Overheard a guy at a coworking space say he works 4 hours a day and makes 6 figures

I was grabbing coffee at this coworking space in Medellin last week and this dude next to me was on a call. He straight up told someone he works 4 hours a day and brings in over $100k a year from his ecommerce store. At first I thought he was full of it. But I started paying attention to how he moved through his day. He did deep work from 8 to 10, took a break, then did another 2 hours of just email and client stuff in the afternoon. No meetings, no scrolling, no multitasking. It hit me that I waste SO MUCH time pretending to work when I could just finish and go enjoy life. Has anyone else tried cutting your work hours but being super strict about focus? I want to try it but worried my clients will think I'm slacking off.

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the_rowan9d ago

...and what nobody's really talking about is that this actually forces you to get better at saying no. Like if you only have 4 hours, you can't take every random meeting or side project that comes your way. You have to be picky about what actually moves the needle. That fear about clients thinking you're slacking? That's probably because you've been saying yes to stuff that doesn't really matter just to look busy. The real test is figuring out which of your tasks actually pay the bills and which ones are just busywork you've convinced yourself is important.

hayden7099d ago

And once you start saying no to the fluff, you realize most of it was never really needed in the first place.