417: Time Off with John Fitch
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Time Off
with John Fitch
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“You can have anything you want in life, but you can’t have everything.” Most of our biggest dreams are totally unsustainable, but they come with a price. Want six-pack abs? Are you willing to skip carbs and spend 2 hours a day in the gym each day?
Want a 7-figure bank balance? Are you up for 70-hour work weeks for the next 10 years? Want to start your own business and work for yourself? Are you prepared to become your own worst boss?
I love my work and family. I rarely dream about leisure. And yet, I need it. We all need to rest and recharge. We need to step back so we can step back in more fully. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet the author of the new book, Time Off: A Practical Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress.
Listen & Learn:
- How the future of work might look more like leisure
- How an ethical rest ethic is just as important as a work ethic
- How work, schedules, and the future are changing
- How to recontextualized the idea of downtime
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
John Fitch is a coach, writer, and angel investor. He’s the co-author of a new book, Time Off: A Practical Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a quote I come back to you again and again and it goes like this. You can have |
| 0:07.2 | anything you want in life but you can't have everything you want in life. |
| 0:12.6 | The idea is that most of the things that we're desperately |
| 0:16.1 | craving, the perfect body, the beautiful house, the big family, |
| 0:19.1 | the seven figure bank balance, whatever it is, |
| 0:22.1 | most of those things, most of people's dreams, |
| 0:23.7 | are totally within their reach. |
| 0:25.9 | And you can have any of those things, but you can't have all of those things. |
| 0:29.5 | And so the question is, are you willing to pay the price that it would cost to have six-pack abs? |
| 0:35.6 | Are you willing to sacrifice what's required to have a seven-figure bank balance? |
| 0:40.0 | Are you willing to put aside your personal life to have that family of eight? |
| 0:45.0 | You know, what is the price tag that you're willing to pay? |
| 0:49.0 | It's a very difficult thing to determine and it's especially a very difficult thing to predict. |
| 0:54.0 | Sometimes we dive into things, we go after things in life that we really think are worth it |
| 0:58.7 | and we arrive there only to realize that the sacrifices I made along the way might not have made it worth it. |
| 1:06.2 | What did I sacrifice? |
| 1:07.2 | I don't know, friends, family, relationship, free time, downtime, your health, or the opposite. |
| 1:12.4 | On this week's show we'll be talking about ethical strategic |
| 1:15.9 | downtime, time off, strategically planning ways to take a step aside from your |
| 1:22.0 | working life and not to escape something you hate |
| 1:24.9 | but instead to move towards something that you value which is creative personal |
| 1:28.7 | alone time and off site for yourself time to really develop who you are outside of what you do, which is something |
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