October 17, 2024 • 24 mins
What if you could transform the chaos of life's unpredictability into a canvas for your dreams? Join me, Michael Kane, as I reflect on a recent personal loss that has become a profound wake-up call, urging introspection on our life's priorities. Through this heartfelt discussion, we explore the urgency of distinguishing between what we desire and what we truly need to act upon. Picture life as Silly Putty in your hands, ready to be shaped with intention and purpose amidst its unpredictability. Together, we delve into the necessity of planning, not just for wealth, but for a life enriched with love, family, and meaningful experiences.
As we journey through this episode, I'll share insights from my book "Slaying Your Dragons," emphasizing daily commitment as the cornerstone of success. We'll discuss how collaborating with loved ones can help realize shared dreams while maintaining financial stability in a fluctuating job market. The conversation will inspire you to start from where you are, adapt to changes, and pursue a future filled with hope and fulfillment. Don't miss out on the opportunity to align your reality with the life you envision, and perhaps subscribe to my newsletter, Catalyst, for more inspiration along the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello there, my friends, this is Michael Caine,
with you, know who and know whatliving your success 24, when,
how long?
7, 24, 7.
So let's get right into it.
After I do my pleasantries, howare y'all doing?
(00:24):
Y'all doing, y'all doing good,doing well, that's good.
So what's on Michael Caine'smind?
Well, recently a colleague, afriend I would say friend uh
passed away, died.
(00:46):
You know, just still in shock,still in wonder, and just
confused, that wonder, and justconfused that, um, just totally
(01:12):
unexpected.
And it's not the first time ithappened in my life with family
and friends.
But when it does happen,doesn't it like give you a
wake-up call?
Yeah, it kind of rattles you,shakes you, like someone's
shaking you.
And so it happens,unfortunately, the opposite of
(01:32):
life is death.
One could argue, yes, not toget into any religious diatribes
here but one could argue well,it's not the end, it's another
beginning.
Okay, thing about it is you'reout of this reality.
(01:55):
And so what does this have todo with living your success 24-7
?
Well, it's, in my show's name,living To be alive, to go forth,
to do stuff, to accomplish, toachieve.
(02:16):
And so when you have a death,especially an unexpected one of
someone that's Relatively young,it's a wake up call To a sense
of Urgency that we should notpanic.
(02:36):
Not saying that, not panic anddoing stupid I'm not saying that
Not doing unprepared and justfoolish stuff, I'm not saying
that Not doing unprepared andjust foolish stuff, I'm not
saying that but a sense ofurgency where you plan, you test
, you research, you do yourhomework.
(03:01):
And so my show today I want totalk about what is it that you
got to do in life?
What do you got to do?
You know there's a puredistinction between got to do
and just want to do.
If I do it, so what I'mthinking?
(03:23):
What do you got to do in thisthing called life?
Because let me tell you Not tobe a preacher here, but it does.
It does Demonstrate that wedon't have forever.
So, with whatever goals we have, whatever achievements, accompl
(03:45):
achievements, accomplishmentswe have written down or in our
head that we're working on, whatdo you got to do?
What goes into the?
What are your top 10 things yougot to do before you die?
And my message to you today, myfriends, is start doing them.
(04:06):
You may think, oh, I'm only 20years old, I'm only 30 years old
, I'm only 50 years old, 60,whatever it is, I could do it
next year, I could do it nextmonth, I could do it.
Maybe you can, maybe you can't,because I don't know anyone
that's a noser damas to life anddeath like oh you, you, you
(04:26):
only got nine months left.
You got three and a half years,so take more of your time.
We don't know, and a wholenother episode could be.
If you couldn't know, would youreally want to right?
That's the baby?
We'll talk about that inanother show.
If you knew exactly the day youwas going to die and how you
(04:52):
going to do it, what day, allthat would you really want to
know.
And so that's another show.
But today's show is do what yougot to do.
Excuse my English, I got to dothis, michael Caine, I got to do
that.
I said I wanted to go toScotland one day, so I better go
(05:17):
buy that plane ticket and go.
