The Business Guide
Just a regular guy that decided to quit his stable job and start a business. After successfully being in business I've learned a thing or two, unfortunately the hard way. I've created this podcast to share my successes & failures and to talk about the "real" ins & outs of business. I'll be personally sharing my stories along with guests.
As Business Owners we wear so many different hats and we have so many different struggles, we will breakdown those struggles together and talk about how we've overcome them and how it's shaped us to be better. If your a business owner currently going through a struggle, I hope this content helps!
The Business Guide
Balancing Acts: Mastering Business and Personal Life
What if you could break free from the endless grind of entrepreneurship and find true balance between your business and personal life? Today’s episode of The Business Guide podcast promises just that. I share my personal journey from the structured world to the unpredictable life of a business owner, peeling back the layers of what it truly means to balance these two demanding aspects of life. Discover how the transition to entrepreneurship challenges your time management skills and reshapes your perspective on financial growth and professional development.
Ever felt overwhelmed by the need to control every aspect of your business? You're not alone. In this episode, I explore the power of delegation and its role in business success. Drawing from my own struggles with letting go, I reveal how entrusting tasks to employees can lighten your load and drive growth. Learn about the importance of training a key employee to uphold your business standards, freeing you to focus on crucial tasks like networking and accounting—all while maintaining a healthier work-life balance.
Finally, I offer practical strategies for managing your time effectively and prioritizing your personal life. From avoiding late-night business emails to structuring your day for peak productivity, these insights are designed to help you thrive both at work and at home. Hear about my own time management evolution and the significance of taking vacations to prevent burnout. Tune in to gain valuable tips that can help you succeed, and don’t forget to share your feedback and support. Thank you for being a part of The Business Guide community!
Hey guys, thanks for joining in. It's Jonathan Wagner and this is the Business Guide podcast, where we are gonna dive into the ins and outs of everything business I originally started by. The whole purpose of this podcast was for me to create a vessel to get the information that all business owners are struggling with at some point in their small business career Most of the issues talking to other friends that are in business. Together we deal with a lot of the same issues and so really wanting to craft a podcast where we can talk about these issues you are not alone For any inspiring entrepreneurs out there. No-transcript, and also I don't want to edit it. So if you bear with me there, I promise I will deliver nothing but quality episodes to you where I hope you get the answers that maybe you have questions and you're getting the answers you're looking for. So on today's episode, we are going to be talking about time management, specifically balancing our business and personal life. I know, as a small business owner, this is a huge deal for most of us. Now I think once you're in business for a while, you have gotten, I would say, you kind of get a hold on this specifically time management. But if people go their whole career and will either dive themselves into their business life and not have much of a personal life, and vice versa. You dive too much into your personal life and don't put that ever into your business, you may not have a business that thrives and succeeds. So today I specifically want to talk about time management and personally how I balance it. This you know obviously we've gone through a couple episodes already If you've been on the journey. Those were kind of crafted to get the podcast going. This is now diving into honestly some issues that I deal with and kind of my experience and how I navigate them through or, excuse me, how I navigate through those experiences. So, without further ado, time management, balancing your business and personal life. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1:So you know I think it's interesting as a you know, a business owner been in business. You know a little over 12 years coming from the world of, where I was an employee. You know you clock in at you know 8 am or whatever it is, and you leave at you know 5.30 or whatever your clock out time is. And you know you give everything you've got during those, you know eight hours of work. You know, for the most part. Once you clock out, you can go home and just kind of forget about what you're dealing with, saying that you know some employees absolutely you know, care about the business that they're in and you know will bring some work home or bring some stress home. This is specifically the business owner standpoint on that. Not necessarily, you know, maybe I've got a bigger workload and I'm just bringing it home.
