May 6, 2025 • 26 mins
Peace of mind isn't something that arrives after achievement—it's the foundation that makes achievement meaningful. In this reflective episode, I explore the delicate balance between pursuing ambitious goals and maintaining inner tranquility throughout the journey.
After a brief hiatus, I've been contemplating what creates lasting contentment amid life's pressures. We're all familiar with various stressors—work demands, relationship challenges, financial concerns, health issues—but the key to success isn't eliminating stress (impossible unless you're dead) but developing healthy responses to it. What triggers your sense of calm? For me, it's watching ocean waves and hearing seagulls, but the ultimate goal is cultivating internal peace that external circumstances can't easily disrupt.
I share personal insights about "joy thieves"—those vampire-like individuals who drain your energy, time, and happiness. Some simply won't celebrate your success due to jealousy, while others actively try to sabotage you through gossip or manipulation. Recognizing these dynamics helps you establish necessary boundaries without sacrificing your forward momentum. Your peace is too valuable to surrender to those who don't wish you well.
Many define success narrowly through material achievements, then wonder why attaining those goals leaves them feeling empty. True wealth encompasses more than money—it includes health, meaningful relationships, and spiritual fulfillment. By broadening your definition of success, you create more opportunities for contentment while still pursuing ambitious dreams. Remember, you're not taking any possessions with you when you die, so prioritize what truly matters.
Subscribe to Living Your Success 24-7 and check out my book "Slaying Your Dragons: Living the Life You Always Wanted" on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. What small step can you take today to reclaim your peace while still pursuing your dreams?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello there.
This is Living your Success24-7 with Michael Caine.
Yes, I know I've been M-I-A,m-i-a, but I'm right here now,
right here.
So it's been a little while thetime Time.
(00:24):
What does it say?
Time waits for no man, genderneutral.
Now, time waits for no person.
One thing you can't have moreof is time.
So to explain my MIA-ness Ithink I just made that up, but
anyway, that word MIA-ish?
Well, we'll work on that up.
(00:45):
But anyway, that word am IA-ish?
Well, we'll work on that later.
I hope all of you are doing fineand well.
If not, I hope I can help toelevate you out of wherever you
are to a level of contentmentand peace.
I feel like talking about peacetoday.
(01:06):
You know, to be successful, tomarch toward success, some
degree of peace should factor in, because if you don't have
peace, you don't have some formof tranquility.
Uh-oh, I'm not getting mushy onyou now, just stay with me.
(01:28):
What does that have to do withanything?
Well, let me reflect on myself.
I always had a plan of action.
I was reminded that recently,when I was reminded that
(01:49):
recently, when I was small, fiveyears old, six years old, seven
, eight on up, michael Caine hada plane, always had not a
scheme, now, that kind ofchanges things, a scheme that
sounds like wicked and notwicked the movie, by the way, I
love that movie Anyway.
But I had a plan of action tomove forward with achieving
(02:17):
milestones, goals, dreams,expectations, you call it
whatever you want Wish list,bucket list and I was doing it
in my own time, my own timeline,where there's no pressure.
You know, when you have a joband you have these uh projects
and when does the project do?
(02:38):
Oh, tomorrow, you know,pressure, that high pressure.
I didn't have that, didn't havethat then, and I was reflecting
on me myself and I my life.
As far as what period of timewas I at peace?
(03:02):
Or just experience just acalmness, right, you know, a lot
of you have high-powered jobs,or jobs that just, or jobs maybe
a multiple, two or three.
I've known people to have tomake it to survive, to thrive.
You do what you got to do.
Okay, it's understood.
(03:24):
Anyone listening to my channelhere, this podcast, is going to
do what they need to do.
Legally, of course, I'm sayingokay, the wonder world here, but
I was looking at what pointwhere I was moving forward with
my goals.
(03:44):
You know, reaching for thestars if you will, but it wasn't
so with a gun to the head,right?
You know a lot of.
