End of summer: Thoughts of an Entrepreneur

Well today is the first day back at school for the kids and the loooong summer is coming to an end.

Growing up summers meant “No more papers no more books, no more teachers dirty looks” and it meant going to Eagle Country Day Camp, Camp Raleigh, Magen Avraham, Achva and of course swimming, Carvel, softball in the park, riding our bikes, Bar-B-Q’s, Great Adventures and hanging out with friends during the long summer days.

No worries, less rules and ignoring the summer reading list. Summers were great!

Looking through Facebook today there were tens of comments on how quiet their homes are or Thank G-d the kids are back in school or similar sentiments. As parents I’m sure our summers are not the same as we had them growing up and we try our best to give our children what our parents gave us. (I think we have it a bit harder than our parents did though)

For business owners and Entrepreneurs there is no real summer break. Sure you can take a week off if you can afford to do so, but are you ever able to just get away and disconnect? Especially in the Start-up world, you can’t ever really walk away for more than a couple of days at a time.

I can’t remember the last time I took a real vacation. Business trips to Vegas is nice, but its still business. I have been thinking about it for awhile now how would it be to totally disconnect. No internet or emails, no cell phones no work at all. I think about it, but I don’t think at this point it is a reality for me. I am still catching up on Emails from Passover break! Thank G-d I’m blessed with an amazing team at work and things are going smooth, but I still can’t just walk away even though I know the business will be fine. I am addicted to information and addicted to my company. It is on my mind the vast majority of my day every day for the last 4 years. The really good thing is that I enjoy it. The real blessing is that I love every second of it. I love talking about my company and hearing every detail about it and I love the people I get to work with and l love getting emails about it.

It’s just that every now and then I like to think about those endless worry free long summer days…

I do think this video below speaks volumes about what I wrote about above. Thanks to Dani Waxman for sending this to me.

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