How to Transition from a Blue Collar Mentality to White Collar - YouTube

Hey y'all, how you doing? It's me, Geraldine. The Entrepreneur Guide, Web & SEO expert. Today I'm talking

about what it takes to go from a blue collar mentality, where you do everything yourself to a white collar

mentality, where you're managing and overseeing the process. So before we move on, I definitely want to define the

differences between blue collar work and white collar work. So if you think about blue collar work, it's all about

getting your hands dirty. Being the person to accomplish everything, working really long hours, and doing whatever it

takes to accomplish the task at hand. Usually, in this type of work, you rely on yourself, and you don't really

collaborate with others to get the job done. You might have a team structure, but you're still there grinding with your

teammates, if you do have to meet in a white collar mentality. It's all about thinking using your brain to

accomplish whatever it is in front of you. So White Collar mentality, we'll think about time management, they'll think

about the ultimate vision and goal. And usually they have specialized knowledge around what is being accomplished. My

personal belief is that one isn't better than the other, they just have different ways of being. And what's most

important, especially if you are a business owner looking to shift from one to the other, or vice versa, is that you have

to think about your long term goals, your values, and what stage you are in your life and your business. So let me give

an example. In my personal journey, I used to be a worker bee, I used to be a person that wanted to be really hands on

in the creation of things in my business. And for those of you who aren't familiar with what I do, or who I am, I

traditionally have been a online vinyl record dealer, a restaurant owner, and also a web developer. And all three of

those things were very labor intensive. So I was working from morning all the way through the night to get things

done. Oftentimes, even though in certain portions of my business journey, I had a team. And it wasn't until I met

one of my former business partners, Lauren Mesmer, they started to really see the benefits of developing systems and

process in order to be able to accomplish more, charge more money, and also do less work. So as I began to get older, I

started to see that it was taxing for me to do everything in my business, to be the person to make corrections of other

people's work to do all the decision making to project manage, which they've quite frankly, I wasn't that great at.

And it wasn't until then that I started to kind of shift my mentality and start getting really great at task delegation

being okay with spending the countless hours that it really takes to develop system and process amongst a team of

collaborators. So to answer the question, how do you shift from a blue collar mentality to a white collar mentality,

what you have to do is think about your values and where you're going. So if you're someone who loves to be there

doing the work, but you're also somebody who's really visionary, what you want to do is think about your energy

levels, what could be possible if you had a team and operated differently, and then go from there. In my personal

journey, I've learned that it takes a few things to generate success. And they're my 3 pillars and I actually have a

podcast relates to this. It takes willingness, commitment, and communication. So the first thing you have to do aside

from understanding what your values are, and where he wants to go, is, are you willing to change naturally as people you

don't even have to be a business owner but as people, we don't like change. And once you are willing to shift and

change, that's your first step to you have to commit to what it takes to shift from being a do it yourselfer to a

collaborator, look at for your own personal business. What does that mean for you? Does it mean taking baby steps?

Because you're not that great delegating or managing? Does it mean getting a virtual assistant and working with them

five hours per month or per week? Or does that mean hiring a teammate and making mistakes?

Because when you first start delegating to your teammates, a lot of times what happens is that you delegate something you

think you're as clear as you can be, and they come back to you and they deliver something that's incorrect, not what

you expected, or they're confused, and they have a whole bunch of questions. Now that can be frustrating, especially

in the beginning, because we have all these judgments about ourselves. We think we develop communication, that's

perfect. Actually, it wasn't because people interpret things differently than we do. So You have to be okay with that

first change, you have to be okay to master delegation and management. It takes trial and error, which is where my

third pillar communication comes into play, you have to be willing to develop the type of communication that it takes

to make sure every task that you're delegating every point that you're looking to get across lands for the other

person. And it's just a cycle that you repeat over and over and over again, in your entrepreneurship journey, you'll

have a lot of challenges. And a lot of them will have to do with people they'll have to do with your clients, your

teammates, and vendors that you hire. And it's going to take willingness, commitment and communication for you to work

through those. And when it comes to shifting from blue collar to white collar or having a mix of those two

mentalities. I don't have an answer. I don't know what that looks like for you. But it's really important for you to

visualize and think about what that is, and then make that shift into moving into a place of being a really great

manager or leader and just knowing that oftentimes it takes baby steps and having a lot of patience and Grace within

yourself to be the best leader that you can be. So I hope that answered your questions. If you do have more questions,

leave a comment down below. And that is how you shift from a blue collar mentality to white collar or somewhere in

between. It's me, Geraldine. The Entrepreneur Guide, Web & SEO expert. I'll talk to you later. Bye.