Welcome to "my world."
I'd like to ask you a question...
Are you happy with your business? Is your blog or business generating steady revenue?
Most importantly, are you happy with your life?
Building a business is challenging. You spend nearly all your time building your business.
When your family comes over to visit, you're working in the other room to build your business.
When your friends are all together partying, you're in your house slaving away to build your business.
You work late into the night to get everything going, and sleep less to spend more time on building your business.
After all, you're an entrepreneur.
You need to hustle to build your business.
But the truth is, that’s not true entrepreneurship. It's not just about building a thriving business…
You need to think about the why: why do you want to build a thriving business?
If the only motivation is to get more money, then continue doing what you’re doing.
I'm sure that’s the only way to get more money. If you can sleep less, do so. That will shorten the path to your goal.
But I guarantee that there will still be something missing in your life.
If you listen to the interview of Ali Baba's founder, he regrets doing what he did. His wife told him that he was married to Ali Baba instead of her.
Think about that for a second.
You spend countless of hours building one of the most successful ecommerce sites on the net, and after that, you cry because your whole life revolves around the business and not the people who care about you.
What will happen when you die? No one will care about you; your business may collapse, or it may continue, but that won't matter to you at that point.
Who will notice your absence when you’re gone?
It’s a sad thing to go through life without having anyone care about you.That’s why you need to think about the why.
Stop for a second now before you do anything else and think about why you're doing what you do.
Why are you willing to spend hours of your precious time to build your business?
For me, it's freedom. I want to enjoy my life. I want to have a business that lets me do so.
That's why I was willing to spend countless hours to build my business, but at the right time I turned things around and started to enjoy my life.
So if that’s what you want, continue reading.
But who is this guy? Who is me 🙂
As you may know, I don't claim to be an expert in productivity or a marketing guru with a 7 figure business who’s worth millions of dollars or whatever.
I'm just a normal guy. I'm Ahmed Safwan, an online freelancer and a blogger who’s studying to be a dentist.
At the time of writing this page, I'm still 20. I've been able to build a freelance business writing articles for big bloggers.
I've also appeared on many of the popular blogs like Problogger, Kikolani, Misaree, Basic BlogTips, Become A blogger, and many more.
On the other hand, I was able to get GPA of 3.92 in my first year in dentistry.
Yeah, man... a lot of hard work was involved here. I was able to grow my freelancing business, and still get a high GPA in dentistry.
All this while enjoying my life… I don't just write and study all day.
I go out with my friends, enjoy time with friends and family, and play football sometimes 🙂
And that is what I'm trying to help you achieve this year.
I struggled for 3 years to achieve a balance between the two. I was the type of person who studied all day long, so adding freelancing to my schedule was hard.
I had to cut out a lot of things from my schedule that had previously been a big part of my life.After that I felt burnt out. I didn't want to study, nor I didn't want to write. I took a break for 3 months to be able to regain my will to study and write.
During that time, I studied and observed other people to see how they were able to get things done without getting burnt out.And the things that I discovered are what I’m sharing with you in these emails.
You could think of these emails as the result of hours and hours of reading and observing other successful people, and then trying to implement their tips in my own life.
And here’s what I found it all comes down to. There are 4 principles that can help you enjoy your life while also making your business grow at a faster rate.
Want to know what are they?
Make sure to check the next few emails to learn more about these 4 principles.
Later,
Ahmed Safwan
PS. Here is a checklist I've created for my post on the Huffington post.
You could check the article here, and you could download the checklist by clicking here.
You could also grab my checklist for the entrepreneur post (article). Click here to grab it.
P.P.S In the last few weeks, I discovered a trick that helped me to get 40 hours of work done in 18.6 hours, i.e., I saved 23.4 hours to enjoy my life and my businesses.
All due to one trick I discovered in one article.
Want to know what it is?
Then make sure you check the next email from me. I'll also provide a link to that article...
BTW, this is the first principle for building a thriving business while enjoying your life.
P.P.P.S Make sure to reply to the email with the #1 problem you're struggling with that prevents you from achieving the life you want.
I read every email, so go ahead and reply. If you can't find the email, email me at ahmed (at) ahmedsafwan.me