You can be consultants orlawyers or just whatever job you
are.
No one's better than each other.
I go in there.
But whatever job, whatevercareer, you have some degree of
(04:06):
stress and that's part of it.
There's no way you're going toget out of the land of stress.
You can only work on dealingwith it or channeling it in a
positive way.
You can't remove it entirely.
It's only one type of personthat has no stress of any kind
(04:27):
and that's somebody that is dead, d-e-a-d.
Dead, not alive Assumingthere's no zombies, of course,
okay or resurrected folks.
Right now, only kind you'redead.
Otherwise you have some level.
It could be work stress,relationship stress, and then
(04:51):
relationship could be brokendown into real close friends,
significant other partner, somekind of marriage there, husband
and wife kind of thing going on,friend stress, whatever, money
stress, health stress.
So it's almost impossible tototally eliminate that.
(05:14):
What you do is how you dealwith stuff, right, and so I was
looking at where I'm at today.
Okay, what level of stress youknow, from 1 to 10,.
Where am I?
Sometimes it could be a 4,sometimes 9, sometimes 12 on the
scale of 1 to 10, right, and soit's going to fluctuate.
(05:34):
It's going to go your way, notyour way.
But the world shake a little.
The sky is falling.
The sky is falling.
It's not falling people, it'snot going to fall, okay.
So I want to recapture thatpoint in my life.
This is not just trying todredge up old history stuff,
(05:58):
going back into the land ofnegativity.
I'm not saying that ofnegativity, I'm not saying that.
I'm talking about going to thatzone where, wow, I was moving
forward but managing peacecoming in, negativity going out.
So what's your peace number?
(06:23):
Do you know how to get to thatland?
This isn't the land of Oz.
We know how that ended, right,kind of mixed there.
But what will it take For you Tokeep moving and pushing
yourself With sufficient forceto realize the golden calf at
(06:51):
the end of the rope, the goldmedal.
Because in my book you all havethe potential, we have gold, we
have bronze and silver.
Right, silver and bronze.
That order Certificate is nicetoo, acknowledgement.
(07:14):
If you can't get the goldtrophy all the time, no one wins
all the time but to moveforward and to where no one,
including yourself, damages thatzone and that land we call the
land of peace.
You don't even let yourselfruin it.
(07:40):
And so last few weeks I've beenreflecting I'm not totally
finished yet, oh wow, you'rereflecting for weeks and not
finished yet been reflecting.
I'm not totally finished yet.
Oh wow, you're reflecting forweeks and not finished yet.
No, I'm not.
I got some successes there.
You know different categoriesof my life where I'm okay.
Now I'm still working on someother aspects of my existence
here, and so I can remain in theland and step back into the
(08:05):
land of peace.
And so part of the discovery,the solution, is to discover who
you are and who you are.
Who you were at three years oldmay not be the same person
today.
Any stage of your life.
Okay, your toddler, your infant, relying on parents, guardians
(08:28):
right to feed you baby, you haveno control whatsoever.
Then your toddler.
Now you're starting to run.
You can run and people have tocatch you, so you're starting to
be aware of things.
And then you get preteens andin high school, which leads to
massive confusion.
It's already confusing enoughby yourself, and then people
(08:51):
make it worse.
Yeah, we will blame certainpeople that are trying to stop
you from entering or staying inthe land of peace.
There's a book, what is itcalled?
Don't Let Anyone Steal your Joy.
That's essentially what I'mpreaching right now Don't let
(09:11):
anyone steal your joy.
One measure of success and oneway to get there in all manners
whether it relationship,relational or money, career is
to have the right mindset, theright joyful, peaceful mindset.
(09:35):
I don't know how the podcasttell you oh, I'm get rich.
Tell you how to be amillionaire in 10 days and how
to invest in this, invest inthat, that real estate, crypto,
all of that I do that.
A whole little coin in yourhands, that's fine.
But my conversation is deeper.
