Breaking your corporate mentality

So, like many of you, I have gone from business world to real estate investing. This is not any easy business, but it is an invigorating one, and if done right could lead to a much happier lifestyle.

So how do we shake our corporate mentality?

Well let me first start answering that by telling you what corporate mentality means. You have a drive when you go to work, and that drive is literally getting in the car and clocking in; telling your boss that deadlines will be met before smacking your head on the wall. We go to work exhausting ourselves on the guilty yet lucrative pleasure of "job security" and "benefits."

Having a drive for your own business is different its what gets you in your car in the first place, that exciting new endeavor you've set yourself upon. However, with many new endeavors you must educate yourself first, you must know how to swim before jumping off the boat.

So how do we shake our corporate mentality? Or better yet once we do how do we continue to be functional at work when its obvious we've lost interest in working there?

Shaking your corporate mentality is as easy as getting up when your alarm goes off in the morning. If you are still hitting snooze on your alarm I hate to break it to you, but you do not have the persistence to really make it anywhere in this industry because it takes a certain mental state of being to break free the chains of bondage, to just wake up with the do it or die attitude is key. As far as continuing to function at work even though your brain has obviously checked out of the office... "Fake it till you make it" is how you keep putting on that grin every time you go to work dreaming of the day you can quit.