🔴 Ambitious, Overworked, and Missing Out? Try This.

Most weekends, I have a checklist I want to complete before I earn the ability to relax.

While this may be a formula for success it’s not a formula for successful relationships.

You don’t want to be the person who can’t enjoy your free time because you have a million tabs open in your head.

I realized this only last weekend.

I discovered that my need to get things done was ruining the chance to spend quality time with people I love.

I was getting frustrated because it seemed like every time I wanted to get work done, there was something else I needed to do with other people (friends, girlfriend, family, etc).

Hanging out is supposed to be fun.

But instead of having fun, I’m drinking a Surfside in someone’s backyard in New Jersey, focused on my damn incomplete list.

I thought the weekends should be for focusing on the passion projects I wanted to do.

Incidentally, the weekend is when most people socialize (duh).

What is an ambitious introverted extrovert to do?

Get your work done some other time, dumbass!

Ok so maybe if I work on my passion projects after work, I’ll enjoy my weekends.

Scenario: It’s Thursday night. I’m exhausted from work and hungry for dinner. Scroll on Instagram for a while and text some friends. Call my girlfriend. Now it’s 9 pm, and I expect to write a profound, impactful newsletter when I’ve used all my mental energy at work?

“This passion project at night deal is a scam!” I think to myself.

Solution: Wake up two hours early and work on your passion project in the morning.

Be viscous about your morning routine.

Go to bed earlier. Wake up earlier. Beat the sun to start the day. Grab a coffee. Don’t check social media. Start working.

Those 2 hours before the sun wakes up are now yours.

Start your day like this for the next 30 days and watch your quality of life skyrocket.