Yeah, why you still can?
I'm not saying to liquidate allyour bank accounts and
investment accounts and you know, live like a fool.
I didn't say that and dofoolish things that you're going
to regret.
I didn't say that either, but Ido know is we should shape our
(05:43):
lives Like we were in SillyPutty Remember Silly Putty or
Clay or whatever you get to moldit Into whatever you want it to
be.
What are you going to mold withyour Silly Putty or Clay?
What are you going to do?
How are you going to shape it?
What does that look like?
What does the end result looklike?
So I'm talking about a sense ofurgency, to the point of not
(06:09):
panic and despair and chaos, buta sense of urgency that the
things I got to do are going togo on the top of my list, but
not to be divisive in the family.
Now I'm all about family andfamily unity, but in fact my
(06:29):
argument is before you even getthat family, what do you got to
do?
What do you got to do?
What do you want to do before?
It's more complicated.
You got a bunch of kids, yougot a spouse and that's great, I
have all the things.
But it gets a little harder,more difficult, because now
you're in the middle of yourcareer, middle of a perhaps a
(06:53):
marriage and middle raising kidskind of hard to go and just and
get up and leave.
Okay, and I'm not recommendingthat either, because I am into
family cohesions, cohesion,family, togetherness, family.
But another episode, anothershow is as long as you got the
(07:18):
right one, okay.
Okay, what does that mean?
You know what I mean.
But we'll go.
That'll be another podcastbeing with the right one, maybe
uh, matchcom or or those otherones, not to call them out, uh,
who knows, who knows, you know.
(07:39):
So, getting back to the storyand to the message, so I was
like, okay, here's anotherwake-up call, unexpected death
here.
And okay, these three thingsthat I gotta do just got pushed
up some more, because how longdo we have to be able to plan
(07:59):
and act and do it's?
You know it's rhetorical, youcan't answer that question
because you don't know, and soyou know you don't want to push
or you don't want to kick thatproverbial can down the road
until there's no more road left,meaning it's the end of your
(08:22):
road.
Everybody's end of the road isdifferent some people at 110
years old, some at three yearsold, or infant or unborn human
baby in the womb.
Yes, it's a real baby in thewomb.
Yeah, that's how we all becamehumans.
We're human, we grew out of awomb and we're here we are.
(08:45):
So going on a little tirade fora moment.
So what is?
What do you got to do to have afulfilling life.
To say you're successful, to beproud of, saying you know I'm
successful.
Of course we don't go aroundsaying that that's not.
(09:06):
You got to be humble, right,you know.
It's like you're going aroundsaying I'm so great, can't do
that.
Now other people can tell youyou're great, but you can't tell
yourself that.
But you still have confidence,but not arrogance.
Big difference confidence, notarrogant.
Humble, but not too wishy-washy, where your little jello thing
and you don't get anything outof life because you just what's?
What's more excessive than theword humble I don't know what
(09:28):
that is but just wibbly, wobbly,where you just don't matter, so
that that's not good either.
And so you want a healthy,balanced life, is my message.
But include those things.
You gotta do that G-O-T-T-A.
Gotta do, mike, I gotta dothese things.
And so that's why it's veryimportant when we're at the
(09:56):
elementary and high and highschool age that we start forming
our life plan.
Not everything, because what 10, 15-year-old is going to say,
oh, I'm going to do this andthat and that it does happen.
But as far as to start thinkingof the possibilities of your
future life when you become anadult, it'd be nice if they
(10:19):
taught that in school, alongwith finance, personal finance,
coming wealthy, being a goodcitizen, good person, all of
that.
It'd be nice that they gothrough all of this before
you're thrown in the middle ofbeing an adult and you're not
sure what to do.
(10:42):
And so I have to say, mentallywent around my head looking at
what am I going to do, what am Igoing to do?
What am I going to do?
And so it's unfortunate thatpeople prematurely die.
(11:14):
It really is.
Well, I guess you prematurelydie at any age, right?
Because even if you're 100, youmay want to be 105, right, when
you're 105, you want to be 106.
And that's what you're planningfor, right?
