This past week has been a blur. I swear I blinked and went from watching the series finale of Breaking Bad
last Sunday to wrapping up another work week today!
I've been out of sorts this week; work has been getting done but I didn't feel the same focus and joy that I usually do and I couldn't figure out why.
When I stopped to think about it, there was a major event this week that impacted my family and it obviously affected me a lot more than I wanted to admit. I have faith that we will come through this okay but unlike when I was working in the corporate world, I couldn't take a day off to take it in and give myself time to deal with it properly; work still has to get done.
I am hesitant to even write these words but there is a blessing and a curse in being a solopreneur. The blessing is that I am my own boss, I decide who I want to work with, and I am responsible for my own success. The curse is that there really is no such thing as down-time right now: if I need a day to just get away from it all, then that is a day without pay; vacation and sick time are distant memories for me. Please don't take what I'm saying as a complaint, I wouldn't change owning my own business for anything but I would be lying if I said I didn't sometimes miss the benefits of just being an employee.
I got my focus back today and am happy to say that I crossed of every item on my to-do list. I am actually a bit ahead of schedule and because of that I now get to work on an exciting new opportunity this weekend.
I know there will probably be days like this in the future where I will lose focus again, after all I'm human not a robot. But I also know that I will make it through fine just like I did today.
