A “timely” question is put forward:<\/p>\n
Hey Ben,<\/strong><\/p>\n
How many hours do you work per day?<\/strong><\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
And in your opinion, which one is best?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I would assume the first since you used to sell a 10-minute work day program, but I was just curious.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Depends what he means by \u201cwork.\u201d<\/p>\n
If purely sit down, open laptop, & write, it’s usually about 3-4 hours.<\/p>\n
But that’s just a piece of the day – the writing part.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also a continuous day of:<\/p>\n
* 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.<\/p>\n
* Checking\/rolling my trades – minimal work, often 90-seconds or less, but still daily.<\/p>\n
* 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).<\/p>\n
* 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.<\/p>\n
* Filling my brain with interesting content online & offline and writing about stuff that comes to mind in the free Settleheads Facebook group.<\/p>\n
* Walking 7-10 miles per day, with many more ideas generated & captured, polos sent, problems solved.<\/p>\n
All this is \u201cwork.\u201d<\/p>\n
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)…<\/p>\n
It’s obvious God created us to work, not sit around pursuing leisure.<\/p>\n
Too much leisure is self-destructive, anyway.<\/p>\n
Something I realized during my so-called 10-minute workday years.<\/p>\n
(Will not explain.)<\/p>\n
So I don’t fight work, I embrace it and roll with it.<\/p>\n
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