After years of nonstop work damaged his marriage, the speaker set hard limits: travel twice a month, family trips on the calendar, one late night per week, 5 PM finish time otherwise. Forced to delegate, he got more strategic work done and actually saw his family.
What would I change about my 20s? I'd be more present. I was just always in the hustle. I was always, what's next? How could I do more? And my wife hit me one day and she's like, I feel like I'm a single mom. I feel like I go to everything on my own. I had no parameters, no boundaries. Now it's like, okay, I'll speak twice a month and thank God for things like this where I could just do it from the comfort of my home, right? Yeah. And so, creating those boundaries, Changed everything. I'd be like, all right, if I'm gone for more than 4 nights in a month, I'm taking a day off during the week. She's like, that'd be amazing, right? And I was like, let's always have a trip as a family on the books we can look forward to because then we can start to experience that even before it happens. She's like, amazing. I was like, why don't I just only work late 1 night a week and then all the other nights I'll be done by 5? And guess what? I got more strategic. I got more productive. I learned how to delegate before I didn't think it was possible because of my own fickle, feeble scarcity mind. And thanks to her pushback,
