Serious Entrepreneurs Know the Prescription for Career Burnout

If life is a tight rope walk for all, for serious entrepreneurs, life is a tight rope walk with spinning plates in hand sans a safety net below. Sure, they are making it to the top of the ladder in their business, but are also perforce perpetually running survival marathons.

Most of the time, it is pure survival acrobatics.

The life of an internet marketer consists of endless rounds of promotional and motivational pep talk, chasing of prospects, struggling to keep the head above the avalanche of instant messages and emails, keeping ahead of the marketing game, in short doing so many things including, perhaps, counting the chickens before they hatch.

Life for him might look like a circular jogging track from which he cannot find a way outside.

Serious entrepreneur John Alston had this to say about serious entrepreneurs in the January issue of the Professional Speaker magazine: “For some of us, work is our first love, and for those of us struggling to make our businesses work, there are patient and enduring lovers, spouses and children hanging in there with us. For others there are ex-lovers, ex-spouses and alienated children who can and will testify to what you really value.”

Every job comes with a certain amount of stress, but having your own business — and whether or not you market on the internet full-time, you must look at it as a business and NOT a hobby — is a whole different ball game. And most likely no one taught you how to handle the pressure. It was sink or swim, and you worked out the inevitable challenges on your own.

All serious entrepreneurs in the world of internet marketing are there because they see their work almost as a vocation, a calling. It is a call of the soul that they cannot resist. Every new challenge is seen by them as an opportunity to rise higher. They simply get drunk on the pleasure of picking up the gauntlet, surmounting the problem, and thereby going another step higher in the success ladder.

But they know when to shut the computer off.

Serious entrepreneurs are only too conscious about the fact that though their jobs define life itself for them, life is much more than that as well.

They could be equally passionate about adventure sports, passive hobbies, philanthropic activities, or whatever that could define another facet of their life. Serious entrepreneurs may play the roles of a father or a husband with equal relish.

Incorporating entertainments, altruisms, or gym workouts into one’s schedule is not in fact a time management problem. Each of these facets of life is as important in a man’s life as the other. Together they maintain the equilibrium of life and make the passion for making money itself worthwhile.

If you think you have no time, remember the Parkinson’s Law “work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”

Stop! You’ll never get it all done. The things on your to-do list never get completely crossed off. So, take stock and decide what means most to you, what you love to do. And the rest can either be forgotten or outsourced when it comes to your business.

Albert Schweitzer said, “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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