Speaker 1:But you know, this business life can really consume us and who we are. I know it can affect and has affect personal relationships, especially with, you know, friends in the industry where maybe they weren't dedicated enough to their home life and you know their home life suffered and vice versa not too much dedication to the business and the business suffered, so vice versa, not too much dedication to the business and the business effort. So for me, getting out of the world of, as I mentioned before, walgreens, I think one of the things when I wanted to start my business was I knew I wanted to make more money and I remember being a manager on call for one night that the Walgreens got broken into and this was kind of leading up to when I was going to make my exit and go into being a business owner. But I got a call one night the store was broken into and I don't know. It was probably broken into at 2 am and I went in and my normal shift had started at about 7.45 that morning anyways, and by the time the police were done and the board up crew was done and the cleanup was done, it was time for me to still stay at work. So I obviously was there at 2 am. I then proceeded to work my entire shift and I remember at the end of the evening you know 430, or five o'clock, whenever it was quitting time, I remember my manager that was coming in to relieve me had said you know, you've cleaned up quite the overtime we normally don't get that. You know, you should be pretty happy with your paycheck and I remember that just sticking in my mind. And you know, of course my paycheck comes through and it was a couple extra bucks and I just thought that, no matter what I did as an employee in this situation, I was never going to be able to make more money than what I was making. Of course, with this occasional overtime I made a couple hundred dollars extra, but there was really nothing else that was really going to left on the table for me to elevate my life and grow as a person. So this was one of the building blocks into finally making the decision to go into business. But this resonated with me of I'm not going to make a ton of money Now. I think that you know, in my situation of being an employee, yeah, it was nice being able to go home, it was nice being able to kind of clock off work and not have to deal with it as a business owner.
Speaker 1:You know some of the first things you do. Like when I wake up in the morning, one of the first things I do is I'll check my email, I'll go through my email, see what needs to be replied, and then I kind of get up, take a shower, maybe checking some emails there, just depending on how busy the day is, and, you know, kind of proceed with the day there. So literally, from the moment I am waking up, I am I mean, I'm not on the clock, but I'm on the clock and I'm checking emails and getting back to people or whatever it may be. You know, obviously we go through the workday. We completely are working, we're busy there, we're doing what we need to do during the workday and then, of course, when you get off, you know who knows what's going to be, you know what wrench is going to get thrown in your night. Now you know, for me I do attempt to set some rules and I will bring those rules up kind of in my personal life. But I'd love to share those kind of tips with you of when and when not to do the business.
Speaker 1:But I find myself I have to be the creative person in my obviously my business. I have to be the creative person in my obviously my business. And when you're the creative person and you're thinking of different things that come to you and services that you need to add on, or customers that you need to watch, you know reviews, there's so many different things You're watching, you know if customers are coming in after hours so many different things. So for me, maybe I'll be watching TV and something will spark my idea or spark an idea. Or I'll be walking in the park with my wife or I'll be making dinner and I really feel the urge to work. I feel like that creativity cannot be contained, and so me and my wife have a good understanding. We have talked about it that, to the best of my ability. I will just jot that I might jot something down. If we're cooking dinner and I've thought of an idea for something, maybe I'll jot it down, but then after dinner I will politely excuse myself and go in and talk about or start to research or whatever I need to do for the business.
Speaker 1:Obviously, small business owners we don't have huge accounting firms, so I do find myself going in and doing financials at night, doing some check-in of QuickBooks, things like that, really keeping tabs on the businesses that I have. So financials super important. So many different little things come up and while it may be a task that you can't get to during the business day, that you maybe think of after business hours, nonetheless you were working on the clock. Nonetheless, your family is getting that less of time with you. So it's important to make sure that you are really optimizing everything you can, obviously during the workday and make sure you leave room for creativity at night. And, of course, if you take an early day or whatever it is, you know this is giving you the mental break that you need.
