Freedom is one of the primary reasons many of us choose to go into business for ourselves, but it doesn’t happen on its own. The reality is that living life and building a business of freedom requires an intentional approach.
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In This Episode
- How to define what freedom looks like for you and how to go after it (5:48)
- Exercises to help you narrow in on your perfect day and the one thing you want to focus on (12:15)
- Tips for avoiding the ‘when then’ trap and setting realistic daily milestones (22:40)
- The importance of identifying your high value and low-value tasks and what is going to move you towards your goals (29:17)
- How Natalie took a three-month sabbatical from her business and how it impacted her life and business (35:10)
Building Your Business To Fit Your Lifestyle
Natalie Sisson was working in the corporate world when she realized that a traditional 9-5 wasn’t what she wanted to do with her life. She now runs her own business which helps women get paid to be themselves by tapping into their skills, expertise, and knowledge to build thriving online businesses that fit into your unique lifestyle and version of freedom.
What Does Freedom Mean To You?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself what would constitute your ‘perfect day’? Natalie believes in working backward to intentionally build your version of freedom into your days, weeks, months, and years so that you can live your version of freedom.
While your idea of freedom will change depending on which stage of your life and business you are in, getting clear on what freedom means to you, and how you can take small incremental steps to achieve that freedom, is crucial. Do you desire to travel full time? A 20-hour workweek? How about a sabbatical once a year? Whatever your version of freedom is, it is essential for you to identify it, choose it, and honor your decision for your own wellbeing and the longevity of your business.
Turning Your Goals Into Reality One Day at a Time
Once you have decided what freedom looks like to you, you need to adopt a methodology to turn your dreams into reality one day at a time. By breaking your version of freedom down to manageable and feasible pieces, you can take your ‘big ass goal’ and work towards it every day, week, month, and year.
Natalie believes that success should not just be measured in your profit. By aligning your business to your personal goals you can move towards them in a way that stands true to you and will eventually serve everyone in the long run. Freedom is truly all about the power of choice and making the decisions that serve you and others, and the more organized and disciplined you can be, the more freedom you will have.
Share Your Voice
What does freedom look and feel like to you? How could you implement small steps daily to achieve your ‘perfect day’? Share your thoughts on freedom with me in a voice memo here.
Tweetable Takeaways
“I was like, wait a minute; I want to be able to determine my fate, I want to be able to do the work that I want to do, to work the hours that I want to work, to have the lifestyle that I want. And from then on, it was just figuring out how I could do that.” (4:31)
“The point is that once you actually state it, and share it, you start moving towards it. And that is the beauty of life, what you think about is what you focus on which is what becomes a reality.” (15:14)
“It is up to you to design your life and your business. Otherwise it will be designed by other people, and you will be upset, grumpy, you will resent it. And that is not why we do what we do.” (17:55)
“Yeah, profit is important. But I would far prefer to be doing rewarding work that makes an impact. It’s not about the feedback, but where I know I am making a dent in people’s lives, and they are changing, and they are empowering themselves, and they are doing better. That’s the best feeling in the world.” (29:04)
“Just taking that time for yourself to really go and ask the questions like, ‘what matters to me, what is important to me, who am I, how am I showing up in this world, and how do I want to go out of this world?’ Is really important.” (39:03)
5 Steps to creating more freedom in your life and biz.
- Define what freedom means to you by focusing on what constitutes your perfect day.
- Create a tangible plan on how you can work towards that freedom through incremental improvements to your daily routine.
- Set boundaries & stop focusing on the perceived expectations from others.
- Remain committed to your plan even when facing external pressures to compromise.
- Remember, your view of freedom may change over time. Leave room to grow and evolve.
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