I’ve converted half my house to a home office and running a real estate company from it (3 partners, several interns, misc contractors etc) . With my IT background and remote access technologies, we truly do not need a ‘real office’. What ends up happening is that you end up working even more hours than normal because everything is right there (this is good and bad – bad for interns who live with us!, ha).

So, with all the crazy things that go with being an entrepreneur working from home and distractions included, we truly need time to “get back with the fun.” It works.

In my biased opinion, the main reason for starting your own business is so that you can trade time and money.

Rock on
Mike T Nelson
PhD(c)
Extreme Human Performance

Although all the points mentioned above are very inspiring, but I like point#2 “Refocus on your successes”.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks very much for the post. I’ve been grapping with exhaustion and burnout lately, as well. I never imagined it would be something that other entrepreneurs would have to deal with, so seeing your words is helpful. In my case, part of the burnout come from possibility and expansion. In one project I worked on, every time I thought I was finished, another door would open and I’d have to stop my marketing, revisit the product and update it. I hope I’m in the last round of this because it’s happened many times. It’s been both gratifying and mind expanding but also very tiring and many times (including recently), I’ve had to stop and rest. There’s been no other choice because if I push myself past my exhaustion, I risk getting really sick – and it’s happened several times. Again, thanks for the post.

Nathan