Boundaryless?

I want to focus my post today on the video by Steve Blank. In this video an audience member asks the question, "What advice do you have for balancing the demands of a family life with the boundaryless life of an entrepreneur?"

Steve combats this question with the comment that people assume entrepreneurs have to have a boundaryless life. He then goes on to explain how he has set the most important boundaries, and those include time with his family.

This very moment in all of the readings and videos we were asked to watch for our class changed my view of the life of an entrepreneur.

I, too, always assumed that boundaries were almost impossible to set because as an entrepreneur you are at the beckon call of your customer or client. You believe that in order to keep up with business you have to set everything on hold at any moment of the day, night or year. 

Though now I have come to the realization that that is just not true! You can absolutely set boundaries! Not too many of course where you will completely cut yourself off from success, but that you can still have a life outside of work like any other job would give you.

My focus now in moving forward with my business is to set some concrete boundaries for my family and never change those for anything. Because family should always come first.