Brian Herriot

One thing is it's not work-life balance.

I've always struggled with work-life balance.

I feel like it's just...

taking a day off in the middle of the day to work two hours late at night.

And so whereas work-life balance to me is hours and days and how you structure that, time freedom to me is weeks, but even more so months and years, like how you structure a full year of your life to be more seasonal and how you approach work and play in that regard.

The other thing that time freedom is not is financial freedom.

And I had always approached financial freedom believing that that was the key to unlocking time freedom.

And that's really what this book is about, which is that they're different.

Financial freedom to me is, of course, having absolute freedom where you never have to work again.

A wonderful thing.

you know, to be able to choose exactly what you want.

However, I still think that you can achieve meaningful freedom while still having to work if you can just work in a way that meets your needs.

And so time freedom allows for that.

So, you know, so in essence, time freedom is just a different path.

It's a different way of living.

It's one that's maybe less focused on

optimal wealth building and optimal career building where you can still do elements of those things, but your main focus is how you structure your time and how you live your life day to day so that you're not putting off the things that you really want to do now.

It is.

So ever since I was a kid, my grandparents... This is a thing, I guess, if you grew up in the Midwest, at least in Wisconsin, is that you're lucky as a grandchild if your grandparents have a cabin in northern Wisconsin.

And so I had been doing that for years.