Have you ever paused to consider what success truly means to you? Join me, Michael Kane, as we unravel this enigma, examining the various dimensions of fulfillment in our everyday lives. With candid stories from my own experiences, we'll navigate through the personal triumphs and trials that have shaped me, from a nurturing marriage to my children's growth. I'll also delve into the professional realm, discussing the impact of well-researched decisions, financial stability, and the delicate balance between work obligations and family life. Together, we'll probe into what it takes to strike a perfect balance, ensuring that success blooms in each corner of our existence.
Now, let's embark on an adventure to ignite that spark of ambition within you. I'll share the simple yet powerful concept of helping one person each day and how it can redefine your sense of purpose and achievement. Moreover, I introduce you to Catalyst, spelled with a 'K', a newsletter poised to stoke the fires of your goal-setting fervor. We'll talk about the importance of taking that critical first step post-workshop inspiration and maintaining the momentum to transform your life. From personal anecdotes to actionable strategies, this episode is your roadmap to seizing the reins of your journey and galloping toward the success you envisage.
Have you ever paused to consider what success truly means to you? Join me, Michael Kane, as we unravel this enigma, examining the various dimensions of fulfillment in our everyday lives. With candid stories from my own experiences, we'll navigate through the personal triumphs and trials that have shaped me, from a nurturing marriage to my children's growth. I'll also delve into the professional realm, discussing the impact of well-researched decisions, financial stability, and the delicate balance between work obligations and family life. Together, we'll probe into what it takes to strike a perfect balance, ensuring that success blooms in each corner of our existence.
Now, let's embark on an adventure to ignite that spark of ambition within you. I'll share the simple yet powerful concept of helping one person each day and how it can redefine your sense of purpose and achievement. Moreover, I introduce you to Catalyst, spelled with a 'K', a newsletter poised to stoke the fires of your goal-setting fervor. We'll talk about the importance of taking that critical first step post-workshop inspiration and maintaining the momentum to transform your life. From personal anecdotes to actionable strategies, this episode is your roadmap to seizing the reins of your journey and galloping toward the success you envisage.
Hello there. This is Michael Caine, living your Success 24-7. How are all of you around the world? That's right, wherever you are. I thank you for taking the opportunity to listen to this podcast supporting me. I'm so grateful you do. You can always visit my website, livingyoursuccesscom, and you can go on Amazon Music and Apple iHeart, spotify and many more to listen, and my website as well.
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And so I was thinking of today's topic and I was thinking, hmm, what if I applied the question toward me? Let's get straight into it Do you feel successful? Do you feel successful? And this question does not merely refer to your professional or work life only, it could be your personal life as well. I'm a believer as the personal life and the work life. They intersect, they go hand in hand. Now, true, you could feel successful at your job, your career, but feel you fail miserably in your personal life because you sacrificed that personal life in order to get that raise, get that promotion, to do whatever it is you do, to feel good on your job, to be quote-unquote successful. Or the opposite can ring true too, where you focus so much on your personal life, maybe to have kids, maybe to go off and travel, and you took time off for work and now you feel now you're returning, you feel you know you felt good at what you did. You don't call it a distraction, but you feel left behind when you return to the workforce. So this is an either or or both question scenario here. And so let me start off with myself.
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Michael Caine, do you feel successful? Let's take in the personal life first. Well, yes, short answer yes, I do. I feel, and I know, I absolutely know With certainty I have a good relationship With my wife. I do, I'm glad we got married. Wish we were married Sooner versus later. That's my only Reflective regret that we didn't Connect earlier in life, like in our 20s. You know, could have been good, but it didn't happen. So you got to move on Right, be grateful for what you have, the time you do that. But I'm not About to Succumb Of old age At this point either. So I'm in the middle here, okay.
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So, but, and I feel that our children are moving in the direction we want. So that's a good thing. So I feel, and we give them tidbits and give them encouragement and advice, and and sometimes they want our advice. Now, sometimes they don't and we give it, but that's our problem right. So we're doing our best to stay healthy, although you know we have people that have gone on and passed on, but we're relatively happy. We do have roller coasters which, if you're human and on this earth thing called Earth, you're going to have a roller coaster of situations, issues, situations, issues as long as you stay away from the main drama, you know. And another podcast as long as you marry right.
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And you know, don't do your kids a disservice by trying to be their buddy On everything, because you have to be a parent. Parent rules First, supreme To guide. And parent, parent rules First Supreme To guide and direct. Educate Our kids. And so Now Moving toward the Professional life. Yeah, I mean, am I Sitting way high on top of the Alps mountaintop with, oh, I can't get any more successful? No, haven't arrived there yet. That's a work in progress, but I'm progressing. Each year goes by, I'm getting more blessed.
