When I first started my wedding and event planning business, my goal was to work for myself as a wedding planner. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was simply creating a job for myself. After three years of planning weddings on my own, I brought on assistants and eventually other wedding planners. My “job” actually turned into a business but I didn’t have that perspective at the time. For a few years, I was excited that I had not only created a job for myself, I had also created jobs for a few other wonder women who work at my company.

It wasn’t until recently that I have realized I needed more time to run the actual business and not spend so much time doing my “job” of planning weddings. There are only so many hours in the day and I couldn’t do a full time job planning weddings AND run the business. I have wonderful gals who work for me, a regular bookkeeper, a website designer and many more logistics that I am responsible for on a day-to-day basis.

Now I am more focused on the processes we have, the marketing and how we can get better at what we do. I take on a lot less weddings but this works well for me. I love the business side of things as much (or more) than planning weddings.

What are you building? Are you simply building a job for yourself or are you creating a business? Neither answer is wrong but it’s helpful to understand the difference so you can grow and build toward that goal.