Episode 318: My Business Is Having A Midlife Crisis (FS318)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Is the success that you have now what you set out for? When you reach a milestone in your business does it live up to the expectations you had? Are you where you are supposed to be?

These are burning questions a lot of us, as entrepreneurs, have and that we, at the Fizzle Show, are going to try and help you answer. We are all on a constantly evolving path and analyzing and becoming comfortable on this journey is at least half the battle!

In this episode, we pose the questions that are related to this somewhat elusive idea. We talk about what is most meaningful and fulfilling in your work and in your life in general and we consider how displacing some of the stresses of working solely on your own business can lead to more contentment and success!

We also talk about creating and telling real stories, finding where you need to be and share three big tips for fining your ideal lifestyle and work within that. So for all this and more great ideas to boot, be sure to join us on the Fizzle Show today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing today's question and topic. [0:04:40.5]
• Is the successful business you have what you really wanted? [0:07:07.7]
• Why the actual work is more meaningful than the money. [0:13:01.2]
• Your business as a life source and journey. [0:17:29.5]
• Weighing up the challenges of your own business versus a day job. [0:21:02.3]
• Real stories as opposed to oversimplified business strategies. [0:27:13.8]
• The idea that being where you need to be makes things easy. [0:33:23.6]
• A journalling practice and the metrics that allow you find what leads to success. [0:38:32.1]
• Purpose, desire, metrics and designing your life and business around these. [0:42:02.6]
• The ever changing nature of your own purpose and fulfillment. [0:48:03.7]
• Three tips for more clearly developing your vision. [0:50:21.3]
• It's magical and beautiful where you are! [0:55:21.8]
• And much more!

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0:00.0	control. Let's see where this goes.
0:02.1	Here comes music.
0:03.5	Here comes the music.
0:08.1	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:12.9	What is up, everyone?
0:15.4	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people of all ages, shape, size, genders, and things
0:20.1	that you call yourself.
0:21.7	This is the fizzle show where we don't call you anything, except for an engaged, creative,
0:31.6	inspired creator of things that you might be able to make a little money doing in the world
0:39.9	and you won't burn out doing them, right?
0:42.5	This is the whole deal with modern life.
0:44.6	It feels like you can go get the job, which is better in some ways.
0:47.7	Like you can get the job.
0:49.0	You have this security, right?
0:51.0	You can be a creative director at an advertising agency,
0:53.8	or you can be a copywriter in some sort of digital media company, or you can be number two in any of the amazing, fantastic entrepreneurial ventures going on today.
1:05.6	Like working for someone like Pat Flynn or Amy Porterfield or Steph Crowder or for us here at Fizzle or for all
1:13.5	the kinds of places where there's digital businesses that are growing. They need teams, right?
1:19.0	You could be that. You could be involved in a lot of things you're passionate about, but you're an
1:22.9	employee, right? You're getting a paycheck. You might even get some benefits, right? You've got some
1:27.4	security. The only problem is when that, right? You've got some security.
1:28.4	The only problem is when that business goes away, your job goes away, right? And this is something
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