If you’re waiting for more money or a team to enjoy time freedom, read this.
Exposed day 8 — A myth I see floating around in the world that pisses me off because it’s not true in my experience.
I feel like a broken record, but I’m going to say it for the people in the back.
You don’t need more money (or a bigger team) to create and enjoy time freedom in your life or business.
I’m so sad that people believe this. If you do, I totally get it. Read my other post where I talk about why time freedom seems to be reserved for white, rich dudes.
However, I hate to ruin this for you but… you can begin to create and enjoy time freedom today. No matter who you are.
Creating a life and business where you have full agency over how and where you spend your time requires making choices and shifts. Things that you’re capable of doing today if you really want time freedom.
From what I see, and is most likely the reason why so many people think they need more money or a team to create time freedom, is twofold:
Reason number 1: When I ask people what time freedom looks like for them, or what they’d do in their free time… they don’t know.
Most people are scared of having free time. Of boredom. Of sitting with themselves, and their thoughts. Of getting what they’ve been dreaming of for years, and keeping from themselves for years.
You can try and tell me that’s bologna, but I know from personal experience and through coaching the business owners I work with… that taking back control of your time, schedule, and life is a big responsibility. This leads me to number 2…
“Freedom comes with a responsibility: you have to think a lot more about how you manage your time,” Aeon says.
Reason number 2: Time freedom doesn’t seem possible because right now the main option for support on time management is the same 4 hacks that every blog regurgitates over and over again. (That don’t actually work or feel good for the majority of people)
So the logical conclusion is if those same 4 hacks don’t work for you…it must be the fact that you need more money or a bigger team to have more time, to have time freedom right?
That you have to wait until one day.
Nope, again.
Sidenote – the business/time management/productivity world needs an overhaul, and I hope to be one of the leaders in it.
Managing your time is not simple.
It’s not easy.
Or a hack you can find on google.
Because time is your life.
And you’re a beautifully complex human being.
Quite frankly, it shouldn’t be easy. You and I both know that living isn’t easy.
Managing your time (aka creating time freedom) requires you to think and act in integrity with yourself. All parts of yourself–physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
That’s why I won’t tell you the 4 habits or tricks you need to create time freedom right now.
What works for me doesn’t necessarily work for you.
Maybe even what works for the majority, doesn’t work for you.
But I do know that you can create time freedom without money or a team because I’ve seen it happen in my clients’ lives and my own.
I just got off a coaching call with a business owner I coach who’s taking 3 weeks off, without a team or being a millionare.
Someone else I’m working with has a day-job, a 9-year old, her own editing business, and an author who feels more in control of her time and energy than she has in years.
It happens when you stop googling hacks, and go in.
So please don’t let yourself get defeated by where you are. You can make the most of your precious time and life today.
You don’t have to wait.
