Every yes spends something. Every no protects something. Your life is happening in those decisions.
Solopreneurship gives you choices you may never have had in a traditional job. It also makes you responsible for deciding what gets your time, attention, money, and energy.
Business needs something. Family needs something. You need something. Meanwhile, unfinished work, shiny opportunities, and everybody else’s expectations keep joining the juggle.
Trying to give everything equal weight can leave you busy, guilty, and afraid to put anything down.
In Balance Is Bullshit: A Solopreneur’s Guide to Making Fucking Decisions That Matter, Phyllis Williams-Strawder, the Ghetto Country Brandmother®, challenges the promise of a perfectly balanced life and turns your attention toward the choices you’re actually making.
Drawing on her own experiences with business, marriage, motherhood, distraction, and overcommitment, she examines how the struggle juggle develops and what it takes to face it honestly.
Through guided questions, evaluations, and decision prompts, you’ll contemplate seven areas of life:
Family and social relationships
Business and education aspirations
Your relationship with money
Health, recreation, and leisure
Routine responsibilities
Contribution and giving back
Mental, emotional, and spiritual life
Along the way, you’ll uncover the distractions disguised as work, the fear behind postponed decisions, and the difference between what you say you want and what your choices keep supporting.
Each evaluation moves from looking at your current situation to naming uncomfortable truths and deciding what you’re willing to do next. You can return to those questions as your circumstances and priorities change.
For solopreneurs tired of measuring their lives against an impossible standard, this book offers a practical place to examine the tradeoffs of being your own boss.
Look at your life. Tell yourself the truth. Make a fucking decision.
You get to choose what you pick up, what you put down, and what deserves another turn in the air.