Sometimes in life you don't realize how far you've come until you stop and look back.
I'm currently in a small beach town in Brazil, as a part of a 3 month trip to South America. I wake up with no alarm clock..and start the day with my morning routine that takes about 2 hours. Afterwards I plunge into a deep work session about something I'm excited about (like writing this post).. and only somewhere in the afternoon I look at my phone, check email and plug into the world. For most agency owners and freelancers, this is unthinkable.
This couldn't be farther away from where I was only one short year ago..
Just 12 months ago, I was burning out, hard. I was working 12 hour days almost every day, shuffling between client meetings, managing my team, sales calls, and doing client work to make sure everything holds together.
I started talking to my friends about quitting my digital marketing agency I've been working so hard on for the past 2 years.
It was the beginning May of 2018, I looked at the projections for the month..and my eyes went dark.
If nothing changed, I'd be losing $10,000. I'd have to hustle my butt off this month, just to not lose money.
Magical things happen when you HAVE to make money. I hustled and the month ended in the red, but I knew something had to change..
Why was I working so hard? What was my end goal?
I wanted to create a sustainable digital agency, that makes enough money to support my lifestyle, and does not require my day to day involvement so I can travel, work on other businesses and enjoy life.
Instead..I've created a highly stressful job, WITH the downsides of running a business: payroll..managing a team..dealing with clients...and ultimate responsibility. Something definitely went wrong along the way..
If lifestyle, travel, and enjoyment are the ultimate goal..why not get there faster?
My solution?
I've decided to go on a 4 month trip to Asia. I wanted to enjoy my travels, and decided I was going to allocate a max 10hrs/week to run the business day to day.
Instead of prioritizing business growth, revenue, and hustle..I decided to prioritize my lifestyle and happiness. I was so commited to lifestyle and happiness, that I was also mentally prepared for the business to fail or to shut down in the process, if it came to that.
There have been a lot of ups and down this past year..I've made a LOT of mistakes in the process of removing myself from working IN the business to working ON the business..I'll be sharing the process here.
I'm currently in a small beach town in Brazil, as a part of a 3 month trip to South America. I wake up with no alarm clock..and start the day with my morning routine that takes about 2 hours. Afterwards I plunge into a deep work session about something I'm excited about (like writing this post).. and only somewhere in the afternoon I look at my phone, check email and plug into the world. For most agency owners and freelancers, this is unthinkable.
This couldn't be farther away from where I was only one short year ago..
Just 12 months ago, I was burning out, hard. I was working 12 hour days almost every day, shuffling between client meetings, managing my team, sales calls, and doing client work to make sure everything holds together.
I started talking to my friends about quitting my digital marketing agency I've been working so hard on for the past 2 years.
It was the beginning May of 2018, I looked at the projections for the month..and my eyes went dark.
If nothing changed, I'd be losing $10,000. I'd have to hustle my butt off this month, just to not lose money.
Magical things happen when you HAVE to make money. I hustled and the month ended in the red, but I knew something had to change..
Why was I working so hard? What was my end goal?
I wanted to create a sustainable digital agency, that makes enough money to support my lifestyle, and does not require my day to day involvement so I can travel, work on other businesses and enjoy life.
Instead..I've created a highly stressful job, WITH the downsides of running a business: payroll..managing a team..dealing with clients...and ultimate responsibility. Something definitely went wrong along the way..
If lifestyle, travel, and enjoyment are the ultimate goal..why not get there faster?
My solution?
I've decided to go on a 4 month trip to Asia. I wanted to enjoy my travels, and decided I was going to allocate a max 10hrs/week to run the business day to day.
Instead of prioritizing business growth, revenue, and hustle..I decided to prioritize my lifestyle and happiness. I was so commited to lifestyle and happiness, that I was also mentally prepared for the business to fail or to shut down in the process, if it came to that.
There have been a lot of ups and down this past year..I've made a LOT of mistakes in the process of removing myself from working IN the business to working ON the business..I'll be sharing the process here.
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