A short YouTube #short by Jacqueline Elliott offering direct advice about being intentional with work time. The speaker encourages young, unattached listeners to invest deep, focused effort now (rather than feeling guilty about working), arguing that deliberate concentrated work (e.g., four focused hours) can replace longer, unfocused days and free time for personal life.
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How do you have, like, you live, you know, and still work. But I want to work hella fucking hard, but still live hella fucking hard. You know, you're so young right now. Like, at your age, you don't need to be guilty about working. You need to put in your time and really build yourself. Especially if you feel like addicted to work. You don't have a husband, you don't have kids, you don't have any of that, so definitely do that. But I promise you that if you were to give it all you got, you wouldn't feel guilty about visiting your mom or doing the stuff that you do now. You do work your ass off, don't get me wrong. But if you were to give it all you got, like Sam was saying, be intentional with your time at your work. A lot of times we see work and it's kind of a country club, honestly, like, we don't really take advantage of the time. If you knew you had four hours to work really, really hard, then you probably wouldn't need 10 hours to work. Honestly, you just really need to be intentional for your time.