Build a business, compose a life
Just read a great article on maintaining a work-life balance while building your business or even slogging in your job - Balancing Acts: If Not Now, When? A couple of interest excerpts from the article:
The reality is that when you are entangled in an entrepreneurial life, there's never a right time -- for anything. There's no right time, because there's no time (and usually no money, either).... An entrepreneurial life becomes all about postponing -- "When we break even…," "When we get that contract…," "When we hire that salesperson…" -- ah, yes, that's when our lives can move ahead.... The fact is that while you are building (and building, and building, and sometimes rebuilding) a business, you are also composing a life.... There are personal opportunity costs to starting a business if it causes you to postpone making a life.... If the entrepreneur doesn't build a high wall around his or her personal life, the business is sure to overwhelm it..... But we took those trips and did other things we could ill afford because we knew we had to keep living and squeezing as much joy from life as we could under the circumstances..... Gary and I managed to separate our reactions to our business situation (depressed) from our feelings about our personal future (optimistic)..... If you allow a business, even a successful one, to dictate the terms of your life, you will always find reasons to delay making the big personal decisions....
