What Happened to Me When I Quit My Job and Launched Out On My Own
Results are not typical. Your mileage may vary. This not a "how to" post: this is my personal blog and all I'm doing here is just telling you what's going on with me.
But almost as soon as I quit my job and became a full-time entrepreneur business owner freelancer hustler, I landed some nice SEO work on retainer (which is kind of a secret service not on my blog coaching services page, but if you're interested, contact me).
So that was happy.
I have more time in the day, but I also have to take care of more stuff around the house since my wife and I decided to amicably end our marriage.
What I didn't expect was how crazy my sleep cycles have become. Like, I basically work until I can't stay awake. Then I sleep until I wake up. Client calls anchor me in time, but not much else does. So my day often starts around 8:30 am. Then around 9:00 pm I have to take a nap. Then I get up around 11:00 pm or so and stay up until like 3:30 or 4:00 am.
The fancy-schmancy term for this is polyphasic sleep. I call them mega-naps: they're not full nights of sleep and they're too long to be just naps.
You might think the sleep thing is dreadful, but it's not. It's kind of weird, but whatever. I love what I do. It doesn't even feel like work.
My big lesson so far in all this is that deciding what I do with my time has surprisingly little to do with how much time I have and everything to do with what I decide. It's easy to convince yourself otherwise when you're holding down a full-time job with a 40-minute commute one way and running a business. I told myself, "I'll have all the time in the world to meditate and exercise, finally!"
Ha! It doesn't work that way. You have time for what you take time for.
Sleep was the one thing I didn't have before, and it's the one thing I promised myself I would have now. Maybe that's why the naps. Or, maybe my body just can't even think about sleeping for longer than five hours in a row.
The other important activity I really wanted more time for was networking and taking better advantage of social media. To that end, I've been more active on Facebook. This has already resulted in more opportunities and more sales.
And finally, I also have a bit more time to learn new things and dive deeper into topics I care about. Reading is back on the list.
Before long I'm sure my body clock will even back out.
Hmm... it's 3:00 am. Time for my next mega-nap.
