How To Be an Entrepreneur While Keeping Your Day Job

See if you can relate to this: You are a successful accomplished career woman, with loads of accolades and praise, yet a part of wants to start your own business and pursue your own ideas. 

You feel torn, because you can't—and perhaps don’t even want to—quit your high-paying stable job with its future opportunities, but you can't ignore your heart's desire to do something on the side either.

What should you do? 

If you feel the calling to chart your own course, the best advice I can give you from personal experience and coaching is this: Find a way to do both. Start your business as a side-hustle alongside your career. Build it up slowly while you still keep your main profession. 

This way, you can stay in your job and find a way to feed your soul. 

That’s what I did, even though my soul-feeding project turned into a full-time business (that led me to hire the hubby), yours can go either way. The point is, you must answer the calling of your soul when it comes knocking.

Most women don't recognize that the transition from employee to entrepreneur doesn’t happen overnight. It can sometimes take months or years. But while you can’t build it overnight, you can build a little every day. And if you keep at it long enough, you’ll look back one day and you see a full-fledged thriving business staring back at you.

That's the big picture, but let me break down this super quick process which will help you approach the business dream as a career-minded woman in the workforce.

Do not think about quitting your job. Think about starting your business.
Figure out your life purpose first with this test.
Identify your strengths. Find your passions, talents, and skills. 
Decide on the business idea. One that will lead you to happiness, meaningful impact, and an income stream.
Teach yourself how to build a business while working your day job.
Try and fail. That's right. Try and fail at your first business idea.
Start over again. Do this until you succeed and you shall!
Identify role models. Find a group of similar women in your exact shoes and join them.
Hold yourself accountable. Your group will help as you build your business.
Seek extra help. If you need help taking the above steps, watch my free 5-video series course here to get started.

My biggest hope for you is this: If you feel the urge to start a business, do it now, not later. There is never going to be a perfect time to start your business. There is also no pressure to quit your job if you start your business at the first inkling rather than ignoring the calling and waiting until you are fed up with your career. 

Over time, the right path for you—employment or entrepreneurship—will become clear, but one thing is certain: If you have so much as an itch to start something of your own, do it. Do it now and let time grow your seeds into full grown trees with your daily efforts. 

So tell me, have you ever dreamt of starting your own business?

-Farnoosh Brock, Business and Career Coach, Prolific Living Inc.