Thirteen Hours a Week and Earning More - Ben Handler #61

Ben Handler says he now works eleven to thirteen hours a week and is doing better than he was working seven days. He left Sydney's east for Byron Bay, and when he is asked for the most profound experience of his life, the answer is getting his first cat.

Ben Handler came out of a corporate job to co-found a Sydney buyers agency, and now runs an education business remotely from Byron Bay, where he keeps six acres and is building a food forest.

What you will learn:

- Why every decision now gets made around his lifestyle first and the business second

- The morning in full: a PEMF mat, two thousand metres on the rower in nine minutes, and an ocean swim every day of the year

- Why his coach told him to name a net profit figure and then stop moving it, and what that did to his week

- Reading one book on a flight, cold emailing a global executive before he landed, and where that ended up

- Your lack of focus will bury you long before your competition ever outperforms you

Chapters

00:00 Destination addiction, and why he left the east

01:45 Obsessed with work, and what was actually driving it

07:02 The morning: a PEMF mat, a rower, and the ocean

09:26 Eleven to thirteen hours a week, across several businesses

11:20 What success means once net worth stops being the answer

22:36 The turning points that changed how he wanted to live

24:18 A full scorecard on business and an empty one on life

26:04 The next car, the next watch, and the cycle underneath it

27:50 The trap of mistaking a slower life for going soft

31:22 Name the number, and then stop moving it

34:53 Surfing, animals, and six acres of food forest

40:06 Why Byron, and what he notices about the people

48:47 Your lack of focus will bury you first

51:12 Becoming ruthless about what goes in the diary

53:58 Jeff Weiner, and deliberately empty calendar space

01:06:13 The nurse of thirty years his own team wanted to turn away

01:14:55 Why he still loves outbound prospecting

01:16:41 One book on a plane, and a cold email that landed him in Orlando

01:27:06 The quarter he missed, and two days spent in mourning

01:32:22 The most profound experience of his life

Ben Handler works thirteen hours a week and earns more than he did working seven days. Property should work the same way.

Most properties only make money if the market does. The ones that pay for themselves from the day you settle are bought differently, and it comes down to four points.

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