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One of the most popular beliefs
we have about ourselves as entrepreneurs is the mental belief we carry that
we must be workaholics in order to be successful.
We believe that if we are not
working every available hour in the day, we are not worthy or deserving of
the results of the success we achieve
It doesn’t help that in our
society, workaholism still has an air of goodness and duty to it. “I’m too
busy” is often thinly veiled as “I’m important” and “I have meaning and
purpose.” In reality, we are often just simply busy. The things that keep
us so busy aren’t actually priorities, we just treat them as such.
Entrepreneurship is about
bringing something into existence that didn’t exist before. It is a highly
creative thing—it’s all about creation. And creation takes
work. We will produce an enormous amount of work in our lifetime, and not
all of it will be noteworthy. In fact, some of it will be pretty bad. This
is just how life is for us as creators.
The ultimate goal is to be in a
consistent state of creating, instead of a consistent state
of working.
What’s the difference? Creating
insinuates a deeper connection to ourselves and our intrinsic desire to
serve the world through whatever it is that we do.
When you are connected to
yourself, creating and producing, the work becomes an outward effect of the
cause that already exists within you. We feel less like that work is being
forced as much because it’s flowing. This is why many people can produce
enormous amounts of work and progress and often have no idea how many hours
they actually work in a week. Their work is connected to something higher
within them than just work.
Being worn out, exhausted, and
tired is both a physical state and a mental state that can be mutually
exclusive. If you have distaste, struggle, and frustration around the work
you do each day, according to Walter Russell, “the hatred for it develops
into body destructive toxins and you become fatigued very soon.”
Action Tip
Take a quiet moment today and
read these three statements to yourself. What comes up for you?
1. If I am not
working hard, I am being lazy.
2. If it was not
hard, I did not properly earn it.
3. If I don’t feel
like I am struggling, I must not be a legitimate entrepreneur or be running
a legitimate business.
Examining the beliefs that you
carry about work, combined with getting unnecessary things off your plate,
will have huge effects on your mindset.
What are some areas in your life
you find yourself busy and stressful that really aren’t priorities for you?
Can you handle, automate, neutralize, or deprioritize it? You might be
interested in an article about entrepreneurship and being a
workaholic:
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