Your Tomorrow Looks Like Your Today

When I started my freelance business, I had one goal: To create a career I didn’t need a weekend away from.

It was a goal made with the best of intentions. I was so tired of living for the weekend, of counting down the hours until I could walk out of the office. “Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,” the old adage goes. I was determined to make it happen.

And it worked-at first. The goal of “creating a career I didn’t need a weekend away from” gave me the motivation to build a client base. I started imagining the kind of business it could grow into, and the life I would lead once I had reached a certain level of success.

But you know how this story goes, right?

Eventually, I got so caught up in my goals that my job became my life.

From the outside, I wasn’t a workaholic

I kept regular business hours. I didn’t actually work weekends. I protected my time.

But when I wasn’t working, I was thinking about work. And when I wasn’t thinking about it, I was thinking that I should probably be thinking about it.

Who has time to meet up with friends when there’s a new offering to dream up?