Right now, businesses are booming. They’re starting out online in their little corner of the world and they’re becoming forces of nature. With the right planning and a lot of hard work, a business can go from online store to worldwide sensation in a matter of months. You may have an idea lurking at the back of your mind, but you need to put that idea into motion if you want to make a success of it. You might, however, be on the fence about whether you want to start that business.

Going it alone? That’s not easy.

Sure, you could get a quick business loan and get started, but there are a lot of things to consider. You especially need to think about the advantages of starting out on your own. There are thousands of reasons you could choose to go it alone, but we’ve chosen to start with ten of them.

Below, you’ll find ten solid reasons you should stop sitting on what could be a life-changing idea and put it into motion right now.

• When you decide to start your own business, you let go of the current management team giving you a hard time about your work. You also let go of the idea that you have to answer to anyone but yourself. You are in charge and you can do things your way and in your own time. You can choose what you spend your budget on and where you outsource your business. You could start Chocolate Cake Friday for the team that you decide to build – and there’s no one to tell you that you can’t!
• Starting your own business gives you the chance to do something that you are actually excited about. Right now, you may have zero excitement about the job you’re doing, simply using your time to get all the skills that you need up to scratch in your field. It happens as people aim to climb the career ladder. However, if you’re feeling stuck, then it’s about time you do something in which you are interested. You just need to make sure that the thing that you are most interested in is profitable enough to keep you living!
• You no longer have to worry about clocking in and clocking out of your dreary job. There’s no more meeting the deadlines of someone else: it’s all about your own deadlines and your own timeline. Of course, you can’t just lounge around at home doing nothing all day. Empires don’t build themselves, after all. The difference is that meeting your own targets is hard work that you are willing to put in because you know it’s for a good cause.
• Being in the driving seat of your own business is going to give you the chance to get creative. You can express yourself and plan your day in a way that is going to make you happy. There will always be financial worries at first, but there is nothing that is stopping you from being as creative as you want to be! 
• Did you know that being your own boss isn’t as hard as people make it out to be? The news talks about the taxes and the red tape, sure, but there are so many new ways that businesses can be profitable and successful and governments around the world have made people’s dreams far more accessible. Funding is better and more accessible than ever before, which means that you can get a head start in your business. 

• Businesses that are run on a smaller scale can be just as profitable as those huge corporations that you’re always seeing in the news. Entrepreneurs who have a smaller idea can still make it big and can be on their way to their first million really quickly. Okay, so the start-up process can be gruelling for a newbie, but the result is so worth every bit of difficulty that you may go through. The hours will be long and the money not so great – until it is. The rewards will be massive – so hang in there. 
• You will do so much more when running your own business compared to working for someone else. You’re going to deal with suppliers, update spreadsheets, liaise with your outsourced finance team – it’s all different every day. Running your own business is going to keep you busy, on your toes and able to stretch your abilities to the max! You want a career where no two days are the same, and running this business is going to give you that!
• When you first start out, you might choose to run your small business alongside your day job. At first, this is going to be quite hard. It will not be easy to be an employee while running your own firm, but it’s going to be profitable and doing it this way keeps a regular income coming in while you get established.
• The biggest bonus to working for yourself? No more commuting. No more spending money on gas for the car and no more uncomfortable public transport. It’s you and your haven in your home, and it’s the best thing that you could possibly do for yourself. There is no more daily clog on the tube – just you, your office and your computer.
• You are going to make your dreams come true. This is it – the big one. This is your moment to make your idea a tangible, working business and it’s going to push you toward building that future you’ve always dreamed of having.

Running your own business is going to take some time at first – you have a lot to organize. You need to get your home office sorted and if you are planning to create a product, then you need materials and suppliers and a whole lot of staffing. It’s time to sit down and get that business plan written. You know you can get the funding – what do you want to do next?

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