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Apr 5, 2021 at 10:18PM
In this episode of Motley Fool Answers, Budgets Are Sexy founder J. Money joins Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp to tell the tale of how he became a successful financial blogger (and millionaire) and also discuss his latest project, All-Star Money. Budgetsaresexy.com and AllStarMoney.com are Motley Fool properties. Plus, host Alison Southwick provides the ABCs of NFTs.
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This video was recorded on March 23, 2021.
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It was the repetition that did it for Alex Hirst. The same 5.30am alarm. The same 6.30am bus to the Tube station. The same District Line carriage, the same Starbucks coffee and croissant, the same meal-deal lunch. The same clients, the same problems, the same-shaped weeks. “Don’t get me wrong: I loved my work and didn’t resent doing it,” he insists. But at 33, leading a team of eight as a head of account management at a growing creative agency, Hirst began to wonder whether he had his priorities wrong.
“I always thought the more time I spent working, the more successful I would become,” he says. “It was a badge of honour. Being the first in and the last out of the office was important to me. I thought that I was leading by example. In fact, I just became more and more detached. I stopped enjoying the highs. I didn’t care about the lows. Eventually, my wife told me that I’d become a shadow of my former self.”
Deseret News
The author of ‘Essentialism’ wants you to cut the word ‘priorities’ out of your life
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Greg McKeown’s daughter was only a few hours old when he had to decide whether to stay at the hospital with his wife and newborn or go to a meeting with a business client. He went to the meeting and came to regret his decision. “I made a fool’s bargain,” he says. “What I learned from that experience was that if you don’t prioritize your own life, someone else will.”
That lesson and the soul-searching it prompted set McKeown on a path to a bestselling book. “Essentialism” established him as an internationally recognized expert on time management and acquired him clients that include Apple, Google and Pixar.