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Home Running A Business Quotes For Small Business Owners On Having A Healthly Work Life Balance
The life of a small business owner is a far cry from those who manage or run a huge corporation. Despite being the boss, a small business owner usually has fewer resources and manpower to work with, and as such must stretch and do work that corporate executives usually delegate to subordinates. This means there is a tendency for small business owners to take hours that normal people would normally spend on socializing and family time, and then put it as additional hours just to run their small business.
This is why work-life balance is important for a small business owner because there is a bigger risk to cannibalize one’s personal life just to keep the business running in tip-top shape. If you ever find yourself in this category, here are 6 quotes that will help you find the right amount of work-life balance:
Author and humanitarian Lailah Gifty may seem like a weird source for business quotes because she’s known more for volunteer work than running a for-profit business, but her quote says something that all small business owners need to learn firsthand: you still have to work for your living.
You should always remember that you’re working to make a living, you’re not running a company just for the sake of running a company. More importantly, you are working for your living even if you’re the boss. You have to put in the hours to make the company prosper, because, in a small business, you might not have anyone else who will do so.
This ties in with the old adage “quantity over quality.” Many new small business owners think that they can accelerate business growth by grinding themselves down to dust doing all the work they can get their hands on, but all it does is stress you out and affect your personal life and health, resulting in depression. And a depressed worker will make wrong decisions and make mistakes. So if you’re a small business owner, you need to focus on being happy with your work and your life instead of just working as hard as you can.
In this day and age where workers who sacrifice their personal time for their work are lauded and held up as shining examples of workmanship, it is important to remember that success does not necessarily require you to sacrifice everything. Most of the time it simply comes with doing the work that is required of you.
This all goes back to the point about your motivation behind starting a business. You didn’t start a company just because you want to do so. You started a company because it is a way of supporting everything else in your life. It should never be your entire life. If you fall for this trap, you could end up being depressed and lost, because you fail to see that work will never be a replacement for everything in your life. So be satisfied with your life first before trying to find satisfaction at work.
The quote shows that employees these days are more than willing to go beyond the call of duty and put in hours at work even when those hours should be personal. However, it is up to you as the small business owner not to abuse the employees’ drive. It is your job to ensure that they are not working too hard that it eats away at their personal lives.
This quote basically says that your identity should be separate from your business. It will help you make objective decisions and prevent personal biases and emotions from getting in the way of running a company. Emancipating your identity from your business will also make it easier to prevent work problems from finding their way into your home.
Tyler is a member of the Lendio marketing team. He is passionate about digital marketing, small business, and helping small business owners succeed. Tyler is an outdoorsman and loves spending time with his family.
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