How I Avoid Burnout in My Home-Based Business
Friday, May 23rd, 2008MoneyMinding is an incorporated, international company with several employees and contractors, and with hundreds of clients and “Certified MoneyMinding Advisors” – and it’s still operating from my home office after several years.
Avoiding burnout is an understatement: it’s easy to blur the boundaries between work and home when the office is right below your bedroom. I’ve responded to emails at 3 in the morning, and done business deals in my housecoat. What keeps me going, even when growing the business seems to take more hours in a day than a person can stay awake for, is the following:
- Clear vision of where we’re going and the purpose for the work and involvement in this vision by the family
- An open door policy for family. I will always take phone calls from them and answer and homework questions or take time for a midday mom-daughter talk
- Asking for help (employees, investors, mentors, peers, friends, and my very supportive husband)
- Healthy living where possible (a good lunch, water jug on my desk, exercise in the evening, involvement with the church)
- And, a mid-day play with the dog always helps too.
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