How To Treat Your Business Like 9-5

Hello everyone and welcome to the Nef Nugget. Well, I’ll give you one tip that inspire you to act and motivate you to move and I am Nefateria Fonda’ and I’m a business and sales coach for parallel-preneurs that means your juggling, your passion as well as your profession, your building a business alongside your nine to five and I have to get clear on your core business components, confident in your selling skills so you can bring in cash into your business. So on today’s Nef nugget, we’re talking about treating your business like a business. A lot of my clients as well as other parallel-preneurs, just like yourself say they struggle with giving their business the same respect they give their nine to five. Do you find yourself, you know, I’m going to work on my Sansia stuff, I’m going to work in my business every evening for two hours or I’m going to give three to four hours on my business on the weekend.

And as soon as you show comes on, you shut that computer down, you’re running to the couch on the scene, it goes really dead. What kind of crime they going to solve this we don’t see aside. Yeah. And you just forget about the fact that you set these business hours and this is the time you was gonna spend building your business. And I do understand. I get it. It takes discipline. You just worked an eight hour day, probably at a minimum, and now you’ve got to go home and spend more time at a computer, on the phone, making phone calls at a networking event, doing things that can build your business. Right? But guess what? If you want to build this business, it’s going to take some sacrifices on your part. Let me be the first to tell you. It will take some sacrifices. Now, when I was on my journey to becoming debt free, I had to make some sacrifices.

And one of the sacrifices that I made was I cut my cell phone off for an entire year. Yes, 12 months, no cell phone. Everyone thought I was crazy. What if nothing happens to you? What if you get stuck on the side of the road? What if you get a flat tire, nobody can come contact you or you can’t contact anybody. I went and bought a little prepaid phone that you like, add minutes. I kept it in my glove compartment for that entire year. So people that loved and cared about me would feel secure. The fact that I had cut my cell phone off for a year because I was determined to, eventually get to that debt free lifestyle. Now yes. Was that a sacrifice?

Absolutely. But after that 12 months I had took that money that I saved from the cell phone bill. Hey that’s a bill and it got me one step closer to the debt free lifestyle that I wanted for myself. So I am telling you if you want to build this business, there may be some times where you’re going to have to DVR that show or you have to tell those girlfriends or those guy friends, I can’t hang out with you this weekend but pencil me in for the next event. Right. Cause you have to spend the time and make the time to do with your business. And so I want y’all to know that one way, way that you can build your business or respect your business as you respect your nine to five is set yourself up some business hours, but make sure they are realistic.

And what I mean by that, what do you mean realistic? Never really take a deep look at what your daily commitments are. What are your weekly commitments? What are your monthly commitments? Put that all down, even if it is you have to be in front of the TV. What does it matter at eight o’clock to watch a show, whatever it is, and then make a schedule around those things. That’s the one thing about owning your own business. You control your own time so you could make whatever schedule fits with your lifestyle. If you know your children have certain commitments and you want to be there, that’s not the time. You won’t schedule hours during those times.

Once you do that is you have to stick to it. All right? Whatever’s best for you. You give yourself for your business hours, you gotta stick to it and being communicate it with anybody that is anticipating or have you do stuff during your time, right? So if your spouse is expecting date night every Sunday and then you have, you got business, I was doing a part of that, well, he’s expecting that. You have date night the whole day. Then you went and you have decided that portion of that day is going to be spent towards your business. Then you need to share that with your spouse. Also share your children or anybody else that may ask you to use your time to do something or help them. Let them know what your hours are and set those boundaries so they can respect that.

Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from seven to nine, you know, mom or dad is working on their business, right? And I can’t disturb them during that time, but anytime before that, or maybe anytime. But after that I can, you know, interrupt them, talk to them about what may be going on with me. But during those business hours, they will respect that. If you communicate what those are, but as soon as you don’t respect it, they will no longer respected either. So just make sure whatever hours you set for yourself, they’re realistic by looking at what you have going on in your daily, weekly, and monthly commitments.

You can adjust that. But make sure you’re sticking to those hours. Make sure you’re communicating with the people that may want. You want to utilize your time in other ways. And like I said, as long as you respect that, they will as well. But as soon as you build respect that they won’t no longer respected either. So that is your one set for today to inspire you to ask and motivate you to move to how you can give your business the same respect you give to your nine to five, remember, be profitable and be blessed. And then so the next time, bye for now.