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Okay, so today's topic is balance.

How do I maintain balance?

As business owners, we're asked to balance a lot of things.

Let me just brainstorm a list through here right now.

I didn't write this down.

It's something I've

been thinking about today, and hopefully this is something that's of value to you. It's a question

that actually comes up fairly frequently. Every few months or so, at a minimum, someone brings it up.

How do you balance family and business? How do you balance cutting costs and investing in your business is another one. How do you balance

the time you spend learning versus the time you spend applying what you've learned in your business,

right? We could go on and on. Short-term goals versus long-term goals might be another one that you think, man, how do I balance

these things? And I'm not completely convinced that balance is necessarily the right word,

having studied the topic, having looked at a lot of successful leaders, how they do things.

It's more, to me, become a matter of integrating. How do I accomplish both

at the same time? How do I meet the goals? And, you know, how do I hit what I'm aiming for while

focusing on both at the same time? So, for example, here's how our family does some of these things.

I work from home.

Work time and family time mesh together.

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