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Entrepreneurs on Fire

**Weekend Bonus 8** Question and Answer with your host, John Lee Dumas

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 11 November 2012

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Alright, Fire Nation. We’re just going to get back into the Question and Answer swing of things with Kyla Kirkpatrick, the “Champagne Dame” from www.thechampagnedame.com. “Hey, John. My question is I’m a very driven person and I’m working on a new business which is really taking off. With any new business, there is so much to do. Particularly, not having a team to assist. But it is all blue sky with many avenues to explore. I am finding it incredibly hard to mentally switch off from thinking about my business and I find it hard to remove myself from my desk at the end of the day. Some days, I sit there till midnight and I get up at 5:00 a.m. to keep going. I hate taking a weekend off because it breaks my momentum. And because I’m doing a job that I love, it’s even harder. A good problem to have, I suppose, but it’s wearing me out and I can see my family and friends are growing tired of my constant focus on work even though they are happy for me. So how do you switch off even when you are on a roll to take personal time and family time that does not have any focus or element of work? Many thanks, Kyla.”

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0:00.0

Welcome to Entrepreneur on Fire's weekend jam session with your host, John Lee Dumas.

0:09.8

Prepare to ignite.

0:14.1

Alright Fire Nation, we're just going to get back into the question and answer swing

0:17.8

of things with Kyla Kirkpatrick, the Champagne Dame from www.theshampagnedame.com.

0:27.4

Hey John, my question is I'm a very driven person and I'm working on a new business which

0:32.0

is really taken off.

0:34.2

With any new business there is so much to do, particularly not having a team to assist,

0:39.0

but it is all blue sky with many avenues to explore.

0:43.2

I am finding it incredibly hard to mentally switch off from thinking about my business and

0:47.6

I find it hard to remove myself from my desk at the end of the day.

0:51.2

Some days I sit there till midnight and I get about 5 a.m. to keep going.

0:55.1

I hate taking a weekend off because it breaks my momentum and because I'm doing a job

0:59.2

that I love it's even harder.

1:01.6

Good problem to have I suppose, but it's wearing me out and I can see my family and friends

1:06.2

are growing tired of my constant focus on work even though they are happy for me.

1:11.0

So how do you switch off even when you are on a roll to take personal time and family

1:15.2

time that does not have any focus or element of work?

1:19.2

Many thanks Kyla.

1:21.2

But this is a great question because as an entrepreneur we are so lucky to often be

1:27.1

working in our passions and when we get caught up working in our passions time just seems

1:32.7

to fly by and it doesn't even feel like work, it just often times feels like play.

1:37.9

I've heard what you're talking about with so many people, I've experienced it to myself

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