Embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment as we navigate the undulating terrain of life's ambitions and dreams. In the spirit of transition from one quarter to the next, I share my personal toolbox for seizing life by the reins, setting tangible goals, and marching confidently towards financial independence and personal fulfillment. Uncover the delicate dance between making wise choices and living authentically, as we dissect the necessity of adaptability in our careers, particularly for the younger folks hungering for purpose over paychecks. This conversation is a treasure trove of strategies to help you sidestep common pitfalls and steadfastly pursue the stable, genuine existence you deserve.
Before we part ways, let me extend an exuberant invitation to delve into the pages of my latest book, "Slaying Your Dragons: Living the Life You Always Wanted," penned with the intent to guide and inspire. The labor of love that this book represents is a testament to the journey of transformation, available for your reading pleasure on Amazon in both paperback and e-book formats. My utmost thanks go to all who tune in and engage with our content; your support is the wind beneath the wings of this platform. Let's continue to connect, grow, and aspire together as we traverse the path of Living Your Success 24/7. Hasta la vista, achievers!
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment as we navigate the undulating terrain of life's ambitions and dreams. In the spirit of transition from one quarter to the next, I share my personal toolbox for seizing life by the reins, setting tangible goals, and marching confidently towards financial independence and personal fulfillment. Uncover the delicate dance between making wise choices and living authentically, as we dissect the necessity of adaptability in our careers, particularly for the younger folks hungering for purpose over paychecks. This conversation is a treasure trove of strategies to help you sidestep common pitfalls and steadfastly pursue the stable, genuine existence you deserve.
Before we part ways, let me extend an exuberant invitation to delve into the pages of my latest book, "Slaying Your Dragons: Living the Life You Always Wanted," penned with the intent to guide and inspire. The labor of love that this book represents is a testament to the journey of transformation, available for your reading pleasure on Amazon in both paperback and e-book formats. My utmost thanks go to all who tune in and engage with our content; your support is the wind beneath the wings of this platform. Let's continue to connect, grow, and aspire together as we traverse the path of Living Your Success 24/7. Hasta la vista, achievers!
Well, hello there, my friends, this is Living your Success 24-7 with Michael Caine. That's right, say that a little quicker. This day, this day, this day, kind of formal, this day, anyway, how was your March 2024? Uh-oh, just dated the episode March 2024. How was it? Hope? It was all it was meant to be for you. Now we're rolling into April. Here we're in April and, uh, quarter of the uh year is about gone.
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So the topic of today's show is about living life on our terms. That's right. Take our power back, take your power back. I take my power back and you take yours. That's right. Living life on our terms Now.
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Is that a utopian idea? Definitely a dream, definitely a wish, a hope, a prayer, all the above. How do you do that? It's not simple to do, for sure. It's simple in concept, but to execute, well, that's another story. But you can only start where you are. Start where you are right now. That's right earlier, sooner than later. Of course, for those of you on the younger side of life, you still can learn from a lot of our mistakes, and experience doesn't have to be your experience. You just have to take notes on the good, bad and ugly, right. So, living life on our terms. Where would you start? Where would you start First, where you want to go. Just like a road map, you should see some type of destination or where you want to be, your thoughts on, for example and we probably covered this in other episodes in terms of habits or wishes, dreams, goals. But living life on your terms is establishing, firmly establishing a goal, a concrete goal, and not just what, but the when and hopefully, the how. How are you going to get there? How are you going to do the what to get to when, how are you going to get it? So I like to draft outlines before I start typing anything formal, like a newsletter or article or book or whatever, and I would jot some notes down on how do you want to live your life.
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Now many people are probably saying, well, I don't want to have a ball and chain on to any particular job. You know the old days we used to get a job and say they're 30, 40, 50 years. So that doesn't really happen too much anymore. That's dying off, and it actually started with employers letting people go. Now the flip side probably millennials, I imagine, and other groups are taking charge and saying, well, you know, perhaps I will move around employment-wise every two, three, four, five years, especially if I don't get a raise, and that's taking power back. Don't get a raise, and that's taking power back. Now, it may not be prudent for everyone to do that, especially if you have obligations. But again, if you're on the younger side of life, don't have a mortgage or kids or anything to tie you down to one specific place.
