Whatever rank you reach within the police force there will, unfortunately, be a cap on the amount of money you earn. Then to make matters worse you have to trade your time to earn a living. There are 168 hours per week and you will spend 40 hours plus working, you will then spend an average of 56 hours sleeping to recover from your tiresome shifts each week which will only leave you 72 hours in the week, to do what you truly want to do. Doesn’t sound great, does it?

But unfortunately, that’s the trade-off you make by being an employee within the system. Your most precious resource is being spent, time in exchange for your labour within a job. However, as a business owner, you can create and leverage systems within your business to ensure you are not trading your time for money and to even make money whilst you sleep.

Now how would you feel if you had more time to do what you really want to do and the income to support your lifestyle? Pretty good right?!  Well, it is all possible when you go into business. For me, one of the many benefits of going into business was to gain my freedom! As a business owner, you have complete freedom to live where you want, earn as much as you want, work with who you want and allocate your time where you want, whether that’s doing certain work, activities or just generally spending more time with your family and loved ones.

I now don’t have to worry about clocking on and off shift, booking in annual leave for a holiday away or even getting called in on my rest days for a training day like I did when I was working in the police force.

When you are in business your agenda is yours, no one dictates your life, you choose your own working hours as well as your own destiny.

If you’re a police officer watching this, just think of your latest pay slip for a moment. Whether it states £1500, £2200, £3000 or £5000, that is what the organisation and government THINK you are WORTH. How does that make you feel? That your working life is worth whatever it currently says on your payslip? Now I don’t know about you, but that made me feel pretty crap.

As a business owner you find your true worth, even if you’re earning £4000 a month, you can increase that worth as there is not a cap on it, like there would be working in the police force. You can increase that £4000 per month income to £83,333.33 per month, which is a million pounds per year through your own innovation, progress, effort and self-improvement.

Personally, I think police officers should be paid much more than what they are currently being paid. I have nothing but absolute respect for every police officer for doing what they do, especially when you look at the income they earn.

If you believe that now is the right time to stop trading your time for money and start enjoying your life while gaining the freedom to earn more and create your own work timetable, then Shifts to Success are here to help support you and ensure you achieve all that you are capable of and build your own successful business. You can click here to find out more.