Mastering everyday life as a senior entrepreneur

Organization as a recipe for success in self-employment

To do justice to your existence as a seniorpreneur, we recommend that you organize yourself well from the very beginning. Here are some tips on how to optimally organize your seniorpreneur's daily routine and how to keep your work-life balance under control.

• Home-based Businesses
• Time Management
• Set realistic goals
• Use your experience
• Be self-confident
  

How to run your business from home

As a seniorpreneur, you can decide whether you want to run your business from home or in an external office. Of course, self-employment in a home office is not suitable for all seniorpreneurs. So you have to decide in your situation which is the right path for you. Not every product or service offered can be operated from home. So you can conveniently sell your homemade products from your home office via an online store. However, setting up your own bar or consulting company in your own four walls is difficult in many cases. In any case, we recommend a clear and structured organization to help you manage your time. Tip: It's worth deciding on the domicile of your company before you set it up to avoid a later change of domicile.

Create a weekly plan

As a seniorpreneur, you probably won't get bored easily. After all, you are running your own business. So you shouldn't miss any important deadlines and you should fulfill your roles. That's why it's important to manage your time well and create a weekly schedule. This is where you write down all your important appointments and have an overview of what's coming up. Make sure that you don't fill your plan with unnecessary details so that you can maintain an overview. Whether you keep your weekly plan digitally or on paper is entirely up to you and your preferences.

Set yourself realistic goals

To be able to celebrate small successes and not put yourself under enormous pressure, you should set yourself challenging but, above all, realistic goals. Not every newly founded company experiences rapid growth from the outset, which is why you should also be happy with small steps of progress. However, by setting goals, you ensure that your company continues to develop. As you achieve your goals, you can set new, challenging goals that you think you can achieve. Such goals could include, for example, the number of products or services sold or the development of a new product. It is important that you set your own personal goals while also keeping pace with competitors.

Use your experience and knowledge

As a seniorpreneur, you have already gained a great deal of experience, both professionally and personally. You should definitely make use of the wealth of knowledge that you have built up over the past years. Not only have you acquired a great deal of know-how, but you have also built up a network. Involve your family, friends, acquaintances and former colleagues in your idea and get their opinions.

Find your own identity and be self-confident

During the preparation phase, you have already been able to get to know yourself better through self-analysis. You know where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Now think about who you are: What are your values? What drives you? What do you want? Don't let your fears drive you, but be confident about yourself and your abilities. It's good to step out of line. All entrepreneurs are different and it is their uniqueness that makes them stand out. In reference to Grichnik's “Entrepreneurial Living - Unternimm dein Leben”.

Using technology to start your own business as a senior entrepreneur

As a seniorpreneur, you did not grow up with the latest technological developments, which is why many older entrepreneurs do not feel particularly comfortable with smartphones, tablets, etc. Nevertheless, we recommend that you use such technologies. They offer many advantages, such as working independently of time and place. They also create completely new sales channels and ways to communicate with your customers. You should definitely make sure that your company does not miss out on these new opportunities.

Outsourcing – hand over the paperwork

Focus on your core business – we'll take care of the paperwork. Our trustees and lawyers will support you with your accounting and tax returns. This leaves you free to focus on the essentials with your valuable time.

Hand over accounting for a fixed monthly fee

Accounting with our subsidiary and trust company Findea AG enables you to have completely digital accounting, where you can find all your documents in the cloud. This means you can also check your figures outside office hours.

Further information can be found on www.findea.ch