Serious Entrepreneur, is your life balanced or a balancing act? In business today, it seems we are under greater pressure than ever before. In our quest to be successful, we’re working harder and longer just to stay in the race.
It often feels like one huge juggling act.
As internet marketers, we guide and motivate our team members, talk to prospective clients, reply to endless emails and text messages, keep up to date with all the new marketing strategies, promote our campaigns, get bombarded with guru launches that promise to make us richer faster and easierand fit in time for our family and ourselves.
How do those, who survive, then survive without a career burnout?
John Alston, who, as a serious entrepreneur, can understand the problems of serious entrepreneurs as much as anyone can ever, says: “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.” He wrote this in the Professional Speaker magazine of January.
Practically no arena of life is free of stress and strain. However, an internet marketing job is a different kettle of fish altogether. Whether you are into it full time or part time, an internet marketing job sucks the juice out of your system. What is left of you is more or less unrecognizable to you yourself. In short, you are at the mercy of your pressure-tension potpourri pretty much round the clock.
All serious entrepreneurs in the world of internet marketing are there because they see their work almost as a vocation, a calling. It is a call of the soul that they cannot resist. Every new challenge is seen by them as an opportunity to rise higher. They simply get drunk on the pleasure of picking up the gauntlet, surmounting the problem, and thereby going another step higher in the success ladder.
But they know when to shut the computer off.
However much they love their work, serious entrepreneurs ensure that internet marketing is not the be all and end all of their lives.
They ensure that they get to spend quality time with their kids and friends and spouses. Serious entrepreneurs would hunt, fish, or scuba dive or whatever it is that stimulates them. Or they may read, paint, or cook, if that is what makes them unwind.
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 find yourself saying, “I never have enough time to …”
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.
Albert Schweitzer 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.
