How I Work 20 Hours a Week as a CEO, Investor & Wife (No Hustle)

So I've already spent the first two minutes talking about my passions, especially my podcasts.

But let me tell you, I work less than 20 hours a week in my main business.

And of course, because I have a team, also because I have certain principles and strategies that I do in my week so that I can set myself up for success and I also successfully avoid burnout.

Now, number one is my Sunday afternoon ritual.

And so yes, it is an actual ritual, but it is also more of a mindset for me.

So the way that things don't go crazy for me in the week is when I can see what the week actually means.

looks like if i am seeing ahead and i am planning then my week is just more organized so i have my weekly stand up with my team and i join my team every monday at 10 a.m central standard time to do that call wherever i am in the world i always try to do my best to make it to that call you know unless i'm on a plane or i'm traveling or it's really difficult.

So sometimes I even join this call when I'm on a taxi or something, but I really, really do try to make this call.

It sets the tone for the week and it's just one hour a week of me really talking to my team and aligning with everyone.

In that call, I also share some things that I've learned and some general principles that can really help everyone move forward.

I also get cliff notes on what everyone in my management team is working on.

It really, really helps me out.

But Sunday afternoon ritual is when every Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening, I spend one to two hours looking at my week, listing down my big three, for example, my big three goals for that week, and then looking at how I could achieve it.

So I'm going to look at certain meetings.

I'm going to look at certain connections that I'm going to make certain content that I'm going to make or shoot.

So I really plan ahead as many things as possible.

And I also use this time to take care of a lot of personal stuff like there are certain credit cards that I personally make payment or I check with my family office to maybe check in with some of our Airbnbs or I have to check some stuff with the bank or some stuff with my Philippine taxes or something like that.

i basically look at my whole life in terms of all the channels that i have in business or to make money so this is also the time when i look at certain connections that i might have missed in the past week and then i make those connections or reply to those messages i really don't pressure myself to reply immediately when i get a message especially in social media i give myself grace and typically i would deal with a lot of messages just in that one hour or two hours in the sunday afternoon that I use to plan my week ahead let me tell you guys if I do that on a Sunday my week is always very nice very manageable I have lots of time to do whatever I want and if I don't do that I'm usually honestly scrambling on a Monday or I'm taking one day at a time and it's not a good experience I'm just like I'm feeling very you know like untrusting with myself and like i i'm scared of what comes around the corner in terms of like tasks so another reflection of the sunday afternoon ritual is every night before i go to sleep i just very quickly click on my calendar and see what i have for tomorrow, that's it.

And I just kind of prep my brain on like, okay, this is what I'm working on tomorrow.

And this action really takes like seconds, honestly.

It just helps me kind of close the day and mentally tell myself that, hey, you're going to sleep, these things are for tomorrow don't worry about this tonight so that is also kind of a mini reflection of my sunday afternoon ritual and not a lot of people know this but i actually don't have any work thing on my phone on my main phone i don't have any work thing except for my calendar so i don't have slack i don't have my work email even on my phone i don't have my stripe on my phone i don't i don't have those things So I just really have my calendar because I just need to see what's on there and then that's it.

And I have enjoyed this freedom from having to like feeling like I always have to work wherever I am.

I have enjoyed this freedom for as long as I can remember.

And you know what? 17 years in business, if I got this far and I'm very happy with where I am financially and where I am physically as well.

So I don't think I'll be changing anything.