A Day Off - The Sunday Reboot

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Have you ever heard of an alternative approach to healing called homeopathy?

An alternative treatment of disease involving the consumption of natural materials that simulate the symptoms of the disease.

Okay I’m stretching the metaphor here a bit, but I had another realization this week that was along the same lines as my tithing story.

The realization went something like this…if you want to create wealth so you can be free, why do you spend every waking moment working? Again is comes down to be –> do –> have.

If what I’m being is a slave to my business, I won’t likely create freedom for myself as an end result.

So if the disease I’d like to create is freedom from working, I’d better start ‘being’ free from working.

As a result, I’ve declared Sunday as my Reboot day. For the immediate future, I’m taking Sunday off from all computer related activities. My goal is to not turn it on a computer at all. OMG!

Now it’s Saturday night as I am writing this and already I’m experiencing a sense of panic at the thought of it….

I ALREADY HAVE MORE TO DO THAN I COULD POSSIBLY GET DONE!

…my mind is screaming.

Exactly the point.

One of my biggest struggles has been to keep focused while I am working and I have a hunch that taking 1/7th of my potential work time away may be exactly the solution I’ve been looking for. It forces me to value my work time more highly and I’m already seeing that I’m being more productive as a result.

It also allows me to give value to off line activities that I would normally neglect with the excuse that I ‘had’ to work or that working was a higher priority.

Some of the fun I’m looking forward to tomorrow: giving myself the time to do a great workout at the gym, washing the car, all the little things that my wife has been asking me to fix up and take care of.

Energy giving activities, all of them. As Internet entrepreneurs it is easy to get sucked into the 7 day work week, but I’m sure recharging is essential to being productive and to the stimulation of creativity.

The disease I’m hoping to stimulate is the freedom from work and I’ll be starting my homeopathic treatments as my cure every Sunday.

I’ll let you know how it went on Monday…I’m sure that the thought “what if the server is down?” will be going through my head more than once tomorrow.

Jon

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