As human beings, I think we hold a natural ability for intelligence. Yet by going to work every day for someone else, the ability to express and explore some of that intelligence becomes hindered. Do you ever feel like a yes man? You think of these great ideas to multiple productivity or cut back expenses… yet the ideas are so radically different than current methods that everyone laughs at you. The method your boss implements works just fine’why would they switch?

You eventually become conditioned to speak up only when you’re told to speak up. Part of your ambition starts to die. Didn’t education challenge us to do otherwise? To question theories and procedures? When you step into the workplace, I think you often make the choice to settle for a potential that’s less than what you are capable of achieving, which is always easier than taking a risk.

What if the boss were you?

In order to survive, you cannot be a yes man and be self-employed. So if you’re tired of being scoffed at, why not become the boss of your own ideas? You’d be able to utilize the intellectual capabilities within you to further your business and ideally, your profits. I’ve read a lot about companies that devote a specific amount of time each year to job development and training. Other companies give employees time to tinker with their own ideas during a specific portion of the week. I think that these environments motivate an employee. Unfortunately, I doubt that you (like me) have snagged such a situation.

I truly believe that the ultimate form of satisfaction may very well come from self-employment. Know any self-employed person who says, “Damn, I miss working in bureaucracy!”? E-mail me immediately if you find such a person because I’m not sure if they exist.

A self-employed person isn’t letting her fears overpower her. The boss isn’t altering her priorities or her satisfaction in the day.

Being self-employed’how to start

You can read gobs of personal finance and wealth books’I did that. You can major in business’I did that. But you know what? None of those experiences taught me how to foster the start-up skills. Nowhere did I learn how to build an idea.

Most of us aren’t in a situation that would allow us to quit our jobs and start anew. The key is ease. I recently wrote about my goal to add $400 to my monthly income–$400 that I earn working for myself. If you don’t know what type of business you want to run, just as I don’t, I think that a financial goal is the only other way to start thinking about how to get going.

I used to listen to people tell stories about missing the beach, so I’d share a memory of when I was on the beach. Now I’m thinking’what can I do to bring the beach to Montana? I don’t mean to literally scoop the shore up… but could I invent a product or opportunity to bring the beach or memories of the beach? My mind starts to buzz, and I forget about my houseguests.

The truth is that I know I can obtain that $400/month. I’ll be sharing ideas’the ideas missed in books and class’that show how to foster that million-dollar idea.

You can’t pretend to be content working from 9 to 5 and letting your ideas be the topic of scoffers. This situation isn’t the life experience that you desire. It’s easier to pretend that your situation is acceptable so that you can avoid the challenge of charging at the situation you really want for yourself. You can have whatever you want. You wouldn’t be reading Aridni if you didn’t want something more. Now is the time to give in to desires, not the fears.