how do you manage business and family
I’m going to that question in today’s
episode of lunch and earn so recently
got asked the question for one of my
Twitter followers love you guys Imran
who wrote in to say hi evan is there a
family cost of being a successful
entrepreneur this is a fantastic
question and I think one that every
entrepreneur struggles with how much
time do I spend in my business how much
time is one in my family and today I’m
going to share three ways that I manage
my business and my family and hopefully
you can learn from it as well the number
one is step boundaries one of the most
important things I think that you can do
is figure out when you are going to work
and when you are going to be with your
family and I think too many
entrepreneurs let that lead to much
there’s no clear definition as to when
family time starts and when work time
starts one of the things that can
definitely help is start working when
your spouse starts working I find that
prior I used to wake up a little bit
later than my wife and i would start
working later than she would and I find
it it’s easier to wake up at the same
time and while she’s working I’m working
and then when she gets home I’m not
working anymore and having that clear
definition I think really helps recently
I’ve taken over a new business and I’ve
tried to juggle my time and had to
figure out okay now I’ve gotta see
responsibilities where can I make that
fit in my schedule and Nina was awesome
and suggested hey why don’t we take some
time on monday night and you can work on
this and i’ll do some other stuff and
and i said no because i want to make
sure that the time that we’re spending
together is together and not letting the
work bleed too much into our lives and
there’s gonna be some days where you
have this emergencies where you can’t
help it wear something comes up when you
have to deal with it and hopefully work
on minimizing those emergencies i like
running a low emergency business and no
crisis business as much as possible but
basically planning around it so that
when you are working your work angels
your work hours you have a set schedule
and when you have your family time
that’s your family time number two is
involve them and this is something that
i grossly underestimate the importance
of earlier in
my career I used to think that you know
running the business was my problem my
challenge and I didn’t want that to
bleed into my personal life and not have
to make you know my my spouse and my
child worry about what I was doing but
the more that I’ve understood them the
more at least in my case I’ve realized
that they like to be involved they like
to know what’s happened they like to be
at least understanding what’s going on
in my business because it gives them
better contacts and so sometimes it can
help so Nina’s in a bunch of my videos
Hayden’s in a bunch of my videos Nina
now helps comments respond to the
comments on the channel and that’s all
fantastic and she gets an understanding
of why I’m doing this why it’s so
important but even me just explaining
what’s going on and not in the
frustrating way but talking about what’s
happening in my day and why it’s
important what I’m worried about that
makes it feel like we’re on the same
team it makes me feel like Sh in there
stains me more and it’s not something
that I ever really needed so much I feel
personally just as a piece of
self-awareness that I don’t really need
that validation whether people I don’t
need other people to understand me or
comfort me for the most part but for her
it’s important that she feels connected
to me in what I’m doing and so I think
if you can find ways to involve your
partner your family if it’s just them
understanding what you’re doing or if
there’s a way that they can help in some
way that makes them feel a little closer
a little more connected to you I feel
like it really helps my last but advice
is spend quality time together I think
you can definitely increase the amount
of time we spend together but you want
to make sure that the time that you do
spend together is quality time I think
too many people might be with their
significant other but they’re spending
at a time on their phones or they’re
just watching TV show and they’re not
actually spending quality time I’d much
rather have an hour of quality time with
my wife where we’re talking or having
dinner together or dancing together and
we feel some kind of close connection
then two hours of just sitting watching
a show or being on opposite sides of a
room checking our phones I feel like
that’s not a real connection so you want
to make sure that the limit amount of
time that you have in general right our
time is limited and everything that we
do for your business for your family for
your hobbies for your frame
your time is limited and you want to
make sure that every minute that you’re
using counts for something that it’s
helping you form a meaningful connection
and that is that’s minutes that you’ll
never get back and so make sure that the
time you’re spending with your family is
quality time so those are my three
suggestions I’d love to know how you
balance your family and your business
leave a comment below maybe I could
learn something as well thank you so
much for watching you need to believe
and I’ll see you soon
