How do you balance time between your businesses, work, family, and personal life? Do you feel like you're 100% present in any of those at a given time?
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I think balance is subjective. I usually don't try to perfectly balance everything. There are times where I focus more on my personal life/family and other times where I get busier with work or business, although I feel like I am getting pretty focused on each area most of the time.
The main thing I am trying to follow is going with inspiration and intuition. If I wake up and I am not inspired to work on one of my side projects, then I don't work on it or reduce the amount of time spent on it for the day. The tricky one is my day job since I can't really afford not to go!
For family time, I don't have kids yet and my girlfriend and I always have time shared during the day (we share meals as much as we can and have some chill time in the evening as well, before getting productive again). It also helps that she works in tech.
For me time, I also time block time for meditation, exercise, TV-show binging, music or anything (depending on the inspiration). However, coding is also a passion of mine, so my side-projects sometimes feel more like a hobby than work.
The bottom line is, I work/do what inspires me at the moment, with slight guidance in respect to my deadlines or objectives (which I can set to be as aggressive or relaxed as I want for my side projects)
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How do you balance time between your businesses, work, family, and personal life? Do you feel like you're 100% present in any of those at a given time?
Hi Shannon, great question!
I think balance is subjective. I usually don't try to perfectly balance everything. There are times where I focus more on my personal life/family and other times where I get busier with work or business, although I feel like I am getting pretty focused on each area most of the time.
The main thing I am trying to follow is going with inspiration and intuition. If I wake up and I am not inspired to work on one of my side projects, then I don't work on it or reduce the amount of time spent on it for the day. The tricky one is my day job since I can't really afford not to go!
For family time, I don't have kids yet and my girlfriend and I always have time shared during the day (we share meals as much as we can and have some chill time in the evening as well, before getting productive again). It also helps that she works in tech.
For me time, I also time block time for meditation, exercise, TV-show binging, music or anything (depending on the inspiration). However, coding is also a passion of mine, so my side-projects sometimes feel more like a hobby than work.
The bottom line is, I work/do what inspires me at the moment, with slight guidance in respect to my deadlines or objectives (which I can set to be as aggressive or relaxed as I want for my side projects)