A short talk by T. Harv Eker advising entrepreneurs on balancing business priorities with personal relationships. He emphasizes treating key life areas as "big rocks" with different time allocations and recommends a recurring, scheduled "date night" (e.g., weekly) to preserve intimacy while building a business.
One of those priorities is your business, but another priority, hopefully, is your family and maybe some friends, of course, and, you know, your spiritual life and your mental education and knowledge and things like that and recreation and stuff. Those are all big rocks. But here's the difference. The difference is they're not. They're all big rocks, but they're not equal in time. So let's say, for example, you say, okay, there's my business and there's my. The fact that I'm married and I want to have a good. A good relationship in my. In my. With my wife or my husband or my boyfriend or girlfriend, right? So what do I do there? Here's an example. Well, you're not going to spend eight hours a night, probably with your spouse, you know, just on a. On a date every single night, for example. Maybe, but it's going to be not that usual. Well, what's enough? Well, for most people, when they've been married for a little while, they're even lucky to ever go on a date again. Maybe, you know, every few months we go out on Saturday night or we see some friends. But if you could say, this is what I did. I said, you know what? This is important to me. And every Thursday night, once a week is date night. And we're going to go out on a date, and it's just going to be the two of us, no kids, no friends, none of that thing. And we're going to go on a date together. Right? That way we're able to have some special. What's the word? Special. Time together. And you know what? That was the perfect amount for us. You might be in a relationship where it has to be twice a week. You might have to be in a relationship where it's once a month is great.
