As you live your solopreneur life, you will encounter failure, stress, negative people, and hardships in your business that are out of your control. Most of the time, it will make you hate what you do to earn hard cash and give up on it.
To avoid this and persevere in achieving solopreneurial success, you must learn to enjoy every action you take in or out of the business. Here are effective ways on how to do that.
1. Focus on the long-term benefits of being a solopreneur
Instead of thinking you’re a solopreneur because it’s a temporary necessity of making money, think about being a businessman for early retirement and financial freedom in the future.
2. Find what you can learn from running a business
Not every person on the planet has the opportunity and desire to run a business or own a brand. These kinds of people will live their life with limited knowledge of the world. But you as a solopreneur will gain commercial knowledge and wisdom. The more you learn, the less ignorant you will be, and the happier you become.
3. Think of being a solopreneur for those you love
Love is a strong source of motivation, inspiration, and happiness. Don’t think about solopreneurship as a “need” to earn money. Think that you’re doing it because you “want” your family and yourself to live a happy and secure life.
4. Enjoy the interaction with customers and clients
No matter the kind of customers or clients you come across, whether they’re kind or irate, enjoy interacting with them. Be happy because the kind ones warm up your soul. Be happy because you learn how to be a better person from the not-so-desirable ones.
5. Always think and say something positive in the business
If you’re facing an effective competitor, don’t say that they’re greedy. Think that they’re highly motivated and creative – two important things in business that every solopreneur should have.
Even if your sales are low and staying in the market is hard, think of it as a challenge for you to step up your game.
6. Learn to love what you don’t
You’ll need to wake up early, eat healthily, stay fit, and get messy to be a successful solopreneur. Most of the time, you’ll dedicate personal schedules just to get things done. There’s nothing you can about it even if you complain.
But if you learn to love what you hate, you’ll just laugh to yourself, shrug, and say, “Well, I guess this is my hobby and who I am now.”
7. Adopt a craftsman’s mindset
Working a day job and working extra hours at home for side hustling makes you question yourself, “What do I really want in life?” This could then lead you to identify all the things you dislike which makes your happiness plummet.
Whereas if you adopt a craftsman’s mindset, you avoid complaining and focus on improving the quality of your work. The more you keep on improving your craft’s quality, the sooner you enjoy what you do.
8. Practice hard in being an efficient businessperson
So you’ve transformed yourself into a crafty solopreneur. The next thing you need to do is find ways to make quality work in a faster and easier manner. When you’re done with this challenge, you can now proudly call yourself a master of your niche.
The first time I was called an adept businesswoman, writer, and real estate attorney, I was even more deeply in love with what I do. Today, every aspect of my career and everything I do for it are things that bring me enjoyment.
A positive, resourceful, and focused mind is the key to happiness in all aspects of life. In business, it is the #1 secret for success. All you have to do to achieve this mental attitude is to start molding your head until problem-solving, improving, and mastery is your default way of thinking.
