{"id":3780,"date":"2015-07-02T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2015-06-30T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:35:21","slug":"the-question-i-couldnt-answer-and-it-scared-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/the-question-i-couldnt-answer-and-it-scared-me","title":{"rendered":"The Question I Couldn&#8217;t Answer&#8230;And It Scared Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, a coach, mentor and friend asked me this simple question\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiane, what do you do for fun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scary thing was that I had no real answer for her. I started off by saying \u201cI have fun working in my business,\u201d to which she quickly asked for an answer outside of the business.<\/p>\n<p>And, I couldn\u2019t really answer her \u2013 that scared me a lot!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/cmsezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/cmsezinevideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/player\/\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"flv\/B084493B-D4AE-52BC-EDCD0F3E8F39A5EF.js?t=\"+(Math.random() * 99999999)+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you aren\u2019t having fun in your life and your business then something is wrong \u2013 seriously wrong.<\/p>\n<p>You have to make room in your life for down time, for rest and rejuvenation, for time off so you can recharge your batteries \u2013 for the sake of your business, and all the other parts of your life as well.<\/p>\n<p>From strictly a work perspective, there is a difference between being busy and being productive. Are you completing things so you can move on to the next thing or are you stuck, procrastinating, or just watching time go by?<\/p>\n<p>Have more fun \u2013 both inside and outside of your business.<\/p>\n<p>Life is too short (or too long \u2013 depending on how you look at it) not to enjoy what you do every day!<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is Independence Day (4<sup>th<\/sup> of July) in the United States and I hope you\u2019ll take not only the weekend to have some fun, enjoy some time with friends, eat some hotdogs, hamburgers, ribs or whatever \u2013 you get to choose, but I encourage you to take an extra day \u2013 the holiday is technically observed on Friday this year, so take that day off too \u2013 turn the weekend into a 3-day restful holiday so when you come back on Monday, you\u2019re full of ideas and excitement for what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>By the way\u2026I\u2019ve set the dates for the next <strong><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ImplementationCoachingEvent.com\" target=\"_blank\">Implementation Coaching Event\u2122<\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> We\u2019ll be together October 8<sup>th<\/sup>-10<sup>th<\/sup> here in Atlanta to set up your 2016 marketing and financial calendars. This event, is truly about Doubling Your Income in the first 90 days of 2016 \u2013 come join me, and I\u2019ll show you how!<\/p>\n<p>Prosperity &amp; Abundance to You &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS \u2013 I\u2019d love for you to leave a comment or share the post! Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, a coach, mentor and friend asked me this simple question\u2026 \u201cDiane, what do you do for fun?\u201d The scary thing was that I had no real answer for her. I started off by saying \u201cI have fun working in my business,\u201d to which she quickly asked for an answer outside of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/the-question-i-couldnt-answer-and-it-scared-me\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,58,24,32,1,601],"tags":[29,689,193,196,13,10,686,627,687,683,708,688,44],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-general","category-business-strategy","category-articles-info-marketing","category-articles-marketing","category-uncategorized","category-video","tag-business","tag-business-coach","tag-business-consulting","tag-coaching","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-double-your-income","tag-implementation-coaching-event","tag-make-more-money-in-your-business","tag-making-money-in-your-business","tag-articles-marketing","tag-mentoring","tag-small-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}