Oct 27 (edited) • Refer Clients or Show wins 💰
The importance of having a break
I've been working every day on my business for almost a year now where I am constantly on. I was never being off. And yesterday was the first time where I consciously said I want to take a day off and not work on the Sunday.
Although I still worked in the morning. But here's what happened, recently I've been feeling really demotivated. I've made some money selling AI solutions, which was awesome. But also I started to lose the motivation to just show up every day. And because all my days felt like just one long struggle.
And I have forgot how to have fun. I forgot what to do for fun actually. And that came out yesterday when I said, okay, today I'm not working. I didn't know what to do because all I do is work.
I forgot what it means like to have hobbies. I still work out. I do a lot of stuff for myself for my health, but I also consider them as work and not as really like purely fun. And yesterday I decided to have this day off and the things that I got in return were amazing, I feel so much more relaxed today.
I am more positive and more engaged with what I'm doing. I feel mentally relaxed. I feel my body is relaxed and it just made me realise how important it is to have at least once one day in a week where you're absolutely not even working or touching your business, but you're focusing on you.
Because I've noticed in this business, it is really a marathon. It is not a sprint.
You can make a lot of money real quick, but then let's say you make 50k in three months and then what? If you want to do this full time then you need maybe realistically around 100K if you're in Europe or maybe in the US to have like a decent kind of living. Like you're not even rich after tax and everything, especially in Europe, you're not rich at all, but you live a very, very comfortable life and probably like on the top 25% of people.
So what I'm trying to say here is like make sure that whatever you do is really sustainable. Don't feel ashamed to take breaks and take holidays and take days off where you're not working on your business.
Believe me yesterday I got a horrible email from a client that he was upset about something and usually I would freak out and immediately answer him and trying to calm them down. And I didn't. Yesterday I didn't. And guess what? Nothing happened. The client is still probably gonna work with us. I'm gonna message him today and explain the situation and things are still gonna be fine.
So my point is when I started working in my business, I thought that I need to firefight all the time, but then I realised you can get away with a lot of things, a lot of delays without things burning. So this is what I wanted to mention to you is like focus on yourself, on your health, on your well being because you're going to be doing this for years and that's the only way you can do that.
Sorry about posting all these personal posts but I really think that you need to hear that from somebody who has been in the trenches.
wish you a great week
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