The things they don't tell you about being an entrepreneur...

It's 2:05 am.  I got ready for bed around 10:30 pm...It's been a long week and I've been studying for exams every day.  I took a certification course that took over my entire Saturday and Sunday I finally took my dog on the extra long walk that he deserves before hunkering down for another afternoon of studying.

Every morning we have to check all of our social media sites, and again midday and at night.  Sometimes we check in during random hours for good measure.  We are fighting with ranking websites to make sure our company page is correctly represented, we have less than 30 days to use a great offer from GoogleAds to try to gain some business and move up on Google searches, and on top of that we had to drive our shirts to the printer before they close in order to have them in time for our sale.

We had to haggle with the printer, who tried to double the price per item, and finally came to an agreement that we could get original price if we meet a minimum order:  A small victory because now we'll have consistent pricing that we can count on!

I tried to pack for my trip tomorrow, tried to study, at least was able to get in a workout.

Again...at 10:30, I had turned off the lights and was ready for bed.  It is now 2:12 am.  Since sitting down to close the computer at 10:30 I have spoken to two potential clients, gotten a new order for shipment, added 4 new pages to our website, and written and published a blog post to social media.

This is the life of an entrepreneur.  I have to go now, my 9-5 job requires that I get more sleep than I ever do while I spend my nights and wee hours of the morning on my company and my days at theirs.

Someday this will all be over.  I'll probably miss the excitement of trying to best express our company goals in web format, or trying not to over-write and bore people with my FAQs page, but right now, it's 2:16 am and if I don't go to sleep, I'll be writing you my accomplishments again in a few hours time, so goodnight, dear entrepreneurs out there!

Get some sleep.  Your business counts on you!