Relax? Work-Life Balance? NEVER.
I have a little secret. A little secret that most entrepreneurs have. Don't tell anyone okay?
i work a lot.
Yep. Ain't that the truth. In fact, I try to plan my day so I'm working from 7-530, eating, then back to work from 8-12. Yeah. And for the past weeks, I've been fine with this schedule.
Today, due to a mix of hormones, peer pressure, and perhaps even the will of God, I went to dinner and a movie. I relaxed. I was away from my computer for 7 hours (the time of my last tweet).
Snippets of work here and there pinged me from time to time. I admit, I was strategizing over the spicy fish dish in my mind while halfway listening to the conversation at the dinner table.
I wanted to go home to work. I kept trying to make excuses in my mind to get out of the movie, but in the end, I went to watch "Julie and Julia".
And ya know what? It was these mindless activities of "fun" and "relaxation" that have helped me gather my thoughts and figure out how to restructure my life and better take over the world.
My simple point being- You're an entrepreneur. You love work because you love what you do. It is your life. It is your passion. It is your dream you're building.
But time away from that dream will remind you what your dream was about, why you are here to accomplish that dream in the first place, and perhaps remind you of the beginnning- the mission behind your plan.
It's funny- every time I "relax", I have pretty much the same revelation... but if you don't take the time to have that revelation, you never will. And you constantly need to be reminded of what it's like not to work. I strongly believe that without this rest and without practicing this concept of "work-life balance", you'll soon forget that life is a journey and not a destination. You'll soon lose sight of that which is around you and end up alone at the finish line. The finish line is not the prize- the prize is the running in itself. And the water breaks in-between.
And if you have to schedule it in your damn Blackberry, then do it now. At least once a month. At least.
Cheers to your success. :)
<3 LadyLeet