(09:55):
And to get all those things,that's fine.
Get wealth, that's what mypodcast is about.
Get well, that's what mypodcast is about.
But it's not just about moneywealth, it's about life wealth.
It's about health wealth, rightRelationship wealth that's what
(10:18):
I'm about, not just themonetary value.
Because let me tell yousomething, folks when you die,
your money ain't going with you.
Yeah, they could throw it in agrave, in your coffin, whatever,
but you will not have awarenessthat it's with you and you will
be in no uh degree of abilityto use any money after you're
(10:43):
dead, dea, dead, dead, dead dead.
So it ain't going with you.
We're dying, we're not.
Oh man, wow, what did the stockmarket do today?
How's my real estate holding?
No, you know, I think you'regoing to have greater concerns
because that'll be part of yourlegacy that you leave as an
(11:05):
inheritance.
It's over for you at some point.
It's going to be over for allof us.
Like they said, ain't nobodygoing walking out, going walking
out.
We're leaving this all in asimilar fashion.
Okay, and so, that said,everything is connected in a
(11:27):
ratio with time, because,whatever you do, time is
involved.
You can waste your time youhave misguided time or be on
target with your time on whatyou should be doing to move
forward to live a successfullife.
I've known people, evenincluding myself, who squandered
(12:00):
excessive amount of timeworrying about stuff you cannot
control and worried about folksthat you know.
Some folks are with you, someare against you, and don't let
anybody steal your peace, yourjoy or your what time.
I realize that If I can go backand talk to my younger self oh,
(12:22):
michael Caine, warning, warning, warning.
There's these type of peoplethat are vampires trying to suck
you dry.
Yeah, they will suck your money, dry your health, dry your mind
, dry your peace dry, joy dry,and time let it go, suck it
(12:50):
right out.
So I'm here to tell you youwatch out for those vampires now
, just like you see in themovies.
That's what they do insidious,and by the time you see it you
know wasting, squandered so muchmoney, time, energy, spirit and
all of that.
So think peace, what you know?
(13:12):
One thing that is a trigger forpeace with me when I look at um
and I'm looking at it now, youcan't see me, but I have the tv,
a big screen on tv, where therolling waves and you hear
seagulls, you just, it's just sonice sunset, where the waves
are hitting the beach and andjust calm, that's what, uh,
(13:38):
that's what makes me, triggersmy peace.
So if I see this body of water,the ocean is, the slam dunk, it
could be a river, a lake, a bayor something like that, it
could be any of those things,maybe even a swimming pool where
it's calm and clean, and I say,okay, I'm at peace.
(14:02):
But if that's an externaltrigger and now it triggers my
internal parts of Michael Caine,where it catches it.
So my point is it can't just beexternal.
You have.
It has to be something internal, because that means good, bad
(14:24):
and ugly can change your joy andpeace.
You know, someone comes, slapyou upside the head.
Well, that'll stop it Saidsomething unkind, take your
money or lie to you or doingsomething.
You have to be, get to a pointwhere it's internal, where you
(14:48):
capture the good and not the badand not the ugly.
You just absorb that becausethat could be a reality.
Maybe it's a bad day, maybe youdidn't do the project on time
or there was an error orsomething, and those days will
happen.
I'm not here to say, if you sayit's not going to happen, it
(15:09):
doesn't happen.
No, that's just foolishness.
You're going to encounterresistance, encounter trouble,
encounter some obstacles in life.
You will.
Anyone says any different.
They're lying to you.
But what am I saying?
It's how you deal with it.
So this picturesque beat scenethat I just described to you,
(15:35):
what is your thing that couldtrigger that peace?
So many things trigger ouranger, our sadness, depression.
What triggers the joy and thepeace?
Some of you may be God, amen.
It could be a combination ofdifferent things.
It could be a combination ofdifferent things, A friend,
(16:04):
someone that always gives you areason to be happy.
Okay, okay.
