Business or Busy-ness?
A typical day of a business person - Go for work at 7.00. Have a meeting at 8.00. Calling clients and managing business issues up until 06.00 - even more… even up until midnight.
A successful business person image? Perhaps.
The person might be very well successful, but the lifestyle is not a best fit for every entrepreneur.
I don’t know about you (please share! :D) But to me, it’s not what I’m thinking about entrepreneurship.
Perhaps I was being lazy, but I think the business person I described above is not doing business - the person is doing busy-ness.
Busy-ness - being busy all the time taking care of the business.
Nothing wrong with this, but there are ways to enjoy your perk as an entrepreneur - a.k.a. working whenever, wherever you want and having your business run with or without you.
In term of blogging, I’m not your ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse type of entrepreneur - he does full-time blogging. I’m a more Entrepreneurs-Journey’s Yaro Starak type of entrepreneur - he pursues minimal working hours per week.
Don’t get me wrong, I considered both as my mentors in blogging (I was into John Chow before, but I guess I’m not really into John’s writing style - sorry, John! :D) But how they do their business really turns me as a fan of Yaro Starak :)
I agree with Yaro’s concept of entrepreneurship - if you worked more by having more business, then you are not creating a business, you are creating another job for you.
The more deligating you are, the better.
Being lazy is good :D
So back to the topic. Being busy is good, but having less and less time in a day because of your business, bad for your health.
So are you running a business, or a busy-ness?
Ivan Widjaya
I don’t like being busy :D
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I love taking tons of breaks! I wish I could take more…although, I do like keeping busy with work too! :)
Susan,
Yes - busy is nice :) being busy keeps you sharp and focus - however, too much of busy-ness drag you away from what you should be doing - working hard while enjoying your life to the fullest.
Balance is key, I guess!
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