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There’s something that’s true about you, when you’re an entrepreneur: you’re passionate about what you do. If you’re not passionate about it, you’re just not going to be an entrepreneur for long. Because you’re the one that makes it happen. You may have a team that helps you, you may have some incredible talent that does the stuff you can’t do; but when push comes to shove, it’s you. Your passion is the driver for your business. [bctt tweet=”Your passion is the driver for your business.”]
And that’s the tightrope you have to learn to walk: the passion tightrope. If you’re going to remain passionate enough to drive the business, you’ve also got to take time off to recharge your passion. [bctt tweet=”To remain passionate enough to drive the business, you’ve got to take time off to recharge.”]
It sounds like a contradiction: your passion has to be present to drive the business and you have to take some time off to remain passionate. Keeping your passion charged is similar to gardening. You just can’t put the same plant in the same soil, season after season, without either giving the soil a break or adding some nutrients back into it, so that it can continue to nourish the same type of plants that have already leached what that type needs from the soil.
Stepping out of “go mode” the first few times is going to be rough. But you not only should do it, you truly need to do it—for your loved ones, for your business and for your team, if not for yourself. There are a couple of key things you need to remember that will make you more comfortable taking that time to recharge your passion:
So you know you’ve got to take some time off to do this recharging thing, but how?
In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank. When you are frazzled, frantic and tired, you aren’t going to move your business and your team forward. Give your passion the time off it needs and deserves.
Go out and live the stories you want to tell,
John
This post originally appeared on MariaShriver.com.
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