Business Ownership

Shawn Today

In his book, Anything You Want, Derek Sivers writes about how there’s “a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner.”

Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles.
To be a true business owner, make sure you could leave for a year, and when you come back, your business would be doing better than when you left.

I’ve been working for myself for 5 years now, and something that has been very top of mind over the past 6 months especially is how I can build the “Blanc Media” websites into businesses that provide immense value and that also don’t require my day-to-day input.

Something I’m realizing is that building a business that can run without me is not about “retiring early”. That’s the selfish point of view.

If the business can run without me, then it will be better. It won’t be limited by my few ideas and my single point of view.

To build a business that can run without me is to build a business that has no limits on the value it can provide and the areas it can grow.

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