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INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurship is exciting, but it can also be stressful, frustrating and overwhelming.

You may have started your entrepreneurial journey with a rosy idea of what it would be like to finally stop working for someone else, but the reality is that success is often harder to come by on your own.

For instance, a regular job has a schedule, with severe consequences for not showing up when youre supposed to. Bosses tell you what to do, and coworkers are there to confer with when you get stuck. Best of all, problems (like when a computer system goes down) arent actually your problem when you work for someone else. If someone else owns it, they are responsible for fixing it.

The freedom you have as an entrepreneur is a definite perk, but it can also be a heavy burden, especially when you lack motivation or encounter a problem that you dont know how to solve.

Perhaps your business isnt growing as much as youd like. Maybe your bank account balance doesnt match up with the long hours you work. There may even be times when you feel forced to make things up as you go along.

The good news is, the problems you face are common and experienced by mostif not allentrepreneurs. In fact, if you study the lives of successful people, youll find that, regardless of industry, they faced the same challenges you face and found a way to overcome them.

When you look closely at the lives of successful entrepreneurs, youll find that the secret to their success was developing good habits .

For example, Jerry Seinfeld didnt become funny overnight. He developed his joke-telling ability by practicing the habit of writing a joke every single day.

In On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft , Stephen King recommends sticking to a strict writing schedule. He has a habit of writing ten pages per day, six to seven days per week, including holidays.

Kobe Bryant is known for practicing basketballa lot. He doesnt just practice; he practices with purpose. Before each session, Bryant develops a plan (such as shooting 800 jump shots) with the goal of improving one specific skill.

As you can see from the examples above, the focus isnt on working long hours (although long hours may be necessary at times). The point here is that habitually focusing on the important things will often lead to success.

Successful entrepreneurs arent always the ones with the most talent. They face many of the same challenges you and I face. What sets them apart is their solid foundation of habits and daily routines.

In the following book, The Daily Entrepreneur: 33 Success Habits for Small Business Owners, Freelancers and Aspiring 9-to-5 Escape Artists , we talk about the power of habit development and explain how to use it to overcome the challenges you face on a regular basis as an entrepreneur.

What makes this book different is that it is organized according to specific business challenges. We outline the strategies and habits you need to develop to overcome these obstacles. Finally, each habit comes with a simple action plan for implementing the information.

Who Are We?

Steve (or S.J.) runs the blog Develop Good Habits . The goal of his site is to show how continuous habit development can lead to a better life. Instead of lecturing you, he provides simple strategies you can start using right away. His goal is to show how you can make lasting changes by developing one quality habit at a time.

Steve has been a successful online entrepreneur for more than a decade, running websites that cover a variety of niches and income strategies. Hes learned a number of things in these last 10 years, especially how important it is to focus on whats actually working and make sure your business model is constantly evolving.

Rebecca is the owner of Professional Content Creation , and a freelance writer and content strategy consultant for small businesses. Shes been privileged to work with some of the top names in content marketing and social media such as Michael Hyatt, Amy Porterfield, Marcus Sheridan and Pat Flynn. Many of the success habits that have become part of her life and business have come about as a result of learning from and modeling the behavior of some of her most successful clients.

Rebecca is a creative and naturally disorganized person. She was always known as someone who did a great job organizing things on paperonly to lose the piece of paper. This changed once she developed good systems for keeping track of all of her tasks and ideas.

She knows what it means to do the side hustle because she started her business while working full time. Shes now been working at home full time, without a boss to oversee her efforts, for three years. During that time, shes gone from working far too many hours for too little pay to taking control of her time and getting the most important things done by early afternoon. This change occurred as she learned the power of developing habits and running her business according to a plan rather than living in a constant state of emergency.