So, even though you know it'shighly unlikely, but what do you
(11:37):
think you gotta do in this lifewhile we have this opportunity
to do our lives?
And so I'm a bit challengedbecause of this little shake-up
(11:58):
of a friend passing, and soprayers are for the family and
friends and co-workers and so.
But it got me thinking again.
You know, when you attendfunerals and a minister goes
over there and says, hey,tomorrow's not promised, and
(12:21):
that's part of my message istomorrow's not promised?
So those things that I'll say,hey, now you have to plan your
life.
You can't just go bankrupt andliquidate all your funds so you
can just get all those top tensout of the way and then you live
another 90 years and thenyou're broke and homeless and
unhomed however they call it,unhoused or whatever and you
(12:44):
don't want to do that either,you know.
So it's good to have.
And now to convert into a littlemoney show here, uh which I'm
partially am, by the way, it'sliving.
Your success, um, it's in abroader stroke, but in so many
ways we're a money show andbecause it takes money to do all
these things to be successful.
(13:06):
You have a business you have tomarket, advertise, takes money,
do that profit, income, debt,work for someone else.
You got a house, you got a carthat is a mortgage, a loan, debt
, income, want to get promoted,get more money, get bonus, pay,
get.
You know.
(13:27):
So it's important that, uh, weplan as meticulously as we can
Plan our lives, where we get allour little ducks in a row of
the things we want to do, niceto do, but got to do.
(13:48):
And okay, I said pre-marriage,pre-getting a family, but let's
say that ship has sailed.
Like me, I got a family.
I got kids, we got five kids,all adults, young to younger,
and still making their way,still learning and growing,
(14:08):
learning how life is.
And what I would do is sit downwith your significant other and
say, hey, I was thinking aboutmy life.
These are things that I alwayswanted to do.
(14:29):
Now, maybe certain things maynot be practical at the moment,
or maybe not practical at all.
Maybe that ship has totally,totally set, depending on what
your got to do is your milestonethat you want to achieve.
Maybe I don't know.
But get as much done on thelist that you already made or
will make after this podcast andsit down and give it thought,
(14:53):
meditate on it and prioritize it.
One, two, three, four, five,six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
like a bucket list uh, what wasthat movie bucket list with
morgan freeman?
Okay, and so you decide on.
Okay, maybe I can't do thesefive, but I can do these other
five.
I can certainly go to alaska,take an alaskan cruise to see
(15:13):
the glaciers.
I can certainly go to Alaska,take an Alaskan cruise To see
the glaciers.
I can certainly Go to ElSalvador and get the pupusas
right.
Yay, salvadorans, yay.
Or I can go To, I don't know,oh well, spain I always want to
(15:35):
go to, personally speaking, Iwant to go to personally
speaking, I want to go back toItaly and Switzerland.
I want to do a lot of thingsnature-y.
And I also wanted to do otherthings domestically too, here in
the good old United States, andvisit Grand Central Station in
(15:55):
new york.
I want to do that empire statebuilding, new york, so I, you
know, so, whatever it is, or,and I want to take classes on
painting and drawing and stufflike that.
So I got stuff that I got out.
I would say is I gotta do thethings I mentioned.
All those aren on that list, butthey're in my more massive list
(16:17):
, not the top 10 necessarily.
A couple of them are.
But whatever, it is no judgmenthere.
Laws is clean and legitimateand legal, right?
Okay, I want to make thatdisclaimer legal, right?
Okay, I want to make thatdisclaimer.
But yeah, so that's whathappened.
(16:38):
Uh, being told a colleaguefriend passed away suddenly.
So I think, oh, mike, okay, youkeep kicking this stuff down the
road, you, how serious are youare, then you need to just plan
and budget, plan and budget andum, and work with your
(16:59):
significant other so they can dotheir bucket list too.
Right, because the urgency oflife shouldn't just be about you
.
You're two now, right, um?
And you should, um, work witheach other and get knock off
some things on each other's list, take turns.
Some things you may have stuffin common.
I hope so.
