Making the Most of your Time

Right now it’s 8:56 in the morning.

My daughter fell asleep 2 minutes ago and I stepped back slowly-

Gliding across a maze of:

- Toys (some of which start singing if you touch them)

- Empty Water bottles

- Wrapping paper

- Amazon boxes

- And other land mines

-to grab my laptop as silently as possible.

I may have an hour to write this.

(I may only have 6 1/2 minutes…)

In the four months since I’ve become a parent I’m learning this more and more:

My time is not truly my own.

Don’t get me wrong (I signed up for this)

And I absolutely love every day of being a father.

But (when I take a step back to look at my life) I’m:

- An adult

- With a full time job

- Employees under me who I’m responsible for

- With a wife (who is long suffering and amazing!)

- And a daughter (who we are now responsible to keep alive)

I’ve also reached a point in my life where I have decided that I want more than to work for someone else..

So I started creating.

It’s been an amazing journey and I’ve learned a lot so far.

But there is never enough time to do all that I want to do:

- To work on my newsletter

- To grow and nurture my X following

- To finish and release my course on growing an online following

 (Which is coming very soon by the way!)

I see a lot of young creators online talk about setting plans for time management and ‘sticking to it like a G’.

(Which is admirable and I wish them the best in it)

But there are a lot of us with responsibilities beyond ourselves.

And our time is rarely our own.

But the lack of time to myself has also helped in a way-

I am now much more focused in the spare moments I am able to focus on my work.

Scarcity breeds value-

And I find that I am now able to accomplish 20-30 times what I could do before (when my free time was almost limitless).

I will continue to grow as a creator and learn to make the most out of my time.

If anything this is making me stronger.

Each day I’m becoming a better creator (and a better father).

On that note- It is now 9:21 and she's awake and calling for me.

Thanks for reading,

Brent

(Stay tuned for updates on my new course on follower growth coming out soon!)