Satori Mateu's video: HTB 022: Why Balance Is A Lie

Here are some of the awesome things you will hear in this episode: Find out how to break the fantasy of living someone else’s life. Find out how to remove friction, stress and overwhelm. Learn how Satori sees work-life balance and how it looks in his life. --Script-- What is balance? So many entrepreneurs talk about work life balance and how important it is. But according to who’s definition? In today’s episode we’re going to talk about why a balanced life is a lie and why you don’t want to be seeking it If you ever find yourself struggling with how to organize your thoughts, maybe you’re overwhelmed with how to prioritize or feeling stressed about what to focus on I want you to know, first, you’re not alone. Second, if you want a more effective, more meaningful structure to your day, today’s little chat will give you clarity and give you a new perspective on the idea of work-life balance. I did a google search on work-life balance and I received 1,690,000 results in a heartbeat. Most entrepreneurs before they start working with us have a million plates spinning at all times, and they have a hard time structuring their thoughts, and don’t know how to remove the growing stress in their life. They work so hard to have a functional family. They want a thriving business, but there’s a constant battle between dropping and picking kids up from school, driving them to after school programs, keeping a clean home, cooking, having date nights, fitting in their meditation or yoga, making sure everyone in the family feels seen, keeping up with their social life, while not dropping the ball on their finances, making sure bills are being paid. You know what I’m talking about, right? So if we think about it, we can conclude that we’re all striving to keep the plates spinning without dropping or breaking any of them. True? It’s an aim to have a balanced life, fair to say? What’s killing entrepreneurs and families today is the fantasy and illusion of this perfectly balanced life with no stress and no complexities. Instead it creates complexities. Here’s what I mean. Why would we want to create a work-life balance based on some fantasy society, or social media put in front of us? Doesn‘t make any sense. It just creates unnecessary friction. Yeah, let’s overload our kids with activities and playdates so we can be good parents that give our kids opportunities, and let’s post on social media every three hours so we can stand out and won’t get left in the dust by our competitors. And let’s buy every course, attend every conference, and oh by the way, make sure you get those washboard abs and sign up for the next triathlon. That sounds intelligent. No. It makes no sense. So instead of overwhelming and stressing yourself out, judging yourself that you have to be or fit in to some kinda fantasy criteria, wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to strip away the friction, remove all the stuff that in the end just makes you mediocre because you’re not focused and you’re spread too thin. What if instead you were super clear on what really matters to you to your business, to your family and found those core critical areas that really moved the needle for you. The name of the game is called Precision Based Growth. We also call it Deliberate Growth. Here’s the big picture. We know if we can agree that the money you want, the family you want and energy you want to build a life that is sustainable doesn’t come from doing a million things and doing everything half-ass, but rather doing a few critical things right outside your comfort zone, with focus and intention and being very deliberate. Because this is where the real growth happens. It’s a scientific fact, well known in neuroscience. You with me? Knowing that, then we can also agree that it doesn’t make any sense to give everything equal importance. When you make everything important nothing becomes important. Nothing gets the necessary attention and focus to create momentum. So in the precision based growth approach, you ask yourself, what do I want? What do I really want? Not based on the all familiar past, not what everyone else thinks I should want or create? But based on an unknown, unpredictable future. You’re creating from a clean slate. Then you ask, in order for me to achieve this what are the core key activities that will help me get there most predictably?In other words, not all actions are equally effective. And what do I need to remove from my life to eliminate friction, to remove stress and overwhelm and accelerate growth? We’re talking thoughts, emotions, habits (internal and external) You may say, “Hey I want to make more sales, I want to bring in more business, have a bigger impact.” And you notice that the first thing you do in the morning is check your inbox because you “think” you have to and you feel bad if you don’t. So it...