I’m going to that question in today’s
episode of lunch and earn so recently
got asked the question for one of my
Twitter followers love you guys Imran
who wrote in to say hi evan is there a
family cost of being a successful
entrepreneur this is a fantastic
question and I think one that every
entrepreneur struggles with how much
time do I spend in my business how much
time is one in my family and today I’m
going to share three ways that I manage
my business and my family and hopefully
you can learn from it as well the number
one is step boundaries one of the most
important things I think that you can do
is figure out when you are going to work
and when you are going to be with your
family and I think too many
entrepreneurs let that lead to much
there’s no clear definition as to when
family time starts and when work time
starts one of the things that can
definitely help is start working when
your spouse starts working I find that
prior I used to wake up a little bit
later than my wife and i would start
working later than she would and I find
it it’s easier to wake up at the same
time and while she’s working I’m working
and then when she gets home I’m not
working anymore and having that clear
definition I think really helps recently
I’ve taken over a new business and I’ve
tried to juggle my time and had to
figure out okay now I’ve gotta see
responsibilities where can I make that
fit in my schedule and Nina was awesome
and suggested hey why don’t we take some
time on monday night and you can work on
this and i’ll do some other stuff and
and i said no because i want to make
sure that the time that we’re spending
together is together and not letting the
work bleed too much into our lives and
there’s gonna be some days where you
have this emergencies where you can’t
help it wear something comes up when you
have to deal with it and hopefully work
on minimizing those emergencies i like
running a low emergency business and no
crisis business as much as possible but
basically planning around it so that
when you are working your work angels
your work hours you have a set schedule
and when you have your family time
that’s your family time number two is
involve them and this is something that
i grossly underestimate the importance
of earlier in
my career I used to think that you know
running the business was my problem my
challenge and I didn’t want that to
bleed into my personal life and not have
to make you know my my spouse and my
child worry about what I was doing but
the more that I’ve understood them the
more at least in my case I’ve realized
that they like to be involved they like
to know what’s happened they like to be
at least understanding what’s going on
in my business because it gives them
better contacts and so sometimes it can
help so Nina’s in a bunch of my videos
Hayden’s in a bunch of my videos Nina
now helps comments respond to the
comments on the channel and that’s all
fantastic and she gets an understanding
of why I’m doing this why it’s so
important but even me just explaining
what’s going on and not in the
frustrating way but talking about what’s
happening in my day and why it’s
important what I’m worried about that
makes it feel like we’re on the same
team it makes me feel like Sh in there
stains me more and it’s not something
that I ever really needed so much I feel
personally just as a piece of
self-awareness that I don’t really need
that validation whether people I don’t
need other people to understand me or
comfort me for the most part but for her
it’s important that she feels connected
to me in what I’m doing and so I think
if you can find ways to involve your
partner your family if it’s just them
understanding what you’re doing or if
there’s a way that they can help in some
way that makes them feel a little closer
a little more connected to you I feel
like it really helps my last but advice
is spend quality time together I think
you can definitely increase the amount
of time we spend together but you want
to make sure that the time that you do
spend together is quality time I think
too many people might be with their
significant other but they’re spending
at a time on their phones or they’re
just watching TV show and they’re not
actually spending quality time I’d much
rather have an hour of quality time with
my wife where we’re talking or having
dinner together or dancing together and
we feel some kind of close connection
then two hours of just sitting watching
a show or being on opposite sides of a
room checking our phones I feel like
that’s not a real connection so you want
to make sure that the limit amount of
time that you have in general right our
time is limited and everything that we
do for your business for your family for
your hobbies for your frame
your time is limited and you want to
make sure that every minute that you’re
using counts for something that it’s
helping you form a meaningful connection
and that is that’s minutes that you’ll
never get back and so make sure that the
time you’re spending with your family is
quality time so those are my three
suggestions I’d love to know how you
balance your family and your business
leave a comment below maybe I could
learn something as well thank you so
much for watching you need to believe
and I’ll see you soon
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