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You have more flexibility, true, but I wouldn't say all hope is lost if you do have a more complicated lifestyle. Let's call it that way. There's no good or bad, it's just what is and what you desire. Now, it probably does qualify as bad if you're living a life you don't want to live. You know that's not a good thing, but you have to see a way out of it. So I charge you to live the life you dreamt about.
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And now, true, you have to do certain things not to put yourself in a position where it would be highly improbable, not likely or extremely difficult. For example, you have a good job, but you, you know it's a lot of people making over a hundred thousand a year a lot, a lot, but they're still broke. Well, that's not going to get you to live that life on your terms Cause you're making poor decisions. Not all of you, some of you. Some people may have been a medical issue where you got deep in the debt, or someone in your family you had to help. That's good. But you can't do it to your destruction, because if you're destroyed after whatever, so that's good, but you can't do it to your destruction, because if you're destroyed after whatever, how are you going to help anyone moving forward, or yourself? Now you need help. I mean, I wouldn't destroy my ability to live in my own house to help someone else and then I'm living in a homeless shelter. That wouldn't be smart no offense, it's not.
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But so I'm saying part of living a life on your terms, you had to be prudent. But how do you be prudent without selling out? Selling out to the man? Well, may not like this, but you may have to have some trade-offs or a balance. You know, like these people that just leave it, get up and leave their families looking for grasses greener on the other side, that's. That's pretty much evil. Yes, it is. If you've done it, that was evil. Own up to it. This abandoning family, that's just wrong on by any measure.
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Um, so saving, uh, and growing the financial resources would definitely, uh, greatly help you live life on your terms by being financially independent, financially successful. And so what does that mean? It means you're well off, you're well to do, you can do things when you want to do it, with no apologies. You want to have, let's say, have, lunch at the Ritz-Carlton in New York? Well, if you have the resource, when do you want to go Right now? Well, people that have money, that kind of money, get to do it. I'm not saying that that's a good idea or not. I'm just giving an example, and we definitely don't want to be jealous on people who can do that. Well, they did what they needed to do and we can too.
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Now, the more mature or season you are in age uh, yeah, I mean the more aggressive you have to be, because you lack the time element that someone in their teens or 20s and 30s have. So it's very important for my listeners on the younger side of life start making sure you start investing your money. This isn't a show about where to invest it, but definitely stocks, securities, index funds, etfs, things of that nature, and, if you have the time, individual stocks. But a lot of people don't have the time. But if you do certain stocks Real estate may not pertain to everyone.
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You know you do need a lot of money. You need significant money or monies to put on a down payment or buy it out right in cash. But one thing I like to do is invest in REITs, real estate investment trusts. I own a lot of them, you know. So just building that up every month, you know that's a way to participate in a real estate game without being leveraged and having that additional risk on you. But there's other things, other type of investments as well. You invest in your business, your own business, and if you make it well, you can live life on your terms there too. Turn your hobbies into money-making side gigs while you have an 8 to 5, 9 to 5, whatever you call it. Those are things you could do. You could do.
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It takes, you know, some level of energy to balance a full-time job and the hobby or prayer you want to replace your regular job, but people do it all the time. Or you could just keep it as extra money. Maybe you don't want to quit, maybe you love your full-time job, your means of living, and then you have a side job because it's a nice hobby that you make money. Maybe you make $2,000, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 a month on something. It's your extra change that could be your travel money. Or you're saving up for a special occasion like a wedding. Saving up for a special occasion like a wedding. Or, you know, maybe a car of your dreams.
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Life is short, so don't just pinch pennies forever. If you have the means, then live a little bit. Live a little bit While you still can. So living life on your terms. Now, true, it's not all about the money, but money is a significant part, because that allows you options. Money gives you options. Assets, building your assets, your net worth gives you options. So don't look down on that. And you can do it. One penny, one quarter, one dollar, one hundred dollars at a time. Okay, so what is your future? What does it look like? What do you want it to look like? That's part of living life on your terms. You have to have that vision, that image. You must be able to draw it. If you're an artist, have a photograph of this.
