I am working on a similar issue right now.
I love to have things to do. I dislike to be watching TV, people watching, etc because I love to actively participating in life rather then watching other people live theirs. I am pretty much balls to the wall busy for months on end, day in and day out. It’s not untypical for me to be up and gone before 6 and not get home until midnight. There are also a couple nights a week I don’t even get to come home. I know I made my life this way, and I really do like it. My issue right now is, I want to spend more time growing my business. However, I look at what I need to do, and I don’t see where I can get the time from. I am already down to under 5 hours a sleep a night, a couple nights a week, I don’t even get to sleep.
Everything I already do is important enough that I do it, so I can’t cut it. And I really can’t cut out anymore house work lol
I have been thinking about this issue a while, and I think I am starting to see a way. Steve once wrote a blog entry about all the different aspects of life, and how you can choose a couple different aspects to work on at once, the others might slide a bit, but that is ok because you’re pulling the other ones up. Once the aspects you were working on are more in line with your goals, then you can work on pulling others up. Reminds me of a constant juggling act.
I realize that I try and do it all without letting anything slide except for possible exception of fun and recreation. Now, I have fun all the time, with everything I do, however I don’t do anything just for the sake of fun (except read, but even recently I have been on a nonfiction kick).
I know what I need to do is cut time from an area, and just let that are coast along riding the wave of momentum it is on for a couple months.
This also led me to the realization that I need a break. I need a break bad. I have been running around busy for 80, 90 plus hours a week for over a year now. I even have been running around crazy on holidays.
So good luck Twelve and good luck Andrew and good luck everyone courageous enough to take it on. To quote a favorite philosopher of mine “The universe had damn well back me up”
(for those you who don’t recognize that, its once of my favorite Steveisms)
Adrienne