Self-employed business owners know the feeling – you want to do something personally satisfying during the day, but you feel selfish for taking the time to do it. This is especially prevalent among business owners that work out of their home. Whether the thing you want to do is go for a run, tidy up the house, meet a friend for lunch or coffee, soak up the sun outside or any number of other me-time activities, business owners often find it hard to justify doing so because they feel like they need to be 100% committed to their business.
It took me a while to finally realize this, but me-time is really business-time in disguise.
When I first started out, I thought I was on business-time when I was answering emails, doing client work, looking for business opportunities, and maintaining the website for my digital marketing company. And I thought I was enjoying me-time was when I was doing… everything else! As a new business owner it seemed lazy and uncommitted to be taking time to do the things I enjoyed outside of work.
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