Welcome to Impact the World, the show for and about creatives, change makers and entrepreneurs.

This is an insight episode, where I share a few quick tips to talk a little about why entrepreneurs need to create

structure in their work, in their life, and in their creativity. Now, as someone who identifies as a creative

and an artistic type, structure was not something I enjoyed, and it was something that I would

often rebel against. But the more my work grew and the more the things that I was creating

grew, the more I learned that actually

putting structure into my work not only gave me the freedom that my soul craves and needs

and has to know is there, but more importantly, help me on an organizational level and an energetic

level. So I thought I'd share a few quick tips for you to think about

if you find yourself in this position of needing to create structure. So number one, when you first

become self-employed or an entrepreneur, you are in the great unknown because you may not

know your rhythm, your working rhythm. What I mean by this

is that for most of us, we go through school and then a series of jobs, in my case, where the

structure was given to me. I was told I had to show up at 9 a.m. I knew what time the lunch break

was. I knew I was leaving at 5. And I was told what was expected of me in all of the hours

in the middle.

And if I did or didn't perform as was needed by that job or that employer, I would be

told.

So there was something a little like being a kid again.

You go from your parents to your school, to your employer,

and all of these people give you the rules and the guidelines. But when you first go self-employed,

when you first become an entrepreneur, that freedom that you can love at the beginning,

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