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I put off reading Buy Back Your Time by @danmartell for over a year.
One 3-day weekend later — I'd finally read it.
Three weeks after that — I had threads connecting in my business I hadn't seen before.
That's not a coincidence. That's what unplugging actually does.
In my new book Permission to Unplug, I talk about this exact dynamic — experiences don't just recharge you, they create space for the ideas that are already waiting.
Dan's whole framework is about structuring your life to buy back your time.
Mine is about what to do with it once you have it.
They're not separate ideas. They're the same idea at different stages.
👇 Tell me — what's the last book you finally read because you gave yourself permission to step away?
#permissiontounplug #buybackyourtime #DanMartell #booksthatchangedmylife #highperformancehabits
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I took 30 days off and didn't tell my businesses how to survive without me.
I just... left.
For the first 8 days, I was useless. Not because of the work — I wasn't even working. I was just wired. My nervous system didn't know how to exist without the daily fight-or-flight of running multiple companies. I'd reach for my phone out of habit. Check the time and accidentally open email. Lie awake running through scenarios that nobody had asked me to solve.
My wife was in the Maldives. I was still in my office — just with better water views.
Then something shifted.
I don't remember the exact morning. But somewhere around day 8 or 9, I stopped reaching. Not because I forced myself. Because I finally got tired of being the only person in the room who hadn't shown up to the trip.
I put the phone down. I looked at the water. I sat with my wife and didn't think about a single thing that needed to be fixed.
And the businesses? They ran. Deals closed. Problems got solved. Nobody called in a panic. Nobody needed me to save anything.
When I landed back home 30 days later, the thing that hit me hardest wasn't how well the businesses had performed. It was the question I couldn't stop asking myself:
If they ran fine without me — what had I actually been protecting all those years?
That was the moment I realized I hadn't built a business. I'd built a dependency. And I had the power to change that.
The Maldives didn't give me a vacation. It gave me permission — to unplug, to trust the systems I'd built, and to stop confusing being needed with being valuable.
Your business should be able to survive without you for 30 days. If it can't, that's not a workload problem. That's a design problem.
Swipe through to see what I learned — and drop the number of days below you think you could actually unplug. 👇 No judgment. Just honesty.
#entrepreneurmindset #founderstory #BurnoutRecovery #lifesaboutexperiences #permissiontounplug
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What does 18,000 square feet over the Indian Ocean actually look like? I walked every inch of The Residence at Gili Lankanfushi — the largest overwater villa in the Maldives. No road access. No neighbors. Just a private boat, open water, and a 5-bedroom compound that redefines what a family vacation can be. This isn't a hotel room. This is a private retreat that happens to float.
📍 Gili Lankanfushi | North Malé Atoll
#gililankanfushi #maldivesfamily #luxurytravel #overwatervilla #maldives
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