If you feel weird without a job, it is not a coincidence. From the start, they programmed us to find a job and stay there until retirement.
Consider the school system, where you attend from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Does this sound familiar?
However, having a job isn’t a bad thing—what’s wrong is having a 9-5 mindset. This mindset makes you expand your tasks to fit your workday.
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Your daily tasks. With a 9-5 mindset, you will stretch your assignments to fill your entire eight hours. So you’ll take two hours to check emails, two hours in meetings, two hours to perform mundane tasks, and two hours getting stuck inside the software.
After eight hours, you drive home, tired but wondering what you accomplished. Sounds familiar? That’s because you didn’t produce anything.
In today’s world, the 9-5 mindset isn’t about production; it’s about control. Since your managers aren’t leaders, they would instead control you with timesheets, spreadsheets, and emails.
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During the industrial age, 9-5 employees produced cars, coal, and oil. The production line had quotas to achieve, and the workers were proud when they surpassed these numbers.
The information age. But we live in the information age now. We have so much data at our fingertips that we waste it watching TikTok.
It’s challenging to be a leader in the information age because everyone believes in their own individual value and purpose.
Instead of building a team by stripping one’s personal identity, we lean into individual-first company-second. All this is to say; we waste time at work all day.
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So we go to our 9-5 job with the sole intent of generating income to pay for our expenses. Because we are unhappy at our jobs, we go home and consume more products and services (to give us joy).
We don’t make enough money at work and go into credit card debt. This ensures we stay at our mind-numbing job even longer—it’s a vicious cycle.
Entrepreneurial mindset vs. 9-5 employees. An entrepreneur focuses on producing, not time. An entrepreneur trades time for assets, not money. Entrepreneurs who don’t produce or create do not eat or earn money.
An entrepreneur solves other people’s problems at a profit. They don’t get paid if they are not solving problems and helping others.
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Entrepreneurs cannot blame their boss, company, or human resources department if they do not receive income; they must take full ownership of the situation.
I’m an entrepreneur. After reading many books and starting a business, I became an entrepreneur. Although I have a 9-5 job (for a few more months), I still think like an entrepreneur.
Every day I wake up and write articles and produce books. I don’t check my emails for two hours, go on investing websites, converse by the water cooler or host meetings with myself.
Nope, I create and write in the most efficient time possible. My goal is to produce one book every day, whether that takes three or six hours.
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It behooves me to accomplish this mission as fast as possible to move on to the next task. I still must upload to my website, Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube, and Medium.
If my email has problems, I will upgrade or convert to another application. I used a Chromebook in the past, but my workflow became too slow—I needed a more powerful machine.
I bought a top model Macbook Air (affiliate) because it had the weight, power, and battery life I needed to create on the go and at home. It was a business decision.
Shedding the 9-5 mindset. You can’t clear the 9-5 mindset just by reading books; it is far too ingrained in our inner being.
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The only way to overcome the 9-5 job limiting belief is to become a producer. You must create for yourself to believe in yourself.
Becoming a producer doesn’t mean you must start a business; it’s almost the opposite sentiment. Start by creating one thing every day for a year.
You can create anything you want: a poem, diary entry, article, blog post, knitting, gardening, video, letter, running, art, drawing, painting, fitness, etc.
Doing something every day will naturally make you more efficient; you’ll become a subject matter expert.
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Create your own business. When you achieve at a high level, others will start to notice. Yes, you guessed it; your daily creation can become your business.
When you do something consistently for a year, you give people “social proof” that you are committed to the process.
They will then want to learn your process at a cost. So if you run every day, people will pay you to run with them.
If you paint every day, people will pay you to help them paint daily. I write and publish every day, so people will seek me out to help them write and publish.
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Entrepreneurs produce; they don’t complain or shift blame. The 9-5 mindset allows workers to blame everyone except themselves.
The mindset also limits creativity inside the workplace. Employees have great ideas that must travel up the chain of command and through various offices (human resources, accounting, operations).
By the time everyone considers the idea, it is a watered-down version of the original. The employee becomes disheartened and spends most of their time searching on hiring websites.
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Conclusion. You cannot bring the 9-5 mindset into your business. Every day as an entrepreneur is about solving problems and creating products.
The entrepreneurial mindset will also follow you home. You’ll want to find efficient solutions to things happening around the house.
You’ll have to balance time, money, and required effort for each task. What are the most effective ways to accomplish the mission, and at what cost? Is it better to pay more, but it takes less effort?
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These are questions entrepreneurs face every day. They don’t consider checking all 100 emails as part of their productivity cycle (like employees).
To become an entrepreneur, start by producing or achieving something daily. This journey will lead you in a more extensive direction.
I started by writing every day. Now, 1,100+ articles later, I can’t imagine not being a writer. It’s the life I could only dream about 2.5 years ago. Good Luck!
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