?? Are you falling for the trap of the “Freedom Myth”?

This is how you ACTUALLY become free... ????

After years of working with successful business owners, one thing has shown to be the most important thing for online entrepreneurs.

FREEDOM ????

We want to be free to do whatever we want, wherever and whenever we want to do it.

This is an amazing and worthwhile goal!

But it will become a problem when it comes to how you spend your usual days.

?? Many guys say:

"Oh, I want my freedom in my day, I don't like structure! I want to be inspired, go with the flow, and feel free to do what I want.”

And that's the problem...

...This has its place and can work every now and then...

...But not consistently.

By just going with the flow and not protecting and blocking your time you exactly lose that freedom that you want so much. ?

???? A typical example of what easily can go wrong:

You wake up and start the day, just going with the flow.

Let’s just see what your phone says, spending some time messaging people about random things or checking FB, feeling the brain fog building up.

Then you open up Slack or some other platform and start tackling some tasks that come in.

You’re in the midst of one, as you hear the sound of a notification.

Oh, a new urgent task is coming in. Gotta do it now! Then you task switch and start a different one, mentally still being with the previous one.

Someone sends you a message and you need to research something. You go on a Google spree.

You see a nice ad for a trip you always wanted to do. You waste some hours on a different surfing spree and on Youtube checking videos about it.

Then some more urgent tasks from other people, responding to emails, and messages and putting out some fires here and there.

?? How free is that? And how much did you get done?

And if you are all the way on the other end of the productivity spectrum...

...You grind all day but don’t have a clear ending to your workday?

You work so much that the only thing you think about is WORK.

It’s evening and you still read messages?

You are with your girlfriend and you still think about and check work stuff?

?? How free are you? How is this stuff affecting the quality of your life?

???? When you don't create a structure, someone/something else creates a structure for you.

A structure gives you a clear plan that prioritizes YOUR time and establishes boundaries around your goals.

Without that, you are like a leaf in the wind that reacts to whatever randomly comes in.

That's why you need clear structures that allow you to get work done consistently and then have a clear separation between the areas of your life so you can chill and recharge properly.

With that structure, you can execute your tasks and massively free up time for things after work.

You go out and enjoy time with hobbies, friends, family, and loved ones while others work inefficiently late into the evening "but at least feel free”.

That’s what most people trying to learn "discipline" don't get:

???? You become disciplined through the structure.

?? And the beauty of it:

Only that structure allows you to be unstructured as well.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Look, when you automate those small daily steps that you have to take each day, you free up mental capacity for the things that really matter.

? For example, I know exactly what I'll eat for lunch each day of the week. Might be boring, but it's making sure I can perform, stay healthy, hit my macros, and stay in shape… so I can enjoy eating out every now and then without guilt. Spending quality time with friends and loved ones.

? In business, most of my workdays have clear processes and structures. I know exactly what I will do each day and what the steps are. This allows me to get a lot of things done consistently, while still finishing early afternoon and having enough time for friends, loved ones, sports, and hobbies.

? More examples? Perfect sleep setup, distraction-free environment, clear routines at the start and end of your day, clear task-setting tools, time management systems...

???? The key is to automate 80% of decisions so that they are supporting your long-term goals.

Then you can go all-in on the 20% you just want to enjoy, GUILT-FREE.

?? The good thing?

Your day structure can be as strict as you want it to be, but also as flexible as you like.

For example, I like to follow the "High-Value Workday".

You can perfectly schedule it to the minute in your calendar or you just keep a roughly sequential order of what you do during the day, allowing for some buffer and more flexibility.

???? In any case, executing on a solid base structure 80% of the time then allows for the unstructured, random trip on a Thursday or even moving some structure with you while you work remotely.

In the end, that’s what we want.

FLEXIBILITY and FREEDOM.

Structure doesn’t exclude freedom. Structure enables it.