Book Worm Laser & Design

Lost that lovin' feeling for your business for your business? Have the long nights, hard work, and lost hours taken their toll? They have for me.

About 4 months ago, I started my business, Book Worm Laser & Design. I was excited. It was the culmination of over 9 months worth of work, planning, blood, sweat, and tears. I had been posting consistently twice a week (and sometimes, 3+ times per week) on my personal blog, BlueCapra.com, since the end of August 2011. I woke up early, stayed up late, all in the name of business, marketing, content, and consistently. Then… poof.

It didn’t happen all at once, just a day or so here or there. The consistent 5 hours of sleep I was getting was getting to me. I was tired often, did not want to wake up an hour early to create before my day job. My creativity had began to falter. I had lost that lovin’ feeling toward my business. I had burned out. I wondered to myself, was this the end my business and of all my progress, of all my hard work?

I doubt there has ever been an entrepreneur that did not get burnt out on the work they do. We put our lives into the businesses we build and sometimes, we push too far. We have lost sight of what we love about the business. A break is needed, a time to step back and reevaluate things. We need to reboot. [Read more…]

I am always trying to improve. Generally, the more you learn and practice a skill, the better you get. That only helps you to a point. To get beyond that initial flood of improvement, you must practice in certain ways. World class tennis players don’t just play a lot of tennis, they work on their skills individually and in a focused manner. They may start out by hitting a bunch of forehand shots, then backhand, then serving. Rarely do professional athletes just go out and play their sport and hope to improve. They have coaches, they study, and they practice very specific skills. How does that apply to our lives?

Most of us are not professional athletes but the way they practice and improve can be applied to the skills in our lives. Do you have something in your life you’d like to do better? I sure do. I can’t focus on all of them at the same time, so at this time, I have decided to improve my writing and specifically, my blog. I now have what I want to improve, so how do I actually improve?