It’s not “WORK” it’s a LIFESTYLE
A few days ago around 11:30PM a close friend of mine asked me to “stop working, get away from the computer, and to give it a rest for the day”. I responded with: “this isn’t work, it’s my life.”
In all honestly, I don’t like to think of what I do as “work.” Indeed, there is no denying that what I and many entrepreneurs do on a daily basis is hard work, but to me, it’s more than work. It’s a way of life. Something that I eat, breathe, and sleep.
One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that we can make things happen 24/7 and we are not confined to a 9 to 5 workday. So if our creative juices are flowing during the late hours of the night, then we can jump right into it and make something happen.
In all reality, I think that the entrepreneur lives a much rougher life than the average person who works a 9 – 5. Personally, I have never experienced so much stress, drama, and worry in my life until becoming an entrepreneur.
But at the same time, I have never experienced so much excitement, joy, and exhilaration any time in my life. I guess it’s a tradeoff, eh?
Entrepreneurship isn’t something that can be turned on an off like the flip of a switch. It’s something that is always on our minds no matter what time of the day. So the second you start to think of it as “work” then you may have a problem.
[…] These statements really give great balance to my last post about thinking of entrepreneurship as a lifestyle and not as “work.” My friends’ thoughts really made me think about my situation as a young entrepreneur. […]