How do I run my own masonry business when I miss doing the stonework?

Your hands were made for stone, and now they hold a phone and a spreadsheet. Bids, payroll, the guy who did not show up. You built your own crew to do more of the work you love, and somehow it left you doing less of it. That is a bitter trade to wake up to. The business is not the enemy of the craft; it is what keeps the craft alive and pays the people who share it. But a business that swallows the work whole was never the point. You get to decide how much of yourself the office claims. Put your hands back on the stone on purpose. Block a day, or even a morning, where you are just a mason again, not the boss. The crew will respect it, and you will remember why you started. The paperwork will wait. The feeling of good work will not come from a spreadsheet.