The ideal workday

Most of us have dreams of retiring early and being able to spend ample time with friends and family and other things that we like. Most people want to get out of that corporate job that has them up at 5am, scrambling around with the kids til 6am, drop off the kids at 7am, in traffic til 8am, at work until 6pm, in traffic until 7pm, brief family time until 8pm, do more work until 10pm, intimate time with your spouse until 10:30pm (if it's a good day), to bed by 11pm, then up again at 5am, ... and so the cycle continues. Man was not meant to live like that. We weren't born to be caged up in little cubicles all day long working long hours and giving away half of our pay in taxes. We weren't meant to have to settle for 30 minutes-1 hour of family time weekly while our relationships with our children and spouse suffer. This is simply not the ideal workday.

You see, most people don't have a problem with working or with working hard for that matter. Most people have a problem with working hard long hours at something that they are not passionate about and were not born to do and does not fulfill them. I believe everyone in life deserves to be able to do something that they are truly passionate about. As I've heard dozens of successful entrepreneurs say, find something you are passionate about and learn how to turn that passion into profits. Long hours do not seem quite as long when you are working off passion rather than chasing that carrot ... or paycheck, as most of us call it.

The ideal workday should entail ample time spent on your passions. We should be passionate about our business related endeavors and likewise be passionate about our family. Our days should be flexible enough where we get 2-3 hours of family time each day in the midst of pursuing our business passions. If we need to take an hour away from business in the middle of a workday to go and see our little girl in a school play, we should be able to. If we need to take a couple hours to help our son grasp some difficult Math concepts, we should be able to. We should not be slaves to the alarm clock, the traffic report, the 1 hour lunch, the 2 weeks vacation, the 10 hour work days EVERY DAY, and all of these other ills of the corporate lifestyle. Whether our business passions involve music, entertainment, real estate, education, or all of the above, we should be able to exercise our full efforts in these passions while still being able to place full emphasis on our ultimate passion, which is quality with friends, family, and other loved ones. NOW THAT is the ideal workday.