When you're with the rightperson, you got something in
(17:20):
common, you know.
And if you don't have anythingin common, well, god bless you,
pray for you.
And so and you know what a lotof times we define success, it's
in my name living your success24-7.
We think about just filthy rich,and if you're not filthy rich,
(17:42):
you're not successful.
You don't have a million dollarsalary income, you're not
successful.
That's not true, that's BS.
I want to say the other word,but it's BS.
Success is about living life tothe fullest, not necessarily
through the eyes of the Dealingwith money, dealing with the
(18:08):
result of a higher income, orbeing filthy rich.
I'm not filthy rich.
What I would want to be ideally?
Yeah, I want to be rich.
Yeah, who doesn't you want tobe rich?
Yeah, not to the extent ofselling my soul either, but I
want to be well off, where I say, hey, I want to go to Geneva,
(18:34):
switzerland, when tomorrow and Ican do it.
We could do it.
Just hop on, buy the ticket.
Not pinching pennies, countingpennies, not thinking about, uh,
uh, any behavior that's notfitting of a decent human being
here trying to get money, yeah,stay out of prison.
(18:54):
Okay, here's your out of prisoncard.
If you're playing whateverversion of Monopoly that's on,
it's like, get out of jail, Iguess, is the only Monopoly.
So, right at your list, you andyour significant other and say
what do we want to do?
And a lot of times you alreadyknow deep in your mind, heart,
(19:18):
always wanted to do this, didn'thave the money.
Well, why didn't you have themoney?
Because you, a lot of times, weprioritize other stuff, other
crap, other things and, and withno planning, just totally
unplanned, to have a family.
Just Prioritize other stuff,other crap, other things, and
with no planning, just totallyunplanned, to have a family,
just have a bunch of kids To dothis and that Don't plan nothing
(19:40):
.
And that's why you prioritize.
I've done it a million times.
Okay, we regret it, we got tomove on.
Done a million times, not doingthat again.
No, no, you can only start fromwhere you're at.
Start from where you're at,that's all you can do.
And so, hey, how about nextyear?
We plan this trip to do this?
(20:01):
And what do you want to do?
And we jotted on the calendarsNow, some things we do took us
waiting three years.
So we all cash no debt, notabout to rack up a bunch of debt
over fun.
Okay, and I know some of you arein financial or dire straits
(20:26):
where money is a big issue, ordire straits where money's a big
issue, and that may take moreschooling, more looking around,
more changing, uh, your vocationon what you want to do at this
point, because maybe the marketfor that job or career isn't
really hot right now and so thatyou may have to mitigate,
(20:46):
modify and, uh, I've done twojobs.
I've known people had three andfour.
I never had four.
I've had two at one time foryears.
Did I want to?
Did I want to, and thenincrease my hours as much as
possible?
Otherwise I would have had athird job.
(21:07):
So did I want to do that?
No, I did what I had to do.
So you have to do what you gotto do.
But keep hope alive, keep thedesire alive that your life is
not over and my point is life isover when we die, and the point
(21:29):
is is to get ahead of thatdeath date without knowing what
list that got to do list, andobviously it's a little more
(21:57):
challenging the older you are.
So I'm suggesting to whoever ishearing this and please share
this podcast.
Family friends and also want toplug my book, if I may.
Living your Success is in mybook, if I may.
Living your success is in mybook slaying your dragons.
So living your success.
(22:17):
I go over um many topics dealingwith um, motivation on nature,
the book slaying your dragons,living life you always wanted.
But living your success is atthe heart of that.
How do you, how can I besuccessful?
So please get the paperback orebook or hardcore hard cover
book, either way, one of them,and I encourage you um to make
(22:42):
it a gift to family and friendsand and uh, subscribe to
catalyst my newsletter off oflivingyoursuccesscom.
There's a link there andthere's a link in the notes here
on Apple, spotify, iheartradio,amazon.
It should be a link thatcarries you over as well.
(23:02):
So, at any rate, I know you saywell, that's a challenge.
I don't know if I can do thesethings, michael Caine.