Speaker 1:Now, in my time management I do not work around the clock and you know, in consistently working, but there are times where I completely will step back from the businesses, take a day off, take some time off, take a week here or there and really just give myself the refreshing kind of breath of fresh air that I need. Now I understand that a lot of you don't have that position. There are a lot of you that might be smaller or just can't break away from your business. And trust me, when I decide to break away from my businesses, it is very hard. And trust me, when I decide to break away from my businesses, it is very hard, but it is a priority for me to break away from the business. I try to do it once a quarter for a. Maybe I'll go up and work on the computer and just kind of play some catch up, but I have no time limits behind that. So specifically managing your time when you go into your place of business is crucial.
Speaker 1:You know, I learned early on that once I started hiring my employees. I think that let me rewind a little bit. I think when you're finally ready to pull the trigger on hiring an employee and you're excited to have them in and you start teaching them the ways, there's also a almost like a I don't want to say control issue or like controlling. But I mean, I know I did this myself and I know a lot of my buddies do this and I'm probably sure maybe most of you guys have done this, but like you don't want to let go, so you may teach an employee 80% of what you need done, but you'll hold off that other 20%. Now I'm not saying you know, I'm not, you know I'm not hiring a guy to go out and do something and then having them do my accounting work. That's not what I mean by that.
Speaker 1:But I find that business owners and myself, especially when I was new in business, like, hey, I can do, you know, I'll have you go do 80% of this and then I'll finish up that job 20%. I've got a buddy that he has to go out and service homes doing some testing and so when he hired his first employee, obviously he would go out, they would do all the driving, they would do all that, all that they needed to coordinate with the clients, all that good stuff. So that employee did most of that work. Now, when that employee excuse me, when I was talking to him and said, hey, you know I, how did this employee work out? Is it really helping? Now? Oh yeah, he's really helping, helping out, but I feel like I'm busier than ever. I'm buried in, you know, these, these, these follow-up reports. And so my question to him was why didn't you teach the employee to do the follow-up reports for your business? Take that workload off of you and, um, you know, obviously if you need an additional employee, then you're able to bring in that other employee because him, as a business owner, he needed to put his you know skills into growing the business, networking the business, you know, obviously, now, hr and things like that. So withholding information to give to your employee or withholding what you, you know, want your employee to do, out of kind of that control, you want control of those reports going out or you want control of the finished product.
Speaker 1:I know, for me, when I first got started on one of the things I was a stickler for going in and cleaning up our job sites after the fact, as I wanted them just immaculate, I wanted them to look good. In my situation, any homeowners or insurance agent or adjusters came by, I would want them to be like, wow, this, you know, this company really knows what they're doing, and they leave just just a solid product behind. And so my you know, my guys would go in and do most of the work and then I would always be there for the final. And so I mean I learned very, very early in business that my guys were absolutely capable of doing that final. I just had a control issue of letting go of that finished product, and so what that does is it adds more workload.
Speaker 1:Instead of me now in the office growing the business or dealing with other issues, advertising whatever I needed to do, I was consumed by the day-to-day operation of my business, therefore kind of ruining my time management. Now I will say, at the time of my business starting it, I was pretty much for the most part, single, and so I was able to obviously dump a little bit more time into my business. I know that another buddy of mine started his business and he had a family of three at home. So not everybody has the luxury of maybe not having a family at home and being able to kind of really grind their business, if you will. So that time management is important.
Speaker 1:You know, moving on from there, making sure your employees are assigned the task and doing the task, are really pertinent to you being able to do your job. Remember I might not be teaching that employee accounting. That is something that maybe I want to go in and handle and that is specialized by me as the owners of the business. So that is now allowing me more time to catch mistakes or make sure you know we're spending the money that we need to in the right areas, things like that and overall my business can run successfully. So, yeah, teach your employees how to do everything. You really need to make sure that you're not withholding it because you have a control issue and you really need to get good at delegating. That was another thing that as I grew the business, I was a stickler for the product we were putting out, and I still am that same stickler. But very early on I was able to appoint one person that really knew the standard that I was looking for on these projects and that particular person was able to go out and withhold that standard for that business. So, yeah, I mean just having a key employee.
