In Defense of Hustle
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wealthy woman lawyer. I got the
inspiration for today's topic
from a social media post that I
saw as I was scrolling through
my feed, the poster was
lamenting hustle culture, which
she called bro hustle, hustle
culture. It's this idea that we
all should be hustling all the
time, day and night to get rich,
instead of being more balanced
with lots of time for rest and
relaxation. First, let me just
say this, if you need a break
from work, then take it, you do
not need to work yourself into
the ground, nor do you need to
justify your need or desire for
time off away from work social
media, other people, whatever it
is you need and want a break
from. In fact, that's one of the
distinct privileges of business
owners. And it's one of the
things that in the poll that
I've done on my community, a lot
of women law firm owners say the
reason that they went into
business for themselves because
they wanted that flexibility, we
do have the option to say no,
and to create more flexibility
in our lives. If that is what we
choose. There's no boss telling
us that we need to work.
However, I suspect that this
poster was feeling pressure from
what she's seeing in her social
media feed more than anything.
And to that I say, if it's
bugging you, then delete it,
hide it, block it on your social
media. That's what those buttons
are for. If someone is stressing
you out by what they post, we
don't have to look at it. I use
the block feature liberally
because my social media team is
for me, and it's for my
pleasure. And if there's
somebody getting on my nerves, I
just unfollow I block them. I I
don't look at that, what they're
posting on their feed. I choose
other things that I find more
interesting or fulfilling. I'm
better still. You can take a
break from social media
altogether. You know, that's
allowed, right? We can do that.
If if what we're seeing is
stressing us out. All that said
the title of this podcast
episode is in defense of hustle
culture, not how to reduce
stress in your life by scrolling
your social feed, not scrolling
your social media feed all day,
comparing yourself to others. So
let's get to it. Oprah Winfrey,
Michael Jordan, Tony Robbins,
Jeff Bezos, Beyonce, Jay Z.
Rihanna, Mark Zuckerberg. Sara
Blakely, Sara Blakely, Leslie
stall, Barbara Walters, Gary
Vaynerchuk Mark Lowe bonus. Most
of the sharks on Shark Tank.
Name any highly successful
person you know, so just right
now write down the names of some
highly successful people that
you admire. And name any of
those people who were not born
into the top 1%. And you better
believe that they hustled to get
where they are today. If you
know Do you know any dedicated
competitive athletes for
example? If so, then you know
they likely are are up way
before anybody else is in the
morning, hitting the pool, the
rink, the court, the road or the
field or wherever it is they
practice their sport. And
they'll be back later in the
evening after everybody has gone
to bed. And they're very careful
about every scrap of food they
put in their mouths because
their goal is to be number one,
a champion and achiever. So they
hire coaches, they work extra
hard, they hustle, they make
sacrifices, they make choices,
all because they want to achieve
certain goals. It's the same
with most any highly successful
person you know, who did not
start out that way. At some
point, they made the decision
that they wanted to achieve a
high level goal and to do so
they would need to bring in high
level performance. In essence,
they would need to hustle
is the concept. If you want to
live a life few others get to
live, then you must make choices
others are unwilling to make. Of
course, most people I named now
have the choice of living more
balanced lives, because they
have plenty of money to hire
others to produce for them. And
they've likely all got to a
place where they put their money
to work for them as well. But
they did not start out that way.
And I bet good money that many
of them still rise early to get
after their goals. Why? Because
they built themselves that way,
through their choice of habits.
So they have created the person
and created themselves to be the
person who, who will go after
their goals and do what is
necessary to achieve their
goals. Even if it means making
sacrifices of sleep, or, or, you
know, certain he habits or
certain activities or making
choices about how they spend
their money or don't spend their
money, invest their money, don't
invest their money. They make
those choices early on. There is
nothing inherently wrong with
hustling. All the great
achievers hustle, when you get
into trouble when we get into
trouble is when we compare
ourselves to others, when we
feel resentment, because we
don't want to hustle to achieve
important goals. If that's not
your choice, then don't do it.
