Day 147: Time Control is Not the Same as Time Freedom

A hill I’m willing to die on: we should be scheduling our work around our lives.

Carin mentioned in one of our recent podcast episodes about Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner strategy of scheduling around your life.

Well maybe this isn’t for everyone. But for my introverted ass that only does a handful of things a month, it works. For the people that do the most, it might be best to have a job and then schedule their life for the weekend/evening/PTO.

I always talk about time freedom as the number one gift of being an entrepreneur. It’s funny because it’s A LIE! <insert maniacal laugh>

Sure, you can have time freedom if you don’t have clients or work.

It should be worded differently. It’s not time freedom. It’s time control.

I just sent an email to a client (at 9 pm).

That is not the norm but I’ll be in DC tomorrow at the Walk for Peace with the Venerable Monks. These guys have walked from Texas to DC since October. I think I found them mid to late November. OMG the amount of peace, hope, and joy they've brought me is like nothing since January 20, 2025. Sure I’ve had joy. And hope. And peace. But all at the same time? These guys do it for me.

So, anyways, my sister and I have been planning to go and now we will. I didn’t tell the client why I would be gone but wanted them aware that I’m not available tomorrow. Not that marketing is ever an on-call urgent situation. But in my mind it feels like it sometimes. Thanks time blindness…

Anywho, I get the irony of working until 9 pm just so I can take a weekday off. But I’m as giddy as a kid on Christmas eve.

What’s something you can schedule that will bring you a ton of happiness, fulfillment, joy, or serenity? Get it booked!