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In Order To Start a Business and Quit Your Job, Find Your Why

Guest post by: Gabriel Walton

Article Overview: Many people want to start a business to make money. Usually, this is not a good enough reason to start a business. Find your mission, or your why, in order to make your business successful.

In Order To Start a Business and Quit Your Job, Find Your Why

Ok, so as you may or may not know, I was trying to work 60+ hours a week and spend time with my family. I ended up becoming really frustrated with my job because I kept pouring myself into it and the patients that I worked with. The problems I faced were that I was not making the money that I needed to support my family and have any time with them to enjoy the life we had together. Something had to change. What I found was that working from home was my best option. I had no idea where to go, what I was going to do and no starting point. That's when I found my friend and mentor's website and it seemed to sound better than all the lunacy people are trying to pull on the internet. I had already had some experience with training and business leadership, but he explained to me that those things do not really matter when it comes to success.

The thing he suggested was to find my why. What was the reason I was starting a business? What was my mission? I suggested that it was because I wanted to make money. His response was that everyone wants to make money, what was the reason that I was going to be valuable to others.

I gathered what it was that I knew about myself.

1) I like the service industry. Offering service to others was one way that I seemed to enjoy whatever it was that I do.

2) I want to have fun doing it. So whatever it was that I was going to do, I did not want it to feel like I was giving my very soul away for a few bucks an hour.

3) I wanted to work from home or an office but needed a plan. This is because, to me, it seemed as part of the easiest ways to spend time with the family and not worry being tragically stuck at work.

4) I wanted to quit my job.

5) I wanted to make enough money to live a lifestyle that was affordable, yet comfortable.

These things were a part of who I was, but I needed to find a way to put that together to create my mission. My friend explained to me that your business mission is the very reason you are not going to fail. It has to stand for how far you willing to go to succeed. Most importantly, he explained, a mission is something that I had to believe in, personally, and it has to be bigger than you. This meant all of the things that I believed and felt; all of the values I held true to my heart and home had to become the very reason that I started a business.

I realized that I had quite a bit of experience with helping people and have mastered my own abilities to reach others and help them master their own skills. If I could make money by helping other people achieve their success; that was what was going to make me happy. Thus my mission was born.

My mission is to help others achieve their own success by helping them acquire the tools and training required to get their businesses going.

I know that it sounds a little strange but it works. What I suggest to anyone looking for their why is to take a look at you. Try to examine what it is that makes you happy: be it family, working on cars, playing music or writing. Use your gifts and talents to reach out to others and find a bigger reason than yourself. Find your why.

If you need any help starting a business, quitting your job or finding your why take action. Visit my site and hear from one of my business coaches.

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