Christo: Hey there! In today‘s video tip, I want to share with you some ideas around balancing lifestyle with business.

Generally, if you‘re watching this video, you‘re like myself and have a lot of drive to grow your business. Now, what tends to happens as we have a lot of drive to grow a business, is we focus more and more on business growth and there‘s always too much to do. It‘s always the next thing and the next thing. So some people would say, how do you balance lifestyle and the life in the business? I have people say to me things like, “how are you the busiest person that I know but you seem to have more spare time than everyone I know?”

Now, it‘s not that I have spare time, it‘s just that I have fun with the time outside of work. So I do make sure that I have a lifestyle outside of work and a life, basically, to ensure sustainable business growth. I was at this business event recently with a lot of very successful business people over in Mexico, and a lot of people ask me, “how do you have this amazing set up?” Now I, too, overwork. Like I get to point times where it‘s not always roses and candy and traveling around the world. However, I do overwork at times where I get to a point I‘m like, “oh my goodness, I need to do something or I‘m going to get to a point where I‘m going to get sick and tired of this.” So what I do in those times, if you‘re feeling like you‘re just pushing too hard is at the start of the week, a good little tip for you to follow is create a list. Basically, the list is these 3 headings you need to create:

Heading #1: What am I going to do for fun this week?
Heading #2: What am I going to learn this week?
Heading #3: What am I going to do for health this week?

It‘s basically like your little selfish list. So in the things like fun, I might say I want to go surfing or I want to make sure I hang out with some friends at least once this week. In the health, it might be go for a run or go for a surf every single day. These lists aren‘t scheduled. Because if it‘s scheduled in the calendar, to me that‘s a bit boring. It‘s sort of like too structured. So what I prefer to do is just have that as a little list on paper. It‘s the way I like to do it. I close it into my laptop. So when I use my laptop, I open it up, put it next to me so it‘s always there and I tick these things off throughout the week. So if I‘ve put go to yoga 3 times for example, if it‘s getting to the end of the day and I‘ve got a massive to-do list that‘s not going away and I‘m running out of time and that yoga class is about to start, well I know – stop work, it will still be there for me tomorrow or when I get back. But I know that to have happy Christo at the end of the week, I need to go and do that yoga class right now before I miss that opportunity.

So it‘s a good little thing for you to do that you can take away and basically, implement right away. So it‘s what you are going to do for fun, for learning/education because always when you‘re learning new things, you feel like you‘re growing. And also, what are we going to do for health this week? Just keep doing that each week. I don‘t do it every week, but just when I‘m feeling kind of overwhelmed and kind of working too much.

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