So can you have peace withoutrealizing your goals?
Yes, and you should.
How do you think you reach yourgoals faster?
(16:25):
It's not.
Woe is me being a victimplaying some card, an
appropriate card.
You know I won't go down thatlist.
Yeah, you could be contenttoday.
Yeah, but still not achievedall that you had hoped for.
(16:49):
You can't say, well, once I getit, I'll be happy.
I see a lot of people.
They're not necessarily do yousay that, but they do it.
That's what they really feelinside.
Well, until I get my 40 acresand a mule, my mansion, the
Ferrari or whatever car choice,until I get that, I just won't
be happy and content, which maybe the cause of you not getting
(17:11):
those things.
Possibly.
Or when you get them, you'renot going to be fulfilled
because your heart and mind isnot in the right place.
Stuff Again, you're not in theright place.
Stuff Again, you're not takingstuff with you.
So what else you got?
Okay, you got a mansion.
You got 20 cars.
What else you got?
You got 10 horses.
(17:31):
You got this, you got all thebooze in the world, and you know
what comes along with all thisstuff and you're still miserable
.
You know a lot of people stillcommit suicide, that have
everything most people wouldwant and kill for or die for,
yet they kill themselves whyit's not enough stuff.
(17:53):
Hopefully you realize thatbefore you don't run out of time
, and so it's important to stayin the present, in the moment,
today, and be as content, notjust accepting, just to stay
where you're at when you havegoals, yeah.
Yeah, if you want to earn amillion dollars or whatever,
(18:16):
yeah, you pursue what you wantto pursue.
If you want to travel aroundthe world that's your measure of
success then do it Today.
Plan for that future.
Yeah, don't throw everything ona credit card 100,000 on a
credit card, travel and thenyou're broke and homeless, lose
(18:37):
everything.
That'd be foolish.
So measure it out, but dothings today which Enable you to
what?
Simply smile.
You know people that smile.
That is a measure ofcontentment, joy and and success
(19:00):
.
We all measure success anddefine it differently.
Some of you just have to have abillion dollars to define it,
and so be it.
The problem with that is youdon't get it.
Where did that leave you?
Okay, so just food for thought.
Look at how you define things.
(19:20):
I redefined, I flipped thescript and started defining
things important to medifferently, because if you
don't have those things, oh yeah, you can't be happy, you can't
smile, can't have joy, can'thave peace.
So I changed the definition ofwhat peace and joy mean to me.
(19:44):
I didn't sell out or sell down,I just reprioritize with the
thought of I'm not going to liveforever, so why am I going to
be miserable the next 20, 30years of my life?
That wouldn't be good.
Now some of you are goingthrough some serious things.
(20:05):
Most people that don't have ahappy life probably have a bad
relationship somewhere, or somefriend that screwed you out of
some money or time or something,or a partner, a personal
partner here, a business partner, or be work-related or be
(20:26):
significant other-related.
You felt wronged, maybe, andmaybe your health is faltering,
and I've been there, done that,and you're not in a good spot
and we've all been there, mostof us have been there.
So I don't want to diminishthat and if that's happening to
(20:47):
you some serious issues I reallyor in any case, I encourage you
to see professional counseling.
I don't get professionalcounseling here.
I'm giving you my opinion andmy experience and my
observations.
That's what I'm giving you myopinion and my experience and my
observations.
That's what I'm giving youtoday.
So it's up to you to takecontrol of your life, take your
(21:09):
life back, because I sold mineto the devil and, figuratively
speaking, or literally, I don'tknow, you never know and I got
my life back.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm proud of that, because ittook a lot of effort to wean
yourself off of negativity andvampires.
(21:30):
It really is.
It's very challenging and ifyou have a big support system,
it's even that more challenging.
So you got to listen to yourheart, listen to and watch the
reality, what's happening,because you know what.
Anybody can talk and say a biggame, but it's what they do.
(21:51):
Watch what people do.
Does it match?
