Work-life balance

Everyone is trying to sell you a course about how to make gazillions of dollars working just 10 hours a week.

Is that real?

I was wondering whether "work-life balance" as an entrepreneur was a myth.

So I asked r/entrepreneur ....

Of the successful entrepreneurs who responded, all of them said that they spent 50+ hours per week building their business for at least 18 months when they first started.

But now, many of them have far better work-life balance than they would if they were working a 9-to-5.

Others said that they could stop working so hard if they wanted to (or if they had learned how to properly delegate sooner).

And some have sold their company entirely.

The same pattern shows up in the successful people I know personally.

They all "paid the price" in the beginning by working their butt off... much harder than you'd work at a 9-to-5.

Some of those people still work their butts off... but because they want to.

Others work 2-4 hours per day, and spend the rest of their time doing whatever they feel like.

So if you're a complete beginner...

Know that success doesn't come easy.

You have to pay the price.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you a course.

If you're an experienced entrepreneur already...

And you've found product-market fit, you have an audience, and you're making solid money already...

Build your business around the life that you want.

-Theo