Ben Greenfield

a chapter of a book because we go through a new book every two to four weeks.

And we all clean the kitchen together and listen to music and joke and hang out and eventually wind up in one of my son's bedrooms or our bedroom chatting some more and eventually saying goodnight to each other.

And it's like a father-son book club.

So we start off with that.

And then I get out the guitar.

We sing a song together.

We all start to pull out the different foods that we've prepared for the evening.

And so...

We have these bookends on the day, and it's good for the family and our connectivity.

We say a prayer and then we bust out

Card games, board games, party games, and just have a massive family party for like an hour and a half, you know, until like 830 or so.

It's also good for me as a workaholic-driven entrepreneur to know that I've got boundaries.

And we all clean the kitchen together and listen to music and joke and hang out and eventually wind up in one of my son's bedrooms or our bedroom, chatting some more and eventually saying goodnight to each other.

My boundaries are I cannot just lock myself away in the office from 5 a.m.

on because I know I have to be right there in the living room at 7 a.m.

with my family, and every day is structured around that.

And so...

We have these bookends on the day, and it's good for the family and our connectivity.

And same thing, I cannot be like...

booking calls at 6 30 p.m or banging out emails at 7 p.m because i've built in that family gathering at 7 p.m in the evening so it helps put some boundaries on me because don't get me wrong like i'm wired up like a lot of entrepreneurs and i will just work all day long unless i know my family's out there tapping their fingers on the kitchen counter waiting for me to bust out the guitar at 7 p.m if i'm in my office on a zoom that's not going to happen so i'm