‘Do what you love’ means that you should be working on things that you enjoy, that edify and motivate you and that build you up and give you satisfaction.  If you’re working in areas that you are not well suited to, or that you dislike, then it’s a struggle.
When you struggle doing a task or project, you tend to put it off and procrastinate.  Procrastination in business is a killer because more than anywhere in your life when you put off doing necessary or required things there are consequences.  Consequences in business are things like lost sales, lost clients, missed opportunities,penalties, fees, etc.  ‘Doing what you love’ is essential to being happy and successful!

There’s actually a long list of good reasons why a Stylist would prefer working in a full-service, upscale salon as opposed to trying to run their own small ‘booth rental’ business.
Most of them relate to all the intangible benefits of working as an employee at a full-service salon like working with a team of professionals, getting the support you need, freedom from appointment scheduling and swiping credit cards, but most importantly, you get to ‘Just Do Hair and Get Paid’!

What do you miss working in a full-service, upscale salon?

1. Just Doing Hair!
2. Just Getting Paid!  
3. Paid Vacations!  
4. Salon Education!  
5. Support!
   
6. Teamwork and Camaraderie!  
7. Receptionist Taking Calls, Booking Appointments Checking Out Clients!  
8. Assistance or an Assistant!  
9. Cheap In-Salon Services!  
10. Free Marketing by the Salon!  
11. Not running to the beauty supply store everyday for supplies! AND
    
12. Free Time that Counts (no paper work, no running the business, no collections, no marketing, no technology, no accounting /bookkeeping!

Suite/Booth Rental companies are selling the dream of “being in business for yourself”, freedom to work when you want to work and keeping all the money you bring in for yourself – except for rent. This is a gross over-simplification of what it’s like to be a small business owner!  When you became a small business owner, you were suddenly and completely on-your-own!

It takes a lot more than magic to build a successful business!  Doing hair is ONLY ONE aspect of your business.
Ever hear of infrastructure?  It’s all the systems and processes that make doing hair possible.  They include all the things that other people specialize in like accounting, marketing, technology, contract negotiation, tax law, social media, education, etc.  Most of these things should be done on a daily basis!

As a small business owner it’s no secret that if you want something done you have to do it yourself.  Why is that?  The reason is, nobody cares about your business like you do!  It’s just not a priority for them because it’s not their’s – they’re off doing their own thing.  So before you know it, your small ‘booth rental’ business takes on a life of its own.  When you started you thought you’d make more money for the same effort, but that’s never true.  Now there are things you should be doing, but you’re not.  Business stuff, family stuff, personal stuff.  You soon find that you’re not running your business, you’re business is running you, and it’s wearing you out!