You're listening to the Goldieger Podcast episode number 312.

I texted one of my mentors and friends the other day just saying a simple thank you for how he's led and for his support.

And I wanted to share this conversation because it's one of many that inspired this entire episode.

He said to me, so many good and wonderful opportunities in our lives. I hope to see you soon. How is being a mama? And here was my response.

I said, I was just thinking of this year and was thinking of you this morning while I was living out a scene.

I was making pancakes for the family at our new lake house and life is just so good.

And it was a simple things and I realized as it was happening that it was a scene I had envisioned that defined success for me and it made me think of you.

Being a mama is so good. I'm so thankful I gave myself this year to just be free and decide what felt good in the moment.

And it's been the best business year and personal year of my life. And I've worked the least amount. Go figure.

It's just been so good. Definitely a juggle. But somehow it comes naturally to me and the years that we had to wait to have a kid helped prepare me for it.

And he responded, I'm so happy that you are taking time to enjoy life. Almost all of our friends push way too hard and compromise too much sanity.

So keep giving yourself time because you're already doing so many things.

All of our friends push too hard and compromise too much sanity. What?

What a statement. There is so much praise and glory around the notion of hustling so hard that we keep getting to the next level and then the next and then the next.

No matter what at stake or how much time we have to sacrifice that next level is I was there and it's always what we're working towards.

It's partially human nature, but also partly due to this hustle mentality and culture that's being crafted around entrepreneurship that's making us believe that hustle equals happiness.

When we look at other creatives or entrepreneurs or peers in our industries, we admire the ones who seem to have the discipline and the grit and the sheer drive to push themselves to know and and work tirelessly to keep growing and achieving and reaching new heights.

And if we really think about it, we're only seeing like 1% of their lives and what's really going down and we're glorifying that.

It's easy to make us feel like we're not quite doing enough, right? Like we should be grinding like they are keeping up with what looks like a full on sprint of a pace.

You might even be one of those people who enjoys the race of working 50 or 60 hour weeks of signing just one more client before you sign off at 9pm or getting one last email out before your eyes close.

Averting another 10 grand this year in the hopes of doubling and tripling that in the coming years.

The momentum of putting in the work watching it pay off and gaining success. It's almost a dicting isn't it?

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