 Oh, what's up everybody once again is brand man Sean and this video is brought to you by brand man network.com because I signed myself now this video is actually inspired by a lot of the members of brand man network.com because man I'll be on calls with artists and you know next thing you know you see them pick up like a newborn baby right here or I'll get an email like yo I can do this week I actually am having a baby right now or I'm riding the car and your kids in the back or they won't be on the call like the cooking for the kids and so it just made me think about family right just building with a family in mind and it's something that I've been going through for a while now but it's gotten even more serious for me lately so from that sense I'm always feeling the artists when I see them because it's serious about it they're making sure they get their work done but they still got to do what they have to do when it comes to their family especially when it comes to the kids and to me it's not enough to just say you know what no matter what I got going on in my business family matters more than me so I'm just gonna drop everything going on with business if family is necessary it takes a lot more than that personal mentality and you feeling that way personally to actually run this ship successfully how do I know that well I had to learn it myself and it wasn't that easy not personally for me to make that adjustment so here are three tips that I've personally like learned and started to apply and actually seen real benefit from that I think will be helpful for others as well number one you need to share your vision we already know that we need to have a vision for whatever we're doing right where we're going that's gonna help in business in general but you need to make sure you actually share that with your family and when I say share the vision I mean the plan as well right share it with the with the people who matter even kids they can understand certain things like if you tell them but at least share the vision of where you want to go and the plan on how you want to get there because when you're not working for somebody right it's sometimes unclear how you're going to get to where you're gonna say and we're so used to people saying so many things that they're gonna do this they're gonna do that and not doing it not following up sometimes people don't necessarily even take you seriously when you say you're gonna do it or when you say that you're working on something they don't know and they don't see the work and it's not this traditional thing that they're familiar with it needs to be clarified in just a true laid-out plan and that needs to be communicated to them which brings me to number two talk business with the family and what do I mean by that well one like one thing that I did especially in the beginning was I felt like you know when I'm at work right I'm working so hard and I'm deep in this energy and I know it's taking away a lot from everything else right when I'm spending this time family doesn't get this from me so whenever I actually got a chance to be around family right and the people I cared about then I would flip the switch completely I wouldn't even talk about it and I thought you know that was a positive thing right they don't want to hear about this they already are losing me to this thing so they don't want to hear about this but what I found is that just leaves them in the dark right and over time there it continues to be this disconnect with this thing that's apparently a huge part of your life so now they don't know what to do with that right they can't help you even if they would like to and at the same time you feel this disconnect of lack of understanding right and you being the person setting off on this vision you being the person who's working on this you're the leader in that area you have to take responsibility for the fact that your vision is not communicated right people don't understand you just like any employer somebody who's on your team any lack of understanding is your fault you have to over communicate I know for a lot of y'all artists that's not easy and I know for a lot of y'all managers it might be a little bit more easier but still it's easy to forget so keep this in mind over communicate over communicate over communicate the more they know the more they understand about your business and the more they able to see that the easier it'll be for you to even be able to make certain decisions without feeling guilty because you'll be able to see how they're able to help you and be on board with whatever decision that is tip number three put your family on a calendar I know it might sound weird it might feel weird as a matter of fact like few years ago my girl first found out she was on my calendar it didn't really go to will at first she felt kind of weird about it but over time she realized that was how seriously I took the relationship where at first it just felt like you don't value the time or you don't just make that decision without it being on your calendar felt like more business transactional which I can understand but the relevance of this is just because when you know you have things going on in business you're building things you know as artists you got to make certain moves and especially when this is your extra time right this might not even be your main job is your extra time and things can fall by the wayside easily so I had to get to the point as many of you will or probably already are where if it's not on the calendar then I'm probably not going to do it right I only am focusing on executing these things that are listed here because I can't just start hopping off doing these random things that just keep popping up I need to stay on a plan stay on some sort of regimen and another benefit of that is just the fact that when you are working for yourself right or doing something for yourself once again it might not be your main job it could be your side job that you're working on becoming your main job as an artist as a producer engineer whatever that is people a lot of times feel like yo you know you got your own schedule so why are you working so much or you can come do this or you can come pick me up or or you can do whatever if because they feel like you know you're an entrepreneur this is your business you can take whatever time that's kind of what we always hear when we are in the system of just working right that traditional system we hear entrepreneurship freedom however a lot of times it's hard to understand and really calibrate the fact that at the beginning especially it's kind of the opposite you have to work a lot more because when you stop everything stops where in a traditional job situation you leave yeah they might be mad at you or something like that you boss might not like the fact that you took off or they could be completely fine with it but the business doesn't shut down right because you're not in that type of position you're not in that level of position as a matter of fact a lot of these companies to see you can leave and just be gone and maybe even the CEO could die or something like that but the business is already set for pretty much 10 times out of 10 if your business is just starting out is not in a place like that so keeping that calendar right and letting people know that this is your calendar even sharing that calendar is something that could be extremely helpful to not only you to keep you on track and to keep you organized and in a state of execution it can also be helpful for keeping a level of clarity with those people who are necessary in your life to actually be able to be on board and support you without having to have as much struggle there's always gonna be struggles of course we know that there's always gonna be those struggles but those three things have helped me out personally there's some other things in mind that I'm I'm working on I'm working to develop I'll do another video update sometime after I feel like I've seen personal results from that as well that's how I like to do pretty much a lot of these videos so shout out to y'all and brandmannetwork.com who are hustling doing y'all thing y'all really did for truly inspired this video y'all know what I'm talking about those of y'all who get on the call with kids in your arms and or cooking and got kids yelling at you left and right I salute you I salute you as always this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself if you liked this video go ahead to like button if you like it remember to share and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button