This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

Another great point of satisfaction for me as a business owner and I’m hoping for you, is that creating your business gives you flexibility in your life.

You get to choose what your work-life balance looks like.

A lot of entrepreneurs go all in, and what I mean is, they sacrifice their time and they are working all the time.

When I first started doing my own business, I was also working at another job.

I started slowly and was always sharing my side hustle with another business I was working for.

As I started to become a business owner, I was working as a consultant, so it still felt like I was working for somebody else and working on their hours.

Now that I have the rule of the roost and I’m completely operating my own business, I can be tempted to work into the late night hours and up early and not take time for my meditation.

I’ve recently in the past year read the book that Trevor Blake wrote called The Five Hour Workday.

It’s something you can download.

I will see if I can connect it to this coaching but you can look it up if you don’t see it connected.

The five-hour workday talks about how inefficient you are when you work more than 5 hours and when you work more than a two-hour block at a time and how important it is to have time when you’re not working throughout the day for your brain to process.

Astronauts working for NASA are forced to take an hour’s nap every day in the middle of the day.

Isn’t that intriguing?

It’s based on research that shows that our brain needs to be off task for periods.

It restores your creativity.

It brings you back to the possibility that got too cluttered to be noticed.

When I work in my studio on a piece of artwork, I work on a large scale.

My drawings are a little bigger than three by 4 feet so I’m working with my drawings on an easel.

I’m working on small sections at a time, and if I stay working without moving away from the drawing board for a big block of time, I discover that I may be working on something that needs to be adjusted without knowing it needs to be adjusted for a long period.

I will be committing to that section of the drawing and embedding color in there.

And later when I discover that something needs to be shifted, it’s very difficult to get that color out of the surface and move that area or adjust that area.

And it’s a great analogy for how people work when they don’t stop working. If you don’t get up and take breaks.

If you don’t take a walk outside, if you don’t allow your brain to do a different activity, you get in a quagmire.

Your brain is not able to freely access resourceful answers because you’re entangled.

One of the benefits of being an entrepreneur is that you’re setting your own time and schedule.

As you do this, truly enjoy the benefit of this work-life balance possibility.

I want to encourage you as a call to action today, to assess how you’re spending your time during the day and to put a mandatory break of an hour or two in the middle of your day.

You are the entrepreneur.

You are setting your schedule.

You are not working for somebody else.

So how are you choosing to set your day up?

Is it for productivity, or is it based on a hamster wheel that you once spent a lot of time experiencing?

What are you creating for yourself?

You created this freedom as an entrepreneur.

Now how are you going to leverage it to maximize your freedom and a beautiful work-life balance?

Have a lovely day.

Bye.