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Is what my life looks like in 10 years, 20 years, five years, and for me, um, you know, freedom say I want to get up at 10 o'clock in the morning the next day. I don't want to get up until two o'clock pm, or I can get up at 4 in the morning and watch TV, because I'm not obligated to go to a job or do whatever with whomever, I can do it on my terms. That's, to me, a good thing, and to be able to, you know, have fun and fun means different things to different people, but it's called enjoyment. I want to enjoy my life. I don't want to just, you know I'm not going to have whatever we call fun seven days, 24-7, you know, a week, a month or a year but I want to be content, um, to do whatever I want to do Now. I'm blessed now, and even when I didn't have any money, I was blessed because I'm here. I survived. So that means I was blessed, whether I recognized it or not, I was in a position to survive because I didn't give up. I got some help along the way to give credit where credit is due.
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And it's good to have a social circle. When any one of you is in trouble has a challenge, that you help each other. It's nice to not burn bridges, by the way. Don't burn bridges, but don't have your hand out begging everyone either. That's not cool, but you do. It is part of the laws of reciprocity that's right To share. To help you scratch my back, I scratch yours, kind of thing.
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So that is what um is part of, uh, you know, uh, the consideration for living life on your terms and deal, get a snapshot of where you are now. The good, good, bad and ugly. Get rid of the bad and get rid of the ugly. And what do you have left? You have the good left. Sounds simple. It's simple in explanation, but in execution maybe not so let's say you have $200,000 or more in debt Outside of a mortgage Of a house.
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Well, that's a problem. We can go around in circles how you got that way, but now it's to the point what you going to do about it. You may have to get a second job, third job, or replace your current job for more money, for a raise, a promotion, better income, higher income. You may have to go to school, get education some kind of way, not that you should be burdened with a significant stew loan, school debt. That's not good either. And you're in bondage for 10, 20, 30 years. Your life is gone.
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For what? Now? That's a blanket statement. Obviously for a medical doctor. They want your doctor to go to school. Right, oh, I taught myself how to transplant the liver. You don't want that.
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And attorneys and other people that engineers, you know that some kind of standardized tests where it's important they have sufficient knowledge. Your engineer building buildings or or whatever you know? Some kind of education is probably warranted, but it doesn't have to be at the most expensive school in the country or the second expensive or third expensive, living a life on our terms, the sooner you start that, because it's composed of a lot of balls being juggled in the air, a lot of things to consider. So you have to put all that in motion, to work on, to control, to manage. I like manage better than control. Control could be so negative word, but to manage your life is how you get to living a life on your terms.
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And so let me tell you this when you don't feel like doing something that you should do to propel you forward, to move you forward, do it anyway. Get up. Get up and do it. Let's say I didn't feel like talking on a do a podcast right now. Well, I'm building a business. I'm building a business. I'm building something great.
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So it's not about how I feel Now. Truly, sometimes you're just sick or something. You just can't do it. But you know those thoughts where you say I just don't feel like doing it. Nothing's really stopping you, but maybe on a psychological, emotional level level you're not into it. But you gotta get yourself together and the show must go on. I tell myself, the show must go on, so let's, let's do it.
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So anyway, in closing, I encourage you to go, uh, on amazoncom and buy my book Slaying your Dragons Lived in the Life you Always Wanted. Slaying your Dragons by Michael Caine. That's K-A-N-E Don't confuse me with other Slaying the Dragon books out there, but Michael Caine K-A-N-E and it's a paperback version, it's affordable, and an e-book version that's affordable as well. Please continue to support my channel by encouraging others to subscribe and to listen. You can listen on my website, livingyoursuccesscom, or iHeartRadio, apple or Amazon Music or Spotify those platforms, please, whatever your choice. You can get me on Facebook and Twitter as well, and so I encourage you to keep listening and growing, and I appreciate all of you for taking the time listening to me. So, that said, until next time, my friends. This is Michael Caine, with living your success 24 7. Adios amigos.
