This Is What Happened When I Decided Not To Work On the Weekend
/I recently discovered a list in an old journal of mine from January of 2015, when I was new to being full-time in my business, working from home.
At that time, I had been so uncomfortable with vacant space on my calendar during "work days" that I found any and every excuse to "work" constantly.
It's kind of funny to me now, because in retrospect, I only had a handful of clients, and could have totally enjoyed all that spaciousness and time freedom in a beautiful way, instead of resisting it and filling up the space with minutia!
I had made a list in my journal to remind myself of the magic that happens when we actually create intentional space to NOT work as entrepreneurs.
It can be SO easy to use work and our business as an avoidance tactic, coping mechanism, or even an addiction to mask uncomfortable feelings, situations, and patterns we don't want to look at (ignorance is bliss, right?).
It's really easy to hide inside our businesses, because it's socially acceptable to be an ambitious workaholic, it's easy to justify because everything feels important, and being "busy" is both exhausting and impressive to outsiders.
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