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Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets. I'm your host, and today, as the title says, I'm not dead. I have,

however, been a bit sick. First, it started with the children. They all got sick. That was difficult,

and then it has continued with a few sick children continuing, and now I am sick. Some kind of

nasty flu, not sure exactly what, but coughing. And today I haven't even been

able to get out of bed, which is frustrating. But as I've been lying here, feeling enormously

guilty for the lack of shows, and I've been racking my brains to try to figure out what could I

speak about in my enfeebled and delirious state, I thought, you know what, let's just talk about

being sick. And I thought I would share with you just a couple of insights that I always think

about what I am sick. It won't be long, be very straightforward. Number one, I really enjoy

many aspects of being an entrepreneur. There are many things that are really good of being an entrepreneur.

There are many things that are really good about being an entrepreneur.

There are also a whole set of things that are not good about being an entrepreneur,

or at least some things that are challenging.

And one of the challenges that continually hits me is simply the responsibility that comes with being an entrepreneur. When I was an employee, and I was given a certain number of

days off and sick days off, I knew that if I left the office, then things would go on. But as an

entrepreneur, if you're going to make it in entrepreneurship to any

degree, you have to develop an exercise basically a higher level of responsibility. You are

responsible for essentially everything. And that is one of those things that just weighs on you

over time. It's not a bad thing. It's just something

you get used to. But what it means is that when sick, it's very hard to ever actually relax.

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