How to forget your priorities in under a year.
2011
Do you know what the most commonly viewed post is on this site to date?
10 Tips to Clean a House in Under an Hour.
Out of over 3,000 unique views that this site has received since its inception, 12% of all visitors came here solely for that article.
I didn’t intend for that post to become the biggest content draw to my site, nor did I intend for it to end up doing well in the search engines. I just wrote the post because I was nesting, strapped for time, and don’t like cleaning.
Right now, my house is a disaster. I wish I had an hour to clean, but I don’t. And that doesn’t make me a bad person, but it does mean that my readers have their priorities straight – and I don’t.
Business success is important to me and to my family. I want to make an impact, help people, and support my kids. If I want my daughter to go to private school and get a good education, flipping burgers will barely pay her tuition and our rent. Entrepreneurial success is something I strive for.
But these 60+ hour weeks lately have been absolutely killing me. I never get to spend any time with my lil’ fluff monster (as we speak, grandma and grandpa are over watching her and cleaning my house so I can get work done – all because hubby had to take off with little warning to work tonight), I feel stressed and tired, and I am burning out fast.
I’m on a hamster wheel – must get work to feed family. Must cook food for family. Must buy more food – need more work. Squeak, squeak, squeak…
But I’m getting out of it. I’m going to re-learn how to clean my house in under an hour. I’m going to rediscover what it means to cook a “quick dinner”. I’m going to make my bed in the morning, play with my daughter, keep up the house, and not kill myself at work.
I know how to clean my house in under an hour, and you guys come to me for that.
Now I need to learn how to run my business in less than 10 hours a day. I wonder if there is a blog somewhere else, just like me, who posted how to do that?
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Allison
