One of the key things that's helped me achieve this level of freedom is discipline. Proper planning is key to getting things done and making the most of my time. I stick to my to-do lists and I never joke around with my work schedule.
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There is nothing that can be compared with freedom, I have tasted being employed, working for someone else while I have also tasted being a boss of myself, so I can relate the both sides and the effects they have on me, working for someone has a bad effects on me and it was so difficult for me to make plans for myself, so I wasn't having vision when I was working for someone because I was acting based on order and there was no time to make proper planning about my life.
I was reading a post online this week and the writer says that working for someone or depending on others for survival truly mean you are still a slave, at first I disagreed with this statement but later I sat down and thought about it and truly found a meaning to the statement.
Nothing sweet like being a boss, being yourself and having your own business, making decisions when you want, and also having the freedom that you desire, I worked in a company after I graduated from university, and I became a shadow of myself, I worked with a very strict boss and seeing her at work makes us fidget as if we are working with the devil.
This woman is more than wicked, she comes to work very late in the evening around the closing hour and will delay us till she is ready to leave the office, she doesn't care about our safety and her rules must be obeyed, if she is ready to leave the office at 10 pm then everyone is leaving by that time, no one dares to leave before her and that was not the agreement when we were given an appointment letter. So making a decision can be too rigid in this case.
This continued for months and it was no longer conducive for me, I would always wake up as early as 4 in the morning and try to meet up with the resumption time while I would close very late, I mean extremely late at night and my area is never safe for a lady to be walking by that time, I always call my brother and my neighbor to meet me at the junction so that I will not be the only one walking home at that late hour, after some months and it was getting tougher I decided to resign and learn a skill.
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I learned make-up for some months and started working for myself, I opened my studio and it was as if I was relieved of some burden, I answered to myself and not to any boss, I was calmed with my spirit and had the freedom I desire, I make my decision and also have enough time for myself, no early morning waking up and no more late hour work, my life is so sweet like I have always pictured it, being my own boss worked for me and safe my sanity.
I know if I had continued with that job I may have run mad or become lean as if I was sick because the work environment is so toxic and this may have affected my sanity all in the name of hustling and also enduring the pain, getting a skill is the best decision I made and it is helping me now, I do things at my will without stress or being controlled, I maintain my peace and make decisions at my own convenient time, unlike when I was still taking orders from someone else.
I love how things are going now, I am no longer a slave to anyone, I do my thing at my own will, I make plans for my work schedule, I have a to-do list that I follow and I can never joke with any of it, proper planning is what I discipline myself about, despite that I do not work for anyone but I must be disciplined in other to achieve the best, when it comes to flexibility, I take my work time serious and get things done when it suppose to be done. I attend to people that I want to attend to, make my money, and have quality time with my family and friends, nothing can be compared with the freedoms I mentioned.
This is my entry for today's episode of the hivelearners community prompt of #hl-w140e2 which the topic is tagged How Flexible Is Your Work Life?
