The Incomparable Wealth and Luxury of Owning Your Own Time

The single-member entrepreneur revolution is coming

Show me how you spend your time and I’ll tell you who you are.

Time is the true currency, not money.

You can always earn more money, but you can never get back lost time.

Smart people cherish and protect their time.

Do you own your time? If not, who owns you?

The Luxury of Owning Your Time

You know you have time freedom when you can do any of the following:

Sit in silence and drink your tea or coffee with zero distractions nor rush

Take long walks in nature

Take naps in the garden on sunny afternoons

Have a picnic in the park

Take a bike ride just because the weather is nice

Read books as long as you want

Play with your kids or grandkids

Spend time with your friends and family

Visit farmers’ markets or the farm itself for produce

Spend as much time as you want cooking a lovely meal

Write a book without any interruptions

Produce art or create

Go out on a boat or kayak for the day

Travel

Do nothing

And many more examples

But What About The Money?

For most history, the poor worked while the rich did not.

The era of the Internet disrupted the status quo because, for the first time in history, a person did not need capital to start a business.

If you have access to the Internet, a computer, and some basic elements in place, you can freelance, moonlight, side hustle, build a brand, or create a full-time business.

Work can be performed anytime and from anywhere.

There are also so many new revenue streams to pick from that didn’t exist in the past.

Here are my?2023 Income Streams ?as an example.

New opportunities to monetize keep appearing in a steady flow.

We live in exciting times without limits.

Social class, geographical location, language, and personal situation play little role.

Anyone anywhere can rise to the top thanks to the digital age.

Experiences > Possessions

For most of the industrial age, people worked in order to buy houses, nice clothes, cars, and furnishings. The bigger the consumer lust, the more one worked for it. There was a culture of showing off one’s wealth, sometimes referred to as ‘keeping up with the Jones’. But that wasn’t enough: many accumulated massive consumer debt as credit card companies exploded, offering credit for just about any purchase. The main motivator around work was pay. The job itself was secondary to the salary it paid. This produced entire generations of people enslaved to their possessions and emotionally disconnected from their jobs. The hustle/ burnout culture was prominent.

Enter the digital age, where the motivation behind work shifted away from consumerism and towards purpose and experiences. Younger generations live with less and therefore, are less motivated by pay. They don’t take out as many loans or credit cards as their parents. They are conscious consumers and careful buyers. They are more interested in how they spend their time. They want jobs they are emotionally connected to and a sense of purpose. They aren’t willing to work overtime as their parents did. It isn’t cool anymore to show off your fancy car or McMansion.

The Era of the Single-Member Business

Since exchanging time for money is no longer the attractive end goal for many and an increasing number of young people aren’t interested in working for or building huge companies, new work structures are merging. The new generation understands in either scenario that this would mean enslaving themselves. And their freedom is more important.

I believe the?single-member entrepreneur ?work model will dominate in the near future.

This means monetizing expertise and packaging and reselling it in multiple ways with the least costs and effort involved.

The single-member entrepreneur is not a starving freelancer. He or she charges higher rates and is much more selective about whom to work with because of the value of time. Their passive income exceeds their active income. They are entirely in charge of their time and their business runs without their constant involvement. The secret around doing this is to create high demand for a skill or service that they master better than most with social proof and a strong brand to justify their rates, to set up high-converting funnels, to outsource administrative and production tasks, and to automate repetitive tasks as much as possible.

Join The Revolution

If you value your time, you won’t give it away freely to others. Instead, you’ll design your work to match your lifestyle and your priorities, not the other way around. Don’t get confused about what is more valuable: time is always the winner. If I ask you what you value most, will you say ‘Work’? I doubt it. And if you do, I would feel sorry for you. Because life is too short and beautiful to spend it slaving away for anyone or anything. It seems ‘Health’ and ‘Family’ should come first, yet many aren’t matching what they say they value to their actions. Will you?

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