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This is the big one. Let me tell you when I first started out in business, I was fresh, excited, eager and ready to attack everything full force. You know how it is with the promise of success and the feeling of, if you’ll excuse the massive cliché, ‘being your own boss’ (I can’t believe I just said that)

That’s fine when you start, and it’s essential to keep going throughout your career. If you overdo it though, you’re going to get tired, bored, fatigued and not only won’t you feel like you can carry on at your current pace, but you’ll likely find that your work won’t be up to scratch.

Have you ever had that impatient, anxious feeling while you’re working? Like you need to be successful right now, right this moment. It’s annoying and frustrating that you’re not, so you set about working incredibly hard at a blistering pace to make sure it happens quickly.

Instant gratification is something we all like in this day and age, and there’s no problem with that, but if you feel you’re working to the point where you don’t want to work any more, or you get bored and start to wonder what you’re doing here, you need to stop, and think.

Ask yourself, why am I doing this? Why am I starting up a business? Why not just work for someone else for the rest of your life? I can guarantee that 99% of people reading this right now can answer that easily. They’ll say for the money, for the lifestyle, but think a little harder.

Does it strike a chord when I say to you that you’re working towards a big income to make your life more pleasurable, easier, less hassle and less tiring? You’re spending money on things that make your life less of an effort so you have more time to do the things that you want to do. Pay off your mortgage so you have less to worry about, buy a new car that’s actually reliable and relaxing to drive that makes you feel good. Go on the vacation of a lifetime whenever you want to recharge your batteries and see the world, provide for your family so you can all take time out to relax.

So if that’s the case, why are you working your fingers to the bone, even reaching the point that you become tired and fatigued?

Something that a good friend of mine suggested to me many years ago changed not just my business, but my life. She said to me, you know what, you’d fulfill your goals, hopes and dreams much faster if you didn’t work as hard. I said, what? How does that work? I mean, having a successful business is what I’m striving for, so how does not pushing for it so hard help me?

Try it she said. Next time you don’t feel like working, turn your computer off and just don’t work. I thought she was nuts of course, but she was already at the top of her game, so I figured that maybe she knows what she’s talking about. On the other hand, bear in mind I’ve come from the real world. I’ve always had to push hard for what I want, and taking this attitude to a normal job is just asking to be fired, get your pay cut and annoy a lot of people.

To cut a long story short, I took her advice. Let me put it straight to you. I was writing my first book at the time, and I was half way through at about 600 pages. It had taken me four months so far to get to this stage, research, planning, writing, graphics and the like, I thought this was a good pace. How wrong I was.

Here’s exactly what I did for your reference so you can follow me and give this a shot to see how much it pushes you towards fulfilling your goals and how quickly (you’ll fall off your chair after trying for a week, I assure you, totally unexpected)

If I felt tired, or fatigued, I turned off the computer and stopped working. If I looked at the clock and it was 2am or some stupid time of the morning, if I wasn’t fixing a sever problem on a live project for my customers, I’d turn the computer off and go to bed. If I felt thirsty, I’d get a drink. None of this ‘Oh I’ll just finish this chapter’ stuff. The same goes for food. If a friend calls me and wants to go out for a drink or have some fun, I’d drop my work and go have some fun every chance I get (which isn’t often with the non self employed people because of their work hours). If my back started to hurt after sitting in a chair for hours on end, I’d stop and go and relax.

See what I’m getting at here? I know it sounds weird. The media and all these successful business people always talk about how hard their work is, and how it’s not that easy being self employed and running your own business. Here’s some news for you, they’re wrong.

Why is it the self employed always look so much more healthy than those working overtime 6 or even 7 days a week for their employers? It sure isn’t because they’re more overworked and stressed out by the pressure and workloads.

Back to my example, just to let you know that 600 pages that I wrote in four months at the half way stage I took to 1250 pages in just two weeks at a very leisurely pace.

Scary huh? Weird I thought, but I’ll never work any other way again. This is something you can try right now, don’t wait, treat yourself. Work less but achieve more and to a higher quality, not by working smart and not hard in this case, but just by working less, relaxing more and treating yourself like you deserve to be treated rather than some robot that can go on forever without feeling drained.

Start recharging your batteries now, this second, and watch what happens.

To Your Success
Cody Moya

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