A short YouTube monologue by Chris Larsen reflecting on the trade-offs of saying yes to work versus family. Larsen explains that setting clear family-first boundaries led him to become more efficient, delegate better, place the right people in roles, work fewer hours, and ultimately see his business grow.
I learned a valuable lesson early on. Whatever you're saying yes to, you're saying no to everything else. So if you're saying yes to business, yes to work, yes to growth, and you're saying no to your family, and which is the greater cost, you know, and sometimes for us, you know, alpha males and hard charging, you know, men and women, and when I learned to put boundaries around my time and the business and what was non negotiable with my family, everything changed. And I actually thought I was going to do less business. So I decided I'll say yes to my family and no to extra hours and, you know, all the different stuff. With work, I thought business would go down, but I would be building relational equity inside my family. Right. Like I'm doing the better things. What ended up happening in reality is I just got more efficient in the business. I got more efficient with my time, I got better at delegating, I got better at putting the right people in the right seats. And so I actually worked less in the business and the business started to grow more than when I was doing all the things wearing all the hats.