How I got started on my journey

I was a a normal guy working 40 hours a week looking til Friday. I knew I wanted to be in a better position in life but just figured more successful people just had better opportunities.

At the time I was struggling with just being a normal person, I hated the day to day “ how you doing Dave? Oh you know another day in paradise”.

Made me feel empty inside, I was a electrical apprentice but I never cared much about the work it was just a job to me. I felt like I wanted to do bigger things but had no college, no direction, no idea of what that was and I never bothered to ask myself. So I just kept going to work making money just to spend it all.

I noticed money was always a issue for me and I could never have enough. One day my check went in and I thought I was rich next week all my bills would hit and I’m getting charged 3 overdraft fees. This made me feel horrible like I was just stuck and destined to live check to check, feel horrible about myself, and just amount to nothing. These were insecurities that I had especially because I thought everyone wrote me off for being the “party kid” in high school.

I had always set goals but they seemed to always fall away and in 3 months it wasn’t even a thought in my mind. Or I’d write them down and that would be the only time I’d think about it. I knew I needed to be more organized, I needed to drive myself to do the things I wanted. Even if I didn’t want to do the grind part and I just wanted the end result. The goals that I really wanted kept coming back. I realized I’ve been saying I’m going to do the same things for years, people probably think I’m a joke. I couldn’t figure out how to make myself do things and stay on a course I felt like giving up.

Then by some crazy chance I set a short term goal(3 months to be exact) and then I broke it down into months and weeks. It was a goal to go on a trip to Florida all on my own. I broke it down by the week exactly how much I need to save to go, how much I had to work out to feel good on the beach, and how much time I needed to do this.

Staying so organized and focusing on my weekly goals helped me get to my goal with flying colors. Than I thought to myself, if this worked on a simple trip goal on a short period why can’t it work for a big goal stretched over years? And when I asked that question everything changed. I saw the benefit from being so organized I was able to crush my challenge.

So I decided to plan out some bigger goals so I could achieve more. Which lead to a longer grind period. At first I only focused on 2 areas my business and Finacial goals. This lead to more work and not much fun time. Once again I was back in a rut doing everything I could to start my real estate business and working tons of overtime to make more and more money.

My life quality went way down, I stopped seeing friends I loved, stoped going to events I loved, and doing things that used to bring me joy just to save money or work more. I get stuck, and this work as hard as you can then retire and die made me feel worse than before. I thought to myself how can I have both? Why are some people so happy and they make more money than I do? Don’t they work just as hard?

That’s when I learned that to be happy and move forward in life I need to water all gardens in my life. I needed a process that identifies all areas and goes deep into my life’s desires of who I aspire to be and what I want to achieve. My new goal setting process gave that too me, I now set clear cut goals in all areas of my life. Acknowledging my bucket list and making time to enjoy life in between the grind without compromising the grind.

In the end this process has made goal setting and achieving a system and not something left up to chance. This meant to me, my team, and my family and friends we could stop talking and start achieving our wants in life. When it’s all said and done, I am a more complete person who is developing into someone who can create and achieve all of my hearts desires. I’ve learned so much about my self and what I actually want and not what other people want for me. It’s a freeing experience to be guided and to have the feeling of being on a mission to succeed in my terms.

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