Time freedom as a solo entrepreneur is RADICAL — and yet this is also exactly what many solopreneur struggle with the most. Creating a "time freedom business" and achieving time freedom can be very challenging!
Let’s talk about why time freedom as a solo entrepreneur — or, really, time freedom in any aspect of life and business — is truly radical…
Topics we address in this article:
- What IS time freedom?
- Defining the meaning of "time freedom."
- Examples of a time freedom business.
- It's not your fault that you're struggling to create a time freedom business.
- Why time freedom can be so ELUSIVE to you.
- What makes time freedom as a solo entrepreneur so POWERFUL.
- 11 reasons why this matters!
- The pep talk you didn't know you needed.
- This will inspire you!
- Your next best steps for attaining time freedom.
Who am I to speak on this subject?
As a Business Productivity Coach for solopreneurs, I specialize in creating anti-hustle productivity strategies designed for your unique business, increasing your work/life balance, and helping you to save 10 hours/week.
I've been teaching my signature anti-hustle productivity and cozy business methods since 2019, and I became a solopreneur (as a freelance writer for many years before becoming a coach) back around 2010.
Time freedom is my jam!
I've worked with many busy solopreneurs like you: navigating a hectic client roster, pivoting or growing an established business, juggling a 9 to 5 with side hustles, parenting little kids, running a business while neurodivergent, and more.
You're in the right place to get time management tips and anti-hustle productivity strategies designed for YOUR unique brain, personality, lifestyle, business model, values, and goals.
Time freedom meaning: what IS time freedom?
Experiencing time freedom means that you have the capacity and opportunity to actively and intentionally choose what you do with your own time.
You have the freedom to use your time however you please — which could include prioritizing family time, personal hobbies, doing more of what brings you joy and personal fulfillment, and so on.
Having a time freedom business involves constructing your business model so it increases your ability to use your time however you like.
Examples of a time freedom business:
- Taking unplanned days off work, without it negatively affecting how your business operates.
- Enjoying your ideal version of work/life balance.
- Having full control over your own calendar and schedule.
- Getting to take breaks, sleep in, or step away from the computer when you want/need to do it.
- Setting deadlines with buffer space to allow for the spontaneous or unexpected.
- etc!
A time freedom business typically involves a lifestyle business model (wherein your business is designed around your personal life, rather than the other way around) or a cozy business approach (in which you prioritize doing business at your own pace in a way that feels GOOD for you, and uses anti-hustle productivity methods).
As a general rule, many of these phrases — time freedom business, lifestyle business model, cozy business, anti-hustle business — can be used synonymously to encompass the same concepts.
It's not your fault that you're struggling to create a time freedom business
Too often, when you don’t have a lot of free time in your solopreneur business, you might blame yourself.
You might think it’s your “fault” that your solopreneur business needs you in it 24/7.
You might feel ashamed or judgmental about the unhealthy relationship between you and your solopreneur business.
You might be frustrated, wondering WHY and HOW you don’t have home-based business owner time freedom — after all, you’re your own boss! You get to work out of your house! Shouldn’t you have figured this out by now?
Here’s what I want you to know: It is NOT your fault.
Truly ♥
You have been raised in a society that glorifies busy work.
All your life, you have been taught that work is hard, and that working long hours is a badge of honour, and that resting is lazy.
All your life, you have been taught that business systems, processes, and strategies need to be over-complicated; that the more “complex” everything is, the more you’ve “made it” (which also means you struggle to simplify things as a solopreneur business owner… simplification goes against everything you’ve been told to do!).
No wonder it’s hard for you to achieve time freedom as a solo entrepreneur, in your business OR your life...
...It’s been ingrained in you to fill up every second of every day with stuff.
Why time freedom feels so ELUSIVE to you
There is a REASON why society does this to us, and why time freedom is so elusive: When you have every minute of your life (and business) planned and spoken for, it prevents you from getting to know yourself.
It keeps you small.
It keeps you conformed and contained.
It ensures you "toe the line."
It prevents you from thinking outside the box.
And that's why I'm so passionate about anti-hustle time management and personality-based productivity methods — because it sets you FREE.
Why time freedom as a solo entrepreneur is so incredibly powerful:
When you achieve time freedom and improve energy management...
- You can more deeply connect with yourself, your personal values, and the world around you (including the communities you care about).
- You are able to take a step back from everyday life and more clearly see the bigger picture (which helps you to then move forward in the RIGHT direction — and prevents you from going down the WRONG path).
- You have the capacity and bandwidth to stand up for your values and beliefs (and improve your relationship with yourself because you're finally in alignment).
- You get the opportunity to provide that much more — and higher-quality — support for even more clients and customers in your solopreneur business (which paves the way for THEM to get more out of life, too).
- You can enjoy this precious life that is yours, and yours alone (you deserve to be personally fulfilled!).
- You can design a solopreneur business model that reflects your personal values, philosophy, integrity, and morals (and that will make business 10x easier).
- You can be with the people and do the things that matter most to you (filling your cup, AND theirs!).
- You become the role model, inspiration, and motivation for others to see their own potential, too (and become a leader in your industry).
- You can more clearly see where other leaders or industries are going wrong, and you can identify what you can do to make a difference to improve it (and you can act upon it).
- You BECOME the catalyst for change (in yourself, in your community, or across the globe — big or small, it all counts!).
- YOU are the one with all the power and control in your own life and business (which is exactly how it should be).
Time freedom is WORTH pursuing
It is so much EASIER for corrupt politicians and billionaires to continue as they are, when you don’t have the time freedom and energy and bandwidth to critique them or rebel against them (in whatever way that may be; however overt or subtle; however “big” or “small”).
Don’t make it easy for them.
Don’t let them off easy.
Don’t let them shape the world in a way that benefits only a few, and makes it so much worse for the majority.
Don’t let them get away with helping themselves and no one else.
Take back your time and energy.
Reclaim your power.
Live life and do business in the way that YOU know is right and best for you — because this world needs you and your unique brand of magic.
Achieve time freedom and build your time freedom business: your next steps
Not sure where to go from here? Want help with this?
I've got you!
The entire purpose of my Productivity Powerhouse e-course is to give you back your own time and energy as a solopreneur business owner.
→ Want to reclaim your time and energy, WITHOUT needing to figure it out on your own?
→ Want to integrate time freedom into your business FAST?
→ Want to learn how to achieve time freedom as a solo entrepreneur, so you can become that catalyst, that role model, that trailblazing leader who paves the way for others?
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