Is it in alignment with whatthey say?
And if it isn't, and it's up toyou make a decision what you
want to do.
So I don't have any more time inmy life for nonsense and people
that are trying to hurt me orat least don't wish me well.
(22:12):
See, there's differentcategories of bad folks in your
life the ones that just don'twant you to succeed because
they're jealous.
They may not try to stop you,but they're not happy and they
won't clap for you and they wantyou to be as miserable as they
are.
Then there's the other peoplethat are on the deepest level of
(22:32):
hell, a demon, basically, thatactually tries to stop you by
lying about you, gossiping aboutyou.
Definitely know those devilsand they know, I know, and I may
just call a couple of them outone day.
We'll see how that works out.
I should just let it go.
(22:52):
See, stirring the pot?
Stirring the pot?
Just let it go.
Let it go, elsa, let it go.
So anyway.
So check yourself and say am Iin the right frame of mind, am I
in the right zone to movetoward a positive outcome,
(23:21):
meaning ie to get your goals toachieve them?
And it'd be a piece of whereyou're at now, not just in the
future.
We don't know how long we'regoing to live.
I'm not trying to be negative,we're just going to die.
We were born, we live, we die.
So don't see it if this isnatural progression.
(23:43):
No one's an immortal here.
As far as I know, I haven't metone.
Maybe I did, maybe they're outthere, I don't know.
But but just food for thought.
My friends and I do want tothank you for taking the time to
listen to my podcast andsupporting me.
Thank you, whatever continenton this thing called Earth,
(24:08):
planet called Earth.
Wherever you are, I appreciateyou and I know we all want
essentially the same things, andI thank you for spending the
time with me and I encourage youto buy my book Slaying your
Dragons Living the Life youAlways Wanted.
The e-book is fairlyinexpensive on Amazon I think
(24:31):
I'm still on Barnes Noble too,where you can get it
electronically, and then withpaper bound is the next level of
inexpensiveness.
Either one of those is fine,but e-books I'm trying to get
the digital sales up.
Okay, no pressure, but anywayit helps support the channel
(24:51):
even more, actually, and sothank you to listeners that
listen to Apple, iheartradio,spotify the big three, no
particular order there and otherwonderful platforms out there.
I appreciate you andlivingyoursuccesscom, my website
(25:14):
, but Amazon, go live a life youalways wanted and I appreciate
you on that and tell peopleabout this podcast, appreciate
it, and we're going to, as wealways do.
You know different topics ofwhat success is.
(25:37):
You know we do talk about.
You know investing, saving anda lot about relationships, a lot
about what your motivation is.
We do talk about investing,saving and a lot about
relationships, a lot about whatyour motivation is and things
you can do to move forward.
So, at any rate, I appreciateall of you and check my podcast
(25:59):
out, hit those notifications andsign up.
That said, I wish you all well.
My friends, this is MichaelCaine, living your success 24-7.
Adios amigos.
Well, hello there.
This is Living your Success24-7 with Michael Caine.
Yes, I know I've been M-I-A,m-i-a, but I'm right here now,
right here.
So it's been a little while thetime Time.
(00:24):
What does it say?
Time waits for no man, genderneutral.
Now, time waits for no person.
One thing you can't have moreof is time.
So to explain my MIA-ness Ithink I just made that up, but
anyway, that word MIA-ish?
Well, we'll work on that up.
(00:45):
But anyway, that word am IA-ish?
Well, we'll work on that later.
I hope all of you are doing fineand well.
If not, I hope I can help toelevate you out of wherever you
are to a level of contentmentand peace.
I feel like talking about peacetoday.
(01:06):
You know, to be successful, tomarch toward success, some
degree of peace should factor in, because if you don't have
peace, you don't have some formof tranquility.
Uh-oh, I'm not getting mushy onyou now, just stay with me.
(01:28):
What does that have to do withanything?
Well, let me reflect on myself.
I always had a plan of action.
