The 5 Slaps of Business Ownership

If you wish to do your own business, do take a look at these before you start to save yourself from the frustration and shock for the lack of preparations, both physically and mentally.

1. It is not glamorous

Being a business owner is not glamorous. Many people often feel motivated when they hear about successful start-ups, and very often there will be those who are blinded by the glamour of luxuries. You always see business owners taking their breakfast with expensive coffee at some posh outlets in their selfies and social media photos, and you think that it is all glamour and fun. To be honest, it is not. Most of the time, you will need to do all kinds of chores yourself, including cleaning the office toilet at the end of the day.

2. You become a full-time "Mother"

You babysit your own business. Yes, literally you become a mother of your business. Is a full-time mom "luxurious"? Not at all, you need to feed your business, change the diapers of your business, clean up the poop of your business and you need to get used to the whims and fancies of your business. Very often, you may find yourself awake middle of the night, worried about your business just like how parents are worried about their babies. It can be physically and mentally exhausting.

3. You are married to your business

Sure, you may pick your passion and blossom it into your business, but sometimes you will hate it. You hate it because it does not always work the way you wanted it, and you hate it because this is your means of livelihood. Without it, you will not have a source of income. Yet, you loathe that feeling because deep inside, you love it so much in the past. Otherwise, you would not have committed in the first place.

4. Some days are just totally out of control

Sometimes, no matter how good your planning is, or how experienced you are, whatever you do for that particular day will all be bad. Actually it is not bad, it is just out of your control, out of your plans, out of what you visualize it to be like. You may be demotivated, you may be angered, you may be severely frustrated. All you feel like doing is to dig a hole and hide yourself in there until the day is over... but even then you could not find a hoe to dig with.

5. Some days you may find it meaningless

There may be times when, once all the excitement dies down, you sit alone and wonder what it is all about. You may stare at the pile of paperwork in front of you, and you may feel that it is just a pile of meaningless fibre sheets. Your mind goes blank and you may feel like just standing up and walking away from all this to experience freedom. So sorry, you can only temporarily disengage. Remember, your business is your baby. As long as it is yours, you will need to continue working at it.

These are 5 slaps of what Business really is. If you are mentally confident of battling these 5 slaps, please go ahead with your business ownership. I wish you luck!