I don't know if it's possibleto still keep hope alive and the
(23:25):
dream of living the life I wantto live, and the dream of
living the life I want to live.
And you know what, it may notend up the way you want, the way
you see it, but just get asclose as you can to the model
(23:46):
that's in your head or what youjotted down.
So, that said, I want all ofyou to live a long and
prosperous life, but do it havea fulfilling, to not just get
old, but to enjoy everything onthe way up.
So that's it, my friends.
You have a good rest of the dayand until next time, adios.
(24:12):
This is Michael Caine livingyour success 24-7.
Hello there, my friends, this is Michael Caine,
with you, know who and know whatliving your success 24, when,
how long?
7, 24, 7.
So let's get right into it.
After I do my pleasantries, howare y'all doing?
(00:24):
Y'all doing, y'all doing good,doing well, that's good.
So what's on Michael Caine'smind?
Well, recently a colleague, afriend I would say friend uh
passed away, died.
(00:46):
You know, just still in shock,still in wonder, and just
confused, that wonder, and justconfused that, um, just totally
(01:12):
unexpected.
And it's not the first time ithappened in my life with family
and friends.
But when it does happen,doesn't it like give you a
wake-up call?
Yeah, it kind of rattles you,shakes you, like someone's
shaking you.
And so it happens,unfortunately, the opposite of
(01:32):
life is death.
One could argue, yes, not toget into any religious diatribes
here but one could argue well,it's not the end, it's another
beginning.
Okay, thing about it is you'reout of this reality.
(01:55):
And so what does this have todo with living your success 24-7
?
Well, it's, in my show's name,living To be alive, to go forth,
to do stuff, to accomplish, toachieve.
(02:16):
And so when you have a death,especially an unexpected one of
someone that's Relatively young,it's a wake up call To a sense
of Urgency that we should notpanic.
(02:36):
Not saying that, not panic anddoing stupid I'm not saying that
Not doing unprepared and justfoolish stuff, I'm not saying
that Not doing unprepared andjust foolish stuff, I'm not
saying that but a sense ofurgency where you plan, you test
, you research, you do yourhomework.
(03:01):
And so my show today I want totalk about what is it that you
got to do in life?
What do you got to do?
You know there's a puredistinction between got to do
and just want to do.
If I do it, so what I'mthinking?
(03:23):
What do you got to do in thisthing called life?
Because let me tell you Not tobe a preacher here, but it does.
It does Demonstrate that wedon't have forever.
So, with whatever goals we have, whatever achievements, accompl
(03:45):
achievements, accomplishmentswe have written down or in our
head that we're working on, whatdo you got to do?
What goes into the?
What are your top 10 things yougot to do before you die?
And my message to you today, myfriends, is start doing them.
(04:06):
You may think, oh, I'm only 20years old, I'm only 30 years old
, I'm only 50 years old, 60,whatever it is, I could do it
next year, I could do it nextmonth, I could do it.
Maybe you can, maybe you can't,because I don't know anyone
that's a noser damas to life anddeath like oh you, you, you
(04:26):
only got nine months left.
You got three and a half years,so take more of your time.
We don't know, and a wholenother episode could be.
If you couldn't know, would youreally want to right?
That's the baby?
We'll talk about that inanother show.
If you knew exactly the day youwas going to die and how you
(04:52):
going to do it, what day, allthat would you really want to
know.
And so that's another show.
But today's show is do what yougot to do.
Excuse my English, I got to dothis, michael Caine, I got to do
that.
I said I wanted to go toScotland one day, so I better go
(05:17):
buy that plane ticket and go.
Yeah, why you still can?
I'm not saying to liquidate allyour bank accounts and
investment accounts and you know, live like a fool.
I didn't say that and dofoolish things that you're going
to regret.
I didn't say that either, but Ido know is we should shape our
(05:43):
lives Like we were in SillyPutty Remember Silly Putty or
Clay or whatever you get to moldit Into whatever you want it to
be.
What are you going to mold withyour Silly Putty or Clay?
What are you going to do?
How are you going to shape it?
What does that look like?
What does the end result looklike?
