Downshifting or not?

There has been recent news about people who are trying to balance more carefully between the job and leisure. That´s nothing more than basic human sense of balancing life, but nowadays named neatly as "downshifting".

Especially if you work as an entrepreneur and have to decide your action only by yourself, you definitely need to concentrate to balance your time usage that you don´t burn yourself out. That´s not downshifting it´s just a clever thing everybody should do, whether you are entrepreneur or employee.

Last wednesday the surfing world was hit by news that 3rd time world surfing champion Andy Irons was found dead, alone in his hotel room, at the age of 32. Well okay he has definitely seen more than average people could see in his life, but to die suddenly at the young age is nothing more than sad story...

We wanted to go catching some waves on the same day. We decided to skip the job and go surfing like Yvon Chouinard book "Let my people go surfing" tells for us. First I was a bit ashamed about skipping the work but then I realized that if you just concentrate for your job you don´t remember to live!

We were sitting in the water with my friend only by ourselves, Waiting for some waves to surf. Wind was blowing, bit of rain too. I began thinking about Andy and everybody who left the planet earth at the young age...

You really have to enjoy the every single moment of your life!