Dan Martell - October 19, 2023


The only people that will remember you worked late are your kids


Episode Stats


Length

37 seconds

Words per minute

268.46362

Word count

166

Sentence count

10


Summary

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In 20 years, the only people that will remember you worked late are your kids. No one else is going to remember you for it. You don t have to work like that. The world economy is there, but you don't have to be there.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 One of my friends said that to me once.
00:00:01.340 He goes, I remember telling my wife five years ago
00:00:03.380 when the business was in a tough spot,
00:00:05.020 I need you to take care of the house
00:00:06.440 because I'm gonna be gone before the kids wake up
00:00:08.520 and I'm not gonna be back until they're in bed.
00:00:10.360 And for the next year, turned into two years,
00:00:12.820 he didn't see his kids.
00:00:13.940 And I'm like, they never asked you for any of that.
00:00:16.820 And if you ask yourself, why do you have to work like that?
00:00:20.520 It's because you're not willing to go look in the mirror
00:00:22.160 and figure out how are you showing up?
00:00:24.520 The world economy is there.
00:00:26.360 You don't have to work like that.
00:00:27.840 I wrote a book specifically to help people not build companies they grow to hate.
00:00:31.580 In 20 years, the only people that will remember you worked late are your kids.
00:00:35.440 No one's going to remember.
00:00:36.380 No one's going to care.