Title: I wish things were always busy. By busy I mean, I&#x27;m getting inbound leads, I&#x27;m having conversations via email or phone, I&#x27;m selling, I&#x27;m quoting, I&#x27;m fixing stuff on the product.<p>Then it goes from crazy busy to suddenly quiet.<p>I just don&#x27;t know what to do with the down time. I get super uneasy and anxious. I try to do some content marketing but I make so little progress, it&#x27;s hard to see any result very quickly, so I switch to optimizing the web or landing page and then get see how my PPC campaigns are doing and then reading HN or listening to podcast on bootstrapping etc. I feel inefficient and spread thin.<p>I feel terrible when things are quiet. I have an urge to start cranking out updates and new features on the product but I stop myself, as I only decided to create features that enough paying users request.<p>I have a terrible habit of playing counterstrike and checking HN and reddit obsessively until I get a phone call or an email and then I have to do some work. I&#x27;m on the computer almost 15 hours a day. Basically, I have no life except on weekends I go out with friends but I&#x27;m always ready to answer email or live chat on my phone. Some days I just wait around and end up playing games all day.<p>When I was developing the product it wasn&#x27;t like this. Nose down, cranking out code, testing, but I&#x27;m doing much much less of that now and trying to meet my personal sales target, marketing (based on what little I know), fixing websites, talking to people.<p>If you are boostrapping your biz full time what are you doing when you are not talking with leads or busy? Is there anything else I should be doing? Am I going about this the wrong way? Really would love your inputs, especially if you are unemployed and you rely on your bootstrap business.
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