bookkeeping business. I started my bookkeeping business in June and for the next couple of months I kind of wallowed I kind of said okay I don't know if this is gonna work I'll just do this on the side until God forced me to quit my job quit my my well-paying job to start my bookkeeping business and go full throttle full time. So I started my business in June I started working on it in June I quit my job in September and I was on my own by November and that story is we're gonna talk about that in another episode I believe it's gonna be episode four where I tell my full story and testimony on how I quit my job so stay tuned for that. But what I will say is that I do not regret it in the slightest and I think see I wish I would have started earlier to be honest I wish that I would have trusted God earlier just to see how much further along my life would be if I trusted in God and trusted His word and took Him at His word when He said that He got me when He said that He has my back when He said that He's not going to let me fail. And so in all of this I really want you to be encouraged on why you need to start your business right now. Don't wait another day you can get started right now. You know it's possible for you to have clients within the next week within the next couple of weeks anything is possible with God. And so I not only want to support you as you are walking in that journey but I want to give you the exact steps that you need to take in order to start your business. It's very simple y'all. It is very simple. And once I got my brain around that I was really able to see how business can continue to grow. There are so many things that are hindering us and that are holding us back from starting the business and really moving in the plan that God has for us. And so I want you to go over to start my business now.com. Again that's startingmybusinessnow.com. That's startingmybusinessnow.com so that you can begin to learn and educate yourself on how to move forward in your business how to take off in your business and really get this thing going today not waiting another day not waiting another month not waiting until everything is just right. I believe there's a scripture that says if you wait for if someone is looking at the clouds waiting for the perfect cloud to come they will never plant right? And so yeah I want that to encourage you today that you can start today. You can start right now. Again the website is startingmybusinessnow.com and I will see you soon.