Hey Paul – thanks for commenting.

We’ve been lucky so far (touches wood) in that 100% of our work is referred, so don’t do any overtly salesy stuff. But you’re right: consulting work which is by far the most lucrative (and frankly, easiest) work we do is also the type of work which is the most incompatible with our life here. I have zero desire to spend the rest of my life travelling / in hotels – but consultancy absolutely demands that when you live hours away from your clients. So there’s a big question / balance thing right there..

What I think is also hard is knowing that we *could earn more money* and deliberately choosing not to. Even when you’re an old hippy bastard like me (and a younger hippy bastard like @rachcrad) – this is quite a tough call, what with kids, the uncertainties you mention, the fact it could all fall off a cliff any second…

In fact thinking around it I think the thing I find the most difficult about working for ourselves is knowing that there is *always* more to do, but making deliberate choices not to do those things.

As someone who finds relaxing incredibly hard, this is a learning curve I think I’ll always be climbing up… 🙂