I was reminded that recently,when I was reminded that
(01:49):
recently, when I was small, fiveyears old, six years old, seven
, eight on up, michael Caine hada plane, always had not a
scheme, now, that kind ofchanges things, a scheme that
sounds like wicked and notwicked the movie, by the way, I
love that movie Anyway.
But I had a plan of action tomove forward with achieving
(02:17):
milestones, goals, dreams,expectations, you call it
whatever you want Wish list,bucket list and I was doing it
in my own time, my own timeline,where there's no pressure.
You know, when you have a joband you have these uh projects
and when does the project do?
(02:38):
Oh, tomorrow, you know,pressure, that high pressure.
I didn't have that, didn't havethat then, and I was reflecting
on me myself and I my life.
As far as what period of timewas I at peace?
(03:02):
Or just experience just acalmness, right, you know, a lot
of you have high-powered jobs,or jobs that just, or jobs maybe
a multiple, two or three.
I've known people to have tomake it to survive, to thrive.
You do what you got to do.
Okay, it's understood.
(03:24):
Anyone listening to my channelhere, this podcast, is going to
do what they need to do.
Legally, of course, I'm sayingokay, the wonder world here, but
I was looking at what pointwhere I was moving forward with
my goals.
(03:44):
You know, reaching for thestars if you will, but it wasn't
so with a gun to the head,right?
You know a lot of.
You can be consultants orlawyers or just whatever job you
are.
No one's better than each other.
I go in there.
But whatever job, whatevercareer, you have some degree of
(04:06):
stress and that's part of it.
There's no way you're going toget out of the land of stress.
You can only work on dealingwith it or channeling it in a
positive way.
You can't remove it entirely.
It's only one type of personthat has no stress of any kind
(04:27):
and that's somebody that is dead, d-e-a-d.
Dead, not alive Assumingthere's no zombies, of course,
okay or resurrected folks.
Right now, only kind you'redead.
Otherwise you have some level.
It could be work stress,relationship stress, and then
(04:51):
relationship could be brokendown into real close friends,
significant other partner, somekind of marriage there, husband
and wife kind of thing going on,friend stress, whatever, money
stress, health stress.
So it's almost impossible tototally eliminate that.
(05:14):
What you do is how you dealwith stuff, right, and so I was
looking at where I'm at today.
Okay, what level of stress youknow, from 1 to 10,.
Where am I?
Sometimes it could be a 4,sometimes 9, sometimes 12 on the
scale of 1 to 10, right, and soit's going to fluctuate.
(05:34):
It's going to go your way, notyour way.
But the world shake a little.
The sky is falling.
The sky is falling.
It's not falling people, it'snot going to fall, okay.
So I want to recapture thatpoint in my life.
This is not just trying todredge up old history stuff,
(05:58):
going back into the land ofnegativity.
I'm not saying that ofnegativity, I'm not saying that.
I'm talking about going to thatzone where, wow, I was moving
forward but managing peacecoming in, negativity going out.
So what's your peace number?
(06:23):
Do you know how to get to thatland?
This isn't the land of Oz.
We know how that ended, right,kind of mixed there.
But what will it take For you Tokeep moving and pushing
yourself With sufficient forceto realize the golden calf at
(06:51):
the end of the rope, the goldmedal.
Because in my book you all havethe potential, we have gold, we
have bronze and silver.
Right, silver and bronze.
That order Certificate is nicetoo, acknowledgement.
(07:14):
If you can't get the goldtrophy all the time, no one wins
all the time but to moveforward and to where no one,
including yourself, damages thatzone and that land we call the
land of peace.
You don't even let yourselfruin it.
(07:40):
And so last few weeks I've beenreflecting I'm not totally
finished yet, oh wow, you'rereflecting for weeks and not
finished yet been reflecting.
I'm not totally finished yet.
Oh wow, you're reflecting forweeks and not finished yet.
No, I'm not.
I got some successes there.
