Is Your Business Idea to Make a Living???

Did you start your small business this way?  You worked for others.  You realized that you got only a small piece of the pie.  Your employer may have been charging customers $50 an hour.  You were getting paid, $20 per hour.  You said to yourself, “Why don’t I skip the employer and make the $50 an hour myself?”

Does that sound familiar?  It was part of my decision to go into business.  What do most business owners actually experience?  Instead of the freedom, we end of working at a job and paying ourselves as an employee.  We never get the $50 per hour we dreamed about.

In Michael Gerber’s new book, The Most Successful Small Business in the World, he says the strength of a business is based on your business idea!  Let me share his thoughts in this blog post.  It may help us get out of the box, we find ourselves in.  Enjoy and prosper.

Start your business with the idea of making a living and that is exactly what your business becomes.  Your business becomes a job.  You become your own employee.

Only now, you add business worries to the time you must spend doing the work.  Is it any wonder that a business idea based on making a living becomes a recipe for quitting.  There is too much work to be done.  There aren’t enough hours in the day.  You are not getting paid what you are worth.

Your business begins to feel old, tired and run down.  Many business owners end of hating their small business.  They feel trapped in the business they thought would give them freedom.

Gerber suggests that a strong small business comes from an idea within you.  If you want to avoid the employee trap, it must be more than wanting a paycheck or making a living.

What if your business idea has more to do with serving others, eliminating problems in their life, something bigger than a paycheck or a living?  What if it becomes a creation, a contribution you give to the world?

Having a big idea, an idea larger than you, an idea that serves others is the key to a strong small business foundation.  Why, because this bigger idea breath life into your business.  It supplies energy.  It demands imagination.  It drives a business forward.  It is bigger than you.  It has a life outside of you.

Starting with an idea bigger than making a living may not seem radical.  Yet, it makes all the difference to the energy that lives within your business.  A small business is only as effective as the idea upon which it’s built.  So what is your idea for your business?  What will it look like?  What magic will you bring to this world?