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What Would You Trade to Have Fridays Off Forever?
What would you be willing to trade or let go of to have Fridays off?
THE HIGHER YOUR EXPENSES, THE MORE YOU HAVE TO WORK
I’m posing this question specifically to the entrepreneurs and those who have direct control over their time, but it also applies to those of you who don't yet have full control of your time at work.
One of the things I learned very quickly as an entrepreneur was that I could work as many or as few hours as I wanted to, but I had to figure out how to balance this with making a certain amount of money.
Generally, the higher my expenses were, the more I had to work.
Of course, if I had a brilliant idea or sold something huge, that was great. As entrepreneurs, we often convince ourselves that we're about to discover the next great thing: something that’s never been seen before and that's going to sell by the truckload. It's great to think like that, and if it happens that's awesome.
But in...
Remember When You Made Less & Spent Less?
Remember when you made less and you spent less?
My 4-Day Work Week Dream
Years ago, I was in my 30s and I had a job where my goal was to start making $40,000 a year. At the time, that felt like a huge amount of money to me—maybe it sounds like a lot to you now, or maybe it doesn’t—but at the time it was like a magic number to me.
Up to this point, I’d been trying to save money, moving in and out of my parents’ house, and maxing out my 401k, then later squandering it in stupid ways, all because of impatience. I'll go into more detail about this in another episode.
Eventually I reached $40,000, and I really felt like I’d made it. Bear in mind, I didn’t have kids at this time, or even a girlfriend, so I only had to support myself.
But little by little, my expenses started to creep up. Now that I had achieved my goal of earning $40,000 a year, I could treat myself a bit. This is a familiar story,...
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