Sometimes, if you are a startup founder or an early stage employee, the uncertain startup life might seem too much to handle. That’s when you should evaluate — not if you are a right fit for this job but mainly if you are feeling happy and fulfilled in the way things are going.
If you sense a need to take a break, suck up your ego and take it.
Most startup founders are no bullshitters. So we barely complain ever and never look at our personal problems as the real deal. We simply ignore them and worry 24x7 about the customers’ problems. But that’s going to burn us down in the long run. We deserve a break, a solid unbridled break, whenever we know something is not right from within. That’s when you need to turn into nature or a remote town.
I recently did the same. After slogging for nearly 1.5 years without such a break, I finally took the step to step out of my daily rigor and get out there. I took a road trip by myself all through random small towns from Georgia to Florida. Eventually ended up in the Pensacola beach asking really profound questions about life and what I want to make out of it.
The result is an incredible clarity. 2 days later, I’m back to work and this startup life more energetic than ever.
My goals are clearer. My life’s mission is clearer. My energy is beaming into one and only one channel: my new startup ClosingPage. But more on that later.
Anyway, thought I’d like to share this my fellow founders and startup hustlers. Take a break every once in a while fellow makers of the future.
