The first time I brought up this issue at a talk I got a bunch of weird looks from the audience followed by some hesitant questions. Aren't we, as entrepreneurs, supposed to optimise everything to increase output and efficiency?
My answer is: as entrepreneurs, perhaps, as innerpreneurs, definitely not!
The risk that comes with becoming a fantastic optimiser is not knowing when to stop.
After it has become imbued in your mindset the evaluation of the resources it takes to complete a certain task and then reducing this resource usage whenever possible, it become an instinct. You look at something that needs to be done, you evaluate it, optimise it, do it, done.
This process gets an amazing amount of things done but at the cost of focusing you on achieving the end result, the goal, the deliverable, at the expense of making the experience of actually achieving it as fast and painless as possible.
But most of the things that are really worth in life are not about the end result, but about the path you walk to get there.
Have a new personal hacking project? Why would you want to hasten the pleasure actually doing it gives you in favour of getting the project done as quickly as possible?
Having a child? Do you really want to get done with his education and upbringing as fast and efficiently as possible?
That's what actual "living" is all about. The path and the experience.
Ultimately, you already know how this project called "life" ends. It's not pretty. Most want to avoid it. So we try to experience it for as long as we can.
So know when to take you optimiser hat off and enjoy life. Work, hat on. Personal life, hat off.
That's the Way of the Innerpreneur.
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