How to Drop The Employee Mindset so You Can Fully Step into Your Business
In this episode of the Free and Fearless podcast, I cover a few ways in which I see business owners are still operating as employees even if they are actually the boss. I’ll drop a few shifts you can make to ditch the employee mindset and start thinking and acting like a CEO. Plus some tips on how to fully step into your business so you can go full-time, increase your revenue or just see more of its potential. Tune into the episode below: Show Notes: * [02:08] Why total time freedom isn’t for everyone * [03:28] What to do if you want to grow your business but miss how organized things were at your day job * [05:17] The truth about revenue growth * [08:36] Examples of high-value business activities * [10:23] Growth mindset vs fixed mindset * [11:05] One thing many entrepreneurs do that’s actually corporate thinking * [11:57] Who’s really making the rules * [12:42] How a business owner starts the workday vs an employee * [13:54] How to know if something’s wrong in your business Mentioned: * Bold Business School Waitlist * $100M Offers, book by Alex Hormozi How to Drop The Employee Mindset Today I want to talk about something that I see way too often. It’s about people who are in their first year in business, or second or third, who aren’t at the level they wanna be even if they have a regular income online. They do the work, they often hustle more than those with a profitable business actually, and yet, nothing seems to work. There are different factors at play, but most of them fall into one category – these people run their business with an employee mindset. This is dangerous because it means you’ll never reach your potential, what you create won’t be sustainable, and you won’t really be able to enjoy the unlimited freedom and income that self-employment can give. Here are some ways to stop thinking like an employee: 1. Managing your newly earned time freedom. The first thing I notice that’s really typical for the employee mindset is that new business owners don’t know what to do with all these hours they have in their day. Let’s say you’ve just quit your job and went full-time in your business. There’s no one telling you when to start work, how many hours to do it and what to work on. You take all the decisions and have all the responsibility, and that can be mentally and physically exhausting. One of the biggest perks of being self-employed is reclaiming your time. You now have time freedom, what are you gonna do with it?