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Why Taking action? Because I reflected. I was thinking why now? Why in the last few years, things are getting better versus 20 years ago? Because I'm taking more proper, not just enough to take action. You could take the wrong action too right. Take the wrong action too right. Taking the right action by being well thought and researched and studied and dwelled, meditated, prayed, doing those things, making better decisions with action. Things are looking better, improved on a financial front, on the satisfaction front, on a professional level. And so it's that action. Because a lot of times we dream, we dream, we think, we feel, but we don't do, we don't plan, we don't act and we don't do. So that's that missing puzzle piece for me, that before I wasn't stepping out enough in the right direction, didn't give it as much thought, maybe too much emotion Not that you should be an automaton robot either, because those people they're not happy, you know either. So it's some healthy medium.
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And do we make sacrifices on both sides? Of course we do. We make sacrifices on a personal level. We miss a ball game or one of our child's ball games or some family function, because what? The demands of the workplace and the workplace I mean, if you own your own business, you're an entrepreneur as well. We sacrifice one or the other, depending on when you ask the question and what day it is you sacrifice.
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I remember having to hop on a plane and looking at the rearview mirror as I drove away with my kids. I was very sad just to look at them waving at me, daddy waving, and I'll be gone a few days and they wanted to play with of town, whatever. Yeah, I sacrificed that, plain and simple. You can call it whatever you want, just sugarcoat it. But it wasn't an evil deed, it wasn't a bad thing, it's just a sacrifice for the greater good. That will help them in the end when daddy gets a pay raise and gets a promotion and get money, money coming in, more customers coming in, et cetera. You get my idea, the drip.
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But you have to weigh those and you have to. You know it's certain things I slow down, I won't do if it's detrimental to the family unit, I just won't do. And I was just reading on the Internet about I won't mention names, but they were talking, didn't see the grandchildren, they missed out there on their fourth, fifth, sixth marriage. Regret, regret. And that's where it's going. Okay, for those listening, if you do too many cuts to your family, you're going to have serious regrets later.
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No one's saying not to be successful. It's your choice how successful you want to be. You're already putting in 60 hours, 70 hours, 80. Some people put 90 hours. Do you want to put 120 hours and sacrifice which child are you going to sacrifice? Which marriage are you going to sacrifice? Let's call it straightforward. I don't like BS. People put a lot of that sugar on. You know something? That's still. You know what it is On the ground. Doggy poop, right, it still is. You can paint it green, paint it whatever color you want it and spray it with the pie and salt, but you know what it is. So I'm not willing to Just do just any assignment or any job or any, if it's going to be detrimental. And I tell you, the older you get, the more stuff you're thinking about this stuff. So I'm mentioning it now.
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Those who feel successful in the personal or business world feel successful in the personal or business world, and we all define success differently. And some people I know will listen to this and justify you know certain actions and that's fine. You don't have to justify anything. You do what you do. You're an adult. All I'm saying is, for those who really want to listen, that you have to know how far you'll go in sacrificing one or the other the work life or the personal life. That's all I'm saying. How much will you tolerate on both sides before you feel wholly comfortable with where you're at right, because I know we're in a society that wants more and more and more and more.
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And I'm not saying I don't want more money. Of course I do. I want to get as much money as possible, legally, of course, and morally, ethically, but not to the detriment of dying, for Some people extend themselves so hard they die prematurely. Now, when you're dead, what kind of money are you earning? Well, some celebrities that die prematurely are still making millions of dollars, but they're not spending it. Your family's spending it? Or strangers, the state, the government's spending your money that you earned and you drop dead because of stress. Too much work, too much this, too much that, and you can have too much drama on your personal life drop dead too. Let me just be straight up, especially if you chose the wrong mate, the wrong relationship and you fooled yourself until you're no longer here.
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These guideposts I'm hoping this podcast is a guidepost the North Star, the shining star, to avoid the pitfalls and also further define do you feel successful and when is enough enough? What day is that? When is enough enough? So I've changed trajectory, where I'm not going to kill myself anymore. A hundred hours staying, you know, sleeping two hours a day, three hours. I'm not going to do that anymore. I had to stop that.
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That was nonsense to me. Now, when I was doing it, I didn't call it nonsense, but call it is what I had to do. And some days you do have to work 12 hours, 14 hours. Some days you have to, some days you got to do what you got to do for survival, not saying not to survive, because if you don't survive, game over. So what's your definition of success and what is your cap? What is your maximum level of tolerance of what you will do for money?
