You and I are similar. Not long ago, I was sitting where you are now in that I wanted to break the chokeholds of my job and current life circumstances to live the life of my dreams as a freedom entrepreneur, or freedom-preneur. I wanted to improve, be better, have a fuller life. I wanted that for me, and now I want it for you too - to live the best life possible.
Back then, anyone looking in from the outside would have thought I was successful, happy, and killing it. But the reality is I was dying. My situation was a life of mediocrity. I had a job that (just) paid the bills. I was depressed, angry, and frustrated because I knew I could experience more. I knew I hadn't found my purpose. I wasn't maximizing my potential. I wasn't living with passion. And, I wasn't exploring the gifts of the world. I knew I wasn't fulfilling and experiencing what I was here to do.
The pain of living those chokeholds was intense. It kept me thinking about what it would take to make the money I wanted with less work, more free time, and a better-quality lifestyle. I realized things were blocking me, limiting me, keeping me small... and that we are conditioned into letting these things strangle us. We live in chokeholds that paralyze movement toward living a better life if it means upsetting the system. We are socialized to believe that 'just enough' is what we should have, and not to expect more from life.
I began by taking one small step at a time, learning from the right people who could help me become more entrepreneurial. I invested time and energy into acquiring knowledge through books, podcasts, and training programs, pursuing money-making opportunities to get results, and using technology to automate a business. I role-modeled the tips, tactics, and tools that had accelerated the success of other freedom-preneurs.
Although I didn't know it at the time, this process led me to discover the seven steps of becoming a successful freedom-preneur.
1. Wake up, shake up, and bake up. It's about learning and implementing essential personal development practices and techniques to get the right mindset for achievement. This initial step sets the mental stage for breaking chokeholds.
2. Unleash your inner entrepreneur. We all have the opportunity to build a passion-based side hustle while working a full-time job. You just need to decide so and do it.
3. Embrace the digital economy. When you have online marketing skills, you can run a business from anywhere in the world with a laptop and an internet connection.
4. Map your business success. Create a practical business map to continually strategize direction and activities to ensure your business is successful, competitive, and profitable.
5. Harness your millionaire mindset. What is created in the real world is a manifestation of mindset. Millionaires do business differently, and we need to role model their strategies.
6. Declutter and get stuff done. Set priorities to be more efficient and productive with what is important to you, what really matters. Cleaning up life 'noise' will create more free time to focus on business-building activities.
7. Live energized. Entrepreneuring and having it all takes energy. Getting healthy will give you the power to do it all, be a good parent, stay fit, have a social life, work your job while building a business, and develop the mindset to break chokehold(s) at last.
As I worked these seven simple steps, things started to change in my life.
I know this is possible for you because I am doing it.
I have seen those around me do it - and you can do it too!
Take a chance and see what happens.
I promise you, it will be epic.
