administrativeallyWhat time did your alarm clock go off this morning? Do you even like getting up well before dawn? The chances are if you’re an entrepreneur or in charge of a small business, you have an alarm clock set for 5 AM. Unfortunately, you only had a few hours of much-needed rest before that darn clock awakens you from your slumber. This is a picture repeated worldwide as people who are “living the dream” devote all their waking hours to their work. To them, there are not enough hours in the day, and they seem to devote less and less time to their family or friends.
There is no such thing as a 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday work week for anyone with a small business or who is in charge of one. For these people, working at a minimum between 60 and 70 hours per week, life goes by in a whirl. They don’t have enough time to devote to all their daily tasks, especially as they have to backpedal from time to time to put out fires and deal with unexpected complications. The business may be turning over nicely regarding the amount of money coming in, but is it really growing? There is a good chance you can’t see the wood for the trees due to everything you have taken on.
If you manage to get one day per week away from the office, per se, there’s a good chance that you have taken work on and find that you have to do specific administrative tasks on your Sunday morning. You may have a loving spouse, but they must be secretly upset and frustrated with how things have turned out.
Is this kind of lifestyle sustainable? Understand that it’s putting a tremendous strain on many areas. None of us are supposed to work under pressure for extended periods, no matter how well the business may be doing. Your relationships will undoubtedly suffer if you don’t have time to devote to leisure time and the more essential things in life.