Speaker 1:If you don't have time to go in and teach every employee that you hire, every single thing that you need to do, invest the time of that one solid person that you know is going to be with you, that really knows the expectation of the product that you expect to deliver. So you know and I'm leading up, this is all helping to time management. I know when. You know when I first got started it was, I mean, and I've said this before on the podcast but there was a day of networking where I was literally networking from the moment I woke up to maybe 8, 9, 10 o'clock at night, depending on the event that week, and that was every single Tuesday for I want to say at least a year or two years of just this grind. I was probably about a year, year and a half, but I really needed to grind the business and get my name out there, so that really burnt me out. And for somebody with a family, I mean, there was absolutely no work-life balance there.
Speaker 1:Obviously, as a business owner, there are other things that we are worried about Sometimes. Maybe if sales are slow, maybe we are worried about those customers coming in, Maybe cash flow is tight, and now you are worried about cash flow, maybe you're having issues with your employees or employee and now you've got some HR issues. So, as business owners, these things weigh on our brain and for me, for the longest time they did keep me up at night, I had no problem falling asleep, but I'd wake up in the middle of the night and my brain would start thinking and I would check emails and yeah, that is a big no, no, no. So that is a tip that I learned early on is at night, if you wake up in the middle of the night, do not check your work email. So many times I had to completely go respond for my computer at least start crafting the drafts. So right at 8 am I could send these things out, but these things would bother me.
Speaker 1:So one tip that I give you right now which is pretty easy, more of a just completely time this is a time management, but definitely leave your business out of personal life is don't check your emails in the middle of the night. It is not good. Don't check your text messages for your business Nothing there in the middle of the night. You know, obviously, if you're an emergency service business, you need to make sure that you're on top of that stuff. But uh, uh, for the most part, don't. Don't go in and start surfing your uh, you know, your, your, your email, if you will.
Speaker 1:Sorry, let me get a little bit more comfortable in here, okay, so moving on, yeah, um gosh, I didn't know moving moving on was or moving, the chair was going to completely throw me off. So see, this is what I'm talking about how I'm new and I can't pick up on this stuff quickly, so sorry about that. So, time management, back to what I do. So obviously I mentioned in the morning I will first thing wake up, I check my email. That's just a habit, that's kind of my, it's just kind of my thing. Right, I don't check it in the middle of the night. But my trade-off was I get to start looking at it right when I wake up and boy does it wake me up. So, yeah, I'll start getting back to emails, maybe right when I wake up, or at least check them, see what's going on.
Speaker 1:I will start the day early. I always start the day early. I'm probably rising about 5 am, my wheel starts turning, or at least I lay there and start getting going. I like to shower. I like to get into the office pretty early. I'm normally there about an hour, hour and a half before my guys. This is definitely crucial for me. Running the business and businesses that I have is crucial to get in and get some really important tasks done first, before people start bothering you. Now, I don't mean that my employees are a bother, my customers are a bother, but very quickly in business you get distracted or pulled into so many different directions or your day goes into so many directions. So what I do is I will normally have throughout the day, I will email my stuff, things that I need to do, I will set reminders, things like that. But if I didn't finish task or I know that I need something to do the next day, that is actually on an email to myself that I look at in the morning and I will start working on those tasks that need to be done. Important tasks Now guys get in. Kind of business starts to open.
Speaker 1:I'm talking with everybody, I'm going over the day and this is really where, from you know, probably 8 to maybe 10, 30, 11 o'clock, I'm still getting done critical things in my business. Now one thing that I like to do is if I'm going to have any type of meeting, I do like to have meetings in the morning, so probably like a 9 or 10, any type of meeting. I do like to have meetings in the morning, so probably like a nine or 10, eight, 10 o'clock meeting. That's really going to help me with kind of that brain power, kind of really getting through, you know, those tough questions or the tough, the tough tasks that I need to probably around. You know, I don't know, maybe 11, 12 o'clock, just depending on what the day's looking like. I'll probably go out for lunch. I do try to kind of kill two birds with one stone, so I'll normally have a business lunch lined up where I'm meeting with somebody that I need to meet with and we discuss it over lunch.