So I'm talking about a sense ofurgency, to the point of not
(06:09):
panic and despair and chaos, buta sense of urgency that the
things I got to do are going togo on the top of my list, but
not to be divisive in the family.
Now I'm all about family andfamily unity, but in fact my
(06:29):
argument is before you even getthat family, what do you got to
do?
What do you got to do?
What do you want to do before?
It's more complicated.
You got a bunch of kids, yougot a spouse and that's great, I
have all the things.
But it gets a little harder,more difficult, because now
you're in the middle of yourcareer, middle of a perhaps a
(06:53):
marriage and middle raising kidskind of hard to go and just and
get up and leave.
Okay, and I'm not recommendingthat either, because I am into
family cohesions, cohesion,family, togetherness, family.
But another episode, anothershow is as long as you got the
(07:18):
right one, okay.
Okay, what does that mean?
You know what I mean.
But we'll go.
That'll be another podcastbeing with the right one, maybe
uh, matchcom or or those otherones, not to call them out, uh,
who knows, who knows, you know.
(07:39):
So, getting back to the storyand to the message, so I was
like, okay, here's anotherwake-up call, unexpected death
here.
And okay, these three thingsthat I gotta do just got pushed
up some more, because how longdo we have to be able to plan
(07:59):
and act and do it's?
You know it's rhetorical, youcan't answer that question
because you don't know, and soyou know you don't want to push
or you don't want to kick thatproverbial can down the road
until there's no more road left,meaning it's the end of your
(08:22):
road.
Everybody's end of the road isdifferent some people at 110
years old, some at three yearsold, or infant or unborn human
baby in the womb.
Yes, it's a real baby in thewomb.
Yeah, that's how we all becamehumans.
We're human, we grew out of awomb and we're here we are.
(08:45):
So going on a little tirade fora moment.
So what is?
What do you got to do to have afulfilling life.
To say you're successful, to beproud of, saying you know I'm
successful.
Of course we don't go aroundsaying that that's not.
(09:06):
You got to be humble, right,you know.
It's like you're going aroundsaying I'm so great, can't do
that.
Now other people can tell youyou're great, but you can't tell
yourself that.
But you still have confidence,but not arrogance.
Big difference confidence, notarrogant.
Humble, but not too wishy-washy, where your little jello thing
and you don't get anything outof life because you just what's?
What's more excessive than theword humble I don't know what
(09:28):
that is but just wibbly, wobbly,where you just don't matter, so
that that's not good either.
And so you want a healthy,balanced life, is my message.
But include those things.
You gotta do that G-O-T-T-A.
Gotta do, mike, I gotta dothese things.
And so that's why it's veryimportant when we're at the
(09:56):
elementary and high and highschool age that we start forming
our life plan.
Not everything, because what 10, 15-year-old is going to say,
oh, I'm going to do this andthat and that it does happen.
But as far as to start thinkingof the possibilities of your
future life when you become anadult, it'd be nice if they
(10:19):
taught that in school, alongwith finance, personal finance,
coming wealthy, being a goodcitizen, good person, all of
that.
It'd be nice that they gothrough all of this before
you're thrown in the middle ofbeing an adult and you're not
sure what to do.
(10:42):
And so I have to say, mentallywent around my head looking at
what am I going to do, what am Igoing to do?
What am I going to do?
And so it's unfortunate thatpeople prematurely die.
(11:14):
It really is.
Well, I guess you prematurelydie at any age, right?
Because even if you're 100, youmay want to be 105, right, when
you're 105, you want to be 106.
And that's what you're planningfor, right?
So, even though you know it'shighly unlikely, but what do you
(11:37):
think you gotta do in this lifewhile we have this opportunity
to do our lives?
And so I'm a bit challengedbecause of this little shake-up
(11:58):
of a friend passing, and soprayers are for the family and
friends and co-workers and so.
But it got me thinking again.
You know, when you attendfunerals and a minister goes
over there and says, hey,tomorrow's not promised, and
(12:21):
that's part of my message istomorrow's not promised?
So those things that I'll say,hey, now you have to plan your
life.
