I thought you might enjoy seeing my typical day so here it is! Balance is important in life and while I make an attempt you will see that I’m a little off kilter like most entrepreneurs.
In my younger days I would get up at 6am, but after you hit 40 you cherish any sleeping moment so today I get up at 6:30 am. I only have one daughter left at home but we get up and read from the scriptures for 10-15 minutes to start the day on a spiritual note. I then hit my work out room for the physical aspect and I personally enjoy lifting weights on my M1 Inspire which I absolutely love. I do need to spend a little more time on some type of cardiovascular exercise but I’ll take what I can get. At 7:30am I’m in the shower, dress, eat breakfast, and read from a business book until 9am when I start work. So in the first 2.5 hours of the day I have already given time to the spiritual, physical, and intellectual parts of my life to give me some type of balance and sanity.
9am I’m checking email and look for notifications of any problems over night from servers out on the Internet. I also look at all sales across all customers and review the dashboard I get from ebizsuite my CRM so I can see how many leads, sales, etc. came in the day before. I also give a quick reveiw of my google analytics to see if I have any issues on traffic drops. Check all my affiliate accounts for analytics and sales.
10am I will fix any problems I might have found after reviewing all my reports and dashboards. From 10am-12:15pm I have reserved for follow up sales calls, support calls, and training new customers.
12:15- 1:00 is lunch – downstairs in the kitchen! My wife is a wonderful cook!
1-6pm I do whatever needs to be done. Set up new customers, write code to enhance our online systems ( We release a new update to our eBizSuite platform every 6 months), Create new products, reveiw all marketing methods and customer touch points to ensure a great experience for our customers.
I eat dinner in a half an hour and typically get back to work until 9:45- 10pm. And yes I have done this for 23 years! OK, the life of a solopreneur doesn’t sound so sexy after all. But let me point out a few items.
First, I never miss a meal with my family- I’m always home. I never miss a child’s lacrosse game or concert. When I do travel for business I always take my family along and we turn it into a vacation! Speaking of vacations I go as often as I can. We have a summer home and a cabin in the mountains where we spend most weekends in the summer and I love to go to Hawaii, Miami, and every 3 years I go on a big excursion across the pond!
Second, my business is so much fun, it is more like a hobby to me so I feel like I’m playing all day long –so long hours from your perspective don’t seem so long to me. I’d probably do what I’m doing if I wasn’t getting paid.
So to sum it up, do something you love and you’ll never tire and you’ll feel like you’ve lived your life to the fullest!
