Did I get your attention with this title?

Let me explain what I mean. My series on entrepreneurial motivations seems to intrigue people. I think it’s because business owners realized they started their businesses for a deeper reason than they thought.

The motivation that people respond to the most is the lifestyle/freedom lover motivation. Makes total sense since I hang out with coaches and consultants online.

The best way to describe the lifestyle/freedom lover motivation is to share where I am working right now. It’s Sunday morning. I’m on my patio typing away on my laptop and chatting with my husband in between writing spurts. There is a gentle breeze and the sun is shining bright.

I cherish the ability to be free to work where I want, when I want.

Freedom lovers like their lives to blend with their business and these days you can live this lifestyle prettty easily. With the invention of laptops, smart phones and wi-fi, working in coffee houses, by the pool, or even a hotel is made easy.

So what’s behind this motivation? On the surface it’s many different reasons such as:

• Parenting
• Love of travel
• Retirement
• Creating your own job
• Freedom to work with who you want to with

But if you look a little closer at freedom loving business owners you will find something interesting. What they really are is a group of REBELS. Yep, rebels. They are people who don’t want to be tied down by a 9 to 5 job and want to buck the tradition of typical work. They don’t like being told what to do, don’t like limits on their personal income, and most definitely don’t want to be told when and where to work. Freedom loving business owners are independent, creative, and value life experiences. 

The one thing Freedom Loving business owners need to be careful of is adopting someone else’s lifestyle thinking it is better than their own. We each define how we want to live. If you want to travel the world, go for it. If you want to stay at home with your kids, that’s great. I admit that one of the lifestyle choices I’m not fond of is running my business from a beach. Sand in my laptop? No way. But if you can handle working at the beach. Go for it!

So tell me. Are you a secret business rebel? If so, how do you define your ideal business and life?

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Are you feeling the need to reinvent yourself or your career? Personally, I don’t like using the word reinvention when it comes to your life. It’s semantics, I know, but I think what we do when we create a “new identity” for ourselves is more about evolution than reinvention. Several years ago I noticed I was very resistant to the idea of reinventing myself. It felt like I needed to learn new skills, market myself differently and see myself as someone new. I now realize that all the fragments of myself have been forming with each job I worked and each class and personality test I took. I’ve been evolving into who I want to become so there is no need to reinvent myself.

Reinvention means taking our lives and creating something new. Yet, what we really do when we start a new career or business is called evolution. It’s the natural progression towards fulfilling our life mission.

When we repackage all of our skills, talents, experience, and knowledge and present it to the world, it is the next step along our life’s evolutionary path. Here’s an example. A person who is a carpenter for a living fulfills his life long dream of being a writer. To the rest of us it may look like a career reinvention but what it really means is the carpenter is doing what he felt destined to do. What we don’t see is all the years he fantasized about becoming a writer, studied writing, wrote ideas in his journal and wrote short stories. His career evolved into something new behind closed doors.

If you’ve been feeling pressure to reinvent yourself, all you really need to do is reframe your life from a different perspective. There is no need to become someone new. Just allow yourself to evolve into the person you are destined to become.

How do you feel about reinventing yourself and moving into a new career or business? Can you see how you have consciously or subconsciously moving into a different direction?

Sherrie Koretke, The Niche Clarity Coach