5 Ways to Get Real Freedom as a Business Owner (Without Surrendering Control)

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In my early years of entrepreneurship, I believed that the more I tried to manage all aspects of my business, the more successful it would be. I thought that micromanaging was my way of protecting myself from failure. But I soon realized that while I was busy trying to control everything, I was losing the one thing that mattered most: freedom — the absence of work constraints and the ability to think tactically and creatively and have personal time.

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