Taking a break.

That's a tough one when you are your own boss.

When you are working for someone else, you can ask for a break and you'd really hate it if you are denied that.

But what if you are the one who is denying it?

It's not tough to sign up to be your own boss, but to be a good boss to yourself is a hard-earned skill.

Empathy is hard, but it's not even close to how hard self-empathy is.

Even if we are working for someone else, we can all learn to be a better boss to ourselves. A good question to ask ourselves is "What can we do to not be the world's worst boss?"

The world’s worst boss
That would be you. Even if you’re not self-employed, your boss is you. You manage your career, your day, your responses. You manage how you sell your services and your education and the way y…