October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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July 15Entrepreneurial Guilt
The bird may burst the silken chain which bound him, / Flying to the green home, which fits him best; / But, O, he bears the prisoner's badge around him, / Still by the piece about his neck distressed. / He ne'er can breathe his free, wild notes again; / They're stifled by the pressure of his chain.
Margaret Fuller—Life Without and Life Within (1859)
Guilt, living in the past, dreading the unknown of the future—these are entrepreneurial chains that can stifle your wild notes.
Guilt? What guilt?
You're not spending enough time working on your business. You're spending too much time. You're neglecting your family. You're not contributing enough to the finances. And then of course, if you're a parent of young children—what were you thinking?
Life is full of choices. The key is to make choices that feed your soul. If you're wondering what the heck that means to you, it's probably your downtime choices.
Taking downtime and taking it seriously, without guilt or judgment, is how you recharge to be sure, but it's also how you start releasing the chains of guilt. It's how you build the muscle memory required to work when you work and play when you play.
Today, it's time to train your brain to let go of your entrepreneurial guilt.
Challenge Question
- What would you like to spend more time doing?
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