Speaker 1:By the time I get done with that maybe it's about one o'clock 1.30. I will just depending on how my day looks. I will either go back to my office, I will start working on some tasks, maybe for the next day, any tasks that I had that are kind of not as much brain power. So maybe there's some phone calls of me checking in with different advertising sources or different people, different referral sources, different things there I'm really talking to kind of on the back end of the day. Now I said it really depends on the day, because sometimes after that lunch I may go home and work from home the rest of the day and I find that working from home separates me from the office. So if, for whatever reason, in the morning, I got bombarded with something that took my day into the right you know, the wrong direction, I'm able to pick up on my task from earlier. I'm able to do that from home, you know. And then, of course, you know, I think during, you know, during COVID, we really learned what it was like working from home For me.
Speaker 1:I can't stand working from home. So, you know, being there for a long amount of time is hard for me. I like being in an office, I like interacting with people, I like, you know, just the human interaction. So, yeah, working from home is nice because it's peace and it's nice peace and quiet. But that's kind of where I utilize that, where I'm not going to get distracted and I need kind of the silence, if you will. So, yeah, I mean I like to end my day.
Speaker 1:You know depends anywhere between three and six o'clock. You know, if I'm ending my day later, like six o'clock, I'm definitely not jumping on doing anything after hours for the business. I am completely checking out after that. If, let's say, I called it an early day and maybe I was done at three o'clock, there might be a world where I'm spending time with the family, I'm doing what I need to do at home, and then maybe I'm I'm catching up a little later, maybe eight or nine o'clock at night. Just depending on what I'm doing that night, I might catch up and maybe go into my QuickBooks or maybe go into my websites, whatever I need to do and just and and start maybe some easy, very easy tasks, kind of very, very, you know, right at the end of the day you're kind of burnt out. You don't really want to be thinking so rinse and repeat.
Speaker 1:Now, obviously, balancing the business life, that's my business side. The personal side is, you know, obviously completely different but intertwines with this. So I think it's really important that you understand what my day-to-day activities are, because when I mix in my personal management it really evolves around that right. So if I'm taking a little bit of an early day, I'm applying that to family. I know that. You know, obviously, if my daughter has something that she needs to do, my wife has something that she needs to do, I'm there for that and I definitely kind of pay it back if you will in the business.
Speaker 1:Now, so many businesses don't do that where maybe they'll get into the habit of hey, I'm going to go into the office for a couple hours and then I'm just going to leave early and my team's got it and they do that over and over and over again and now your business starts to suffer. So I definitely like to pay back my business those hours. I definitely don't track my hours. I'm not on like a 40-hour a week. I'm definitely over that. So it's not like that. But I do have some sense of like, hey, I need to check back in and do what I need to do because I left earlier, whatever it is, and making sure that those tasks get done For my personal life. There are some things and I will come back with some tips that I do. But you know my family can really tell when it's been a little bit more of a stressful day, a little bit more of an easier day. They can really kind of feel how I was feeling. And you know I don't really like that. I like to, you know, really separate the two. I like to make sure that they're separate. And it does suck when my obviously my business life comes into my personal life, but I am so intertwined in my business it happens and, like I've mentioned in the past.
