Before, when I was employed, I always had the excuse of “not having enough time” to run my online business. I used to go to work from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, then spent some time with my family at dinner, and then I dedicated the last couple of hours of the day (from 9:00 to 11:30PM) to my online business. I always used to say to myself, “if I just had enough time…”
When I knew I was going to be , I started to make plans for the great amount of time I was going to have to run my onlines businesses, you know, I thought, if I wasn’t going to have a job anymore, then in theory, that meant that I could finally dedicate the right time to my business, and then within a few months, watch the money flow into my bank account, wasn’t that a good way of thinking?
The hard reality….
The thing is that things in reality haven’t turned out to be as I had planned. First, I realized that in reality, I haven’t been spending as much time in Internet as I used to do when I had a job, why? Because, I’ve been visiting headhunters, preparing my resume, going to some interviews, studying and preparing for interviews. What does this mean? Honestly speaking, it means that I had plenty of free time at work and I used that free time to ready all kind of stuff about Internet Marketing and business and now I’m busier than when I had a job, and currently I don’t have time to waste it reading every single piece of information about Internet Businesses.
I remember that I used to read every single blog post that came to my Google RSS Reader. Now, guess what, I don’t read my emails and RSS readers on a daily basis and when I do it, I read all of my hundreds of posts withing a few minutes, I just realized that most of them are not useful and they consume a lot of time, all I do know, is just scan all the blog posts and I just stop to read the few that I consider useful and interesting.
A wake up moment: I need to take the online business more seriously if I want to earn a living from this.
I think that very deep in my heart, I always knew that I would find another job soon, even though I conciously wanted to run an online business full time. Somehow, I had the unconcious feeling that I would always come back to the old routine of working my online business as a hobby, just a couple of hours a day from the “free time” in my job and a couple of hours before going to bed.
But after being three weeks withoug a job, I’m starting to feel the frustration of not being able to get a job soon, and I’m starting to feel the pressure on me and I need to realize that I might not be able to get a good job soon.
I only have money left to live up to 10 months without a job, so the clock is ticking and jobs are scarce. Now I no longer have the cushion of a secure job, so I better make this business work or die in the attempt.
There is one good thing however that I’ve gotten out of all this: I’m no longer wasting precious time surfing the net and reading from other people’s emails and blogs. This will allow me to be more focused and start reaching milestones. I’m no longer getting a paycheck whether I have work or not, now every minute is costing me and I need to take advantage of it as much as I can.
Héctor Sánchez is a blogger from Ocotlán, Jalisco and he is currently residing in Guadalajara. Héctor is a Public Accountant from Universdidad Panamericana with a Posgrade in Corporate Finance from the same university, and he is currently working as financial analyst for Hewlett Packard. Even though he works in Finance for a living, in his spare time, he is a geek and he likes to build blogs, websites and studies everything related with Internet Marketing and several ways of building businesses online. He is also an active member of Toastmasters, where is the President in turn of his local club, Toastmasters Atlas Chapalita Club.