If you feel pressure by it, then
make a choice to step away. But
I promise you this, no one who
has achieved the goals that you
are aspiring and working hard to
achieve is going to judge you
for hustling to get out there
and get after your goals and get
after you want. It's only going
to be those people who are
comparing themselves to you and
feeling like they're coming up
short. And it makes them
uncomfortable to watch you do
those things. If you are driven
to achieve whatever your goals
are, don't let other people get
in your head about personal
culture, and make you feel wrong
about your choices. I once had a
conversation with a commercial
artists friend who said his
partner fusses at him because he
wants to work all the time on
his art, even while he's on
vacation. And he said to me,
when it's your passion, your
calling, you do what you want to
do all the time, it doesn't feel
like work. So he really had a
desire to go on vacations,
because he was at that point in
his business where he just
wanted to spend all of his time
focus on his passion, which was
growing his commercial art
business. But he you know, made
it a point to take those time
that time away, because it was
important to somebody else in
his life. And I agree, I know I
make a point to schedule time
away from my business because I
recognize the need to allow my
brain to shut off every now and
then. And really, since I work
in my home office. Work is
always on my mind. And my
business is always on my mind,
because I'm excited about it.
I'm excited about growing and
serving people. And the only
thing that really gets me out of
that is to go away on a trip or
a vacation. And I know that's
important, not just for me, but
also for my marriage, my husband
for us to be able to do that.
And I tend to function in a
level of intensity. That, you
know, most days when I'm
thinking about my business that
I do need a break every now and
then from that. However, I love
working with women, law firm
owner coaching clients, the
conversations I have with them
about their businesses really
energizes me. Some days after
I've had a day full of calls, I
will be absolutely exhausted.
But I will just feel so high on
life because I just had such a
good time enjoying. They're
seeing the world through their
eyes and their business through
their eyes and watching their
accomplishments. I love creating
growing my business, not only
because of the wealth, and
therefore the options that that
will affords me, but for the
sense of accomplishment I feel
when a plan works. In fact, I
love it so much the best way, I
found the best way to expand my
capacity because I couldn't keep
starting new businesses and
growing them was to help others
create and grow businesses that
they love. Now of course I've
invested untold hours in a very
my business and serving my
clients. I've worked straight
through several weekends in a
row to create products that I
could put out into the world to
be able to serve more people.
And it's not always fun.
Sometimes it's tough to sit down
in front of this computer again.
Others would admonish me to
breast they do monitor speed
arrests and safety Like, all
work and no play makes till the
dough girl. That's my mother's
favorite thing to say. And the
people who say that, to me are
people who love me and care
about me. And they're also
people who work for other
people. And they don't
understand the drive and passion
of entrepreneurial life. I find
it particularly interesting, my
parents are always, you know,
telling me, they're in their
80s. And they're always telling
me I need to rouse. And I remind
them that these are the same
people that would work all day
in their nine to five jobs, and
then they would get off work,
they would pack up, you know,
sandwiches in a bag, and we
would all go to the property
that they bought, where they say
the two of them, my parents
would physically build the
houses, they did this more than
once that we lived in growing
up. So to advance themselves in
life. And in their wealth. They
built their own houses my
fortunately my dad had those
skills, my mom was right there
beside him on hammering in
boards. And so I remind them
that when they see me putting in
extra time to create the life
that I want, or to bring out a
project or a passion of life,
that they did the very same
thing. And that's where I got it
from, right. So I will apologize
for my hustle, are there some
days I'd rather be in Paris or
on the beach, or in a mountain
cabin somewhere, of course. But
everyone everywhere has those
days, no matter how rich or
poor, they are. fantasizing is
just a part of human nature. And
we can make those things happen
for ourselves. But it is also
part of human nature to work
hard for big, audacious goals.
So here's the hustle culture,
and also to taking rest when you
need it. It all boils down to
you making choices that serve
you and what you want, and not
worrying about what other people
are doing. So that's a wrap for
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