Two Completely Different Business Mentalities

By Cody Scholberg

If you want to get rich by building a financial empire, you should already be in a certain position. You should already have plenty of insurance to protect you against any unforeseen, catastrophic events. You should be saving money on a regular basis, and you should have enough money to cover yourself in any kind of emergency. And, lastly, you should be self-employed, or at least do some kind of work on your own that earns money.

If you have all these traits, you are ready to build a business. You must be working for yourself if you want to build a business. While it is true that those who work for themselves technically already own a business, it should not be true in your mind. You do not own a business, but you own a job. A business is something that works for you; it is not something that you work.

Owning your own job, however, is a good thing. It is the start to building a business. You cannot build a business through work you do for an employer.

Building a business is different from building a job. The mindset of a job-builder is something like, "I want to get all this done, but I need help. I'll hire people to do the work that I cannot, and I'll do as much of the work myself as I can; the more work I do, the more money I make."

The business-builder thinks otherwise, "The more I work, the less it is a business for me, and the more it is like a job. I will hire out as much as I can afford, and I'll use my personal savings to afford even more. I will lose money for a long time, but that is okay, because eventually it will be so big that it will make me money without my working in it."

So, do not think about what you could be putting in your pocket if it were not spent on an employee. It should be exciting to you to see the earnings from the business get reinvested back into itself. If a lot of money was coming out of the business into your wallet, you would be alarmed at the fact it was not going back in to hiring more people!

Clearly, the two frames of mind are completely different. With a job-building frame of mind, you will be seeking work, and, someday, you will end up with lots of work and money. With a business-building frame of mind, you will be avoiding work, and, someday, you will end up with no work and lots of money. Which path would you rather walk down? - 23218

About the Author:

Cody Scholberg, a recognized expert on business building, is an author at Rapidly Make Money, your source of information that will get you wealthy. Check out these books about making money.