{"id":4411,"date":"2022-06-09T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativecallingcoaching.com\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:26:34","slug":"5-things-to-consider-when-considering-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativecallingcoaching.com\/5-things-to-consider-when-considering-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Consider when Considering Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For many people with ADHD, entrepreneurship is the natural culmination of their employment journey.\u00a0 I believe that is because we neurodivergent types need to march to our own beat, while doing a 9-5 or freelance gigs can create dissonance in our lives and the lives of our colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s for shit-sure how it was for me. Prior to becoming a coach, I did many things to support myself while striving to build an acting career. Corporate jobs were a nightmare. I did better with off-beat gigs like artist modeling and restaurant hostessing, where I could engage with people spontaneously and not have to adhere to tiresome bureaucratic systems of administrivia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if you\u2019re considering entrepreneurship\u2026.I must warn you that once you jump the 9-5, or freelance\/partime\/patchwork-employment-quilt livlihood to start your own thing, you\u2019re going to have to put systems of administrivia in place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What makes it imminently easier is that it will be YOUR administrivia, your baby, your endeavor and that will be INFIINTELY more interesting than somebody elses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That said, plenty of the work will be a neuro-divergent thinker\u2019s nightmare, until you learn to leverage your strengths and delegate the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here are some questions to ask yourself before you set sail on your own:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isolation is truly the enemy of success. When you start your own business, to a large extent you don\u2019t even know what you don\u2019t know. Can you find a mentor whose walked the walk? More importantly, are you willing to invest in that mentorship via a coach or consultant who can teach you what systems you\u2019ll need to have in place and how to put them there? For example, as my coaching business grew, I needed a CRM (customer relationship management program) in order to keep track of current and past clients, potential referral partners and leads. Various notebooks and business cards strewn about along with hand-written notes just wasn\u2019t cutting it. I knew I needed something, but I didn\u2019t know what it was. Having a coach probably cut my figuring-it-out time in half.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes we do need to wing the first step. \u2018Begin, and providence moves also\u2019 as they say. When I started coaching, I needed clients. I didn\u2019t have a marketing system in place yet, but I had some training. I started a cohort of fellow artist moms-with-kids, and while I brought my own issues to the group, I was the facilitator and got to coach the others. That got the ball rolling with word of mouth and testimonials. But it wasn\u2019t until I got some marketing guidance <\/em>and created a marketing strategy<\/em> that things started to take off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Baseline income=How are you paying for rent, groceries, childcare, lattes etc? I don\u2019t advise putting the pressure of survival on your nascent business idea. And please note: if your\u2019e an artist, that\u2019s a business idea. Being an actor is a business. You<\/strong> are the brand and the product. Who (or what job or trade) will be the patron of your art? In terms of a trade to support an artistic career, you may be looking at two businesses, which can be done, but takes twice the planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n