If life is a tight rope walk for all, for serious entrepreneurs, life is a tight rope walk with spinning plates in hand sans a safety net below. Sure, they are making it to the top of the ladder in their business, but are also perforce perpetually running survival marathons.

Most of the time, it is pure survival acrobatics.

As internet marketers, we guide and motivate our team members, talk to prospective clients, reply to endless emails and text messages, keep up to date with all the new marketing strategies, promote our campaigns, get bombarded with guru launches that promise to make us richer faster and easierand fit in time for our family and ourselves.

Life for him might look like a circular jogging track from which he cannot find a way outside.

In the January issue of Professional Speaker magazine, serious entrepreneur John Alston writes: „For some of us, work is our first love, and for those of us struggling to make our businesses work, there are patient and enduring lovers, spouses and children hanging in there with us. For others there are ex-lovers, ex-spouses and alienated children who can and will testify to what you really value.“

Every job, and even every passion, comes with its own set of challenges. But internet marketing is a notch above all this in its tension generation ability. Serious entrepreneurs have devised their own ways for coping with the pressures of network marketing, because, it was a novel and untested arena and there was pretty much no training or warning on how to cope with it.

For most serious entrepreneurs that I have come into contact with, internet marketing is a consummate passion. It is almost like a swelling urge that would choke them if they could not find proper outlets for it. Everything that defines internet marketing, like the freedom to be their own boss, its unlimited moneymaking potentials, and its ever-widening opportunities, define life itself for them.

With all that, they know only too well about the breaks they should take.

However much they love their work, serious entrepreneurs ensure that internet marketing is not the be all and end all of their lives.

They take time for „dates“ with their spouses, attend their children’s sports events and piano recitals. They hit the gym, fish and hunt, take guitar lessons, and have backyard barbecues. They take time to meditate, do yoga, read just to rejuvenate.

A balance between work, play, worship, and giving back to the community is not so much about finding the time to do everything equally. It’s more about recognizing that time consistently spent engaging in the activities that we love the most feeds our soul and enables us to live a satisfying, grounded life.

If you think you have no time, remember the Parkinson’s Law „work expands to fill the time available for its completion.“

Stop! You’ll never get it all done. The things on your to-do list never get completely crossed off. So, take stock and decide what means most to you, what you love to do. And the rest can either be forgotten or outsourced when it comes to your business.

„Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful“ said Albert Schweitzer. Serious entrepreneurs can take note.