You will wait until you get miserable enough to change. Or you will just grind out until you die. you decide.

I started my business when I was 28,I'm 49 now and wished I could offer a no fail plan but alas I cannot.It seems as though I've tried everything,I hire more people that's supposedly going to make my job easier and I end up having to hold hands and working twice as hard.

I then try the plan of just laying back,doing my job and let what happens happen and find myself losing ground to the competition and getting more stressed which leads to periods of burn-out.

I then get an infusion of new energy with new ideas and implement them into the business which starts out great and then eventually loses steam because I find myself having to deal with a personal crisis of which there were more than a few in 2011.

Finally,I just say to hell with it and do my best to play the hand that I'm dealt daily and most of all to realize that I've had a good run and that when all is said and done I've never seen a hearse pulling a moving trailer with all the stuff one has accumulated.

The best part is that if you do put in 80 hour weeks for 10 years and grow the business to the point where you employ dozens of people or more and finally start to earn a serious monetary return for your effort, that half of the people in the country will think you don't deserve the money and will demand that you give it to them.























(I hear the DC Forum is lovely this time of year.)

Welcome to the part of the dream they don't tell you about on the protest signs.

Have run a a company for years...on call 24-7...many 100 hour weeks, but have also had success and made money. It's not a 9 to 5 world.

Immersing yourself now will ensure you are able to run things later. This won't always seem so all-consuming. At some point in your 30s you will turn the corner and wake up one day realizing you have a handle on it and are good at what you do.
Then you will start to create and expand.
Good on you.

Literature's Seven Great Steps for Business Success

1) Spend more time on chiefsplanet for good tips and motivation strategies

2) Worry about the small details, because if missed, those will be the things that destroy you

3) Read Donald Trump's books. Take notes carefully in the margin. Go over your margin notes daily. Order a subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek.

4) Use the bathroom for reading time to enhance efficiency

5) Yoga three times daily for relaxation and self-realization-enhancement

6) If there's a TV in your work and/or break area, set the channel to only the following: CNBC, Fox Business, or CNN. You will absorb key business strategies and investment options and understand how the financial markets operate in mere days

7) At the end of the day, spend two hours to blog about your experience

Work-related advice from you is as valuable as dating advice from gochiefs.

Another great tip is to network by going to funerals. Funerals are free to attend, multi-generational, and provide free lunch. Make sure you incorporate your business into conversations, but in doing so, you must include the deceased.

For example, "Yeah, I'm going to miss Jim. And Jim is really going to miss my services at XYZ Hardware located on Locust Street. He loved my delivery policy."

Importantly, write these off as a business deduction, and it's like getting them for free!

This is priceless advice right here, but hard to do once you get your butt in bed.

Marijuana

I havent really...I lose a lot of sleep..Spend sleepless nights going over things...

It really sucks...

Its a compromise though.....If you work for someone else, you can leave the job at work...but they will never value you or reward you as well as if it was YOUR OWN company. Now there may be exceptions but by and large I think that is true. No one will appreciate you like you.

But if you want to call the shots then you have to be the one where the 'buck stops' and make no excuses.

For me working out hard after work has been my best disconnect.

You need to relax or you will burn out quick. I'm not saying it not good to work hard and do a good job, but you should not have so much trouble leaving work at work. Work hard... Play harder.