Most of the time you have when setting up your own business is spent hustling. You never seem to have enough time to learn the marketing skills, the business skills, the social media skills, not to mention actually doing the WORK YOU WANT TO DO. For me, that work is writing. Also, editing and re-editing and re-editing and research, too. There is never enough time to do it all.
Time is precious. While following Michael Hyatt and a few other folks, I have really learned to try to use my time in the wisest way possible. I try to wake up early to get going, I try to spend the first few minutes of the day in prayer and talking to God instead of reading the news (because that usually just starts the day of sour), I use every minute of waiting at the dance studio and in
In the end, whether it looks like it to other people or not, I’m always working. But I’ve also learned over the years that there are moments in life when you simply can’t work. Take these last three weeks. We went to Spain to be with my mother-in-law, to see the family and to have the girls brush up on their Spanish. As usual, I thought I was going to get WAY more work done than I actually got done. And it was frustrating. There was no internet in many places and my phone decided to go wonky on me and since I was unable to upgrade my phone (due to a CRAZY reason) I constantly had storage issues. When I did try to post something to social media it took so much finagling that I wanted to throw my phone away.
I didn’t get to work as much as I wanted, so when we got home late Friday I went to bed with the intention of getting up and trying to play catch up on editing and social media marketing blah, blah, blah. But Saturday morning came and my husband had other plans. He invited people over, which wasn’t really too bad because I woke up at the crack of dawn. Except that other people woke up at the crack of dawn. And each time I tried to sit down someone called me or talked to me.
And then the headache started to set in. At first I tried to work through it, but within half an hour my eyes hurt just looking at the screen or even at light and I had to give up. I took another Tylenol and headed to bed.
I felt miserable. Mostly because of my pounding head, but also because I was ‘wasting’ my time. But then I realized, it was time to just let go and give in. To just relax. What good was it going to do my headache to pout about losing time? Stressing out about it would probably only increase my pain. It certainly wouldn’t help to take it away.
There are times that we have to give in for our mental and physical health. My headache went away, then came back and actually lasted through the weekend until Monday morning. It was a bummer, but today I’m better and read to go. The time in the past is just that, past. No sense in feeling bad about it. Instead of still having a headache or feeling the repercussion of a migraine (which I can get when I don’t take care of a headache right away), I’m ready and rearing to work.