I joke that Saturday and Sunday are just ‘days that start with S’.
How your business/life/whatever shouldn't feel. But it's still an awesome wipeout photo.
Tris probably feels the same way, although he said a lot more in “Writer’s Frustration: Taking a Weekend Off”.
That feeling like you just can’t take a weekend off, or you’ll be so behind in either cashflow or workflow that you might as well turn turtle. Or you’ll end up like this guy, and instead of riding the waves, the waves are riding you.
No good!
Yeah, sometimes, you really do just need to go water the plants and do some gardening and try to stretch out your wrists so that you don’t end up with worse carpal tunnel than you already have. (Insert stretch break here.) Take today, Saturday, July 10th. I worked this morning and got so much farther on some of the things that I never get time to do when I’m on a ‘manager’s schedule’. (See also: Paul Graham’s excellent article on manager vs maker schedules.) And then I got a call from a friend who was moving from one quadrant of town to another and I lifted boxes around for about 3 hours and he’s now totally moved. (Right? No more of that, right?) It’s now the end of the ‘workday’, and I’m back for another few hours of systems-tuning, catching up with email, news and just stuff before I’ll head out again. This is pretty typical.
I rarely take ‘days off’. I break things up into 3 to 4 hour chunks, just long enough to keep all of the gardens weeded, watered and tended to. Maybe I should stop with this title of ‘project manager’ and replace it with ‘chief gardener’.
Back to the weeding.