How to Balance Between Business and Family

In one of my business groups that I am in, there was a new guy that’s just starting out in business that was having major problems on how to balance between business and family.  I know that I struggled with this for years, and it wasn’t until it became a major problem that I did anything about it.

Fast forward to now, I am making more in my business but I have far more time with my family than I’ve ever had before.

Why is that?  What was the magic pill that I took that made me able to magically juggle everything?

Well, if you are looking for a pill to solve your family balance issues – you’ll be looking for a long time.  The thing that helped me to find a balance between business and family was systems.

How to use systems to balance everything

You hear the S word a lot (systems) and everyone talks about how great it is to build one because it allows yout to do XYZ.

But what the heck is a system… really?

Let me give it to you plain and simple because I spent years trying to develop these elusive “systems” because every other guru was talking about them, but they had no practical importance in my life.  that is, until my lifestyle almost destroyed my family life.

Here’s what a system is in laymen’s speak… Anything you can use as leverage to either make a much easier, or to take you out of the entire situation.

So let me give you some examples.

1. Making a task easier – In one of my joint ventures we offer products to people that they buy, and then we sell the physical products that they buy on consignment.  So every other week I was having to set up shopping carts to buy these products.  Well, since I didn’t have the time to do that because I am always trying to find a balance between business and family, I made a working procedure that had my assistant do 95% of the process and I only had to do 5%.  This saved a ton of time.
2. Taking you out of the equation – A great example of this was when I started using Infusionsoft to send gifts to clients.  Rather than having to do this manually every time.  Now when they purchase something and they reach a certain threshold Infusionsoft will automatically send them a gift.

Conclusion on how to balance between business and family

The gist of this article is to show that, if you want to find a good balance you should focus on building systems.  That means you should use any means necessary to automatically reduce your workload whether it’s through delegating or automating.

Finding a business and family balance is very, very hard for an entrepreneur.  However, once you find the discipline to put systems in place, you’ll see that they become easier and easier to implement over time.

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Do you have any tips on how to balance your lifestyle?  Let is know in the comments!