Alright.
Here's a question for all of you guys who developed their business while working 10+ hours most of the days while mantaining a relationship.
How??
Some backstory first:
I've been a coach driver for the past 4 years (7 years in the industry) and after searching for some business ideas, I got to creating a blog earlier this year. I'm way past the phase where working on a laptop in Bali is the ideal life. F*ck that. But I thought of my blog being a good base for other stuff related to my industry, plus I'll also be able to sharpen different types of skills with it.
Our tourist season here lasts from April to November, and when it starts, it's just full grind mode. Forget everything else exists. The funny thing is I don't have a problem with this anymore. Me and my partner know exactly what we want now and we're both working hard at our jobs to save for it, so more drives = more money.
Unfortunately, as I've been getting more drives, I have less and less "brain capacity" to focus on the blog. I'm not going to lie. I have a few spare hours every week, enough to write a quality blog post. But I have been on tours for the past month and a half, with little rest time between each. And it just makes me so tired after a while that the first thing I do is just sleep for 12 hours the first day I come back.
This sucks because I've really been enjoying blogging lately. March had around 1000 views, April had 3000. Unfortunately down to 300 now in May as I only posted 2 blog posts, and it looks like the facebook groups where I got most support from arent happy about my posts anymore. Instagram had a fair reach for my profile size (like 20 followers but over 13k monthly reach at one point), plus got almost 20 people in my facebook group as well as 7 on my email list. These numbers are tiny but they mean a lot to me.
Long times away from home also require me to mantain my relationship, leaving me with even less time and willpower to do anything business related.
On the forum, I read stuff about bad time management and this and that. Watch less TV, play less videogames yada yada. And all of that is completely correct - But building a thing while working from 9-5 and while working from 8-8 is a different story.
Is it possible that I just don't have enough fire in me because me and my partner (although renting) are content with our situation? Am I just a workhorse who is not destined to build something?
Coming to the end of this post, I don't even know what kind of answers I'm expecting. Perhaps somebody giving me a wake up call and telling me I'm a lazy sod?
cheers
Here's a question for all of you guys who developed their business while working 10+ hours most of the days while mantaining a relationship.
How??
Some backstory first:
I've been a coach driver for the past 4 years (7 years in the industry) and after searching for some business ideas, I got to creating a blog earlier this year. I'm way past the phase where working on a laptop in Bali is the ideal life. F*ck that. But I thought of my blog being a good base for other stuff related to my industry, plus I'll also be able to sharpen different types of skills with it.
Our tourist season here lasts from April to November, and when it starts, it's just full grind mode. Forget everything else exists. The funny thing is I don't have a problem with this anymore. Me and my partner know exactly what we want now and we're both working hard at our jobs to save for it, so more drives = more money.
Unfortunately, as I've been getting more drives, I have less and less "brain capacity" to focus on the blog. I'm not going to lie. I have a few spare hours every week, enough to write a quality blog post. But I have been on tours for the past month and a half, with little rest time between each. And it just makes me so tired after a while that the first thing I do is just sleep for 12 hours the first day I come back.
This sucks because I've really been enjoying blogging lately. March had around 1000 views, April had 3000. Unfortunately down to 300 now in May as I only posted 2 blog posts, and it looks like the facebook groups where I got most support from arent happy about my posts anymore. Instagram had a fair reach for my profile size (like 20 followers but over 13k monthly reach at one point), plus got almost 20 people in my facebook group as well as 7 on my email list. These numbers are tiny but they mean a lot to me.
Long times away from home also require me to mantain my relationship, leaving me with even less time and willpower to do anything business related.
On the forum, I read stuff about bad time management and this and that. Watch less TV, play less videogames yada yada. And all of that is completely correct - But building a thing while working from 9-5 and while working from 8-8 is a different story.
Is it possible that I just don't have enough fire in me because me and my partner (although renting) are content with our situation? Am I just a workhorse who is not destined to build something?
Coming to the end of this post, I don't even know what kind of answers I'm expecting. Perhaps somebody giving me a wake up call and telling me I'm a lazy sod?
cheers
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