Common Challenge

So you have just recently discovered that you no longer fit in the corporate world and want to live a life of a successful hot internet startup CEO? Soon after you come to the conclusion that to accomplish your newly chosen goal you need to make more time. You need to stretch the day to fit all new tasks that just need to be done so you can go down that road and hit the target that is luring you so strongly. You start to do research on the internet, add RSS feeds from different blogs to your favorite reader and soon after you find yourself having 1000+ unread entries. To cope with all the ‘new’ in your life, you learn GTD and organize your life into lists that have more and more tasks on them. The problem is… your daytime job with its urgent and important tasks just stands in your way to happiness. To make things worse, your office that once has been a dream place to spend time in, all of a sudden become a dull area with literally nothing interesting about it and you just can not stand it anymore.

To make things more interesting for you, the next step you decide to take is to do some of the ’startup’ tasks at your office. Now, that may get plain ugly when your boss learns of this, right? Just as cheating on your dear one leads to disaster, this situation may end up the same way. If this description seems familiar to you, well… TOO BAD! You just have to pull yourself together and make your dreams come true! The sooner you do that, the better for you and your mental health

To be honest, here in dooyt, we are in the same position. We have our daytime jobs with all the incentive bonuses and salaries that pay our bills. We just cannot fire our bosses and jump on to the fast track to success. We have to merge the two worlds together. One being the daytime job and the other - the startup endeavor. Of course I do not suggest here to push the limits to extremes and cheat on your boss to the point when he learns of it and sacks you on the spot. There are lots of tools and techniques out there that enable people to be more effective and achieve more in less time. If you have not read or listened to any book on this subject a good starting point would be to find some works of Brian Tracy or David Allen. If you are having problems finding enough time to do all important things, refer to The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss for inspiration on the art of outsourcing non-critical tasks. To be honest I find many of the tips from those authors to be very effective and they really make a difference for me.

If you are reading to this post and find yourself in a similar situation, please comment on this article with your insights on how you deal with these kinds of issues. Do you cheat on your boss? What other books or blogs do you think are worth reading?

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