This is the question many of us wake up pondering at 2 am in the morning when thoughts of work overwhelm our desire to sleep. Have you had your sleep interrupted with the latest challenge at work on your mind? If you are an entrepreneur or in charge of a small business of some kind the answer to this question is unquestionably yes. Not only do you get your sleep interrupted by thoughts of work but you often are getting up well before dawn to tackle the typical work day. It seems that you only had a few hours of much needed rest before your alarm clock is rudely awakening you from your slumber, once again. This is a picture that is repeated all over the world as people who are “living the dream” and devote all their waking hours to their work. To them, there definitely are not enough hours in the day and they seem to devote less and less time to their family, or to their friends.
There is no such thing as a 40 hour, 9-to-5, Monday to Friday work week for anyone who has their own small business, or is in charge of one. For these people, working at the 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 to deal with unexpected complications. The business may be turning over nicely, in terms of the amount of money coming in, but is it really growing? There is a good chance that you can’t see the wood for the trees, due to everything that you have taken on.
If you do 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 certain administrative tasks on your Sunday morning. You may have a loving spouse, but they must be secretly upset and frustrated with the way that things have turned out. Is this kind of lifestyle sustainable? It’s not healthy to work under pressure for extended periods of time, no matter how well the business may be doi
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