Important shift
What is an important shift people need to make when going from employee to independent? To stop using their job title to define their worth in society! Even if this is unconscious, many of the people I help to leave their employee status to start their own business need to get used to this adjustment. As employees, they tended to associate their self-worth by the so-called prestige of their job title: They have been striving hard to climb the ladder. When they finally obtained the role of, say, Director, Vice President or CEO of a corporation, many felt like this is how they