Does the way you ACTUALLY spend your time match how you WANT to spend your time? Wherever you are on your 4-Day Work Week journey, this is a key question: after all, there’s no point freeing up more time if you’ll just end up wasting it. Learn how to make more of your free time without having to change jobs in this episode.

Does the way you ACTUALLY spend your time match how you WANT to spend your time? Wherever you are on your 4-Day Work Week journey, this is a key question: after all, there’s no point freeing up more time if you’ll just end up wasting it. Learn how to make more of your free time without having to change jobs in this episode.

On a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, how well does your time outside of work Match how you want to invest your time. Put differently, are you getting to create the life outside of work that you most desire? This is critical if you have any aspirations of eventually being a four day workweek entrepreneur, freelancer, or business owner.

How we manage our time, Our money, our relationships, and our things outside of work significantly impacts how we manage them in our work situation. And almost 20 years ago I wrote a book about this called Put Your Money Where Your Soul Is, and the focus of the book was simply looking at how people either do or don't align the way they invest their money and their time in the activities and the relationships and the possessions, the things that matter to them most.

And the people that are usually most happy are investing their time with the people that they love, they're doing activities that they either enjoy or believe in, and they're pretty much in a good space of controlling, or at least significantly influencing, how they invest their time. And similarly with their money, they're investing their money in things that are most important to them, things that are exciting to them, things that they value, and they're not wasting a lot of money on things they didn't want.

That doesn't mean they don't purchase things that other people might consider expensive. But those things, whether they be inexpensive or expensive, are in alignment with that person and their values, their beliefs, and what's either enjoyable or important to them. On the other hand, people who are less satisfied, less happy, would often find themselves realizing that they had spent money on things that either other people convinced them to buy or things that they kind of got in a panic.

They saw there was a sale and oh my gosh, the price is going to go up. So they bought it. They got influenced and they did something or they bought something that really wasn't what they most wanted to do with their money. or their time. And so in relationships, these same people would say, well, yeah, somebody else kind of really influenced where I invested my time or what activities I was doing, whether that is a positive thing or a negative thing, that they really didn't get to do what they wanted to do with their time.

And so if you're going to be a long term, successful, happy, abundant, four day work week entrepreneur, or business owner, or freelancer, Or if you want to have any sort of similar lifestyle, whether it's four days exactly, or just simply working less, making more, creating the lifestyle you most desire, you need to be able to manage your time, your energy, and your relationships outside of work.

Because if you can't do that, when you come into work, the same thing's going to happen. And equally as important, if you realize that you waste your time, you waste your money outside of work, you're not going to be motivated to make more money because you know you're just going to waste it. You're not going to be motivated to free up more time because you know you're just going to waste it.

And so the apprentice is really the first stage. After you've decided that you're going to move towards a four day workweek or similar lifestyle, The Apprentice is the first stage where you really start needing to make shifts to how you do things in order to set yourself up to work this four day workweek lifestyle.

Now, the beautiful thing is you don't have to change jobs to start doing this. You don't have to quit a job. You don't have to make more money. You start where you are. You start with your current relationships, your current expenditures, your current way of handling your life and your time activities, and you simply start improving those.

And as you start improving those, a few things will happen. Number one, you'll start freeing up more time for yourself to do the things you enjoy, whether that means you start your side business that's going to help you eventually become an entrepreneur. Or whether you say, Wade, I'm already an entrepreneur, I just need more time with my family and my loved ones, or, Wade, I just want more time to volunteer and contribute in society, whatever it might be, you start freeing up time.

You also start freeing up money and other resources, so you're not spending as much of your money on things you don't want. You're not investing in services or products you really don't desire. And so with a lower need for income, you also can even work less if that's something that works for you or if that's something you desire.

So this whole apprentice stage is about really choosing how you invest your time, your money, your energy, your life outside of work. And when you consider that a lot of people, when they look at where their biggest or most important or happiest memories in life take place. I think if you did an examination of this, we have a list, an exam or an exercise where we do this, we have people write it down.

We find that most people find at least 80 percent or more of their most important, happiest, and most valuable life experiences happen outside of work. So, one could suggest, and I will, I'll be that one, that life outside of work is really where a lot more of our life takes place. Now, I happen to love my work.

I think there's a lot of things that can be awesome at work. But in general, my most joyful life experiences, getting married, having kids with my wife, some of the trips, the relationships, all these things that I've done, most of those have taken place outside of the work setting. So again, if I can do a better job of managing these, money, this time, these relationships, these possessions outside of work, it's going to create a situation where it's going to be easier for me to do that inside of work.

And so in this season of this Four Day Workweek Entrepreneur podcast and video series, video trainings, what we're going to do is I'm going to teach you some of the, first of all, just very specific quick hit insights of how you do some of these things and make sure that you're aligning yourself with To make the most of your time and your money and your energy and your life outside of work, and then also set you up for the next stage in the process.

And the next stage in the process is to become a four day worker, a four day work week worker whose focus is on maximizing their income inside work. So first. As the apprentice, you maximize your life, and your time, and your relationships, and your money outside work, and then as a worker, whether that is a worker who is an employee, or whether that is a worker who is an entrepreneur, because I'm an entrepreneur, I also work, I work for my company, however you want to word that, But I start focusing on making more money, making more impact in less time.

In other words, being more effective inside work. The two together, being more effective outside work and more effective inside work, then start leading you naturally in the position to launch into being an entrepreneur or a freelancer that becomes an entrepreneur or a business owner. Any of those different shades of that, we'll go into nuance on that.

But all of this starts with first getting clear about how you're going to manage your time, your life, your energy, your relationships that you already have. As you steward those well, you're going to set yourself up to be in a better position. So I welcome you to this season, this season two in this podcast, in this video trainings, whether it's on YouTube that you're seeing this or through the blog or wherever you're getting this information.

And I welcome you to join in this process of becoming a four day working entrepreneur or freelancer or business owner and creating the lifestyle you most desire so you can enjoy your friends. You can enjoy your family, you can enjoy raising your kids, you can enjoy going surfing more, or fishing, or whatever it might be.

You can have more fun in life, as you still make an impact in the world, as you still volunteer outside if that's what you like to do, as you still impact more people, make more money. All of that, but doing it in a way where you're doing it intentionally more and more doing the work you love. And it all starts with you as an apprentice making the best of the money, time, relationships, and things you already have outside of work.

So I welcome you. Please let me know. As always, if you have any questions, you can put them in the comment section below. If this is a site where you can do that or if this is on the podcast or somewhere else you've seen this, you can always email me. atWade@fourdayworkweek.com. That's Wade at the number four day workweek.com.

As always, look forward to helping you make more money and less time doing what you do best. If you need help, start in your four day Workweek game plan. If you've not done that already, please go to four day game plan.com and if you think you're ready to take on the training and development to be a four day workweek apprentice, you can go to four day workweek.com/apprentice.

​As always, I look forward to helping you make more money in less time doing what you do best so you can create the lifestyle and the life you most desire. Thank you.