Three hours of coaching was accompanied with roughly four hours of commuting because of it.
That's rough but that's the "cost" of business for me.
Taking a Grab every where means spending nearly half my earnings today on transportation when I figure I have perfectly good legs and new shoes, so I can walk. So I do walk. I only take a Grab to my first client and only to this particular client. For the rest, I walk.
My pet peeve these days are people who assume I have all this free time on my hands because I "only" coach three people a day and therefore must have nothing better to do than lounge around. For starters, for every client I train, there's preparing their workout and then of course walking there and back. I also have my own training going on, still have ties with my other club in Korea (Hulk's) that means I do random work for that, and then there's the fact that I'm a one-woman team running Empowered and working on the Lil' Sistas Project. I'm blessed to have brought in other people to help me with Hulk's and the Lil' Sistas Project, but it's still overwhelming all the work that I have to do.
Those who aren't entrepreneurs or have never been an entrepreneur have absolutely no idea what it involves, the nonstop work that consumes you and the lack of "off" button. I think people think that because I don't yet have an official location set up yet that I must not really work. If anything, I argue though, I'm all that busier because me working also means me commuting a lot. I don't have the luxury of a 9-5 job with a steady pay check, job security and benefits. People think entrepreneurs have "so much freedom" to do whatever they want but they couldn't be farther from the truth of it all even if they tried.
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