Speaker 1:My main business is an emergency service business, so my phone stays on 24 hours. So I'm sure, for those of you listening, most of you are not in a 24 hour business. I envy you. I wish I could turn my phone off. That is probably something that maybe, at the beginning of the episode I should have said is hey, turn your phone off at night or turn your phone off at whatever time. It's so foreign language to me because my phone has to stay on at all times, just in case my again controlling right. I have people in the business that can take the calls, but nonetheless I am still the very last person in line, just in case something falls through the cracks there, I can still jump on and handle it. I mean, we talk, you know these are big projects sometimes and I don't want to lose that money and that is something that carries with me as I've grown the business. I mean I probably never can't remember the last time I actually took an after-hour call, but nonetheless my phone is on, ready for it. So there is a little bit of an anxiety there. Yeah, I mean, I think when you know, as far as talking time management.
Speaker 1:But let's talk about that separation and I know that I mentioned stress before, that you know, if it was a little bit more check of gosh, I didn't know I was putting this out and I really need to work on that and that is something that I like to do. I don't want to show my family I'm stressed If I've had a bad day. I don't want to show them any anger. I don't want to show that I'm short, anything there. Now it does happen. It comes off where maybe I'm a little shorter with my family or whatever. My wife happens to be a good check of that. She will tell me hey, you're a little bit more stressed out today. Why don't you relax or go for a walk? That's my thing that I like to do, so I'll just kind of go walk and wind down. That being said, I mean I'm just thinking of a couple tips that you know I might start giving now, because I mean they're kind of coming out, because I mean they're kind of coming out, they're coming through of what I do and I don't know if I'm going to be able to remember everything at the end. So I definitely want to get them out.
Speaker 1:So, going back to that first, you know the first tip was don't check your phone at night. So if you can turn your phone off, great, turn your phone off, turn your emails off, don't check your emails. But, more importantly, when we are having any dinner or any meals, I absolutely do not have my phone. I dedicate that time to my family. It is very important to me that while the business is important to me, my family is more important and they both work hand in hand together. So I need to be fair to my family.
Speaker 1:So whenever I am sitting down for dinner or a meal or obviously having a conversation, I am all in. I need to be all in, I need to be there and I need to be present. I don't like it when maybe I'm having a conversation and I've noticed I'll get distracted. So I know I was going to say but you're listening to this, but if you're not watching the video, but like I cannot read and really look at my laptop at the same time and talk about what is on the laptop, I have to be fully focused on. You know either talking or looking at the camera versus you know reading. So that's kind of what's going on.
Speaker 1:When I'm having a conversation with my wife, I have to put that phone down. I need to be present. I need to make sure that when my daughter wants me, that I am present. In that you know in that life and I don't think that you know when you're separating your business, again it's overwhelming. You had a stressful day. You've got some clients, you're waiting to hear back from whatever it is and you're checking in your email and your wife's having a conversation with your daughter or your son or having a conversation with you and you're checking that phone and you're not fully present. Look, if you can only dedicate 10 minutes to your family that day, have it be the best, 10 minutes that are uninterrupted. So don't give them 10 minutes where you're on the phone, or five minutes of it you're on the phone or whatever it is checking messages. Give them that full 10 minutes, because that's the reality. Sometimes we'll end up working later. We have a long day goes out into some networking event at night or some business meeting, whatever it may be, and we're not there for our family. So we need to make sure that when we are there for our family, every minute is the maximum amount of time and effort that we can give in that time. That is really, really important. So that is something that I do actively on a daily basis. It could be five minutes having a conversation with my daughter where my phone goes on silent, or an hour conversation with my daughter or wife, whatever it is, I wanna make sure that they have that time dedicated to them. That's very, very important.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I mentioned the business life versus personal life and being kind of a creative person. I'm a creative person. I have, you know, ideas that will randomly come up. So my partner happens to have a very good understanding in my household of that and I think, having that discussion with them, I've talked to other business owners where their partner, their significant other, whatever it is they don't necessarily understand that aspect and they do understand that they're in business for themselves, but on the flip side, they don't understand that that might go after hours and it does cause a little pain point in their relationship or their family life. So you want to make sure that you're sitting down uninterrupted excuse me, uninterrupted, 100%. All in talking about hey, I'm a creative person and I might, you know, have an idea at dinner. Can I, you know, jot this down and work on it after dinner, because that's how important it is to me, have that conversation, understand what that threshold is.
