Comments on: Beating The Home Business Blues

By: Steve | AZ Rat Control

Steve | AZ Rat Control — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:35:58 +0000

I’m trying to pull myself out of this exact slump right now. When I know I’m going to be spending the next several days tied to my laptop, I make myself get out to a coffee shop or another place with wi fi each day — if nothing else, it helps to just switch up the atmosphere. Being around other people, even if I’m not interacting with them, helps me feel less buried under the paperwork and reminds me that I’m human. And if I can take a few minutes to chat with friends and associates on IM, all the better.

By: AlyiceEdrich.com

AlyiceEdrich.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:52:03 +0000

I know this post is a few years old, but I’ve recently just hit that burn-out (well, it’s been going on and off for 2 years but I just know acknowledged it) and I can say with 100 percent certainty that you are SO RIGHT!

I had lost my zeal for the business–even to the point that I was considering selling the publication altogether (if the right offer came along). I had several ideas to help push conversion sales and not just rely on e-book sales and ad revenue and kept beating myself up for not implementing them. But I was just too “blah” to care about moving forward. I just did what was necessary to keep the business afloat–no more, no less.

Last night, I realized that I need a little sabbatical from the business–some time off to re-energize so that I can decide if I am going to a. go forward with the business or b. sell it.

Anyone who finds this post, years later like I did, and is just getting started with an Internet business, I’d like to encourage you to make time for yourself–not just family time or marriage time and definitely not just business time. But actual time for you–to do what you need to do to stay HAPPY with your life and your decision to start your business, because if you don’t you could find yourself wishing someone would just come in and buy the business from you so you could finally let go and get some rest. And that may not even be what you really wanted in the first place.

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By: Geoff Robertson

Geoff Robertson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:58:59 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I know this is an old post but I just read it from a link in the PDF I just downloaded (How to start an Internet Business…). I am on the Gold Coast so the next time your are coming down this way, and you need to take a coffee break, let me know. It would be great to meet you.

Geoff

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:20:46 +0000

Great post, Yaro. As you say, it’s very easy to get stuck in front of a computer and not have enough live contact with people. I’ve tended to do too much of that lately and have started to arrange to meet a few people for coffee and stimulating conversation – and have challenged myself to go for an hour at a time without mentioning blogs!
Des

By: Webmaster@mysearchisover.com

Webmaster@mysearchisover.com — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:43:31 +0000

This is an excellent post. I’m still trying to get my business onto the black so I have more to get me down. I also get bothered when days don’t go well due to randomness. There’s also Google advertising, and then there are times where I can’t even stand to look at my own site that I created.

By: QuickBits: September 2, 2005 : HomeOfficeVoice : Home Business on the Internet

QuickBits: September 2, 2005 : HomeOfficeVoice : Home Business on the Internet — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:54:46 +0000

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HomeOfficeVoice : Home Business on the Internet — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:29:41 +0000

QuickBits: September 2, 2005

It’s been a strange sort of week for me – been laid low with a nasty (more annoying really) chest cold. So here goes my list of useful reading for the weekend:
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By: Benjamin Riches

Benjamin Riches — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:52:06 +0000

Excellent motivating advice again Yaro! I wouldn’t know this for sure as I don’t yet own a proper online business as such (constantly considering…), but I see your point and can appreciate that getting out there and yanking yourself away from the computer would in fact be a good thing for your social well-being and your general attitude towards, not just business, but life as a whole.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:35:13 +0000

Thanks for your feedback guys. This topic really came from the heart for me. I spent some pretty tragic weeks last year because I was really really lonely. It was a period of way too much solidarity and self reflection. I don’t need much people contact but I do need some – everyone does.