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Taking A Vacation After Only 4 Months of Solopreneurship Was Good For Business
It felt wrong to take time off
It has been 4 months and 2 weeks into my self-employment journey. If you are reading me for the first time, I left a 13 year corporate career to officialise my coaching business. Bold move, you say.
No more bosses, no more filing of forms A,B,C,Y…Z to submit my work, no more office gossip and awaiting the dreaded performance comparison to other rats in the race.
Also no more request for holidays and planning my vacations, which begs the question: can I afford to give myself time off while my business is still in its infancy stage?
Wrong question.
But I found an answer anyway. I did not leave a career to stop selling my soul so that I burn the same soul out in entrepreneurship.
I am not used to this life yet, I keep wanting to fill in a 9 hour work day and still have to battle self-doubt if I do a yoga session at 3 pm. It feels too good to be true.
Except, now I cannot stop working (not full day but from monday to sunday) Not having a monthly incoming salary will do that to you. I guess it takes time for your…
