The Ultimate Work-Life Balance Formula From A Former Workaholic

Hello, everyone, this is former President Obama, at least a close enough artificial intelligence voice model of him. It’s really great to join Igor today on a new episode of the list building lifestyle show. As someone who spent eight years in the White House working one of the most demanding jobs in the world, I know all about the importance of balancing work in life. And I know it’s hard, but it’s not impossible. In today’s fast paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and forget about the important things in life. We’re all guilty of it. But I believe that achieving work life balance is not just about finding more time. It’s about prioritizing the things that matter most. For me, family has always been my number one priority. No matter how busy my schedule was, I always made sure to find time where my wife and daughters were, it was essential to my happiness and well-being where you look can be something else. Whatever helps you clear your mind and recharge your batteries? What’s most important is that you take a break from work from time to time, and don’t even try to claim that you don’t have time, time is never the issue with the President, the United States could find time, then so can you with that. I’ll let Igor take it from here. Thanks again for having me. I wish you all the best on your journey towards freedom.

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For many years, the work life balance didn’t even exist. Because I was just obsessed with money. I was so driven by the fear of being poor that even after I made my first million, my motivation remained the same. If not, if not, I became more driven. Because now besides being poor, I was also afraid of losing everything. And that would be embarrassing. So for many years, the work life balance wasn’t there. Now, another thing to consider is what I’m up to in a particular period of time. So I’ve been way more active than I was in the previous three years. Meaning that I am putting in the extra hours I am staying up later working until five or six or 7pm. I am checking my messages all the time. And being a lot more hands on compared to the previous three years where I had a clear cut off time of 1pm or 2pm. And that’s it. However, if you can structure work-life balance with this business, you absolutely can’t. That’s the reason why people get into it. I think you can only do that. However, after you’ve made your first $10,000 per month or $5,000 per month, whatever that number is because then you can start systematizing things. The Beauty and the curse of what we do is that we can be making money all the time. And a lot of times, it comes down to what we are doing right now. And so if you’re, if you’re the kind of person who is looking for work -life balance, I suggest you delay thoughts about it until you’re making money for real. And then you can actually create it because for you that work life balance might mean that you work late nights, but you don’t work in the morning. Because there’s people who just work better at night. Right? Because I don’t know, they just have an easier time working at night, everything’s quiet and they’re able to focus better. There are people who are parents, and they can only fit this in the after-hours or before hours, right. So whatever that work life balance means to you. You can also take this with you anywhere. So if for you the work life balance means you get to travel more, then you do it on the go, by all means, and it’s going to be very, very subjective to what you feel work life balances. For me again for many, many years, it didn’t even exist. And I have to say that I wasn’t even looking for it. Like I’ve never I’ve never sat back and said Ah I’m burning out, I need a breather, I have no work life balance, there was no such point in time. For me, I was completely fine with the idea that I was putting in more hours and everybody else I was fine with the idea that I was like, on my computer making shouldn’t happen all the time. But let’s not forget, I was 2526 27 years old. And at that age, you just want to go do stuff, you’re not necessarily looking for work life balance. I was never a party guy. I was never, you know, a boat guy or a surfing guy. I was never, I was never that sort of guy. Even after I’ve made a lot of money, my lifestyle remains pretty much the same. I never really went out and like, I traveled a bit here and there, but I don’t necessarily enjoy the travel. Like I enjoyed the experience when I’m over somewhere. But 90% of the travel, overall, goes into traveling. I don’t enjoy, you know, organizing the hotel and the trips and traveling by plane or whatever. Long drives, you know, we’re traveling here locally in Canada, sleeping on a pillow that’s not mine. I’m trying to look for healthy food in a new place where it’s really hard to do. So I’ve never really, you know, I’ve never really complained about my work because I love what I do. And I guess that’s been a blessing for me in that sense. But yeah, once at some point in my life, I kind of decided to have a little bit more time to pursue some things to try and explore some interests and stuff like that. But not to an extent that would make me want to completely break everything and say, Oh, I’m super burnt out. No, I would still be able to put in a good six hours of work every day. And, again, never felt out of balance. You know what I mean? Like for me, this work. What I think is keeping me sane, rather than something that I consider a burden. You know, when I was working a job, I considered that a burden. I dragged my feet to the bus stop. I found everything that was happening at work annoying, including the people who I really hated. The job was meaningless and stupid. And every day felt like a drag. You know, I really questioned everything about work. But you don’t need to motivate me to do this. I jump out of bed and I can be like before I brush my teeth or had my coffee or whatever I can just jump into it.

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