"What happens if I take a break from my freelance business?
If I take a break from my business, will my business break?
Is it okay to take a break from your business?"
These are all GREAT questions, and we're going to answer each in this article!
Topics we address in this article:
- What happens if you take a break from your business?
- A good "test" to check on the sustainability of your business.
- Will your business BREAK if you step back from it?
- What you can do to prevent your business from breaking.
- Is it okay to take a break from business?
- The importance of taking breaks the RIGHT way.
- How to put all of this together.
- The #1 question you NEED to ask yourself.
- Your next step.
- What you'll be able to accomplish in the coming weeks!
Who am I to speak on this subject?
As a Life Coach for Solopreneurs, I specialize in creating anti-hustle productivity strategies, developing intrapersonal skills, and improving personal fulfillment in your business and life.
I've been doing this work for many years now (and I started my business way back around 2010!), so I've helped a lot of solopreneurs navigate busy and stressful times (along with all kinds of other reasons why they might need to step back from business) — especially when you're struggling with work/life balance, or when you want to create a life-first business.
"What happens if I take a break from my freelance business?"
That ENTIRELY depends on how your business is set up 😉
I’ve worked with many business owners over the years, and the difference is very noticeable in what happens to your business when you take a break from it — it truly depends on how you’ve set up your business in the first place.
For instance, the mistake multi six figure business owners make is that they focus too much on the hustle and not enough time on SUSTAINABLE business foundations.
As a result? They get burned out and/or burn their businesses down.
You don’t want to turn into one of those people!
A great “test” to check on the long-lasting sustainability of your business— and whether your business can legitimately serve your personality, lifestyle wants and needs, personal values, etc — is to ask yourself this question:
“Theoretically, what would my business look like NEXT WEEK, if I took a couple unplanned days off work?”
Think about this in terms of your customer service, communications, marketing, admin, etc.
Another great “test” is to think back to the last time you took a break:
How much extra work did you need to do in order to PREPARE for taking a break from your business?
...If you had to do a TON of extra work (especially lots of hustling to get ahead), then that likely indicates your business is not particularly sustainable or well-suited to supporting your lifestyle.
"If I take a break from my business, will my business break?"
Any time a solopreneur tells me, “If I take a break from my business, my BUSINESS will break,” I let them know the truth about what's going on here:
This is a business foundation and systems issue.
Your business should NOT break if *you* take a break.
Instead, you can set up your business structure, systems and processes, strategies, etc to ensure that you can take evenings and weekends off, impromptu time during the middle of the week, vacations, sick time, etc.
That last point is important — you probably can’t plan ahead for sick days! So in that case, you want to make sure your business is almost self-sustainable…
...If you wake up one morning and realize you can’t get to work, it shouldn’t cause your business to break.
"Is it okay to take a break from your business?"
YES. Unequivocally, YES it is okay to take a break from your business. In fact, it is MORE THAN okay to take a break from your business.
Your professional life AND your personal life will both benefit from you taking a break from your business. You are human! You need to rest and recharge.
Just like an athlete takes recovery days, you, too, need recovery time from your business — especially if you’re a high-achiever and committed to excellence, like so many of my clients.
The trick is to take breaks the RIGHT way. Yes, there’s a “right” way to take breaks!
For instance, if you're worried about your work during a break from your business, if you feel shame or guilt or self-judgment for taking a break from your business, if you are unable to properly get the rest you so desperately need…
…Then it’s not going to be an effective break from your business.
It’s just going to stress you out that much MORE — and it’s also going to drain your energy, creativity, critical thinking skills, decision-making skills, and problem-solving skills.
If you’re taking breaks the “wrong” way, it’ll be hugely detrimental to both your personal life and your professional life.
It’s very important to learn the art and skill of taking breaks the RIGHT way!
How to put all of this together…
Now that you know that you need to:
- Create a genuine lifestyle business model (so your business supports your personal life wants and needs).
- Clean up your business foundations and systems (so your business doesn’t break when you take a break).
- Learn how to take breaks the RIGHT way (so you reap the benefits, personally and professionally, of taking the break).
...How do you make it happen?
→ We do ALL of this inside Productivity Powerhouse!
You’ll get the inside scoop on how to restructure your business so it suits your unique wants/needs AND so that it can maintain itself.
You’ll design a business model that fully supports your lifestyle — and you’ll NEVER need to work evenings and weekends again.
You’ll learn the skill of taking breaks the RIGHT way, you’ll clean up your business foundations and systems, you’ll enjoy home based business owner time freedom, and you’ll upgrade your productivity skills on a whole new level.
Includes sample templates, step-by-step guides, real-life examples, and more.
#1 question you need to ask yourself...
There’s one more VERY important question in this whole conversation of “What happens if I take a break from my business? If I take a break from my business, will my business break? Is it okay to take a break from your business?”
…That question is THIS:
How's your relationship with your business?
If you're like most solopreneurs, the relationship status you have with your own business might be something like "It's Complicated" or "On-and-Off Again" or "Love/Hate" or "Hot-and-Cold."
...None of those are exactly ideal!
It's time to improve your relationship with your business — and that's also exactly what my Productivity Powerhouse e-course does for you.
Here’s what will happen with Productivity Powerhouse: You will…
- Have better communication, boundaries, kindness, respect, and compassion with all things related to your business (which will improve your work/life balance, emotional wellbeing, fulfillment, AND relationships with others)
- Get clear and focused on your goals and priorities (and actually take awesome action on them)
- Never need to work evenings or weekends again (and you’ll finally have home based business owner time freedom!)
- Have the opportunity to adjust your schedule as you want and need (AKA when you take breaks from your business, your business won’t break!)
- Feel more confident and comfortable juggling everything, and all of your many priorities will start to SUPPORT and feed into one another (rather than compete against each other)
- Overcome toxic productivity and hustle culture (and instead embrace cozy business ownership)
- Drastically increase your energy (so that you’re able to do MORE than "tread water" in your business — you’ll be doing all kinds of cool, fancy moves and have fun while you’re at it!)
- Be in awe of your own progress and amazed at how efficiently you can get stuff done (the solopreneur success tips and freelancer productivity tips in this e-coure will help you achieve your goals faster and more enjoyably than ever before!)
- Become lifelong FRIENDS with your business and your task list (because you deserve to actually ENJOY every aspect of your business)
- BE the active participant in your own business and life (and you’ll have the capacity and capability to make positive change when you want and need it)
- Transform your approach to business so you genuinely enjoy all aspects of what you do (and release the things that are currently holding you back!)
Sound good?
Yeah it does! And it can be all yours…
All you need to do in THIS moment is join Productivity Powerhouse:
I believe in you and your business — and it's time for you to believe in yourself and your business, too!
Productivity Powerhouse will help you do that: It's the #1 resource for solopreneurs who want time freedom, a fulfilling life and business, and to excel as a leader in your industry.
