Carolyn Jack

Editor and CEO, Geniocity.com
A project of The Genius Group LLC

Creative Nerve: What It’s Really Like to Start a Business

Going in for time out. This last year has proved to me that entrepreneurship not only has its ups and downs, but its ins and outs, too – literally. For one quarter of the year, I’m out buzzing frenziedly around the landscape at constant meetings and gatherings, and for the next, I’m locked in my office for weeks at a time slaving alone over administrative and planning chores.

I feel like some species of arctic fly that suddenly emerges when the temperature rises above freezing, hysterically rushes around eating/mating/building/reproducing for three months and then abruptly vanishes into a preoccupied, twilight isolation under the tundra for the rest of the year. 

Come to think of it, that’s sort of how everyone in Cleveland lives, entrepreneurs or not. 

But even if it’s the norm around here, it’s not what I’d call a balanced regimen of activity. So, to even things out, I’ll be taking a little break from blogging this next week. You’ll hear from me – just not every day. And maybe before I return to the full-time gig on Monday, Aug.18, I’ll have rediscovered what the roses smell like. Or the moose. We arctic flies have to take what we can get.