Serious Entrepreneurs Know the Prescription for Career Burnout
If life is a tight rope walk for all, for serious entrepreneurs, life is a tight rope walk with spinning plates in hand sans a safety net below. Sure, they are making it to the top of the ladder in their business, but are also perforce perpetually running survival marathons.
It often feels like one huge juggling act.
The life of an internet marketer consists of endless rounds of promotional and motivational pep talk, chasing of prospects, struggling to keep the head above the avalanche of instant messages and emails, keeping ahead of the marketing game, in short doing so many things including, perhaps, counting the chickens before they hatch.
All without getting sick, run down, or burnt out?
In the January issue of Professional Speaker magazine, serious entrepreneur John Alston writes: “For some of us, work is our first love, and for those of us struggling to make our businesses work, there are patient and enduring lovers, spouses and children hanging in there with us. For others there are ex-lovers, ex-spouses and alienated children who can and will testify to what you really value.”
Every job comes with a certain amount of stress, but having your own business — and whether or not you market on the internet full-time, you must look at it as a business and NOT a hobby — is a whole different ball game. And most likely no one taught you how to handle the pressure. It was sink or swim, and you worked out the inevitable challenges on your own.
The most successful internet marketers and business owners that I know have a passion for what they do. They are stimulated by the challenges and opportunities that come with being their own boss. They thrive on being entrepreneurs and discovering that next golden nugget that will take their business to the next level. They wake up excited to see what a new day will bring.
But they know when to shut the computer off.
Serious entrepreneurs are only too conscious about the fact that though their jobs define life itself for them, life is much more than that as well.
They take time for “dates” with their spouses, attend their children’s sports events and piano recitals. They hit the gym, fish and hunt, take guitar lessons, and have backyard barbecues. They take time to meditate, do yoga, read just to rejuvenate.
Incorporating entertainments, altruisms, or gym workouts into one’s schedule is not in fact a time management problem. Each of these facets of life is as important in a man’s life as the other. Together they maintain the equilibrium of life and make the passion for making money itself worthwhile.
If you think you have no time, remember the Parkinson’s Law “work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”
Time has to be parceled off to incorporate into one’s schedule, those things which one enjoys. There are so many things in human life, the vey doing of which is its own reward. These cannot be pigeonholed. It is better to pigeonhole some of the work and find time for these.
It was Albert Schweitzer who said, “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” And it perhaps holds true for serious entrepreneurs more than to any one else.
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