Do you have work-life balance?

So much personal development talks about the importance of reducing stress and living a ‘balanced life’.

In fact, I checked it out on Google Trends – the number of people searching ‘work-life balance’ has DOUBLED compared to 2021 when we were in the pandemic.

I’m guessing it’s an issue for a lot of you.

And… it got me thinking about a podcast I recorded in my car back in 2014 during a period a huge instability in my life.

What I said will really help you navigate work-life balance as an entrepreneur.

For those who don’t know.

We had just launched ClickFunnels in 2014 and I made this podcast while driving to work for a late-night session.

I think I even said something like we were ‘killing ourselves’ to make it a success.

And at the same time I was trying to do so many things like be a dad, take my kids to football, take my daughter to soccer, be a good husband, meet church responsibilities and so on.

So I came to this conclusion.

Maybe I have to cut sleep out from my schedule?

Just kidding!

It was Mark Cuban actually who said in a SharkTank episode I’d seen something like ‘while my competitors sleep I’m up at night kicking ass’.

And we really believed in that back then.

I mean, ClickFunnels was up against people with VC money who were sleeping easy at night knowing they had the funding coming... but we were busting our butts because we had no one’s capital to invest.

So I came up with this quote.

“Greatness comes during periods of radical imbalance.”

A balanced life is obviously the only sustainable solution to maintaining your health and your family stability and your commitments.

But what do you do when you have to sacrifice things to build a business?

That’s where this quote comes in.

Back in 2014 I had a talk with my wife and we talked about all the things I had to cut out from my life to focus on my business.

Here’s a couple things you could consider: