January 18, 2024 • 31 mins
Are you steering your life towards a destination you've chosen or are you simply along for the ride?
Recounting my personal evolution from a wandering digital nomad to an advocate for living with intentional flexibility and presence.
- Discover where you're on the spectrum of being able to truly design your life
- What distinguishes the people who achieve their dreams and those who don't
- How to feel more confident about setting bigger dreams
- Prompts to uncover who you are when you're at your best
- Reflection questions to unpack what's stopping you from changing for the better
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Sam Laliberte - entrepreneur, digital nomad and freedom seeker, hosts the Freedom Lifestyle Podcast to expose people to the many ways you can design your dream life and unlock your own version of the freedom lifestyle. Her guests have empowered themselves through flexible work as a way to “have it all” - financial, location AND schedule freedom.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And it really starts with believing that you are in
control of your life and reallybelieving that you are in
control of your own destiny, andthere's kind of a vibe in the
air right now that we're not.
You're listening to the FreedomLifestyle podcast series.
I'm sharing relatable storiesof freedom seekers who ditched
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conventional office life andcourageously asked for more.
The energy just completelyshifted.
My entire being just felt sofree.
My business was stillgenerating income while I was on
the beach.
I decided to quit and just stayat home.
I really can't work for anyonebut me.
It's literally just doingwhatever the hell you want to do
.
As for me, I'm your host, sam,and I've spent the last four
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years creating a business thatallows me to work from anywhere.
The Freedom Lifestyle looksdifferent for everyone.
What's your free?
Hello, freedom Seekers.
We are back with another soloepisode from yours truly, sam,
and today we are going to betalking about designing your
year.
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Nothing gets me more fired upthan talking about lifestyle
design.
Seriously, I spend so much timethinking deeply about what is
my purpose, the purpose of Sam,what is my core message with
this podcast, with this audience, with my life quest to make an
impact with the FreedomLifestyle, and that message has
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evolved so much over the lastsix plus years that I've been
doing this, but one thing hasalways remained the same, which
is the Freedom Lifestyle looksdifferent for everyone.
What's your free?
That classic line that I loveto end all my episodes with,
because it really symbolizesthat everyone's version of this
is going to look different andin fact, it should look
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different.
It would be weird if it didn't.
And just because I'm someonewho spends thousands of dollars
on music festivals every summerand goes to Burning man, just
because I'm somebody who likesto carve out time to learn
extreme sports like highlightingacross the mountains.
I'm married to a partner who'sinto co-creation, married to
someone who's comfortable withtheir feminine energy lol, if
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you know.
You know, just because that ismy definition of living free and
that's my version of theFreedom Lifestyle, it doesn't
mean I expect that to be yours.
What I do expect, or what Iperhaps hope, and my wish and my
desire, is that I help you onyour journey of becoming more
aware of what you actually wantand what your version of the
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Freedom Lifestyle is, and whenyou are thinking about an
upcoming year, you design it ina way that's reflective of your
own desires and what you want,and you've given yourself the
time and the space and thepermission to actually just
think, for yourself, to actuallybe like okay, wait a minute, is
this path that I'm on, thatI've been on for a while, or
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that I've just put myself on?
Is that the one I want to be on?
Still, am I heading in theright direction?
And I think it's good that werevisit this, because we might
set a big five-year goal forourselves and three years in,
we're just heading towards there.
The new year comes up and weautomatically think about that
big five-year goal and we checkoff okay, how much closer did I
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get last year?
What do I need to do this yearto get even closer to that?
But maybe that big five-yeargoal isn't even what you want
anymore.
I've caught myself doing thatwhere I remember for a long time
I wanted to just be a full-timedigital nomad.
I wanted to own nothing.
I wanted to be minimalistic, Iwanted to live out of a suitcase
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, I wanted to have no fixedaddress.
I really admired that lifestylein my late 20s.
I thought that was the coolestthing ever and that was what I
was putting myself on and I keptbeing like, okay, am I fully a
digital nomad?
Ooh, I would feel maybe a bitembarrassed that I did still
have a place, or I did stillhave a car or I did still have
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these things.
That would make me not truly adigital nomad.
And then I realized, wait aminute, am I just getting into
another trap, a trap offollowing a definition of a
certain type of lifestyle andwhat it has to look like?
That's completely againsteverything I say.
Really, what I want is theflexibility to be wherever I
want to be or need to be at anygiven time.
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Thank you everyone.
And that sometimes might meanbeing in my own place, where my
comforts of home are, where mycute kitty is, where my nice big
king-size bed with all myperfect bedding that I've hand
selected, and I know I have thebest sleeps there.
I had to give myself permissionto change my definition of what
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a dream year would look like,and you want to revisit this
fairly often because you can getcaught in a trap and back on a
path that you haven't evenreally thought about.
And when I say my core messagefor freedom, lifestyle has
evolved over time, when I thinkabout it, it was always coming
from a good place, like I'vealways wanted to be able to
provide very concrete,actionable advice on this show
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and therefore have a niche beknown for something when you
listen to this podcast.
I want you to be able to havetakeaway skills, and so
sometimes that has really put meon a path of okay, here is how
you have location freedom,schedule freedom, financial
freedom.
Here's how you work fromanywhere in the world.
Here's the best way to dolong-term travel.
Here's how to get credit cardpoints.
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Here's how to be a pro Airbnbhost.
All of these things that wererelated to my niche was coming
from a place of wanting toprovide value, but really the
freedom, lifestyle looksdifferent for everyone, and you
don't have to be a businessowner to really be thinking
about designing your own year.
I think being in control of yourschedule makes things a lot
easier.
Society makes so many decisions.
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For us, the average work weekis 40 hours or more, which means
you are spending most of yourlife working.
When the average work hours arenine to five, then you're
spending most of your daycarving out what your lifestyle
looks like outside of those corehours, and so naturally, I've
always been drawn to howchanging your work environment
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can help you change your life.
But, like I said, I've evolvedthis quite a bit.
I've allowed myself to get verycurious about the people who
really thrive in a moretraditional working environment.
So many of these people arevery much designing their lives
and very much pursuing their ownversion of the freedom
lifestyle.
I do believe your version of thefreedom lifestyle is truly
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available to everyone and anyone, but I do think there's a
pretty big distinction betweenwho gets to experience it and
who never does.
And this is what I want to talka little bit about on today's
episode and help you identifywhich one of these archetypes
that I've really thought deeplyabout are you?
Where are you on the spectrumof being able to truly design
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your life?
And it really starts withbelieving that you are in
control of your life and reallybelieving that you are in
control of your own destiny.
And there's kind of a vibe inthe air right now that we're not
in control, and I'm reallygetting a sense when I'm talking
to a lot of my friends lately.
They're feeling stuck.
So many people said to me oh, Ididn't even really take the
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time this year to set goals ordecide what I want or imagine
what I want from this year.
I'm just not feeling it.
I'm not feeling creative and,to be honest, I can totally
understand why some people arefeeling that I have a theory,
which is something that we'veall experienced over the past
three years.
You know what I'm going to sayCOVID, the pandemic.
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These past three years have mademany of us feel like we aren't
actually in control, that theplans we make, the trips we
schedule, the events we'relooking forward to they can be
canceled at a moment's notice,and sometimes that can result in
us feeling like what's thepoint of even dreaming at all?
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People have lost jobs over thepast few years.
People have lost loved ones.
On top of that, there's alsointernational unrest.
We've had many of our livesimpacted by the war in Ukraine
and Russia and what's happeningwith Israel and Palestine, and
when all of these things arehappening very much at a global
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level, it can really make usfeel like we can't really shape
our destiny.
And so, even if you're someonewho isn't following the news and
you're not reading the latestupdates about what's happening
in these massive global issues,you are likely being impacted on
a subconscious level about howyou think about your life.
Don't even get me started onclimate change.
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So where is this even going?
First of all, I want you to knowthat if you're feeling meh
about your goals this year andyour ability to dream and your
ability to design your life, no,you are not alone.
Like I said, so many of myfriends have shared this
sentiment with me.
I was home for the New Year asI checked in on my friends what
are you thinking about the NewYear?
What are your goals?
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Another thing I love to talkabout and yeah, there's just
like this vibe in the air, and Iwant to remind everybody that
that is totally fair.
Despite even all of thechallenging things that have
happened, life is still worthliving.
There is still joy to be had.
There's still magic to becaptured.
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I promise you that, and ifyou've even turned on this
episode and are listening,there's a part of you that knows
that.
Right, we might have to getcreative, but there's still
always joy to be had in thepivots.
In order to feel like we are incontrol of our destiny, though,
and feel excited about ourability to dream, we want to
control some of the things thatare controllable, and the number
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one thing that we can controlis ourselves.
It's how we show up, and this,this is the most annoying thing
to realize over and over again.
You know, when you're fightingwith a friend or your partner or
a parent or a family member andthey are just annoying the hell
out of you and you just want tobe like damn it, stop doing
this thing, it's driving mecrazy, you're annoying me.
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Even in those moments, you knowthat you're being annoyed by
something and it's probablysomething to do with you that
you can probably look at and getless annoyed about.
And so what you can alwayscontrol is how you show up, it's
how you respond to things, it'show you react and the more you
can give yourself those littlewins in those moments when you
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you have that space beforereacting to something where you
actually consciously decide it.
You know that space I'm talkingabout.
For me, it's directly correlatedwith meditating.
If I meditate, that space isthere.
If I don't meditate, there isno time to be choosing my
reaction.
I am a tiger.
I am attacking, I am responding, I am hitting send on that
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email when I shouldn't be, I amgrabbing that phone and calling
somebody.
It can be venom in my mouth.
Sometimes, honestly, I can getreally triggered and get really
reactive, and so, whatever thatis for you to be able to control
that and control how you showup those little wins the more
you do that, the more you'regoing to feel like, okay, it's
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small, it's simple, but Idesigned this hour.
If I didn't behave this way,this hour would have gone a lot
differently.
If I had sent that message, ifI had said what was just on the
tip of my tongue, oh, thingswould have gone differently.
The more you can do that, themore you're going to feel more
in control in your life again,the more you're going to feel
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okay, I am in control of mydestiny and subconsciously,
that's going to make you feelmore confident about setting
bigger dreams, about trulyfeeling inspired and excited
about the concept of evendesigning your year.
So before we get into action,before we actually start putting
some ideas down on paper orsharing them with the universe
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in our mind, putting them outthere into the world, I want you
to ask yourself, when you thinkabout the controllables and
controlling the things that youcan, when you think about who
you are, when you are at yourbest, who are you Maybe think
about last year.
Maybe think about some of yourfavorite days, your favorite
moments, your favorite feelings,those days where you just felt
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good, those days where you felthow you want to feel.
Or maybe, if you're someone whoisn't as in tune to your
feelings and you're like Sam, Idon't really know what I was
feeling or when I'm feelingthose days where you were taking
the action and you were havingthe results that came from
things that you were doing,where you were like, okay, I got
this.
Who were you on those days?
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Ask yourself what were myhabits?
What was I saying yes to?
What was I saying no to?
What was I consuming?
You know, drinks, tv, food,social media, other forms of
content.
What was I taking in in thosemoments?
Who was I sharing my energywith?
How was I moving my body?
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How was I being still with mybody?
How was I using my brain?
How was I giving my brain arest?
When you look back on theprevious year and you think
about your best days, oh, andyou were most you and your best
self.
Who were you being?
And that is something that wecan control, no matter what, and
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that's typically the personthat we need to be when life
gives us the unexpected, whenlife forces us to get creative
or be flexible, when a snowstormwhirls through town and cancels
your hot yoga class.
Who you are in those momentsand how you show up and how you
respond to things that areoutside of your control is
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what's in your control.
And as much as we can have fundesigning our external reality,
which is ultimately where we'regoing in this episode, I promise
you also want to have fundesigning your internal reality.
Who are you going to be thisyear?
Who are you designing?
What aspects of yourpersonality are we playing with
In a book I'm obsessed with?
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If you listened to my episode Idid a few weeks ago about the
top content I consume this year,you will know that I read a
book by Joe Dispenza calledBreaking the Habit of being
Yourself.
Oh my goodness.
I listened to that audio booklast fall and I was completely
fascinated by the science behindactually changing your
personality and how much of thatis in our control.
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And so, if you want to takethis even one step further, if
you're curious what actions youcan take to truly design your
personality, it's one thing tobring intention to it and, trust
me, even just answering some ofthose prompts that I just gave
you a few seconds ago, you areone step further than so many
people.
You are one step closer tobeing able to naturally and
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consistently and reliably showup as that person.
But if you want to take it evenone step further and know what
kind of actions you can take ona daily basis to really
reprogram those neurons in ourbrain and make those connections
to be that person every day,naturally, check out his book.
It was amazing.
So now, when we're designing ourexternal reality, I find there
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are three types of people andI'm curious who you think you
are most like.
Which category do you fall into?
The first one is someone whoidentifies as someone who
doesn't have goals, as someonewho doesn't have desires.
They are satisfied with theirlife, or at least they think
they are.
In fact, they don't eventypically think about it all.
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This person is typically goingthrough life, going through the
motions of life, responding tothings as they came up, and
they're pretty content in theprocess.
They don't sit around wonderinglike could I be happier?
Could this have been moresatisfying?
They are just who they are.
It doesn't even cross theirmind to ask them some of those
prompts that I gave you and askthemselves what is the best
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version of myself?
They're just content with theperson that they are.
We all know these people.
In fact, I'm kind of jealous ofthese people.
What a concept Just beingcompletely oblivious to your
inner consciousness and yourinner critique and your inner
voice, or maybe not even havingone at all, someone in your mind
telling you, hey, you shouldmake these changes.
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Oh, you could have done better.
That sounds kind of blissful.
I am not that person.
I'm too far gone.
I've read too many books, I'vedone too many psychedelics, I
have listened to too muchdubstep and gone into the inner
psyche of my world to identifywho I want to be, and I have now
set a bar for myself, and Ican't lower the bar.
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A quote that I'm really using asa mantra this year when I'm
designing my own year is it'salmost impossible to exceed the
expectations you set foryourself.
How good is that right?
If this is the bar that you setfor yourself, then this is the
best version of yourself.
You're not gonna hit thisperson.
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It's pretty much impossible.
And so you set that bar of whothe best version of yourself is.
There's some people who don't dothat.
They just are who they are andthey love who they are and
they're not making any changes.
So that's one category.
The next category is somebodywho has goals and has desires.
They have an idea of thingsthat they want.
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Maybe they have a plan, butit's not really one they feel
confident in because they don'thave success making this happen.
Maybe it's the discipline.
Maybe they don't have thatconsistent ability to make those
changes, to show up as theperson that they need to be to
do the things that they want todo.
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Maybe they're in an environmentwhere the people that they
surround themselves with are notbehaving and modeling the
behavior that they want toemulate themselves, and so
they're stuck.
They're stuck at their currentlevel.
They're aware of another levelthey want to get to.
They don't know how to getthere.
They haven't had successgetting there and indicators
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that this could be.
You is often strong feelings ofenvy, jealousy, comparison, not
really being able to be happyfor other people because you
just want so badly what theyhave and you don't know how to
get there.
You might also be feeling astrong sense of shame.
You might be feeling bad aboutyourself that another year went
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by and you didn't get closer tothose dreams.
You didn't get closer to yourgoals.
It was another year ofunchecked boxes, of items
remaining on the bucket list, ofstaying stagnant, and you might
feel shame about that, youmight feel embarrassed or sad,
and ultimately this results innot feeling like you're in
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control of your own destiny.
What's the point?
I don't know how to get there,and so I'm just going to feel
bad for myself, and if you stayin that for too long, you end up
having a victim mindset.
You just feel like the worldhas just really screwed you over
and you got the short end ofthe stick and everyone else is
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thriving and you will always beleft behind and everyone else is
living these big, exciting,aligned, amazing lives, and
that'll never be you, and youcan build resentment, and so I
think this is the worst placeyou can be.
I would much rather beoblivious and think I'm amazing
and have no goals than havinggoals and feeling like they're
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completely unachievable andtherefore hating life and not
feeling optimistic about myfuture.
For me, life is such a gift.
I've always naturally had azest for life.
When I go to bed every night, Ireally evaluate each day on.
Did I truly live?
Did I seize the day?
And if I feel like I didn'tseize the day, I can't rank my
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day a five.
The same people who made thefive minute planner intelligent
change.
They also have a productivityplanner and at the end of every
day you actually rank your dayone to five.
And it's those days where Ireally feel like I went after
life.
I captured it, I did the thingsthat I wanted to do, I had nice
moments with friends, I movedmy body, I did something fun.
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I didn't just sit there andwork all day and go to sleep but
and then start it over.
Those days got like a two.
But the days where I felt likeI utilize that natural zest for
life that I have, those are thedays I could give myself a five.
Okay so, third type of person.
The third type of person issomebody who feels empowered
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about designing their own life.
They feel in control of theirdestiny.
They have desires.
They've had the experience ofactually getting what they want
in the past, and so they aremore likely to enjoy the process
because they believe it works.
However and this is a big onehow that person goes about
designing their life could lookcompletely different from
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somebody else in this category,and this is another thing I've
recently observed by justtalking to more and more people.
I have a lot of very ambitiouspeople in my life who wouldn't
identify as a goal setter, assomeone who makes a plan for the
year, who's like doing a 90 daysprint and has a week by week
action plan of how they're goingto get what they want.
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Everything about that justdoesn't align with them.
But absolutely they have goals,absolutely they have dreams and
they know the direction thatthey're going in their life.
They're just not someone who'sgoing to have the spreadsheets,
who's going to put dates onthings, who's going to buy the
ticket, who's going to createthe calendar and invite, create
an action plan and follow it.
By the way, if those things I'mdescribing are you preach,
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we're in this together.
That is my style.
But this other type of way iscompletely a valid.
They don't want to stifle theircreativity or the serendipity
that is life, where justsomething unexpected could be
around the corner.
That's even bigger than thatthey imagined when they started
their year and when they filledtheir year with plans and
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commitments and the step by stepprocess that's going to get
them to where they think theywant to go.
They feel like they're gonnamiss out on something even
better, and I actually fuckinglove that, and I want to bring
back more of that into my life,because that is who I used to be
.
I was never that rigid.
I've had to become much morerigid, structured and
disciplined since going out onmy own, since being my own boss,
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because if I don't work or if Idon't do what I say I'm gonna
do, if I don't wake up and takeaction and motivate myself, I'm
not gonna get paid.
I'm not gonna have the freedomof choice, I'm not gonna have
the freedom to do what I want,what I want where I want and all
the things that I love.
So I've had to be much moreregimented, but there's
something to be said about this,leaving space open for the
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unexpected, and so, regardlessof where you fall, these styles
are completely valid and you'resomebody who believes in their
ability to design their year anddesign their lives, and no
matter where you are on thisscale, there is something I do
believe Even if you are somebodywho doesn't identify as having
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goals or things they want tochange themselves, I believe
every single person has desires.
Every single person has thingswithin them about how they would
like their life to look, thingsthat they'd love to make happen
, experiences that they wouldlove to have, ways that they
would really be excited and feelsatisfied if their life
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unfolded in that way.
And every single one of us, ifwe are lucky right, this is the
goal is that we get to ourdeathbed and we have some period
of time where we know our lifeis ending and that is going to
be our personal judgment day.
Every single one of us who getsto the point of getting to look
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back on their life and knowtheir life is ending and is on
that deathbed moment.
Every single one of us is goingto have a moment where we look
back on our lives and we thinkdid I do it right?
Did I live a life that I'msatisfied with?
I only got one.
We only get one shot at this.
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I think Not really sure I amwhere I stand on the whole
reincarnation thing and all ofthat, but we get one shot at
this life, I believe, and at theend of it you're going to look
back and you're going to say didI do it right?
Am I satisfied?
Am I okay to go?
Am I happy with how I spent mytime?
Did I live a good life?
Did I live it well and rememberthe definition of freedom?
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It looks different for everyone,but what is the same for all of
us is that we're all going todie ideally, not suddenly,
ideally not unexpectedly,ideally in a way where we see
death is coming and we have thatperiod to look back on our
lives.
And so I think it's crucial weall owe ourselves.
It's a personal responsibilitythat we should take 100%
seriously, which is what do Iwant out of my life?
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And have a really still andhonest conversation with
yourself about what a successfullife looks like for you.
So that is the one thing Ibelieve.
I believe all of us have adefinition of that and that when
we die, we're going to look atthat definition, and you don't
want that definition to come uplate.
You want to decide that earlyand start acting on that
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definition.
Trust me, I've been around oldpeople and when they're looking
back on their lives and theyaren't satisfied, it's not
pretty.
It's honestly really sad, andif you've ever spent time with
an older person who is lookingback at their life with regrets,
ooh, sticky feeling.
Don't want that.
Okay.
So that's the first thing Ibelieve.
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The second thing I believe isthat if nothing is changing,
nothing is changing.
If you are feeling unsatisfiedwith things, it's probably
because you are staying the same.
You are likely staying the sameperson.
Who do you need to be to becomethe person that gets what they
want?
It always starts with us.
We attract the rightopportunities and the right
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environments when we putourselves in those right
environments, and we all knowthis.
You know this.
You know that if you're notmaking the change, that's likely
the reason why you're notseeing the change.
And so ask yourself what areyou pretending that you don't
know?
I heard that question on arecent episode of the Powerhouse
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Women podcast and I fuckingloved it.
I thought it was so good.
What are you pretending not toknow?
Sit with that question.
We all have those actions thatwe're consistently taking, those
environments we repeatedly putourselves in, those people we
continue to hang out with and wepretend it's fine, we ignore it
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.
We're like, oh, that doesn'treally matter, that's not really
going to affect my ability tomake that dream happen or that
goal happen.
I can get away with this.
Oh, this is fine.
This doesn't impact anything.
This is just one little part ofmy life over here.
I'm still going to get theseresults over here.
I'm just going to do this onething we're all pretending we're
naive and we're not naive.
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What are you pretending not toknow?
Someone who listens to thisshow is much more woke and much
more evolved than they'readmitting to themselves.
If you are repeatedly doingtoxic behaviors and I know toxic
is kind of an extreme word, butit is toxic in a sense.
That isn't the definition oflike, crazy or psycho or
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something like that is doing thesame thing over and over again,
expecting a different results.
What are you pretending youdon't know?
And the third thing that Ibelieve, however you are
approaching, going after yourdesired lifestyle and what you
want to make happen this yearand the dreams that you have for
yourself, I believe that everysingle one of us could be
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playing bigger.
It's very common that when itactually gets time to set a goal
, to say a goal outside, to saya goal out loud, to admit a
dream to ourselves and withothers, it's typically when we
already kind of have a plan forhow we're going to do it.
We already believe it'spossible.
We're on some kind of trackalready to that, and that is
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when we actually admit and wetake that risk of saying, hey,
this is something I want,because you already feel
confident it's possible.
I really want to give youpermission to come up with some
dreams and goals.
We're like I actually have noidea if I could ever make that
happen in this lifetime.
In fact, I think I can't.
Honestly, it's okay if youthink you can't, but if you look
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at your goals that you createdfor 2024 and the things that
you're designing, if I asked youwhat would making that 10%
bigger and better and moreexciting and more vibrant look
like?
What would that look like?
So some prompts that I've givenyou in this episode for sure,
that I really want you to sitwith.
I also want to support you inthis.
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If you haven't alreadydownloaded the free template I
created and launched earlierthis month, it's called Design
your Year.
This is where I want you tostart with all of this, because
the process should really looklike beginning with reflecting
on the previous year.
It's so easy for us to wantmore and more and more without
actually taking a beat andthinking about what were the
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wins of last year.
What were the key learnings,what were the core memories I
don't want to lose, what werethe lessons that I really want
to take in and act on?
And then, in the template, Igive you a process to help you
identify which areas of yourlife that, if you changed, would
make the biggest impact in yoursatisfaction, your life
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satisfaction, because it's onething for me to give you a plan
to quit your job and become afreelancer, but when we're
talking about designing yourlife and designing your own
freedom, lifestyle, that has tolook different for everybody.
And so I have this littlemathematical formula I came up
with to help you identify yourbiggest gaps in life where you
could be feeling more satisfiedwith it, you could be living
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happier, more content and againcloser to being at that judgment
day at the end of our lives andbeing able to look back and be
like I did it.
Well, take me, jesus, orwhoever you're talking to, I'm
ready to go.
So that's the next part of thetemplate, and then from there,
there's some prompts.
Once you understand which areasof your life that could make
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the biggest difference if youchange, there's some prompts to
get the you know, the juicesflowing.
For those who like thatstructure, but for those who
really just want to keep a blankspace open, this will help you
have the direction of like whatare the buckets in my life that
I want to open up more space forand put some more energy
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towards that.
So, no matter where you fall onthat dreaming spectrum, you'll
be able to play within that area.
And then, for those who dodownload this free template and
only for those who do remember,this is free.
I'm inviting the group to afree follow up call where we're
going to take those dreams andthose goals and together we're
going to make them 10% bigger.
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I'm not going to give too muchmore away because I do want to
share it with that group liveand only with those people who
take that first step with me.
So template is free, the callis free.
I hope to see you there.
Until next time, friends, enjoyyour freedom.
And it really starts with believing that you are in
control of your life and reallybelieving that you are in
control of your own destiny, andthere's kind of a vibe in the
air right now that we're not.
You're listening to the FreedomLifestyle podcast series.
I'm sharing relatable storiesof freedom seekers who ditched
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conventional office life andcourageously asked for more.
The energy just completelyshifted.
My entire being just felt sofree.
My business was stillgenerating income while I was on
the beach.
I decided to quit and just stayat home.
I really can't work for anyonebut me.
It's literally just doingwhatever the hell you want to do
.
As for me, I'm your host, sam,and I've spent the last four
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years creating a business thatallows me to work from anywhere.
The Freedom Lifestyle looksdifferent for everyone.
What's your free?
Hello, freedom Seekers.
We are back with another soloepisode from yours truly, sam,
and today we are going to betalking about designing your
year.
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Nothing gets me more fired upthan talking about lifestyle
design.
Seriously, I spend so much timethinking deeply about what is
my purpose, the purpose of Sam,what is my core message with
this podcast, with this audience, with my life quest to make an
impact with the FreedomLifestyle, and that message has
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evolved so much over the lastsix plus years that I've been
doing this, but one thing hasalways remained the same, which
is the Freedom Lifestyle looksdifferent for everyone.
What's your free?
That classic line that I loveto end all my episodes with,
because it really symbolizesthat everyone's version of this
is going to look different andin fact, it should look
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different.
It would be weird if it didn't.
And just because I'm someonewho spends thousands of dollars
on music festivals every summerand goes to Burning man, just
because I'm somebody who likesto carve out time to learn
extreme sports like highlightingacross the mountains.
I'm married to a partner who'sinto co-creation, married to
someone who's comfortable withtheir feminine energy lol, if
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you know.
You know, just because that ismy definition of living free and
that's my version of theFreedom Lifestyle, it doesn't
mean I expect that to be yours.
What I do expect, or what Iperhaps hope, and my wish and my
desire, is that I help you onyour journey of becoming more
aware of what you actually wantand what your version of the
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Freedom Lifestyle is, and whenyou are thinking about an
upcoming year, you design it ina way that's reflective of your
own desires and what you want,and you've given yourself the
time and the space and thepermission to actually just
think, for yourself, to actuallybe like okay, wait a minute, is
this path that I'm on, thatI've been on for a while, or
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that I've just put myself on?
Is that the one I want to be on?
Still, am I heading in theright direction?
And I think it's good that werevisit this, because we might
set a big five-year goal forourselves and three years in,
we're just heading towards there.
The new year comes up and weautomatically think about that
big five-year goal and we checkoff okay, how much closer did I
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get last year?
What do I need to do this yearto get even closer to that?
But maybe that big five-yeargoal isn't even what you want
anymore.
I've caught myself doing thatwhere I remember for a long time
I wanted to just be a full-timedigital nomad.
I wanted to own nothing.
I wanted to be minimalistic, Iwanted to live out of a suitcase
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, I wanted to have no fixedaddress.
I really admired that lifestylein my late 20s.
I thought that was the coolestthing ever and that was what I
was putting myself on and I keptbeing like, okay, am I fully a
digital nomad?
Ooh, I would feel maybe a bitembarrassed that I did still
have a place, or I did stillhave a car or I did still have
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these things.
That would make me not truly adigital nomad.
And then I realized, wait aminute, am I just getting into
another trap, a trap offollowing a definition of a
certain type of lifestyle andwhat it has to look like?
That's completely againsteverything I say.
Really, what I want is theflexibility to be wherever I
want to be or need to be at anygiven time.
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Thank you everyone.
And that sometimes might meanbeing in my own place, where my
comforts of home are, where mycute kitty is, where my nice big
king-size bed with all myperfect bedding that I've hand
selected, and I know I have thebest sleeps there.
I had to give myself permissionto change my definition of what
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a dream year would look like,and you want to revisit this
fairly often because you can getcaught in a trap and back on a
path that you haven't evenreally thought about.
And when I say my core messagefor freedom, lifestyle has
evolved over time, when I thinkabout it, it was always coming
from a good place, like I'vealways wanted to be able to
provide very concrete,actionable advice on this show
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and therefore have a niche beknown for something when you
listen to this podcast.
I want you to be able to havetakeaway skills, and so
sometimes that has really put meon a path of okay, here is how
you have location freedom,schedule freedom, financial
freedom.
Here's how you work fromanywhere in the world.
Here's the best way to dolong-term travel.
Here's how to get credit cardpoints.
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Here's how to be a pro Airbnbhost.
All of these things that wererelated to my niche was coming
from a place of wanting toprovide value, but really the
freedom, lifestyle looksdifferent for everyone, and you
don't have to be a businessowner to really be thinking
about designing your own year.
I think being in control of yourschedule makes things a lot
easier.
Society makes so many decisions.
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For us, the average work weekis 40 hours or more, which means
you are spending most of yourlife working.
When the average work hours arenine to five, then you're
spending most of your daycarving out what your lifestyle
looks like outside of those corehours, and so naturally, I've
always been drawn to howchanging your work environment
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can help you change your life.
But, like I said, I've evolvedthis quite a bit.
I've allowed myself to get verycurious about the people who
really thrive in a moretraditional working environment.
So many of these people arevery much designing their lives
and very much pursuing their ownversion of the freedom
lifestyle.
I do believe your version of thefreedom lifestyle is truly
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available to everyone and anyone, but I do think there's a
pretty big distinction betweenwho gets to experience it and
who never does.
And this is what I want to talka little bit about on today's
episode and help you identifywhich one of these archetypes
that I've really thought deeplyabout are you?
Where are you on the spectrumof being able to truly design
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your life?
And it really starts withbelieving that you are in
control of your life and reallybelieving that you are in
control of your own destiny.
And there's kind of a vibe inthe air right now that we're not
in control, and I'm reallygetting a sense when I'm talking
to a lot of my friends lately.
They're feeling stuck.
So many people said to me oh, Ididn't even really take the
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time this year to set goals ordecide what I want or imagine
what I want from this year.
I'm just not feeling it.
I'm not feeling creative and,to be honest, I can totally
understand why some people arefeeling that I have a theory,
which is something that we'veall experienced over the past
three years.
You know what I'm going to sayCOVID, the pandemic.
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These past three years have mademany of us feel like we aren't
actually in control, that theplans we make, the trips we
schedule, the events we'relooking forward to they can be
canceled at a moment's notice,and sometimes that can result in
us feeling like what's thepoint of even dreaming at all?
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People have lost jobs over thepast few years.
People have lost loved ones.
On top of that, there's alsointernational unrest.
We've had many of our livesimpacted by the war in Ukraine
and Russia and what's happeningwith Israel and Palestine, and
when all of these things arehappening very much at a global
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level, it can really make usfeel like we can't really shape
our destiny.
And so, even if you're someonewho isn't following the news and
you're not reading the latestupdates about what's happening
in these massive global issues,you are likely being impacted on
a subconscious level about howyou think about your life.
Don't even get me started onclimate change.
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So where is this even going?
First of all, I want you to knowthat if you're feeling meh
about your goals this year andyour ability to dream and your
ability to design your life, no,you are not alone.
Like I said, so many of myfriends have shared this
sentiment with me.
I was home for the New Year asI checked in on my friends what
are you thinking about the NewYear?
What are your goals?
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Another thing I love to talkabout and yeah, there's just
like this vibe in the air, and Iwant to remind everybody that
that is totally fair.
Despite even all of thechallenging things that have
happened, life is still worthliving.
There is still joy to be had.
There's still magic to becaptured.
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I promise you that, and ifyou've even turned on this
episode and are listening,there's a part of you that knows
that.
Right, we might have to getcreative, but there's still
always joy to be had in thepivots.
In order to feel like we are incontrol of our destiny, though,
and feel excited about ourability to dream, we want to
control some of the things thatare controllable, and the number
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one thing that we can controlis ourselves.
It's how we show up, and this,this is the most annoying thing
to realize over and over again.
You know, when you're fightingwith a friend or your partner or
a parent or a family member andthey are just annoying the hell
out of you and you just want tobe like damn it, stop doing
this thing, it's driving mecrazy, you're annoying me.
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Even in those moments, you knowthat you're being annoyed by
something and it's probablysomething to do with you that
you can probably look at and getless annoyed about.
And so what you can alwayscontrol is how you show up, it's
how you respond to things, it'show you react and the more you
can give yourself those littlewins in those moments when you
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you have that space beforereacting to something where you
actually consciously decide it.
You know that space I'm talkingabout.
For me, it's directly correlatedwith meditating.
If I meditate, that space isthere.
If I don't meditate, there isno time to be choosing my
reaction.
I am a tiger.
I am attacking, I am responding, I am hitting send on that
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email when I shouldn't be, I amgrabbing that phone and calling
somebody.
It can be venom in my mouth.
Sometimes, honestly, I can getreally triggered and get really
reactive, and so, whatever thatis for you to be able to control
that and control how you showup those little wins the more
you do that, the more you'regoing to feel like, okay, it's
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small, it's simple, but Idesigned this hour.
If I didn't behave this way,this hour would have gone a lot
differently.
If I had sent that message, ifI had said what was just on the
tip of my tongue, oh, thingswould have gone differently.
The more you can do that, themore you're going to feel more
in control in your life again,the more you're going to feel
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okay, I am in control of mydestiny and subconsciously,
that's going to make you feelmore confident about setting
bigger dreams, about trulyfeeling inspired and excited
about the concept of evendesigning your year.
So before we get into action,before we actually start putting
some ideas down on paper orsharing them with the universe
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in our mind, putting them outthere into the world, I want you
to ask yourself, when you thinkabout the controllables and
controlling the things that youcan, when you think about who
you are, when you are at yourbest, who are you Maybe think
about last year.
Maybe think about some of yourfavorite days, your favorite
moments, your favorite feelings,those days where you just felt
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good, those days where you felthow you want to feel.
Or maybe, if you're someone whoisn't as in tune to your
feelings and you're like Sam, Idon't really know what I was
feeling or when I'm feelingthose days where you were taking
the action and you were havingthe results that came from
things that you were doing,where you were like, okay, I got
this.
Who were you on those days?
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Ask yourself what were myhabits?
What was I saying yes to?
What was I saying no to?
What was I consuming?
You know, drinks, tv, food,social media, other forms of
content.
What was I taking in in thosemoments?
Who was I sharing my energywith?
How was I moving my body?
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How was I being still with mybody?
How was I using my brain?
How was I giving my brain arest?
When you look back on theprevious year and you think
about your best days, oh, andyou were most you and your best
self.
Who were you being?
And that is something that wecan control, no matter what, and
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that's typically the personthat we need to be when life
gives us the unexpected, whenlife forces us to get creative
or be flexible, when a snowstormwhirls through town and cancels
your hot yoga class.
Who you are in those momentsand how you show up and how you
respond to things that areoutside of your control is
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what's in your control.
And as much as we can have fundesigning our external reality,
which is ultimately where we'regoing in this episode, I promise
you also want to have fundesigning your internal reality.
Who are you going to be thisyear?
Who are you designing?
What aspects of yourpersonality are we playing with
In a book I'm obsessed with?
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If you listened to my episode Idid a few weeks ago about the
top content I consume this year,you will know that I read a
book by Joe Dispenza calledBreaking the Habit of being
Yourself.
Oh my goodness.
I listened to that audio booklast fall and I was completely
fascinated by the science behindactually changing your
personality and how much of thatis in our control.
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And so, if you want to takethis even one step further, if
you're curious what actions youcan take to truly design your
personality, it's one thing tobring intention to it and, trust
me, even just answering some ofthose prompts that I just gave
you a few seconds ago, you areone step further than so many
people.
You are one step closer tobeing able to naturally and
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consistently and reliably showup as that person.
But if you want to take it evenone step further and know what
kind of actions you can take ona daily basis to really
reprogram those neurons in ourbrain and make those connections
to be that person every day,naturally, check out his book.
It was amazing.
So now, when we're designing ourexternal reality, I find there
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are three types of people andI'm curious who you think you
are most like.
Which category do you fall into?
The first one is someone whoidentifies as someone who
doesn't have goals, as someonewho doesn't have desires.
They are satisfied with theirlife, or at least they think
they are.
In fact, they don't eventypically think about it all.
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This person is typically goingthrough life, going through the
motions of life, responding tothings as they came up, and
they're pretty content in theprocess.
They don't sit around wonderinglike could I be happier?
Could this have been moresatisfying?
They are just who they are.
It doesn't even cross theirmind to ask them some of those
prompts that I gave you and askthemselves what is the best
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version of myself?
They're just content with theperson that they are.
We all know these people.
In fact, I'm kind of jealous ofthese people.
What a concept Just beingcompletely oblivious to your
inner consciousness and yourinner critique and your inner
voice, or maybe not even havingone at all, someone in your mind
telling you, hey, you shouldmake these changes.
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Oh, you could have done better.
That sounds kind of blissful.
I am not that person.
I'm too far gone.
I've read too many books, I'vedone too many psychedelics, I
have listened to too muchdubstep and gone into the inner
psyche of my world to identifywho I want to be, and I have now
set a bar for myself, and Ican't lower the bar.
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A quote that I'm really using asa mantra this year when I'm
designing my own year is it'salmost impossible to exceed the
expectations you set foryourself.
How good is that right?
If this is the bar that you setfor yourself, then this is the
best version of yourself.
You're not gonna hit thisperson.
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It's pretty much impossible.
And so you set that bar of whothe best version of yourself is.
There's some people who don't dothat.
They just are who they are andthey love who they are and
they're not making any changes.
So that's one category.
The next category is somebodywho has goals and has desires.
They have an idea of thingsthat they want.
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Maybe they have a plan, butit's not really one they feel
confident in because they don'thave success making this happen.
Maybe it's the discipline.
Maybe they don't have thatconsistent ability to make those
changes, to show up as theperson that they need to be to
do the things that they want todo.
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Maybe they're in an environmentwhere the people that they
surround themselves with are notbehaving and modeling the
behavior that they want toemulate themselves, and so
they're stuck.
They're stuck at their currentlevel.
They're aware of another levelthey want to get to.
They don't know how to getthere.
They haven't had successgetting there and indicators
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that this could be.
You is often strong feelings ofenvy, jealousy, comparison, not
really being able to be happyfor other people because you
just want so badly what theyhave and you don't know how to
get there.
You might also be feeling astrong sense of shame.
You might be feeling bad aboutyourself that another year went
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by and you didn't get closer tothose dreams.
You didn't get closer to yourgoals.
It was another year ofunchecked boxes, of items
remaining on the bucket list, ofstaying stagnant, and you might
feel shame about that, youmight feel embarrassed or sad,
and ultimately this results innot feeling like you're in
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control of your own destiny.
What's the point?
I don't know how to get there,and so I'm just going to feel
bad for myself, and if you stayin that for too long, you end up
having a victim mindset.
You just feel like the worldhas just really screwed you over
and you got the short end ofthe stick and everyone else is
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thriving and you will always beleft behind and everyone else is
living these big, exciting,aligned, amazing lives, and
that'll never be you, and youcan build resentment, and so I
think this is the worst placeyou can be.
I would much rather beoblivious and think I'm amazing
and have no goals than havinggoals and feeling like they're
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completely unachievable andtherefore hating life and not
feeling optimistic about myfuture.
For me, life is such a gift.
I've always naturally had azest for life.
When I go to bed every night, Ireally evaluate each day on.
Did I truly live?
Did I seize the day?
And if I feel like I didn'tseize the day, I can't rank my
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day a five.
The same people who made thefive minute planner intelligent
change.
They also have a productivityplanner and at the end of every
day you actually rank your dayone to five.
And it's those days where Ireally feel like I went after
life.
I captured it, I did the thingsthat I wanted to do, I had nice
moments with friends, I movedmy body, I did something fun.
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I didn't just sit there andwork all day and go to sleep but
and then start it over.
Those days got like a two.
But the days where I felt likeI utilize that natural zest for
life that I have, those are thedays I could give myself a five.
Okay so, third type of person.
The third type of person issomebody who feels empowered
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about designing their own life.
They feel in control of theirdestiny.
They have desires.
They've had the experience ofactually getting what they want
in the past, and so they aremore likely to enjoy the process
because they believe it works.
However and this is a big onehow that person goes about
designing their life could lookcompletely different from
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somebody else in this category,and this is another thing I've
recently observed by justtalking to more and more people.
I have a lot of very ambitiouspeople in my life who wouldn't
identify as a goal setter, assomeone who makes a plan for the
year, who's like doing a 90 daysprint and has a week by week
action plan of how they're goingto get what they want.
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Everything about that justdoesn't align with them.
But absolutely they have goals,absolutely they have dreams and
they know the direction thatthey're going in their life.
They're just not someone who'sgoing to have the spreadsheets,
who's going to put dates onthings, who's going to buy the
ticket, who's going to createthe calendar and invite, create
an action plan and follow it.
By the way, if those things I'mdescribing are you preach,
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we're in this together.
That is my style.
But this other type of way iscompletely a valid.
They don't want to stifle theircreativity or the serendipity
that is life, where justsomething unexpected could be
around the corner.
That's even bigger than thatthey imagined when they started
their year and when they filledtheir year with plans and
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commitments and the step by stepprocess that's going to get
them to where they think theywant to go.
They feel like they're gonnamiss out on something even
better, and I actually fuckinglove that, and I want to bring
back more of that into my life,because that is who I used to be
.
I was never that rigid.
I've had to become much morerigid, structured and
disciplined since going out onmy own, since being my own boss,
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because if I don't work or if Idon't do what I say I'm gonna
do, if I don't wake up and takeaction and motivate myself, I'm
not gonna get paid.
I'm not gonna have the freedomof choice, I'm not gonna have
the freedom to do what I want,what I want where I want and all
the things that I love.
So I've had to be much moreregimented, but there's
something to be said about this,leaving space open for the
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unexpected, and so, regardlessof where you fall, these styles
are completely valid and you'resomebody who believes in their
ability to design their year anddesign their lives, and no
matter where you are on thisscale, there is something I do
believe Even if you are somebodywho doesn't identify as having
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goals or things they want tochange themselves, I believe
every single person has desires.
Every single person has thingswithin them about how they would
like their life to look, thingsthat they'd love to make happen
, experiences that they wouldlove to have, ways that they
would really be excited and feelsatisfied if their life
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unfolded in that way.
And every single one of us, ifwe are lucky right, this is the
goal is that we get to ourdeathbed and we have some period
of time where we know our lifeis ending and that is going to
be our personal judgment day.
Every single one of us who getsto the point of getting to look
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back on their life and knowtheir life is ending and is on
that deathbed moment.
Every single one of us is goingto have a moment where we look
back on our lives and we thinkdid I do it right?
Did I live a life that I'msatisfied with?
I only got one.
We only get one shot at this.
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I think Not really sure I amwhere I stand on the whole
reincarnation thing and all ofthat, but we get one shot at
this life, I believe, and at theend of it you're going to look
back and you're going to say didI do it right?
Am I satisfied?
Am I okay to go?
Am I happy with how I spent mytime?
Did I live a good life?
Did I live it well and rememberthe definition of freedom?
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It looks different for everyone,but what is the same for all of
us is that we're all going todie ideally, not suddenly,
ideally not unexpectedly,ideally in a way where we see
death is coming and we have thatperiod to look back on our
lives.
And so I think it's crucial weall owe ourselves.
It's a personal responsibilitythat we should take 100%
seriously, which is what do Iwant out of my life?
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And have a really still andhonest conversation with
yourself about what a successfullife looks like for you.
So that is the one thing Ibelieve.
I believe all of us have adefinition of that and that when
we die, we're going to look atthat definition, and you don't
want that definition to come uplate.
You want to decide that earlyand start acting on that
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definition.
Trust me, I've been around oldpeople and when they're looking
back on their lives and theyaren't satisfied, it's not
pretty.
It's honestly really sad, andif you've ever spent time with
an older person who is lookingback at their life with regrets,
ooh, sticky feeling.
Don't want that.
Okay.
So that's the first thing Ibelieve.
(25:38):
The second thing I believe isthat if nothing is changing,
nothing is changing.
If you are feeling unsatisfiedwith things, it's probably
because you are staying the same.
You are likely staying the sameperson.
Who do you need to be to becomethe person that gets what they
want?
It always starts with us.
We attract the rightopportunities and the right
(25:58):
environments when we putourselves in those right
environments, and we all knowthis.
You know this.
You know that if you're notmaking the change, that's likely
the reason why you're notseeing the change.
And so ask yourself what areyou pretending that you don't
know?
I heard that question on arecent episode of the Powerhouse
(26:19):
Women podcast and I fuckingloved it.
I thought it was so good.
What are you pretending not toknow?
Sit with that question.
We all have those actions thatwe're consistently taking, those
environments we repeatedly putourselves in, those people we
continue to hang out with and wepretend it's fine, we ignore it
(26:39):
.
We're like, oh, that doesn'treally matter, that's not really
going to affect my ability tomake that dream happen or that
goal happen.
I can get away with this.
Oh, this is fine.
This doesn't impact anything.
This is just one little part ofmy life over here.
I'm still going to get theseresults over here.
I'm just going to do this onething we're all pretending we're
naive and we're not naive.
(26:59):
What are you pretending not toknow?
Someone who listens to thisshow is much more woke and much
more evolved than they'readmitting to themselves.
If you are repeatedly doingtoxic behaviors and I know toxic
is kind of an extreme word, butit is toxic in a sense.
That isn't the definition oflike, crazy or psycho or
(27:21):
something like that is doing thesame thing over and over again,
expecting a different results.
What are you pretending youdon't know?
And the third thing that Ibelieve, however you are
approaching, going after yourdesired lifestyle and what you
want to make happen this yearand the dreams that you have for
yourself, I believe that everysingle one of us could be
(27:42):
playing bigger.
It's very common that when itactually gets time to set a goal
, to say a goal outside, to saya goal out loud, to admit a
dream to ourselves and withothers, it's typically when we
already kind of have a plan forhow we're going to do it.
We already believe it'spossible.
We're on some kind of trackalready to that, and that is
(28:07):
when we actually admit and wetake that risk of saying, hey,
this is something I want,because you already feel
confident it's possible.
I really want to give youpermission to come up with some
dreams and goals.
We're like I actually have noidea if I could ever make that
happen in this lifetime.
In fact, I think I can't.
Honestly, it's okay if youthink you can't, but if you look
(28:30):
at your goals that you createdfor 2024 and the things that
you're designing, if I asked youwhat would making that 10%
bigger and better and moreexciting and more vibrant look
like?
What would that look like?
So some prompts that I've givenyou in this episode for sure,
that I really want you to sitwith.
I also want to support you inthis.
(28:51):
If you haven't alreadydownloaded the free template I
created and launched earlierthis month, it's called Design
your Year.
This is where I want you tostart with all of this, because
the process should really looklike beginning with reflecting
on the previous year.
It's so easy for us to wantmore and more and more without
actually taking a beat andthinking about what were the
(29:14):
wins of last year.
What were the key learnings,what were the core memories I
don't want to lose, what werethe lessons that I really want
to take in and act on?
And then, in the template, Igive you a process to help you
identify which areas of yourlife that, if you changed, would
make the biggest impact in yoursatisfaction, your life
(29:35):
satisfaction, because it's onething for me to give you a plan
to quit your job and become afreelancer, but when we're
talking about designing yourlife and designing your own
freedom, lifestyle, that has tolook different for everybody.
And so I have this littlemathematical formula I came up
with to help you identify yourbiggest gaps in life where you
could be feeling more satisfiedwith it, you could be living
(29:57):
happier, more content and againcloser to being at that judgment
day at the end of our lives andbeing able to look back and be
like I did it.
Well, take me, jesus, orwhoever you're talking to, I'm
ready to go.
So that's the next part of thetemplate, and then from there,
there's some prompts.
Once you understand which areasof your life that could make
(30:20):
the biggest difference if youchange, there's some prompts to
get the you know, the juicesflowing.
For those who like thatstructure, but for those who
really just want to keep a blankspace open, this will help you
have the direction of like whatare the buckets in my life that
I want to open up more space forand put some more energy
(30:41):
towards that.
So, no matter where you fall onthat dreaming spectrum, you'll
be able to play within that area.
And then, for those who dodownload this free template and
only for those who do remember,this is free.
I'm inviting the group to afree follow up call where we're
going to take those dreams andthose goals and together we're
going to make them 10% bigger.
(31:01):
I'm not going to give too muchmore away because I do want to
share it with that group liveand only with those people who
take that first step with me.
So template is free, the callis free.
I hope to see you there.
Until next time, friends, enjoyyour freedom.
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