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It Isn’t Just About the Money — Why Income Goals Aren’t Everything
It can be easy to get carried away with creating your business plan when building a lifestyle-focused business. After all, sometimes it feels like making money is the main goal in life.
It can be easy to get carried away with creating your business plan when building a lifestyle-focused business. After all, sometimes it feels like making money is the main goal in life. However, remember when you design your business, you are trying to create a lifestyle. So it isn’t just about the money. Yes, money helps you build the lifestyle, but the lifestyle is more about the experiences you will have than it is about the money you will earn.
I grew up very poor and early on became almost obsessed with earning money with a variety of part-time jobs. But it did not take me long into my young adulthood years to realize and understand it isn’t just about the money as there is so much more to your life than that.
Your business needs to allow you the freedom to work when you want to around your life as well as generate the living you need for that lifestyle to be an actual lifestyle-oriented business. Because your business is not just about money. It’s about what you can do with your time while still providing for yourself and your family. After all, what is the point of life, to make money? I…
