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Janet,
This is very well said. I shall try to follow you suggestions. Thank you.
You’re welcome, Heather! Shall I check in with you and make sure you do?
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Excellent advice, Janet. Your strategies are essential. The only thing I can remotely add is that it’s also important, along with the day of rest, to have a day of “boss”.
With so many of my organizing clients who are solopreneurs, they spend so much of their time working for their clients, they forget they, themselves, are their own most important clients. They don’t nurture themselves, and the more work they get, then less they nurture the business by taking time out for administrative tasks, so that “boss” stuff ends up seeping over into personal/family time. I always encourage people to take one day a week..at least a half day…for administrivia. (Of course, a VA makes this problem fade away.)
Excellent point, Julie! Even people who have a virtual assistant should set aside time each week to touch base with their VA, answer questions, discuss new projects, and explore future ideas.
.-= Janet Barclay´s last blog ..Five Ways To Keep Your Business From Taking Over Your Life =-.
I think I started watching Brewers baseball a couple years ago because my brain concentrates completely on the game. It really relaxes me!
Melodee, I’m glad baseball is starting soon, because you’ve been working way too hard – haven’t seen you around in ages!
.-= Janet Barclay´s last blog ..How to Protect Your Intellectual Property =-.
So many people spend their time with their kids on their Blackberry. I know sometimes it’s imperative to take the call or check the text. Still it helps me to keep my phone/computer use in check to picture my children, now too young to have their own phones, in about ten years spending every minute they are with me fiddling with their phone or video game. AAAH! This is incentive enough to take a break from the business when I am with them.
Thanks for sharing, Nonnahs. It’s not quite related, but your comment reminded me of an old poem that ends:
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep.
.-= Janet Barclay´s last blog ..Checklists and Contracts and Agreements – Oh my! =-.