Hey Radicals, welcome to the podcast. Today I have a very short coaching message for you.

I want to take off my financial advisor hat for a moment and put on my life coach hat. Talk to you about the power of

planning your free time. It's been a busy week for me this week. I've been

working working working on a number of important projects trying to make measurable progress toward some of the goals that I have.

And this week's been busy. I've been working a lot because looking forward to the birth of our new little baby boy here in a couple of months.

And the birth of a child is a very special time in my life, in your life.

It's extremely special in your relationship with your husband or wife.

It's a time to pull back. And I intend to do that, pull back a little bit when our little baby boy is born.

It's also potentially very disruptive when our daughter was born for the first few months of her life.

First week she was great for the first few months she was extremely sick.

Basically would cry all day every day and it was probably the most trying few months of my life that I've

been through yet and so being aware of that I need to make sure that I've made

progress now while our little baby boy is not crying.

He's inside his mommy's tummy.

He's not crying.

He's maybe sucking his thumb and he's turning cartwheels and he's not turning cartwheels at this point.

He's gotten big enough where he doesn't turn easy cartwheels but he's not crying and so this is the point in time at which I need to be making hay to mix my metaphors

so it's been a busy week and for you I bet it's been a busy week as well.

You're a hard-working person. You're a motivated goal-oriented individual.

You've been working. The question is here as I sit here on

Friday afternoon transitioning to planning the weekend, do I spend as much time carefully planning my weekend as I do planning my work week?

I have to confess that I'm as guilty as you are of placing more focus on my work week than

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