How much is “more” costing you?

For much of my career, I worked two jobs my regular shifts and a significant amount of overtime. There were years when I worked more than 1,000 hours of overtime. Early in my marriage, the extra money helped us get ahead, and I genuinely loved working.

But over time, I learned something I wish I had understood much earlier:

Every hour we give to one thing is an hour we cannot give to something else.

Working hard is not the problem. Ambition is not the problem. Providing for your family is not the problem.

The question is whether the life we are working so hard to build leaves us enough time to actually live it.

In this episode, I reflect honestly on the cost of always wanting more: more money, more success, more responsibility, more productivity, and how those pursuits can quietly take time away from the people and things that matter most.

Because there will always be another opportunity, another project, another shift, and another reason to stay busy.

But there will not always be another opportunity to experience the moment you are in right now.

This week, consider one question:

What is the “more” in your life right now, and what is it costing you?

Sometimes the hardest lesson is learning that there is a difference between building a life...

and actually living it.

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