Lauren BatemanGuitar Teacher; Founder of the 7 Level Guitar System

Build Your Business Around Your Life

23 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Lauren Bateman argues for designing a business to fit the lifestyle you want rather than scaling a business to consume your life. She contrasts very high-revenue, high-effort ambitions (e.g., $20M–$100M/year companies) with her preferred model of moderate, sustainable output (weekly videos, website content) that permits extended travel and time off. The core claim: build your business around your life, not your life around your business.

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If you're someone who wants to have a $20 million a year company, or someone wants to have $100 million a year company, you have to put in $100 million a year effort. And for me and how I want to build my life and my lifestyle, that's not what I want to do. I want to say, hey, I want to do my one video a week over here on YouTube. I want to build some website articles. I want to be able to take a month off and go to Iceland or go to Scotland or Ireland or wherever I want to go. I want to be able to do that and not have to be Beck calling to my work. I really firmly believe that you should build your business around your life, not your life around your business.