How to achieve time freedom without giving up your career

Below, Brian Herriot shares five key insights from his new book, Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now. Brian is an author, speaker, and financial advisor. After founding three business, he has learned that true success means building a life that works for you. What’s the Big Idea? Time freedom offers a more practical alternative to waiting decades for financial freedom. By combining flexible, meaningful work with smart saving and investing, we can gain control over our time much sooner, taking extended breaks without giving up work we enjoy or jeopardizing our financial future. Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Brian himself—in the Next Big Idea App, or buy the book. 1. Summers off aren’t just for teachers. My love for summer stems from early childhood experiences vacationing at my grandparents’ cabin on Big St. Germain Lake in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. We’d spend hours upon hours hiking, swimming, fishing, and—the most fun of all—waterskiing. I have vivid memories of waterskiing alongside my two cousins. We called ourselves the “triple duets” and even had a song we’d sing together, at the top of our lungs, as we skied by t…