{"id":4998,"date":"2026-07-10T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:37:47","slug":"det-ingen-berattar-om-att-starta-eget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/det-ingen-berattar-om-att-starta-eget\/","title":{"rendered":"What nobody tells you about going independent."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everyone talks about the big leap. About the courage it takes to leave. About the feeling of freedom.

Nobody talks about the Monday three weeks in, when the calendar is empty and you wonder if you made the right call.

It is not the fear that is hardest<\/strong>
Before I started By M Consulting, I had accounted for the fear. I had prepared myself for the doubt, the uncertainty, the feeling of instability. That was not the hardest part.

The hardest part was the uncertainty about whether I was doing the right things \u2014 in the right order. Should I prioritize building visibility or meeting potential clients? Should I invest time in the website or in the network? Should I set prices now or wait until I understand the market better?

None of those questions has an obvious answer. And that is what is difficult \u2014 not that it is hard, but that it is uncertain.

The silence is unexpected<\/strong>
In employment, something is always happening. Meetings, messages, colleagues dropping in. The day is filled with other people's needs and other people's pace.

When you start on your own, that structure disappears. And it creates a silence I was not prepared for. It is not a bad silence. But it is a different one. And you need to learn to work in it \u2014 without misreading it as nothing happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What actually helps<\/strong>
Three things have made the biggest difference during the first months:
1. Structure. Not for anyone else's sake \u2014 for my own. Fixed days for different types of work. Time for strategic thinking and time for operational work. Without it, everything merges.
2. Talking to people who have done it. Not to get advice \u2014 but to normalize the experience. Most of what you feel when you start on your own, everyone else has felt too.
3. Accepting that it takes time. Not months \u2014 years. Building a business with substance and trust is not a sprint. It is a craft that requires patience.

Why I do not regret it<\/strong>
I do not regret it. Not for a second. Not because everything has gone smoothly.

But because for the first time in a long time, I am doing something that is entirely mine. Every assignment I take, every client I meet, every article I write \u2014 it is a choice I have made.

That is a freedom nobody can take away. And it weighs more than all the uncertainty.


If you have thoughts, questions, or simply want to talk something through \u2014 feel free to get in touch. I am happy to have an initial conversation with no agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magdalena Hagstr\u00f6m St\u00e5hl
By M Consulting AB

Right person. Right place. Everything changes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alla pratar om det stora steget. Om modet att l\u00e4mna. Om k\u00e4nslan av frihet. Ingen pratar om m\u00e5ndagen tre veckor in, n\u00e4r kalendern \u00e4r tom och du undrar om du har gjort r\u00e4tt. Det \u00e4r det ingen ber\u00e4ttar om. Det \u00e4r inte r\u00e4dslan som \u00e4r sv\u00e5rastInnan jag startade By M Consulting hade jag r\u00e4knat med […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflektion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}