For most of my career, I told myself I’d slow down once I’d made enough money. I’d travel when there was more time, and I’d spend more afternoons with my family once things settled down a bit.

Things never settled down.

In 2019, I burned out and walked away from an executive job to work for myself, and within a year, work was starting to take over my life again. So in 2020, I stopped waiting for things to settle down on their own.

I wrote six rules for my business on a piece of paper and taped it to my desk.

1. No employees.
2. No more than 32 hours of work a week.
3. Most Fridays off.
4. No more than two meetings in a day.
5. No meeting longer than 45 minutes.
6. No work on evenings or weekends.

Looking back, none of the rules were about money.

At the time, I wasn’t sure a business could run that way, but I knew I wanted to find out. I’ve run a one-person business around that list ever since, and it’s earned more than $15 million in profit. I still have trouble believing that.

Keeping the rules has never been easy, and a few times I definitely didn’t. More Saturdays is the story of the life and the business that came out of those rules. It’s a short book of lessons, mistakes, and stories that takes about 90 minutes to read.

You probably don’t want to copy my six rules. Maybe you’d love leading a team, or working on a Friday and taking a Wednesday off instead.

The rules were just my way of putting my life first and fitting work in around it, and that’s what this book is really all about. The question I had in 2020 was whether I could decide how I wanted to live, build my work to support that, and still do well.

It turns out you can.

You can work fewer hours, make a lot more money than you’d expect, and have a lot of fun doing it. It will cost you some things too, and I’ll show you those. The book walks through how I did it, one decision at a time, including everything I got wrong.

I waited until I burned out to figure this out. I’m hoping you won’t have to.

So if you’ve been waiting for things to settle down, I wrote this book for you.