I sold my gym and healthcare business in 2017 and decided to quit the hustle

I sold my gym and healthcare business in 2017 and decided to quit the hustle

I didn’t want to work 13 hour days any more.

I spent a lot of time reviewing my approach back then which could be best described as Do everything you can think of to achieve I don’t know what… success?

When I moved to Denmark 5 years ago I flipped everything on its head and decided what I did and didn’t want.

I didn’t want:

To miss being there for my kids
Work ON things I didn’t enjoy
Work WITH people I didn’t enjoy
Work into the evening or any hours I don’t want to


I did want to:

Work with people I love spending time with
Take long walks during the day
Relax with a good book
Have guests for long weekends
Work on problems I care about

I thought those boundaries would have made things harder but in reality giving my thinking constraints seemed to help.

In the absence of clarity around what I actually wanted for my life it became too easy to give the extra hour, to say yes to the call, the talk, the travel, the meeting.

I realised that I don’t have to want what others want but if I don’t decide what I do and don’t want I’ll default to what the world says success is.

Often that means swapping the present for the future.

What is your definition of success?