Since we all adhere to NMS production cycle…
I’ll confess I am a bit late getting this article into the newsletter on deadline.
I’ve added it as a last minute piece. We tell our clients to write a personal interest article and an industry specific article each month for their newsletter and we are no different. This newsletter follows all of the same advice we give our clients and we follow our own deadlines.
The last 8 weeks of 2013 were a physical struggle for me. I’d call it burn out. It comes from trying to grow Newsletter Marketing, keep up with my consulting and copywriting work on as well as trying to stay sane and have a life outside of work…
Ideally, this article would be ready to go in at the start of January. But instead somewhere around November 3 I hit the wall and it became an exercise in priority management and my health to get through until Xmas. I made it.
We are all entrepreneurs, so we are all likely to burn the candle at both ends. But I am a case study in pushing too far at the moment.
While I gave you the nuts and bolts in January of how I spent my summer I didn’t give you the why. And that was it – I was so exhausted I couldn’t think straight or see straight some days. I watched TV, I slept and occasionally left the house to catch up with some friends – it didn’t help my back was out but it was more an excuse than really stopping me.
Just before my birthday I was starting to panic that the exhaustion I was never going to leave. Thankfully it has largely left by the end of College Bowl season. Which ends this afternoon.
Be sure to take the time to rest and recharge. It is okay to work intensely in bursts but be sure that it is balanced out. If you don’t take the time for the recovery, your health will leave. After this break I couldn’t imagine anything worse.
There is no point being rich if you have sacrificed your health or anything else to get there. Happiness seems to me to be a function of having a balanced life, not robbing one area to pay another.
Started Jan 7 11:07am Finished Jan 7 11:22am, which is why I don’t worry about being behind with writing (now way I could have done it that fast in December it might have taken hours). But note I was nearly a week behind getting this ready for Ben. And to think it used to take hours to write a 300 word essay in high school.