Women business owners are the original “holistic practitioners.” Our minds are going, our hands are going and usually our feet are going as well. Sometimes it’s business…and sometimes it’s not.
And we always feel guilty.
We work on our business plan and eye the pile of laundry. We’re cooking dinner and looking at the pile of papers that need to be filed. And we’re helping our daughters with their math homework … and preparing a presentation for a client at the same time. No matter what we are doing, we feel that we should be doing something else.
The reality is that it’s all o.k.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just need to get up and do something else. (This is particularly true when I’m writing sales copy. I’d rather do almost anything else except write sales copy!) I’ve learned that it’s o.k.
Men think nothing of putting their feet on the desk and thinking something through. Most women I know take a break by switching tasks. (We’ll go into why it’s probably a good thing to learn to relax at another time.) It’s one of the great benefits of running your business from home. Let’s face it, if you are working at an office and you get restless, you’ll go to the dreaded vending machine because that’s socially acceptable.
So’s doing laundry. And it’s a lot better for your waistline.
Women business owners of the world unite! Let’s declare that sometimes we have something better to do than crunch out the latest sales figures. Our businesses are part of our lives; they aren’t our whole life.
Now, excuse me, I have to go mince some shallots.
