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3 Important Lessons from Merry Jane – part 1
Posted on April 27, 2009 - Filed Under Jane Thoughts, Success Tips for Jane
It stands to reason that not all women entrepreneurs have the same goals, nor are they experiencing the same challenges from day to day. A recent study from Jane Out of the Box, an authority on female business owners, has revealed that there are actually five distinct types of women business owners, each with her own unique lessons for other entrepreneurs.
This article focuses on a type of business owner known as Merry Jane, an entrepreneur who has created a business she enjoys and that meets her needs for time freedom. Consequently, she tends to be able to take time off on a regular basis-whether it’s to enjoy friends and family, her career/employment, or other passions and interests she may have. Merry Jane also typically has some other source of income (whether from her own employment, her spouse’s employment, or retirement/savings income), so she does not feel the extreme stress some other entrepreneurs encounter related to profitability. Though her business is not generating a large amount of income at the moment, Merry Jane is happy with the balance and freedom she’s created in her life. According to the study, roughly 19% of women business owners fit the Merry Jane type.
Because Merry Jane has such a unique approach to business, she presents a number of lessons of interest to anyone considering starting a business in their spare time.
Lesson #1
Business can bring you happiness without taking over your life.
Merry Jane is an entrepreneur who loves what she’s doing and she knows that money will eventually follow. She may be creating a business to bring a particular talent (she may be a great jewelry-maker or a wonderful coach) or a product or service she truly believes in (such as many people who’ve had transformative experiences with products that have changed their lives and then they start businesses to promote those products) into the world. But whatever her business sells, Merry Jane knows that the world is a better place when she shares her gift or message … and she believes that eventually the money will come, though it is not her biggest focus at the moment.
As a result, she takes her greatest reward in terms of personal satisfaction and is glad for the chance to make a contribution in the time she’s allotted to working on her business – without it taking over her life. By combining love for her work with a structure that helps her do the other things she needs to do in life, she’s happily moving forward in her business.
Stay Tuned Tomorrow for lesson #2 from Merry Jane…
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