You can't just go bankrupt andliquidate all your funds so you
can just get all those top tensout of the way and then you live
another 90 years and thenyou're broke and homeless and
unhomed however they call it,unhoused or whatever and you
(12:44):
don't want to do that either,you know.
So it's good to have.
And now to convert into a littlemoney show here, uh which I'm
partially am, by the way, it'sliving.
Your success, um, it's in abroader stroke, but in so many
ways we're a money show andbecause it takes money to do all
these things to be successful.
(13:06):
You have a business you have tomarket, advertise, takes money,
do that profit, income, debt,work for someone else.
You got a house, you got a carthat is a mortgage, a loan, debt
, income, want to get promoted,get more money, get bonus, pay,
get.
You know.
(13:27):
So it's important that, uh, weplan as meticulously as we can
Plan our lives, where we get allour little ducks in a row of
the things we want to do, niceto do, but got to do.
(13:48):
And okay, I said pre-marriage,pre-getting a family, but let's
say that ship has sailed.
Like me, I got a family.
I got kids, we got five kids,all adults, young to younger,
and still making their way,still learning and growing,
(14:08):
learning how life is.
And what I would do is sit downwith your significant other and
say, hey, I was thinking aboutmy life.
These are things that I alwayswanted to do.
(14:29):
Now, maybe certain things maynot be practical at the moment,
or maybe not practical at all.
Maybe that ship has totally,totally set, depending on what
your got to do is your milestonethat you want to achieve.
Maybe I don't know.
But get as much done on thelist that you already made or
will make after this podcast andsit down and give it thought,
(14:53):
meditate on it and prioritize it.
One, two, three, four, five,six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
like a bucket list uh, what wasthat movie bucket list with
morgan freeman?
Okay, and so you decide on.
Okay, maybe I can't do thesefive, but I can do these other
five.
I can certainly go to alaska,take an alaskan cruise to see
(15:13):
the glaciers.
I can certainly go to Alaska,take an Alaskan cruise To see
the glaciers.
I can certainly Go to ElSalvador and get the pupusas
right.
Yay, salvadorans, yay.
Or I can go To, I don't know,oh well, spain I always want to
(15:35):
go to, personally speaking, Iwant to go to personally
speaking, I want to go back toItaly and Switzerland.
I want to do a lot of thingsnature-y.
And I also wanted to do otherthings domestically too, here in
the good old United States, andvisit Grand Central Station in
(15:55):
new york.
I want to do that empire statebuilding, new york, so I, you
know, so, whatever it is, or,and I want to take classes on
painting and drawing and stufflike that.
So I got stuff that I got out.
I would say is I gotta do thethings I mentioned.
All those aren on that list, butthey're in my more massive list
(16:17):
, not the top 10 necessarily.
A couple of them are.
But whatever, it is no judgmenthere.
Laws is clean and legitimateand legal, right?
Okay, I want to make thatdisclaimer legal, right?
Okay, I want to make thatdisclaimer.
But yeah, so that's whathappened.
(16:38):
Uh, being told a colleaguefriend passed away suddenly.
So I think, oh, mike, okay, youkeep kicking this stuff down the
road, you, how serious are youare, then you need to just plan
and budget, plan and budget andum, and work with your
(16:59):
significant other so they can dotheir bucket list too.
Right, because the urgency oflife shouldn't just be about you
.
You're two now, right, um?
And you should, um, work witheach other and get knock off
some things on each other's list, take turns.
Some things you may have stuffin common.
I hope so.
When you're with the rightperson, you got something in
(17:20):
common, you know.
And if you don't have anythingin common, well, god bless you,
pray for you.
And so and you know what a lotof times we define success, it's
in my name living your success24-7.
We think about just filthy rich,and if you're not filthy rich,
(17:42):
you're not successful.
You don't have a million dollarsalary income, you're not
successful.
That's not true, that's BS.
I want to say the other word,but it's BS.
Success is about living life tothe fullest, not necessarily
through the eyes of the Dealingwith money, dealing with the
(18:08):
result of a higher income, orbeing filthy rich.
