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The BIG Mistake I Made In My Business (So You Don’t Too)

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When I got started online it was for one big reason. I needed to find a way to make ends meet without going back to work and away from my infant daughter. I have always wanted to homeschool my children and so I needed to get to work on a solution that would allow me to be a stay at home mum and homeschool my kids around my work life.

My first few months online were fantastic…hard work, but great results. I didn’t have to go back to work, my business was paying my half of the bills and we even had extra coming in for the first time ever!

But what happened next was strange and worth sharing with you in case you start going down this path too.

I saw just how much money there is to be made online and I started thinking bigger and bigger, following in others footsteps who’s goals were to make six figures, to travel the world, to live in big beautiful houses and so on.

Now, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this, but what I did next was wrong for ME.

My husband left his job so that I could work full days on my business and help get it to these next levels of income. Some days I was working from 7am -10pm on my projects.

Don’t let anyone fool you. Making money online may be SIMPLE (traffic>leads>relationship>offer>income) but it is not EASY and will require you to work.

So here I was with my new goals in place – to do what the other guys were doing, hit over $10k per month, buy a house, go travelling all the time and pretty much live it up.

Over the months of grinding away, of hitting my first $10k months, of having thousands of dollars extra each month to reinvest in my business…I crashed.

What the hell?!

My husband was taking my daughter to the park, the library, tidying the house (which I LIKE doing, and he doesn’t!) and making dinner for us each night. He was great at all these things, but he didn’t love them.

I on the other hand had started this business to be at home with my daughter and not send her to a childminder every day while I worked, but now I was spending a full working day (usually more than 10 hours) away from her while my husband did the exact thing I had started my business to allow me to do – be a stay at home parent!

I started to realise that I had taken on other people’s goals as my own without realising it.

To me, TIME was what was important, not money, but with all the dollars flying around us in this industry, I lost sight of my own goals. I started to think money was my goal too.

“Not even Bill Gates can buy a second of yesterday”

Time was passing by quickly and my daughter was growing up fast and I was missing out on it, locked away in my office making the mistake of thinking that the more money I made, the better my family life would be.

Sure, it’s worth it to work hard, put in the hours and explain to your children that now is work time and you’ll be out to play later, but to pour all your energy in to work, thinking that your 2 year old will appreciate all the extra money, is nonsense. They remember YOU being there.

So I cut back, my husband went back to work and I learned to narrow my focus down to just 8-12 hours a week. I still make more than we need, but I’m not a six figure earner – and unless I can make six figures a year in 12 hours a week around my daughter and next baby (April 2013!), I don’t really want to be.

[Baby Number 2 - More Fun To Add To The Mix!]

Now I get to do what I love. It’s taken me a while to become OK with the fact that I LIKE being a stay at home mum – it’s not exactly the glamorous life. I like keeping my house nice, making meals from scratch, running a household, planning activities, teaching my daughter to swim every morning, getting a kick out of organising a cupboard, doing grocery shopping, making crafts…I even like being pregnant :) It might not be the cool thing, but it’s what I love and the moment I accepted that my life changed for the better.

I watched Tim Erway on stage at the Live The Dream III event in Dallas this year explain how he got sucked in to the same situation in his business, losing his marriage and children in the process because he thought that making more and more was the answer. It brought a tear to my eye, but also made me realise that we ALL need to take the time to step back and think of what OUR goals are, not others.

Think about your real reason for doing this. It doesn’t matter if it’s crazy and not what everyone else is doing. If it’s what YOU want, then it’s worth pursuing.

When I narrowed my focus down in my business, I put together this course on how I built up a full time income, and also what activities I focus on each week to continue growing my business.

To watch the free video and get access to the rest of the training emails CLICK HERE.


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