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Some of us entrepreneurs, webpreneurs and self-employed professionals believe that we need to slog our backs off and never rest until things are done. We stress ourselves like there is no tomorrow and we inevitably worry ourselves sick while freaking our families out. We rarely spend time at home and even if we do, we end up talking or doing business. That isn’t life at all. If all you had to do was work, life would be no fun.
We need to ensure a proper schedule which makes time for family, oneself and friends. It ought to make time for you. It has to be flexible enough to give you a breather and has to be tight enough to ensure that your projects are done on time.
The best way to do this would be start work early and wind-up early. Have your Saturdays for friends and others and Sundays all for yourself. Sundays can also be used to do something that can pre-occupy you and let you unwind totally. A walk on the beach, a short-work through the woods, a game of squash, tennis, cricket or whatever. Anything goes as long as you aren’t thinking about business. This is your park, you mow the lawn.
While this planning should keep you busy, it might help to keep in mind that one has to aim to retire early. I don’t mean that you can lay your fat leg on the arm chair, I only mean that you take a back seat and let people run the show. You can afford to relax a bit and do business intermittently. You can take holidays and you can freak yourself out. You should be ideally doing it around the age group of 45-48. Way too early? I don’t think so. I guess by middle age, you would have burnt yourself out and that itself is an indication that it is time to retire actively and let your hair down.
