Entrepreneurs need to preserve the quality of life they set out to create by starting their businesses.

A growing trend is that too many entrepreneurs spend their days establishing and building their businesses only to find their lifestyle is slipping away. The result is a new trend where extremely successful entrepreneurs are choosing to restructure their businesses in favor of simpler business models that allow for more family life and downtime.

The entrepreneurial landscape has changed a lot since I started studying how to build an online business in the early 2000’s. Back then there was little competition and few tools and strategies for starting and building online businesses and the brick-and-mortar business world frowned at online businesses and coaching was something only sports team coaches did.

The opportunity and the tools and strategies for online businesses began to evolve slowly at first and then rapidly and continues to change at a head-spinning rate. Today what you need to know and do to build your business online may be radically different next year.

The Internet is the land of opportunity and anyone with a passionate des to create a business can find a business niche and model that works for them.

Thankfully online entrepreneurs can thrive because online businesses provide income for individuals that would otherwise want to be employees to brick and mortar businesses and we all know that job availability and opportunity have been less than what’s needed to employ our unemployed and meet lifestyle goals of those who want more control over their lives.

The work is long and at times hard but it gets easier as time goes on and the learning curve and ramp-up phase passes. The key then is to have a clear picture of your vision for your life so that you can protect and control the outcome otherwise just like most brick-and-mortar small business owners online entrepreneurs will give their lives over to getting bigger and better and losing sight of the quality of life along the way until one day when they catch a glimpse of the reality of their lives and realize how overrun their lives have become and decide to put the brakes on.

That is part of the online entrepreneurial journey and the numbers of those that have reached that point are growing rapidly.  But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can avoid all the overrun out of control nightmares by planning your business around your lifestyle and keeping the vision of your values and the life you want to create firmly in mind as you design and build your business. This will keep you from ever having that wake-up call that says your business is running your life and it’s not the life you dreamed of.

My goal is to help entrepreneurs build their business with the pioneer online entrepreneurs experience in mind implementing steady sustainable growth that protects the lifestyle they ultimately seek as they start and develop their businesses. If you need help making your business work for the lifestyle you desire to contact me for a complimentary discovery session and put discovery session in the subject box at discoverysession@businesscreationstudio.com