You know different categoriesof my life where I'm okay.
Now I'm still working on someother aspects of my existence
here, and so I can remain in theland and step back into the
(08:05):
land of peace.
And so part of the discovery,the solution, is to discover who
you are and who you are.
Who you were at three years oldmay not be the same person
today.
Any stage of your life.
Okay, your toddler, your infant, relying on parents, guardians
(08:28):
right to feed you baby, you haveno control whatsoever.
Then your toddler.
Now you're starting to run.
You can run and people have tocatch you, so you're starting to
be aware of things.
And then you get preteens andin high school, which leads to
massive confusion.
It's already confusing enoughby yourself, and then people
(08:51):
make it worse.
Yeah, we will blame certainpeople that are trying to stop
you from entering or staying inthe land of peace.
There's a book, what is itcalled?
Don't Let Anyone Steal your Joy.
That's essentially what I'mpreaching right now Don't let
(09:11):
anyone steal your joy.
One measure of success and oneway to get there in all manners
whether it relationship,relational or money, career is
to have the right mindset, theright joyful, peaceful mindset.
(09:35):
I don't know how the podcasttell you oh, I'm get rich.
Tell you how to be amillionaire in 10 days and how
to invest in this, invest inthat, that real estate, crypto,
all of that I do that.
A whole little coin in yourhands, that's fine.
But my conversation is deeper.
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And to get all those things,that's fine.
Get wealth, that's what mypodcast is about.
Get well, that's what mypodcast is about.
But it's not just about moneywealth, it's about life wealth.
It's about health wealth, rightRelationship wealth that's what
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I'm about, not just themonetary value.
Because let me tell yousomething, folks when you die,
your money ain't going with you.
Yeah, they could throw it in agrave, in your coffin, whatever,
but you will not have awarenessthat it's with you and you will
be in no uh degree of abilityto use any money after you're
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dead, dea, dead, dead, dead dead.
So it ain't going with you.
We're dying, we're not.
Oh man, wow, what did the stockmarket do today?
How's my real estate holding?
No, you know, I think you'regoing to have greater concerns
because that'll be part of yourlegacy that you leave as an
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inheritance.
It's over for you at some point.
It's going to be over for allof us.
Like they said, ain't nobodygoing walking out, going walking
out.
We're leaving this all in asimilar fashion.
Okay, and so, that said,everything is connected in a
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ratio with time, because,whatever you do, time is
involved.
You can waste your time youhave misguided time or be on
target with your time on whatyou should be doing to move
forward to live a successfullife.
I've known people, evenincluding myself, who squandered
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excessive amount of timeworrying about stuff you cannot
control and worried about folksthat you know.
Some folks are with you, someare against you, and don't let
anybody steal your peace, yourjoy or your what time.
I realize that If I can go backand talk to my younger self oh,
(12:22):
michael Caine, warning, warning, warning.
There's these type of peoplethat are vampires trying to suck
you dry.
Yeah, they will suck your money, dry your health, dry your mind
, dry your peace dry, joy dry,and time let it go, suck it
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right out.
So I'm here to tell you youwatch out for those vampires now
, just like you see in themovies.
That's what they do insidious,and by the time you see it you
know wasting, squandered so muchmoney, time, energy, spirit and
all of that.
So think peace, what you know?
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One thing that is a trigger forpeace with me when I look at um
and I'm looking at it now, youcan't see me, but I have the tv,
a big screen on tv, where therolling waves and you hear
seagulls, you just, it's just sonice sunset, where the waves
are hitting the beach and andjust calm, that's what, uh,
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that's what makes me, triggersmy peace.
So if I see this body of water,the ocean is, the slam dunk, it
could be a river, a lake, a bayor something like that, it
could be any of those things,maybe even a swimming pool where
it's calm and clean, and I say,okay, I'm at peace.
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But if that's an externaltrigger and now it triggers my
internal parts of Michael Caine,where it catches it.
