[factsaresacred]

Before you earn the success that affords more free time, prepare for 100+ hour work weeks.

It's a paradox that in order to obtain more free time you'll likely have to spend years handing over hour upon hour to your business.

If you pull it off, however, the business will give you back that time with freedom as interest.

I don't have a book to recommend but this guy's comments are usually gold: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jasonkester. He offers good advice and seems to live the life that you aspire to. Note the ten years of work though:

> The entire goal of building a business, in my mind, is to get the point where you can lounge on a beach or travel the world and not need to actively engage in anything except the pursuit of happiness. I personally averaged out at a little less than four hours of work per week in 2017, running the sort of low maintenance, feature complete, Software-as-a-Service business that the author spends a paragraph explaining is not in fact a "serious company".

> But look at the product and you'll see craftsmanship. Ten years of work, in fact as of roughly today. But never at the author's pace. Always at mine. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. That's the great thing about building a business. You can do it any way you like.

[Dockson]

>If you pull it off, however, the business will give you back that time with freedom as interest.

That's a wonderful way to put it. I will definitely check out his comments. Thank you!