I'm not filthy rich.
What I would want to be ideally?
Yeah, I want to be rich.
Yeah, who doesn't you want tobe rich?
Yeah, not to the extent ofselling my soul either, but I
want to be well off, where I say, hey, I want to go to Geneva,
(18:34):
switzerland, when tomorrow and Ican do it.
We could do it.
Just hop on, buy the ticket.
Not pinching pennies, countingpennies, not thinking about, uh,
uh, any behavior that's notfitting of a decent human being
here trying to get money, yeah,stay out of prison.
(18:54):
Okay, here's your out of prisoncard.
If you're playing whateverversion of Monopoly that's on,
it's like, get out of jail, Iguess, is the only Monopoly.
So, right at your list, you andyour significant other and say
what do we want to do?
And a lot of times you alreadyknow deep in your mind, heart,
(19:18):
always wanted to do this, didn'thave the money.
Well, why didn't you have themoney?
Because you, a lot of times, weprioritize other stuff, other
crap, other things and, and withno planning, just totally
unplanned, to have a family.
Just Prioritize other stuff,other crap, other things, and
with no planning, just totallyunplanned, to have a family,
just have a bunch of kids To dothis and that Don't plan nothing
(19:40):
.
And that's why you prioritize.
I've done it a million times.
Okay, we regret it, we got tomove on.
Done a million times, not doingthat again.
No, no, you can only start fromwhere you're at.
Start from where you're at,that's all you can do.
And so, hey, how about nextyear?
We plan this trip to do this?
(20:01):
And what do you want to do?
And we jotted on the calendarsNow, some things we do took us
waiting three years.
So we all cash no debt, notabout to rack up a bunch of debt
over fun.
Okay, and I know some of you arein financial or dire straits
(20:26):
where money is a big issue, ordire straits where money's a big
issue, and that may take moreschooling, more looking around,
more changing, uh, your vocationon what you want to do at this
point, because maybe the marketfor that job or career isn't
really hot right now and so thatyou may have to mitigate,
(20:46):
modify and, uh, I've done twojobs.
I've known people had three andfour.
I never had four.
I've had two at one time foryears.
Did I want to?
Did I want to, and thenincrease my hours as much as
possible?
Otherwise I would have had athird job.
(21:07):
So did I want to do that?
No, I did what I had to do.
So you have to do what you gotto do.
But keep hope alive, keep thedesire alive that your life is
not over and my point is life isover when we die, and the point
(21:29):
is is to get ahead of thatdeath date without knowing what
list that got to do list, andobviously it's a little more
(21:57):
challenging the older you are.
So I'm suggesting to whoever ishearing this and please share
this podcast.
Family friends and also want toplug my book, if I may.
Living your Success is in mybook, if I may.
Living your success is in mybook slaying your dragons.
So living your success.
(22:17):
I go over um many topics dealingwith um, motivation on nature,
the book slaying your dragons,living life you always wanted.
But living your success is atthe heart of that.
How do you, how can I besuccessful?
So please get the paperback orebook or hardcore hard cover
book, either way, one of them,and I encourage you um to make
(22:42):
it a gift to family and friendsand and uh, subscribe to
catalyst my newsletter off oflivingyoursuccesscom.
There's a link there andthere's a link in the notes here
on Apple, spotify, iheartradio,amazon.
It should be a link thatcarries you over as well.
(23:02):
So, at any rate, I know you saywell, that's a challenge.
I don't know if I can do thesethings, michael Caine.
I don't know if it's possibleto still keep hope alive and the
(23:25):
dream of living the life I wantto live, and the dream of
living the life I want to live.
And you know what, it may notend up the way you want, the way
you see it, but just get asclose as you can to the model
(23:46):
that's in your head or what youjotted down.
So, that said, I want all ofyou to live a long and
prosperous life, but do it havea fulfilling, to not just get
old, but to enjoy everything onthe way up.
So that's it, my friends.
You have a good rest of the dayand until next time, adios.
(24:12):
This is Michael Caine livingyour success 24-7.
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