I work a lot.  I have a regular job and I am starting a business, Book Worm Laser & Design.  Over the past few days I have begun to ask myself if all this work is worth the effort?  How long am I going to work like this before I see some sort of payoff?  Am I working all these hours for a reason?

What time do you wake up?  In a recent blog post from Andy Traub, “Anything that motivates you to get up at 5am is healthy”, he discusses some of the reasons he wakes up early.  I don’t get up quite that early, but I am usually up by 5:30a.  Since I don’t get to bed until around 12:30a, I have been missing a lot of sleep (although I do sleep until 7:00a or so on the weekends, maybe a little later at times).  Am I being productive?

When I wake up at 5:30a, I get ready and go to my normal job.  We have a treadmill so I have been known to run on it for 15 – 30 minutes when I first get there.  Otherwise, I get started with my business at around 6:15a.   [Read more…]