It’s time to break the chains, spread your wings and start down the road of entrepreneurship. As exhilarating as it is scary, starting your own business is a feat most are too scared to take in their lifetime, resulting in unhappiness in later years. If you’re still on the fence, take these reasons to start your business to heart.
You Only Live Once
This life goes and goes quickly. One day you’re a fresh face just graduated from college, the next you are a bleary eyed addition to the employee pool. Don’t do this. You have ideas and dreams just waiting to come to life. So long as you are willing to put in the time and effort, you will succeed.
Financial Independence
Like everyone else, being set free from hourly paychecks is a dream too good to believe. When you start your own business, this dream becomes a reality. You now make all of the decisions and make more than minimum wage.
Tax Benefits
The first few years of entrepreneurship are free of taxes. Once that recedes as your income increases, you will still have previously unimagined write-offs. Phone bills, utilities, car payments, house payments and even internet all factor in to how much is written off every year.
Skills
When you start out, you will feel incredibly inexperienced as you compare yourself to well-established competitors. So long as you keep pressing forward, this naiveté will quickly develop into a skill set to rival even the biggest names in your market.
Partnerships with Merchant Solutions
With your own business, you also gain a lot of influence. If you don’t like how most places do business, you can be the one to change that. For instance, if you don’t like how your current credit card processor works, team with a forward thinking company that is set on revolutionizing the process.
Loves
Everyone wants to do what they love but very few are willing to put in the effort it takes to make a living doing it. This changes when you open your doors for the first time. Suddenly, you are devoting every hour of your day toward a subject you feel impassioned about.
Inspiration
Years down the line after your success has been well established, other beginners will look to you for help. They will seek your counsel, hoping your wisdom will lead them down a career path they always dreamed of having.
Success is mostly hard work and small bit of luck. Those who work hard end up reaping the benefits of their dreams coming to fruition.
My name is Lizzie Weakley and I am a freelance writer from Columbus, Ohio. I went to college at The Ohio State University where I studied communications. I enjoy the outdoors and long walks in the park with my 3-year-old husky Snowball. @LizzieWeakley
