Beat the anxiety of an entrepreneur

Yooooooo

Its Sunday, smashing out my designs (I’m around 110 out of 200 for today, new record)

Just had a memory pop up in my head,

And I thought it might be useful for any fellow entrepreneurs who are generally shitting themselves on how they will pay their bills every month,

Rewind time to around 2015,

Just had my first baby,

Also just left my 9-5,

About £500 in savings, give or take £499,

And started my first business in direct marketing,

Which was my only source of income at the time,

Every day I was shitting myself on how I would pay the bills,

It was on a client by client basis,

As in, I’d make a few calls (several 100 a month)

And if i closed a deal that week,

I’d pay my tax and expenses and withdraw the whole lot to pay my bills,

Throughout the sleepless nights,

I developed my OWN LITTLE SYSTEM to keep me head strong,

And keep the anxiety and stress from eating me alive,

And you know the feeling, you feel like NO ONE can help you,

Well this is what I did,

This is one little trick that’ll keep you from worrying 24 hours so you can actually focus on making the money,

Here’s the trick,

I would set a reminder on my phone on when I could shit myself

Fucking genius right?

So instead of shitting myself with worry all day long,

I would set my reminder for 10pm tonight;

‘Jase, OK you can shit yourself now’

Sound crazy?

Well it is a little,

But it works,

By doing this you kinda schedule in a specific time to worry,

Coz if you are really down on cashflow and you got bills to pay,

That worry is coming, all the time, so you may as well say,

Its ok to worry, but after 10pm,

Shit, i weren’t sleeping much anyway, so i thought fuck it, lemme worry at 10pm,

When I’ve done my days work and family time and I can sit in bed watching shit on youtube and shit myself,

What happened was 2 things

1. I accepted i would be shitting myself every day about when I would pay the bills, BUT it would be later on in the day

2. I can get on with work now, do the best I can, and shit myself later on

Result,

Way more productive,

Way more focus on good things that was going on,

Come around 9:30pm the fear starting to kick back in,

But fuck it, was only for tonight,

Tomorrow morning i can do a whole day without shitting myself until that night,

Try it out,

Stay strong,

The brave are ultimately rewarded more than the poosio’s

You got this

Jase