Amy Porterfield

So I had a lot of time on my own and I was using every minute of it.

And so, of course, that's going to create burnout.

So one non-negotiable, I stop at 6 p.m.

and I don't work most weekends.

Once in a while, but not every weekend.

That was one of them.

Another one was my husband actually said to me, like, I never see you.

We're two shifts in the night right now.

Like, and it scared me because I was newly married at the time.

And I thought, okay, I need to get my priorities straight.

And so I know this seems kind of silly, but one of the non-negotiables was a few days a week, I would have coffee with my husband in the morning instead of rushing and getting on my phone right away and starting to work like I was doing, which is very unhealthy.

Like I'd roll out of bed and work.

We can't create a business that way.

So I would slow down in the morning.

I got a morning routine that had to do with working out and eating healthfully in the morning and spending a good 30 minutes with my sweet husband who values quality time over anything and just be present with him.

So that became a non-negotiable that I committed to.

His name is Hobie.

I committed to Hobie that I would do that and we would be present.

We still do that today.

This morning, we had our non-negotiable coffee time 14 years later.