“Is it normal to hate your business?”
I was asked this the other week.
Answer: Yes.
Now if you hate the bones of your business and you’ve been feeling this way forever, that’s different.
If you’re there I would burn it all to the ground and start anew.
Seriously. Life is too short.
But otherwise hating your business once in a while is normal.
Now in the scheme of things, I’m lucky.
I love what I do.
Yet sometimes I hate it.
…When you have one of those weeks every damn thing seems to go wrong.
…When you realise it’s the week to negotiate your insurance, your vehicle leasing or your office space.
…When you look at your inbox and think ‘what the hell can you all want with me!?”
See when you build a business from the ground up, you’re invested.
Emotionally, financially, and physically.
You care deeply about it.
(Maybe more than is healthy sometimes.)
But that also means that, unlike the employed folk that walk away at 5pm…
You’re mentally in it most of the time.
And being with someone or something that much?
Well, things will always get on your wick.
Lose what you can (out source or systemise it) and get time away when you can.
And apart from that?
Embrace it.
Accept that this small slither of crap is the price to lead the life you desire.
A life of freedom and autonomy.
A life where you make your own money and your own choices.
And compared to the employed folks?
Those who are working to make the invisible shareholders rich in a company they didn’t build?
To me, that’s a damn good deal.
Until next time.
Make More. Provide More. Be More.
Charlie Hutton
