Sleepless in Business

Of late, I’ve been sleeping really late (again! what’s new hur!)… and most of the time, its because I’m rushing my work. In the past two weeks, I’ve had two 1-hour-sleep nights already. I know its not very good for me – whether its for health reasons or for my relationships in the future.

I’ve spent time to restructure my business, but it’ll take time for my current projects to cool off before I can even get time to work on my longer term in-house projects, which will hopefully allow me to take more time off from the computer and my business.

I’m kinda tired and feel a little burnt out. Friends in business are telling me that this is life in the first 5 years of business. No holidays, no sleep, no nothing… well I didn’t expect it to be this bad.

I started this business for me and my loved ones to be free from financial stress, but as of now it seems like I’m going the opposite way. Haha… well, maybe I do have to backstep a few steps first before leaping forward, but it remains a fact that my plans are not that concrete yet.

Recently I watched a video about becoming a business owner – i.e. just owning a business and not working in the business. One of the questions that was posed went something like “How would you be doing if your business was 5 times as big as it is today? Would you have less work to do? Would you be more free?”

My answer I told myself? I’d be dead.

So yeah, really not accepting more projects for this year, and hopefully by 4th quarter things would have settled in enough for me to really work on my in-house projects.

I realise I also need a business mentor to bounce ideas off and keep me accountable for my own schedule, and I’m reluctant to get a “traditional” business mentor because of how businesses are typically structured. Specifically, I’m looking for someone who (1) has once transited from a full time job to business (2) has built an Internet based business only with virtual assistants, i.e. no real staff (3) work from home (4) is financially free because of this business i.e. can afford to take a long time off from work.

There aren’t many of these out there. Let me know if you know anyone like this.