Is Workaholic Successful Entrepreneur?

A frequently asked question is whether a successful entrepreneur is a workaholic, or not. It says if you work more will earn more and have a successful business. But is it true? Too many people think that to be a successful entrepreneur should be a workaholic. They think that to succeed you as an entrepreneur, they should be a workaholic.

But, What’s the True?

First, until some time ago I think that to be successful you must work more and more. But, now I have been realized that we live in delusion. At the universities, we learn the wrong steps. Two things are significant in relation to this issue:

Your perception of starting a business?
The design of your future business.

Look at following questions and think about their answers:

Are you starting a business to work more than now?
Do you leave the current job to work more to earn more?
Are you starting a business so that you do not have time to spend with your family?
Is the price that you want to pay for greater financial security your own time?

If the answer to all these questions is no, then you will not be entrepreneur workaholic, but you will have the potential of a successful entrepreneur who will live the real entrepreneurial life.

How to Be the entrepreneur who is not workaholic?

As already stated it takes two elements to not be a workaholic: the perception about business and business design.

Let’s look at the first element, the perception. In Wikipedia about perception, we can read following:

In philosophy, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information. The word “perception” comes from the Latin words perceptio, percipio, and means “receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses.

The question in this first element is about what is our personal awareness or understanding of our future business. First to be a successful entrepreneur you need to know exactly what you want from your business, or to be aware about your life into your new business. Do not lie yourself that you do not want money, you do not want luxury holidays, you do not want expensive cars … If you say you want a stable work than it is better to work for someone else and do not start a business and entrepreneurial career. Remember the following:

The business should work for you rather than you working for your business. Work as much as is needed business to operate as a successful business. A business should work for you to secure your dream life and life that you want to achieve. Your life must be part of the business design. This is one of the biggest mistakes that the average entrepreneurs make. They don’t put their lives in the designing level of their new businesses.
You are the entrepreneur, the person who owns the business, not your business owns you. If you make a mistake with do not include your desired life and your dreams into the business design, for a short time will start to own you. They will own you if you don’thave a time for the life that you want. Let’s be realistic, do you have a life if you work 10, 12 or 20 hours per day. What does this mean? This means that your business owns you.

The second thing that will not allow you to be a workaholic is designing your business. However, the design is necessary to include the previous item, i.e. what you want your business to do for you. Design the business simply as a means to fulfill your personal life goals. Only in this way you design your business or business that will truly fulfill you and bring you the financial freedom that is not achieved in any different way.

Conclusion:

Successful entrepreneurs are not an entrepreneur workaholic. It is entrepreneurs who built business system that will be incorporated into the business and will allow the business to work for them and to satisfy the market.