People think entrepreneurship means freedom. Often it means quitting a 40-hour week to work 80 for the toughest boss you’ll ever have. You. The goal was never less work for the sake of it. It’s leverage: building the people, process, and systems that let the business scale without burning you out. That’s the real work, and it’s nothing like the highlight reel.

Many entrepreneurs quit a 40 hour per week job to work 80 hours for a psychopath themselves. Entrepreneurship doesn't automatically equate to freedom. When you're building at the beginning, there's a lot of hustle and you're running and you're accountable to all the people on your team. It can be very, very stressful. I think that's the important thing to get clear about what entrepreneurship is and what it isn't. It doesn't mean that you get to call all the shots. In fact, you call very few shots because you're supporting the people on your team. You're helping grow them. You're helping build process and procedure so that you can continue to scale. Think about what you really want in life. It may sound good, but think about what all goes into that. One piece of advice would be to talk to others, understand what their day-to-day life looks like. It may look glamorous from the outside, but in fact, what it may be is a lot of heartache, a lot of stress, all of these things. Make sure you understand what it truly takes and think what does my week look like? Where should I be spending my time? How should I be doing these things so that I create more leverage and less work? It is not less work for the sake of less work. You are creating process, procedure, bringing on people so that you can create leverage within the business so that it can continue to scale and you don't burn out in the end.