By Mike Johnson
Perhaps the best benefit of working for yourself, rather than working a job, is the personal growth.
Living on your wits, forced to sell something to eat, pushes you to learn skills you’d never tackle under the coddled safety of a corporation propping you up.
Necessity is a mother.
A cold, harsh, survival-of-the-fittest, “no-results, no-eat” mother.
But once you’ve succeeded, you realize this tough love, was the deepest, most fulfilling form of love.
Personal growth is the only permanent, self-sufficient gift in this realm.
Working for yourself requires you to SELL yourself.
You either trade time performing a talented skill yourself, or you trade brain power by creating or buying a money-making system that generates income 24/7/365.
The first is active and requires your presence.
The latter is mostly passive, freeing you from the constraints of geography and work schedule.
Both have their value.
Both require you to prove to others that you are worthy of their "Yes."
So you must sell yourself.
The wise do this by passion, personal power, resume, case study, testimonial and guarantee.
You must remove prospects’ fear, uncertainty and doubt.
This requires you to document the details of why you qualify to be trusted by the customer.
This clarity elevates you above the masses who operate by luck and happenstance.
Your business succeeds.
But more enriching than the self-sufficiency and money is the personal growth.
No one can take that away.
Now you can apply that knowledge and confidence to larger endeavors and bigger dreams.
Your documentation of successes, that was used to sell yourself, now helps you connect the dots of your life, adding clarity to your search to learn just who you really are.
Because what all people eventually learn, after a hard-scrabble life of external efforts, is that the most valuable rewards, are mined with internal efforts.
This universal journey plays out like this:
Develop yourself.
Share yourself.
Document yourself.
Sell yourself.
Understand yourself.
BE yourself.
Enjoy yourself.
Now, if you desire, you're qualified to help others make the same journey.
Not because you say so, because you've LIVED so.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
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