{"id":1657,"date":"2006-07-05T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:49:25","slug":"8-tips-to-maintain-your-sanity-during","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2006\/07\/8-tips-to-maintain-your-sanity-during.html","title":{"rendered":"8 tips to maintain your sanity during a start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow Leadership blog offers 8 excellent tips on maintaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowleadership.org\/2006\/06\/start-up-sanity.html\">Start-up Sanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A little while ago, I tried to explain why I think working hard is often necessary for small business owners and those with a start-up, but no guarantee of business success. Maybe that sounded like cold comfort, but it\u2019s better to face reality early than avoid half killing yourself with overwork in what proves to be a lost cause. Most owners of small businesses work really, really hard. If they fail, it\u2019s much more likely to be due to a poor business concept, inadequate financial backing, or sheer bad luck than lack of effort on their part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowleadership.org\/2006\/06\/start-up-sanity.html\">Start-up Sanity<\/a> for the eight tips, including an insightful look at the cause of burnout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/small+biz\" rel=\"tag\">small biz<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/rural\" rel=\"tag\">rural<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/entrepreneurship\" rel=\"tag\">entrepreneurship<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/startup\" rel=\"tag\">startup<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/smallbizsurvival\/worklife\" rel=\"tag\">worklife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow Leadership blog offers 8 excellent tips on maintaining Start-up Sanity. A little while ago, I tried to explain why I think working hard is often necessary for small business owners and those with a start-up, but no guarantee of business success. Maybe that sounded like cold comfort, but it\u2019s better to face reality early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}