Work Fatigue for Entrepreneurs
Ever since I started doing this venture full time about a month ago, work has been non-stop. I’ve managed to endure 15-18 hour days skipping nights, weekends and holidays working, but on the bright side, I’ve been skipping early mornings waking up a little later too.
All work and no play is turning my head into mush… and while I’ve encouraged other entrepreneurs not to burn themselves out, it seems like I’ve fallen into the same trap overseeing the project.
The funny thing is, this isn’t a problem with being too much work. I’ve definitely been busier during other times of my life and juggling the same if not more things on my plate. The problem seems to stem from working on one main thing and not giving my brain time to rest to process thoughts in the background; where most of my solutions generally appear.
In the same fashion that you don’t build your muscles in the gym, but during your rest periods outside the gym, I need to cut back some hours and give the brain some rest. I have a feeling I can probably be just as effective working 6-8 intense hours vs. 15-18 drawn out hours. Either way it’s definitely worth testing to see if feelings of sluggishness disappear.
All I gotta say is thank goodness for my dogs… without them to bug me during the day about going outside, I’d probably be locked in all day.
Wei on January 17th 2008 in Personnel




