How Much Time Does Running Your Own Family Office Actually Take?

How Much Time Does It Actually Take to Run a Family Office? Around 2017 and 2018, my Family Office got complicated, and I was buried in it. I was sorting transactions, chasing statements and reconciling accounts late at night. It felt like a second job, and I assumed that was just the price of running my own. It wasn’t. Most people picture a Family Office taking a huge chunk of their year. The better question is what kind of time you’re actually spending, because there are three kinds and most people count them as one. I’ll walk you through the four beats of a well-run Family Office: the weekly check, the monthly review, the quarterly meeting where you steer, and the annual session where you set the year. For each one, I’ll cover what it’s for and roughly how long it takes. Then we’ll add it up. After that, I’ll take apart the other two kinds of time, the ones that make it feel so much bigger. One of them keeps a lot of people stuck for years. I’ll show you how to tell when you’re finally past it. By the end, you’ll know what a well-run Family Office really asks of you each year, and which kind of time is eating yours.