Lauren Bateman was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at 16, which changed how she thinks about time. She's choosing to cap her business growth rather than chase the nonstop content grind gurus push, because preserving free time matters more to her than maximizing income.
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I'm not the kind of person who wants to be grinding the content all the time. I listen to all the gurus, and they're like, you know, you got to post 50 million shorts. You got to get out there. You're going to bust out the content. You're going to put up millions and millions of videos and all this other stuff. You got to get exposure. And it does take a lot of work. Upped my content game, but I'm realizing is I don't want to be part of that content grind. That's not a goal for me. And if that means I limit my growth, if I limit myself to, hey, I'm only going to make a million dollars a year in this business, I'm probably okay with that. What's important for me is time. Okay? When I was younger, I had Hodgkin's lymphoma. I had cancer when I was younger. I was 16 when I got diagnosed. So I learned at a very young age that time in life is very precious. And I don't want to spend every waking second working. I love working. Trust me, there's days like a day like today. I could work all day. Yesterday, I literally worked.
