A “timely” question is put forward:
Hey Ben,
How many hours do you work per day?
I’m asking this because I was wondering if you were more the “work creatively for a couple hours” type or the “work 16 hour days” type.
And in your opinion, which one is best?
I would assume the first since you used to sell a 10-minute work day program, but I was just curious.
Depends what he means by “work.”
If purely sit down, open laptop, & write, it’s usually about 3-4 hours.
But that’s just a piece of the day – the writing part.
There’s also a continuous day of:
* Back-and-forthing with my business partners Troy Broussard and John Wood about our Learnistic and Low Stress Trading companies – which often means a full day of Marco Polo conversations and emails shared… lots of off-and-on work, ideas shared/broken, brainstorming, problems solved, random off-the-cuff writing at times for something, etc.
* Checking/rolling my trades – minimal work, often 90-seconds or less, but still daily.
* Fielding customer questions, relaying info to my printer, taking care of my Email Players boys & ghouls with questions/credit card & shipping address changes, writing them back if they ask questions I can help with (a perk of being a subscriber).
* Writing down and organizing stray ideas for emails, offers, fiction whatever… I get a lot of that happening most days, constantly, often at the most inconvenient times, too.
* Filling my brain with interesting content online & offline and writing about stuff that comes to mind in the free Settleheads Facebook group.
* Walking 7-10 miles per day, with many more ideas generated & captured, polos sent, problems solved.
All this is “work.”
I have a 24/7 business and stopped fighting the urge for a structured, blue collar existence years ago – including when on vacation, when playing with Willis, and even when Stefania was in horrifying nightmarish agony from being induced & refusing pain meds while giving birth to Willis (rubbing her back in a tub at the hospital with one hand, while fielding customer questions during a sale I was having that weekend with my other on my phone)…
It’s obvious God created us to work, not sit around pursuing leisure.
Too much leisure is self-destructive, anyway.
Something I realized during my so-called 10-minute workday years.
(Will not explain.)
So I don’t fight work, I embrace it and roll with it.
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