Be present and take time to chill

The further you get into the process of building your business the more you begin to understand what is possible for you. This is mostly a massive positive but can also create some damaging imbalance.
You need to make sure you are setting time aside to relax and recharge. I speak from deep experience here. I LOVE what I do. It does not feel like work to me. I am in my gym shorts and barefeet with no shirt at the moment I write this. Today, all my appts. are by phone, so I will work the entire day in this attire. Does that sound like work? Oh, and I will laugh often, I will play with my dog, I will spend time in thought, I already worked out, and later I will do something very fun and social with one of my "partners" who is also one of my absolute best friends in the world. I will spend many productive hours in the process of the business also...but again...as it relates to the traditional concept of work....I don't think this fits the definition!

By the way whatever is traditional today, will be obsolete in the future, and whatever is non-traditional today, will likely become traditional in the future...let that rattle around in your brain for a little while!

Anyway, the point here is it is easy for me to work in the business and be thinking about things relative to it, all the time. I have to purposely make myself turn it off...and so do you. The more you "get" what you've got, the more you will naturally want to do, because the long term goal gets more attainable. Someone gets to a few hundred dollars per month, and then suddenly $1000 per month becomes reachable...whereas just a few months before that they might not have been able to truly believe thay could have a business that's net effect would be an added $15-20K a year (income + tax benefits). When that same person eclipses $1000/month, now $3-5K per month becomes real to them. All of this spurs them to higher action, urgency, and more time in the business and more time thinking about the business. This is great! As long as the price is not the other things that matter.

I was so bad at this in my early days, that I would be at home working all day and most of the evening and neglect my health and my family. My wife eventually pointed out to me that I was not showing up for them even though I was physically in the same house! She would be having a conversation with me in the kitchen and I would literally walk out of the room while she was talking because I was somewhere else!

Here are a few tips:

*Schedule your hour or two a day to work your business and let others in the household know this is sacred time.
*When you are spending time with the family do not take a phone call about the business.
*Do not answer the phone during dinner.
* If you are working on something for your business outside of the sacred time, and someone in the family needs to speak with, stop what you are doing and give them your full attention.
* Make sure there is at least one day per week where you do nothing in your business on purpose.