One thing I have noticed over the past few months of starting up WildFire is that I seem to have more and more to do in what seems to be less and less time. I find myself waking up early to work, working for most of the day; designing, writing, networking and going to see clients and then doing the same in the evening. When it comes to weekends; when I should be shutting off and enjoying some down time, I find that I am actually spending it researching, writing more articles and blogs, checking up on stats and campaigns, working out marketing plans (add to that a new project that I am currently planning out – more on that soon!) and doing even more networking.

I even find that even when I’m out, without the distraction of my laptop, I am constantly writing down website url’s and handing out flyers (which I did today around the Northern Quarter in Manchester). I simply find that I can’t (and don’t really want to) switch off.

I wondered if perhaps there was just not enough hours in the day, that I have so much to do that I just don’t have time to squeeze it into 5 days. But I have actually come to the conclusion that I just really enjoy what I do and want to do it all the time, it doesn’t feel like work to me, and if it did then I probably would do less of it.

The main reason I am putting in so many hours now is because I know that as we get more work in and more of a name we’ll grow and take on staff, I won’t have to spend 50% of my time networking (I’m sure then it will be filled with design work and more client meetings) and will have a bit more of a reason to have some down time and get back to other pass times I have outside of the working day (9-5 is a thing of the past, I don’t know a single business owner who keeps these hours) like photography and music.