Taking Time Off Can Make Your Business Stronger

By Jamie Holt | August 31, 2008 .

Are you the type of entrepreneur that works long, hard hours on your business?

If so, then I would suggest that you start taking more breaks. If you have been known to stay up until 4am writing articles or mulling over blog posts or page content for your next site, then I want you to do something for me, start taking more holidays. This concept is something that Eben Pagan taught at Altitude, and I think it is one thing that really should be absorbed by entrepreneurs worldwide.

The theory goes:

If you train yourself to take more time off, then it forces you to build your business in a way that it is strong enough to continue growing in momentum even when you aren’t working on it day in day out. and that to me makes complete sense. Most entrepreneurs are trapped within their business and find that the bigger they build the less chance they get for time off and relaxation.

Which is totally opposite to what your goal is when you first start out for financial freedom, right?.

There is a book called The 4 Hour Work Week which is based on a similar thought process and business building strategy. You see the more you become captured within your business, the harder it is to pull away from it, and to step back for evaluation and thinking.

Start working ON your business instead of IN your business and I’m sure you’ll soon find it more enjoyable, it’ll have more stability and you will get more time with your loved ones.

Find ways to make it more automated, learn how to process tasks without you having to overlook and supervise all the time in your business. Use software when you can for tasks and be sure that you can still know what’s going on even without having to manually do it.

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