Work Life Balance for Work/Life Balance

Work Life Balance for Work/Life Balance

I'm going to start a series of posts of maintaining a work life balance directed at fellow maker/owners.  A lot of been written about work/life balance which is basically 'work less and do not work things more'.  There's some good practical advice out there, and some warm fuzzy crap with a stock photo of someone standing on a mountain. What I havn't seen is anything close to a system geared towards those of us who own businesses and also make things.  There's a lot going on right? Not just finances and employees  but also skills, marketing that is related to a very specific population of people. Everyone needs shoes but $2300 guitars? Hand planes? Hats?  You have to perfect the necessary skills over a lifetime and also acquire new skills along the way and then balance them.  And the thing that makes it all so much harder: you have to be entirely self-directed.  It's a lot to keep track of. But what if instead of keeping track of it all you had a system. It's been one of my go to quotes for a while now "Make a system" whenever I get to some problem that I can't know the answer to I figure out a system. When implemented it will work or not work and I will learn something towards knowing the answer. It provides proof.  So what if instead of running around from shiny thing to shiny thing, from fire to fire, we as maker-owners had a system in place that over the years we chipped away at becoming better craftspeople, business people, students?  It may feel almost effortless. No 100 hour week bullshit.  Just relentless forward progress.  "If it's important, do it everyday." Maybe this series will help me, and maybe you, figure out a system towards that goal. If your work day feels effortless, your non work life will benefit as well. The topics of this series: "If it's important do it everyday." - Wrestling Coach Dan Gable

Production - "What you do for a living is not 'be creative'. What you do for a living is 'ship'." - Seth Godin
Process improvement - Doing what you do for a living only better and faster. "Quantity is just as important as quality." - Bob Taylor
Business promotion - " Nobody gives a crap about you...yet."  - Me
Finances - "Gross Intangible Assets" is a thing
New skill development - "You don't know what you don't know until you try to know it." -Every wise person ever.
Steering the ship - Sit in a hammock and think about the big picture. SWOT type questions.
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