Whenever and whatever you are doing something you always need to bring you body and work from it. This may seem obvious but let me explain where I’m going with this. Therefore we are always affected by it and in what condition it is in.

Earlier, I talked a lot about the importance of feeling good to perform well and make good decisions. So the complexity I’m trying to shed some light on here is that performance is also highly affected by how we feel physically.

What I want to communicate with this is that if we what to perform well, make good decisions and consequently be effective we need to take good care of our bodies, so they do not hold us back, but instead lift us up.  A good way of putting this is: “If you don’t take time to take care of you body, you will sooner or later need to take time off to bee sick”.

Every day is the same thing – I pack my things and leave my office with just a few todo’s left. In order to get home decent normal hours, have some dinner and time over to relax, I convince myself that I just need a few minutes in front of the TV to finish the last tasks – in total contrary to the normal outcome.

I usually end up trying to have dinner, relax, read a magazine, write an e-mail, work on the next marketing project, going through different business model improvements and talk to my close ones – all at the same time. As a result I go to bed totally exhausted, too late and stressed. The fact that I don’t even manage to finish the few tasks that I brought home, just a lot of new open loops, doesn’t make the situation better.

So, is this a sustainable way to work? No, of course not. Therefore, in order to change this unbalance between work and free-time to spend with yourself and close one’s, My main takeaway of today is that I’m going to set up a rule to never bring any of my work home and always try to finish all open loops at the office before I leave. They say that as a entrepreneur, you’re never off from work, and I think most people who start their own business, including myself, agree with that.

Besides that, I’m sure that this will help me to find a better balance, clear my head, find time for myself and close ones and reduce the risk of getting washed-up.

Since I started my studies at SSE I have been working full-time with my start-up and at all times given higher priority to my business then to my schoolwork. As a result I have ended up with the same behaviour pattern before each exam, being forced to take two or three weeks off from work just focusing on my studies before exam day.

Therefore my goal for the coming period was to make a project plan were I would minimize the work effort, focus on the important parts of literature and tasks from the start and most important having a reasonable every-day work-load, not being forced to take time off from my new business. But how?

To figure it out I started looking at the literature, old exams and so on. Soon questions started turn up; Where to start? And what is really important? How much time should I put into each part?  I asked all the fellow students I knew, who had already taken the course how I should do to minimize work effort and only focus on the important parts. In doing so, I had, in just one hour, got all the important information to make a project plan with weekly and daily goals were I needed to work two hours/day until the final exam day.  Today, after testing my school project plan for two days My conclusions are:

1.     It works great

2.     Without their help I wouldn’t have a chance to estimate work effort needed

3.     In the future I’ll always talk to people who already has passed the current exam when setting up my project plan