What's up, ask Pat.

What's up, everybody, Pat here, and welcome to episode 343 of Ask Pat.

Asap Pat, as always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.

All right, here's today's question from Kurt.

Hey, Matt, this is Kurt Fowler at valuesdrivenresults.com. Love your work. Thanks so much for

making it available. Also, really love the focus that you put on your family and how your business

allows you to have the kind of family life you want. So here's my question. How many hours

a week do you work? That helps me understand where you're at from a balanced standpoint and kind of

helps me set some goals. Thanks so much for all you do. Keep up the great work.

Hey, Kurt, thank you so much for the question. I really appreciate the kind words. And, you know,

I love that people notice that i put my

family first and i've built this business around what i want to do which is spend as much time as i

can with my family and instead of me working for my business my business works for me you know

you don't want to be working in your business. You

want to be working on your business. So those are the sort of delineations that I want to make sure

that are clear with my goals. Now, how many hours a week do I work while having the family

life that I want? Well, it's not consistent. That's the thing with entrepreneurship. It's never

consistent. But the cool thing about entrepreneurship and passive income and when you are your own boss

is you can set your own hours and you can do what you want. Now, I will say in the beginning

that there were a lot of hours put into my business and less time put into my family. Now, this was

before I had kids. And then you might have heard me tell this story before of when my wife and I were first married, my business was taking off, and it was

really, really taking up most of my brain space, my business. And there were times when I would

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