Work Life Balance für eine Saison opfern

0:00deleting work life balance for a season nets you more work life balance over a lifetime. >> So I I love this uh frame shift which is everyone talks about work life balance but no one talks about it over what timeline. >> Paul Graham said this from my commentator. He said um in order to make a million dollars you have to endure a million dollars worth of pain. >> And so you might be able to endure a million dollars worth of pain over 40 years or you can crunch it into four crazy years and then after that you can have whatever you want to have afterwards. And so I I think about life in seasons rather than in you know on on microcosms of days and and even weeks.

0:36And I think that shifting that perspective will really only solve one core problem for people which is that they feel like they are doing something wrong by making a sacrifice today. And there's always going and again it's an eternal question. How much do I how much do I risk? Uh how much do I consume versus invest? These are classic human problems that will never have a correct answer. And it's more what's the correct answer for you in your season right now based on the goals you have. And so I think if anything I would want that quote to give some people permission to work a weekend every once in a while to to take the five to nine on both sides of the day and say you know what I am going to be unbalanced and that's okay because at least in my observation and probably yours I have yet to see a hyper successful person who doesn't have a wildly unbalanced life or at least for a significant period of time.

1:19>> And we want to just make sure that we're not looking at someone once they are a billionaire and saying what are they doing now because they might be in a different season now. And so don't look at what, you know, Warren Buffett's doing now when he says, "If I make two good decisions a year, I've had a good year." Well, if you make two good decisions a year, you're still probably not [laughter] you're not going to be Warren Buffett, right? Um, and so I I think about that as my as as a my frame. >> Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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