Are you falling trap to the “freedom myth”?

Are you falling trap to the “freedom myth”?

This is how you really become free...

What do you want most as an entrepreneur?

Over the years of working with entrepreneurs, one thing has come out to be one of the key drivers for us guys working online.

FREEDOM

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

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

...But more often than you’d like you find yourself

??distracted by the phone,

??checking FB or your email,

??reacting to urgent client messages

??switching tasks, and putting out fires here and there

??reacting instead of getting the truly important things done.

And you feel stressed and somehow frustrated.

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

Or even if all of these things are not a problem for you and you are on the other end of the productivity spectrum.

You execute hard all day but don’t have a clear ending of your workday?

You work so much 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?

Here’s the thing...

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.

With that structure, you get the things down that grow your business and still massively free up time for things after work...

... while others work inefficiently late into the evening "but at least feeling free”.

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

You become disciplined through 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.

More examples?

?? Efficient work schedule and setups,

?? Distraction-free environment

?? Perfect sleep setup,

?? Clear routines at the start and end of your day

The key is to automate the 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 and remember. Guilt-free.

The good thing?

Your individual 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 rough 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.?

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To what degree are you structuring and scheduling your days and weeks? Does it help you?

Would love to hear your thoughts below!