Most of us home business owners work a lot. We often do not keep regular business hours and are finding time to work when our families are sleeping, or there is a break in the action. Some of us hold down traditional “day jobs” and work at night or in the early mornings on our home businesses. I know full well that there are those people who can work seven days a week, but I have had to learn that I am NOT one of them…
Perhaps someday when I no longer have three children at home, I will be able to carve out more time to work. I might not need to make time for soccer games and lunches out or trips to the library. Even watching a movie as a group, or eating dinner or breakfast together seems a priority to me with my kids still at home. As much as I understand that more attention to my business will result in more money in my bank account—I just can’t seem to work through seven days a week. While I do not allow myself to miss deadlines, neither do I let my schedule get so full as to rule out flexibility. Other things come up that seem more important!
It is not hobbies or books or dinners out with friends that pull me away from work, it is my kids and my family. It always seems like work can be left for a few hours or a day so that I can spend time with my quickly-growing-up kids. Having been through those rough and rugged adolescent years, now that my kids actually WANT to do stuff with me again sometimes, I want to be available and accessible. And, THAT is why I just can’t bring myself to work every day at my home based business—regardless of the lack of productivity!
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