All work and no play are making too many entrepreneurs a rather dull bunch in this day and age. With their careers taking up a major part of their time, they have very little time and energy left for their friends and family, and even their personal well being.
The title "lifestyle entrepreneur" is given to anyone who starts a business not for financial gains, but for lifestyle rewards. The biggest motivation for all lifestyle entrepreneurs is an overwhelming desire for independence. They dream of working for themselves, and running a business that is in tune with their lifestyle. Therefore, practically anyone with an independent bent of mind can take up lifestyle entrepreneurship.
Lifestyle entrepreneurs are people who go into business primarily for lifestyle reasons, as opposed to a desire for financial wealth. They become business owners so they can do the kind of work they want, work the hours they want, live where they want, and spend time with people they like and admire. Lifestyle entrepreneurs judge their success by how much they enjoy their work and their lives as a whole, rather than by their status or their net worth.” (The Sabbatical Coach)
What is a lifestyle entrepreneur?
I am sure you have heard the term used, lifestyle entrepreneur, but what is that exactly. A lifestyle entrepreneur is someone who goes into business for a reason other than the financial rewards of owning a business, but because of their lifestyle. I know it sounds a bit confusing so let me explain this better. What they are looking for is to work around their lifestyle. They often use their passion to build their career and simply use their passion to build a business.
It makes sense. Let’s say that your passion is surfing, so if you wanted to become a lifestyle entrepreneur you would open a surf shop on the shores of Hawaii or begin giving surfing lessons so you can enjoy your passion as well as make a living. Or maybe your passion is your children and you just want to spend as much time with them as you possibly can.
A lifestyle entrepreneur doesn’t expect to make six figures a year doing what they love to do. They just want to be able to live their life doing what they love and being able to support themselves and their family as well. They are finding much happiness doing what they love to do. Can you imagine waking up every morning and going to work doing something that you absolutely love. How do you think you would feel waking up, probably much happier than you are right now. You most likely want to throw your alarm clock through the wall every morning when that buzzing, that very annoying buzzing sound is blasting in your ear.
There are so many people that work their jobs in a career that they chose for all the wrong reasons and the main reason is to have money to pay for their house, and the bills. But it’s unhealthy for so many reasons. You hardly have any time to play all you do is work, and the little time that you do have you just don’t have the energy to do anything.
By becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur you can have the best of both worlds, and live your life as you have always wanted to.
So how do you begin? First I want to tell you that anyone can become a lifestyle entrepreneur all it takes is some hard work and dedication, so if you have that then you have all that you need.
First you need to figure out what your knack is. Basically what are you good at? What do you love doing, your passion is most likely going to make you money, and offer you a great business.
What you can do is simply pick your topics of your interests, and then type in some keywords into google or yahoo. You will receive a number of websites that can offer you the necessary guidance. It doesn’t matter what it is that you love doing, it can be gardening or taking care of your lawn, there will be a way for you to make money doing it and you will be able to live your life as you do now financially, but with many other advantages.
You will have the ability to spend more time at home with your kids, and there will be no more waking up at the crack of dawn to the ever dreaded buzzing of your alarm clock. It is ridiculous to assume that you can't make money online, because there are so many people doing it and they are successful at it.
There is one important thing that you will need to do before you jump right into this headfirst. You will need to make sure that you research any market that you are entering in and be sure that there is actually money in it. This is the downfall to many people. They think that they will make tons of money and be a huge success but there is just not anybody there to buy what they are selling. So research research and more research is the key to making a wonderful life as a lifestyle entrepreneur.