The following is part 8 of my 8 part series on entrepreneurs and their attempts at work-life balance.

I approached this subject with an open mind. I didn’t know whether balance would be easy to obtain or not. Now, having looking at everyone’s (including an international couple’s) perspectives I realize it’s hard enough to first define what “balance” is to a business owner. Sure, numerous articles have been written on the subject of corporate work-life balance but this – I soon realized – was a bit different. I figured it could go either way:

• it’s easy to be balance because you can stop working whenever you want, or
• it’s hard to be balanced because you’ll want to immerse yourself in your work

I feel that the latter is the case. Those entrepreneurs that appear to achieve balance with great ease have certainly learned a lot and made mistakes to get where they are. Steve has been in the personal development business for a while now, it’s been his job to experiment and excel at balance. Shivani and Angie are relatively new to the idea. As I mentioned before, a bit of time and patience is required in order to untangle messes that entrepreneurs face.

Depending on the entrepreneur, the following quote summarizes their (in)ability to balance both their work and personal lives:

“…the entrepreneur has two secret weapons that competitors in big business usually shun:
Saturday and Sunday.”

Series: Background, Steve Pavlina, Jeremy Wright, Rory and Sandra Burke, Angie Chang, Shivani Sopory, Conclusions, Final Thoughts
[tags]entrepreneurship, work, life, personal, balance[/tags]