Don’t Tell Me You Don’t Have Time

I’m chasing my dream of self-employment, what are you doing?

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I work pretty hard to put out decent content. I have a blog and newsletter I send out weekly. I’m active on Medium. I curate interesting reads for my Twitter followers. I co-host a podcast. Oh, and I recently wrote, published, and promoted a book.

I’m also partnering with Praxis, helping a friend launch his book, and working on other random tidally-bits.

I’m a busy man.

But the above activities only make up 20% of my waking time.

I failed to mention I have a full-time job as a supply chain analyst, I’m married to a woman finishing up pharmacy school, and together we are raising a 13 month old toddler (and two cats but they’re pretty self-sufficient).

So when I hear people saying they don’t have time, I cringe and write a Medium post about it.

We all have 24 hours in a day

Here’s a little secret:

Becoming a parent does take up a lot of your time (I’m not trying to make it seem like I’m a super dad or something).

But becoming a parent also makes you appreciate the little “free” time in your day.