You don't.
You don't separate your business with your personal life.
You see if you are just an employee and
you do the nine to five.
You get off work, you drive home, cook some dinner,
afterwards you watch some poor TV; that's fine.
Then you can turn it off.
Then the next day, the morning, breakfast,
stuck in traffic again, go to work and all that.
That's okay.
That's how most people live.
But when you are an entrepreneur, right,
when you are running your own company,
it is not something that you do, it's who you are.
When it's who you are, this, doesn't turn off.
There's no such thing as oh well I don't want to
work on weekends.
I take the two week vacation.
When you're entrepreneur you're going all the time.
Because like I always say.
That's why I don't watch sports.
I don't need to watch sports to get some cheap thrill.
Entrepreneurship; it is the most competitive sport
in the world.
Because when you watch any sport game, guess what?
You're playing for thirty minutes, sixty minutes,
whatever how much amount of time.
Well with entrepreneur; twenty four seven.
Someone somewhere is trying to kick your ass.
Somewhere, someone somewhere, they try to
steal your customers.
They are trying to grab market share.
It is twenty four seven.
So we have to be thinking about how can we be better?
How can we serve our customer better?
How can we deliver more value?
This is ongoing.
There is no work life balance, or how to separate the two.
As an entrepreneur, comment below if this is true for you.
If you are disorganized in your home,
you're disorganized in your business.
If you have cash flow problems in your business,
you have cash flow problem in your home.
It's all connected.
You have conflict, that's it.
You have problem with your business?
Go home, you can not sleep, you can not function, right?
You have conflict with a spouse, with your partner at home,
you're gonna, your performance at work is gonna drop.
It's like this.
So instead of aiming for, or how to separate the two,
fuck that shit.
The better question is how can you better
integrate the two?
Just like with what I do.
I don't build my life around my business,
I build my business about my lifestyle preference.
So right now I'm going somewhere, I'm gonna do an interview.
I'm filming, I'm creating content, I'm connecting with you.
That's integration.
When I'm traveling, I'm traveling for business.
At the same time I will be travel for pleasure.
Take a few days off, it's integration.
Versus I work, I work, I work, I work.
Oh my god man, I can't take this shit no more.
I need to escape from this.
I need to avoid this.
I need to go somewhere.
And if I'm there, there I need to totally unplug
so don't bother me for a week.
Oh man I take a vacation, I'm sitting on beach
doing fucking nothing.
And then come back, oh my god man,
and you're kinda dragging your feet.
Now you got to get back to work.
It doesn't work that way.
So I will find a time in between.
How do I recharge my battery?
Now, in my case I like movies.
So I don't need to take two weeks off
in order to recharge.
One of these maybe Jenny and I go to watch a movie,
two hours, I'm recharged.
A good night sleep, I'm recharged and back in the game.
That's the difference, because your competitor,
they are not taking a risk.
Now I'm not taking about hustle, hustle, hustle.
If you watch my other videos you know I'm not about
all the hustle, I'm about leverage.
But you do need to put in enough time and effort
to accomplish anything great, right.
I'm not talking about you don't sleep, he's a workaholic,
no I'm not talking about that.
What I'm talking about is a very integrated approach
to life, to your business.
To life where, you turn your vocation into your vacation.
That I am doing what I like to do.
I love what I do.
I don't need to do something else because
I don't like what I do, I need to escape.
Cause most them don't like what they do.
When you like what you do it's like.
Let's say example, if you like to play golf,
how many rounds of golf do you wanna play?
How many hours of golf do you wanna play?
You'll say well as much as possible.
I hope that the weather is good.
I wanna play, that's perfect.
So you're not thinking about well how can I balance my life,
my golfer life, versus my personal life.
You're like no man, I'm thinking about golf all the time.
I'm thinking about how I can improve my game.
I'm thinking can I go there just maybe hit some balls
or something like that, right?
You're thinking about that all the time.
You're not thinking about okay man, once a year
I'm going to do two weeks of golf.
Or maybe here, there.
No, your thinking about it all the time.
Maybe you have those mini golf putt in your home,
your office at home, a little glass on the floor and
you're hitting the damn thing.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
When it's who you are, not just what you do.
So forget that stuff.
By the way if you have another question for me,
make sure you go to askdanlok.com.
Ask me a question and you never know, next time
when we're going somewhere, with this integrated approach,
I just might pick your question and answer it.