Our organization grew to more than 35 employees. My goal at that time was to have a magazine in production every week of the month. I and many others were stretched very thin. It was one of those situations where we were trying to make up in volume what we couldn't make up in margin. Not a good situation.
Entrepreneurs typically lose themselves in the process of running a business.
By the time a business is established enough that it can survive, most founders are so reactive and used to putting out fires that it doesn't occur to them to reflect on their own and consider their personal needs and goals. We entrepreneurs are uniquely equipped individuals, able to create our own incredible adventure. We just have to know what our adventure is. By aligning our company goals with our own personal goals and dreams we can learn to leverage ourselves and exercise our highest capabilities. We rarely get to the deep personal level of how this business can fulfill our needs.