1. http://www.RedesignRetirement.com
http://CareerClarity.com.au
http://JenniProctor.com
Jenni Proctor

2.  Autonomy
 Freedom to work or not work according to
what else you want to do
 Ownership: Your ideas, your plans, your way
 Your own timetable
 Passions and interests
 Working with people of your own choosing
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 LOTS OF MONEY!

3.  Self employed
◦ Developing your own business opportunities
◦ Not working for a salary
◦ Need to be involved
 Entrepreneur
◦ A person who organizes and manages a
business, usually with initiative and some risk.
 Business Owner
◦ The business interests can operate without the
owner.

4.  Do you have to be an “entrepreneur”?
 Do you have to have outstanding skills?
 Do you have to be really good with
computers?

5.  What are you really afraid of?
◦ Loss
◦ Failure
◦ Success
 How to manage Fear
◦ Small is good
◦ Don’t procrastinate
◦ Having a safety net
◦ Being well planned

6.  What are your learning needs?
 Who can you learn from?
 Mentors
 Mistakes are good
 Instant success can be a problem. Beware
Complacency!

7.  Isolation and the need for community
 Juggling family life
 Doing what you love means often having to
do things that you hate
 Hours and more hours
 No support staff

8.  Clarity
 Focus
 Belief in own abilities
 Determination
 Resilience – “No failure, only feedback”
 Mindset
 Positive attitude

9. Diagram from http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/~davidt/self-
actualisation.htm

10.  Keep it clean!
 Who are you when you are with others?
 No financial discussions in bed!
 You are life partners and business
partners, not conjoined twins.
 It’s business and you are colleagues. Is that
how you relate with
emails, coffee, interruptions, questions, “hom
e” issues?
 Define your business roles
 Take good breaks from work

11.  Employees
 Facebook friends
 Networks
 Outsourcing
◦ http://www.odesk.com
◦ http://www.elance.com
◦ http://www.vworker.com

12. Jenni Proctor