Lauren Bateman didn't take a vacation for 10 years while building her business. She learned to delegate to free up time, then realized the core problem: if your effort level matches a $100k income, you won't hit $1M without changing your output or strategy.
For the first, probably 10 years of my business, this is including the music school, I didn't go on a single vacation. One, I didn't have the money to go on vacation, but two, I didn't really have the time to go on vacation because I was in the grind of building my business. And it got to a point where I was like, okay, I can start delegating, hire administrators, work up a team, you know, get an editor here for me to do more content on YouTube. And it's me. It's about, what do I want from life? Okay? Do I want to be grinding all day? Not necessarily. And I'm okay with that. And that's what Patrick's trying to say. He's like, listen, if you just want to make a million dollars a year or you just want to make $100,000 a year, that's fine. But the amount of output you're putting into your business has to match that dream. If you are only putting $100,000 a year effort into your business and your goal is to make a million, it's just not going to happen. You just have to be realistic about what you're doing and where you want to.
