4.When you're self-employed, you have to be able to plan ahead.

    创业以后，你要能够提前定好计划

    Yourlast job may have involved no planning at all, as that was someoneelse's job. Or perhaps your job involved planning on a localized level,such as planning a particular project. If you want to start a business,you need to develop expertise in both short-term and long-range planning; it's about to become a big part of your life.

    或许你的上一份工作不需要任何计划，因为制定计划是其他人的事情。又或许你的工作只包括了限定水平的计划，比如为一个特定项目制定计划。如果你想自主创业，你就要专门开发自己制作长期计划和短期计划的能力。这将会占据你生活中的很大一部分。

    When you start a business, one of your first tasks will be to work through abusiness plan. As your business becomes operational, you'll find thatthis plan （however detailed） needs to be revised and that other plansneed to be created, as you work towards the long-range goals thatyou've set for your business. From following someone else's plan as anemployee, you have to learn how to create the plans yourself - andadapt the plans to changing circumstances.

    在开始创业后，你的第一个任务就是制作一份商业计划。在你的事业开始运作后，你会发现这份计划需要修改，为了使你的事业朝着你指定的长远目标发展，你还需要制定其他的计划。当员工的时候照着别人的计划行事，你要从中学会如何自己制定计划，并学会用这些计划来改变环境。

    5.You need to be prepared to put in a constant and consistent effort.

    你要准备好持续，连贯的努力

    We'veall seen employees who are just going through the motions, or who werejust "putting in the time" until retirement. You don't need to be aco-worker to know who these people are. As a customer or client you cantell, too. Bluntly, starting a business takes energy, and you need tobe able to give it 100 percent. You can't afford to just coast along,or go through the motions, if you're running a business. Your customerand/or clients need to know that you are devoting 100 percent of yourtalent or skill or attention to them - and will go elsewhere if theydon't feel this is the case.

    我们都看到很多员工只是走走过场，或者只努力到退休前为止。即使你不是他们的同事而是客户，你也知道有这样的人存在。坦白说，创业需要能量，你需要付出100%的努力。如果你在经营事业的话，你不能只是走走过场而已。你的客户，顾客需要知道你尽了自己100%的才能和技巧去吸引他们，如果这些不起作用的话，你也愿意做其他的尝试。

    Worse, you need todeliver this constant and consistent effort without the employee safetynet. Many employees are used to being able to "call in sick" and havesomeone else cover their job, for instance. As a self-employed businessowner, you'll have to go in and give it your best effort no matter howyou feel or close up shop if you don't have employees who can fill in.You can also say goodbye to the holidays that many employees enjoy,both the annual x number of weeks and the statutory holidays, at least until your business is established to the point that you can manage your own time.