Speaker 1:Obviously, during the weekends back in, you know, this is all time management, family life, personal life. But before I really had my family working weekends, I was always the first person up, even scaling the business and having employees, I would take weekend shifts so people could be with their family, hang out with their family. They had their personal time. So I'm in a business where, yeah, we get a call at you know two o'clock in the morning, or or you know 11 am on a Sunday morning, I mean, and you were about to, you know, go to church or whatever it is, yeah, I'm in a service that kind of 180, that so, or 180 is your day. So being able to kind of figure this out early on was important. Anyways, making sure now that I completely am disconnected during the weekends is important to me. My daughter is getting older. My wife has since gone back to school. So there is now where my wife is, you know, maybe doing some studying or whatever, whatever it is, and my daughter is going to hang out with friends. So now this is where maybe I'm working.
Speaker 1:A podcast episode I can tell you. Right now I have broken away because the two are busy and I decided I wanted to get an episode in real quick. So it's really utilizing your time in your business and personal life of hey, this comes first, which is, you know, for me the personal life always comes first and then business, even though my business supports my personal life. Yeah, you've really got to get that taken care of and manage the right way. So it's really not hard. There's really no massive secrets to it.
Speaker 1:But I think that if you're dedicating your time and you're making it known hey, I want to make sure I have time for my family and I want to make sure I have time for my business and you're able to separate the word Perfect. It's taken me years to perfect and it is still not perfect. I mean, things will still come up and I need to give a little bit more time to the business. But as business owners, we are so married to our businesses. I refer to my businesses as my children.
Speaker 1:Like this is something that I really find important in my life and, of course, it's going to go into my personal life as just having my daughter you know, I got to take her to dance and I've got to do, you know certain things with her or whatever it is. Um, that is like the business. We've got certain things that we're doing after hours. So, uh, same kind of same same thing. But, um, yeah, just being able to balance the two, because obviously you don't want to deal with burnout in your business that is huge and you don't want your family to suffer from them not having you. You need to be there, be present, but being able to have a balanced business life is going to help you thrive in business and it is going to help you thrive and enjoy your personal life. Because, remember, why did you get this business started For me when I was working at that Walgreens?
Speaker 1:I wanted to make more money, but I also wanted to be in control of my time. And I'm not really in control of my time if the business is taking all of my time up and I have no personal life. I don't get to go on vacations, I don't get the time off. These are all important and I absolutely put them like front, you know, top of the top of the priorities, right, and vacations breaks, things like that. So, anyways, I hope this episode helped on time management. You know, I know there were a couple. You know loaded tips in there on what to do. But specifically on this episode, I wanted to just kind of talk about me and you know how I deal with my time and hopefully, if you're dealing with any time management issues and maybe you're able to pick a tidbit out of this and apply it to your life, that's what I'm hoping for. We all go through it. We all struggle with some sort of you know time management somewhere in life and obviously, owning a business that you pour your blood, sweat and tears into is obviously going to come into your personal life. So it's important to make sure your personal life thrives, just like your business.
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Speaker 1:Now I do have a ton of stuff that I've put down, that I've experienced and I want to share with you. I want to have other business owners on here and I want to share their struggles and how they have overcome them. But, specifically, if you find something that you would like to hear, you'd like to work through, I would really love to hear that feedback. I would really like to get you those answers. So please comment that wherever you can. If it's in the comment section or, I think, on some of the links, you can text us, text us. But again, really appreciate you being here today. Thank you for checking out this episode. I look forward to protecting or perfecting these episodes and making them better for you. Every single time I record one, I think I'm going to get better and better. So I appreciate you and your feedback. Thank you everyone. This is the Business Guide. No-transcript.