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Okay and so, and again, it's different when you're in your 20s and 30s, especially early 30s and 20s, whatever, early, mid, late 20s, when you're single, no kids, live in mommy and daddy's house or just struck out on your own and you can be flexible. You could be on a park bench one day. You could be in Spain, madrid, spain the next day, whatever, you don't have to really answer to anyone. One day, you could be in Spain, madrid, spain the next day, whatever, you don't have to really answer to anyone. You know it is what it is. But if you decide to have a serious relationship and build a family, oh, now you know, the dynamics have shifted. That's another podcast.
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I'm planning another podcast with Sandra for love and money, so we can get a female perspective and a male perspective on this. No one's an authority on this. You just live life and you observe and experience. I don't think there's any experts you can have. You know, people call themselves but, yeah, what's your experience? One size does not fit all. Okay, maybe we're all experts then. Right, because we all have our own experience. As long as we do it with our eyes open and accept whatever the truth is wherever the truth falls, that's where it is. Accept whatever the truth is Wherever the truth falls, that's where it is. So there's so many other podcasts that can come out of this one, and so I'm taking note of that. Okay, just two or three more of the topics that branched over here.
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So, michael Caine, do you feel successful on both sides? Yes, I do. I feel content, but being content doesn't mean you give up and don't want more. It just means you're happy where in the place you're at. Yes, I want to be. My goal is to leave a legacy and establish a future, opportunities for our children and plus, we're not dead yet. We want to. We have a lot more fuel in us, so to speak.
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Travel the world two or three, four more times, so to speak. Travel the world two or three, four more times and go into exotic places and do exotic things and just live, not just live to work, work to live and die. That's what some people do, unfortunately. They work to live and live and die and they die, go on on and somebody else is spending your money after that. Right, didn't enjoy it. A lot of people don't enjoy it. You have two extremes people that spend all they have and other people that hoard all they have and don't live either. One doesn't live each. Yeah, that's why being in the middle sometimes is a blessing. Sometimes, being number one or being number 100, those aren't a good thing sometimes.
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So now ask yourself the same question Do you feel successful? Am I successful? Are you successful, and how much further are you planning or willing to go? How many more hours Dedicated Focus? What you focus on is what you want and what you attract. So, at any rate, this is food for thought.
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And again, everyone's definition of success is unique. No two roads to success are the same. So I think that's a wrap. Just dwell on that. Make decisions based on how you feel, based on your evaluation of your own life and the cards you've been dealt with. Sometimes it's not your fault, it wasn't up to you.
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What position you're in now, stuff happens. We can't control everything. It's only how we control how we behave or we view things, how we manage and process things. That's all the control we have. But I tell you, it sure helps if you have a loving, caring family that supports you. But that is tough on you too. So you'll make sure you stay on the path of the straight and narrow and do the right stuff Right. So that's good. So I wish all of you well.
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And the rest of the day and the rest of this year is moving. We're almost moving toward the middle of the year Wow, god. So establish your goals. Look at those New Year's resolutions and those other plans. You have those bucket lists, or whatever you want to call it, and set those goals in increments. If it's a big goal, break it down in little elements, little sections and with time periods on. If you don't put a time period on it, it ain't gonna happen, right. So put a time on it. Put a what, when and where, who, and work that plan. You don't have a plan. You are planning to fail. You heard that cliche, so please Continue to listen, support my podcast, and I have a book Slaying your Dragons Living the Life you Always Wanted On Amazon.
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Paperback is good, ebook is good. Please spread the word. And I appreciate is good, please spread the word. And um and um. I uh appreciate each and every one of you. I know I don't know you personally, but I plan to continue to be in your cheerleader, your coach, your mentor, rob, rob, rob, right. And so I'm excited. Why am I excited? Because I got up this morning and if I can help one you hear me One person Today is worth living. Okay, if I can help someone transform, inspire someone For them to be self-motivated, motivation comes from within. If I could do that, I have a successful day. Okay. So, and then subscribe to my newsletter too. You can see it on my website livingyoursuccesscom. You'll see it in the top right hand corner of the website. Please subscribe to my newsletter.
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Catalyst what is Catalyst about? Catalyst is just that, and it's with a K, by the way, but meaning still the same in terms of to initiate, to ignite, to start. My goal, my focus, is to help you start and establish those goals and achieve that success. So my goal again is to get you started. A lot of problem is people don't get started. You attend these seminars, workshops. People do not get started. So I'm focusing on us, on that segment of the population, of the population and that can be a lot of people, a few people, however many people around the world is to get you started to write articles to give in my newsletter, to give presentations in my podcast, to get you started on your way to establish those short, midterm and long-term goals and to get going. That's it. It gets you started going goals and to get going. That's it. It gets you started going. So that's it. It's been a pleasure. No-transcript.
