DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Building Your Business Around Your Lifestyle

You may think you don’t have time for the things that you need to do, much less for the things you want to do.    But the truth is, you make time for what’s important.    This line either resonated with you or made you feel as if you were stabbed by a knife. If you tend to put work before everything else, you probably felt the stab. You may think it’s even unrealistic to make such a guilt-inducing statement, since you obviously do care about your family and friends as well as yourself - even though it seems on...

Did you know that smart people have studied the idea of time and work to come up with a law that you should know about? It’s called Parkinson’s Law and essentially states: “…Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” Now, sure, some things do take a specific amount of time. You’re not going to bake a cake in less time than it takes, but much of our work has arbitrary time limits and deadlines that you can work with to become much more productive.   If you’ve ever been accused of procrastination, it might be due to...

It can be easy to get carried away with creating your business plan when building a lifestyle-focused business. After all, sometimes it feels like making money is the main goal in life. However, remember when you design your business, you are trying to create a lifestyle. Yes, money helps you build the lifestyle, but the lifestyle is more about experiences than it is about money.    Your business needs to allow you the freedom to work when you want to around your life as well as generate the living you need for that lifestyle to be an actual lifestyle-oriented business. ...

Congratulations, and welcome to this fantastic business-building challenge. If you want to build a business that supports your lifestyle and practically runs itself, you’ve made the right choice to get involved with and participate in this challenge. There are essential factors that you will want to consider if you really want to build a business that gives you time freedom and supports your lifestyle - rather than treating your business as if it’s just another job that you have to work at 8 plus hours a day.    Instead, you really can build a business around your life that provides...