There was a time when I thought wealth was all about making more money.


More sales.


More customers.


More growth.


And while I still believe there’s nothing wrong with wanting more, I’ve realized that what I want today looks very different from what I wanted when I first started.


Recently, my wife and I were talking about Thailand.


As we talked, I realized something that made me smile.


There is really nothing holding me back from traveling right now.


At one point in my life, I was tied to a building with 8 employees. As much as I loved what I was doing, I couldn’t just get up and leave if I wanted to. My time belonged to someone else. My schedule belonged to someone else.


Today, that’s different.


The more I think about the freedom entrepreneurship has given me, the more I realize there is still so much I want to experience in life.


That doesn’t mean my discipline changes.


I’m still going to get up and do the work.


I’m still going to follow my calendar.


I’m still going to serve the people God called me to serve.


But I also want a calendar that has room for life.


I want to get a back massage a few times a week if I want to.


I want to get a foot massage if I feel like it.


I want to take a walk with my wife every day.


I want to do Tai Chi in the park.


I want to have lunch in the middle of the day without feeling guilty about it.


Because freedom of time was one of the biggest reasons I wanted to become an entrepreneur in the first place.


The problem is that when I first started, I got buried in the hustle.


And if you’ve been an entrepreneur long enough, you know exactly what I’m talking about.


You get focused on growth.


Then more growth.


Then more goals.


Then bigger goals.


And before you know it, you’ve built a business but forgotten why you wanted the business in the first place.


For me, that reason was freedom.


Not freedom from responsibility.


Freedom to live.


Freedom to experience.


Freedom to create.


Freedom to serve.


I don’t just want things anymore.


I want experiences.


If I want to go sit on a beach in Da Nang, Vietnam, I want to be able to hop on a plane.


If I want to visit Africa, I want to be able to hop on a plane.


If I want to spend weeks in Italy soaking up the culture, I want to be able to hop on a plane.


The beautiful thing about what I do today is that I can help entrepreneurs build ecommerce brands from anywhere in the world.


And every time I think about that, it feels freeing.


Maybe that’s what wealth means to me now.


Not having more things.


Having more freedom.


Freedom to choose.


Freedom to experience.


Freedom to spend time with the people I love.


Freedom to build a life that aligns with what matters most.


I still believe in hard work.


I still believe in discipline.


I still believe in showing up every day and doing what God called you to do.


But I no longer believe wealth is measured only by what you own.


I think it’s also measured by how much freedom you have to live the life God placed in your heart.


And honestly, that’s a version of wealth worth building.