So my point is it can't just beexternal.
You have.
It has to be something internal, because that means good, bad
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and ugly can change your joy andpeace.
You know, someone comes, slapyou upside the head.
Well, that'll stop it Saidsomething unkind, take your
money or lie to you or doingsomething.
You have to be, get to a pointwhere it's internal, where you
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capture the good and not the badand not the ugly.
You just absorb that becausethat could be a reality.
Maybe it's a bad day, maybe youdidn't do the project on time
or there was an error orsomething, and those days will
happen.
I'm not here to say, if you sayit's not going to happen, it
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doesn't happen.
No, that's just foolishness.
You're going to encounterresistance, encounter trouble,
encounter some obstacles in life.
You will.
Anyone says any different.
They're lying to you.
But what am I saying?
It's how you deal with it.
So this picturesque beat scenethat I just described to you,
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what is your thing that couldtrigger that peace?
So many things trigger ouranger, our sadness, depression.
What triggers the joy and thepeace?
Some of you may be God, amen.
It could be a combination ofdifferent things.
It could be a combination ofdifferent things, A friend,
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someone that always gives you areason to be happy.
Okay, okay.
So can you have peace withoutrealizing your goals?
Yes, and you should.
How do you think you reach yourgoals faster?
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It's not.
Woe is me being a victimplaying some card, an
appropriate card.
You know I won't go down thatlist.
Yeah, you could be contenttoday.
Yeah, but still not achievedall that you had hoped for.
(16:49):
You can't say, well, once I getit, I'll be happy.
I see a lot of people.
They're not necessarily do yousay that, but they do it.
That's what they really feelinside.
Well, until I get my 40 acresand a mule, my mansion, the
Ferrari or whatever car choice,until I get that, I just won't
be happy and content, which maybe the cause of you not getting
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those things.
Possibly.
Or when you get them, you'renot going to be fulfilled
because your heart and mind isnot in the right place.
Stuff Again, you're not in theright place.
Stuff Again, you're not takingstuff with you.
So what else you got?
Okay, you got a mansion.
You got 20 cars.
What else you got?
You got 10 horses.
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You got this, you got all thebooze in the world, and you know
what comes along with all thisstuff and you're still miserable
.
You know a lot of people stillcommit suicide, that have
everything most people wouldwant and kill for or die for,
yet they kill themselves whyit's not enough stuff.
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Hopefully you realize thatbefore you don't run out of time
, and so it's important to stayin the present, in the moment,
today, and be as content, notjust accepting, just to stay
where you're at when you havegoals, yeah.
Yeah, if you want to earn amillion dollars or whatever,
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yeah, you pursue what you wantto pursue.
If you want to travel aroundthe world that's your measure of
success then do it Today.
Plan for that future.
Yeah, don't throw everything ona credit card 100,000 on a
credit card, travel and thenyou're broke and homeless, lose
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everything.
That'd be foolish.
So measure it out, but dothings today which Enable you to
what?
Simply smile.
You know people that smile.
That is a measure ofcontentment, joy and and success
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.
We all measure success anddefine it differently.
Some of you just have to have abillion dollars to define it,
and so be it.
The problem with that is youdon't get it.
Where did that leave you?
Okay, so just food for thought.
Look at how you define things.
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I redefined, I flipped thescript and started defining
things important to medifferently, because if you
don't have those things, oh yeah, you can't be happy, you can't
smile, can't have joy, can'thave peace.
So I changed the definition ofwhat peace and joy mean to me.
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I didn't sell out or sell down,I just reprioritize with the
thought of I'm not going to liveforever, so why am I going to
be miserable the next 20, 30years of my life?
That wouldn't be good.
Now some of you are goingthrough some serious things.
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Most people that don't have ahappy life probably have a bad
relationship somewhere, or somefriend that screwed you out of
some money or time or something,or a partner, a personal
partner here, a business partner, or be work-related or be
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significant other-related.
You felt wronged, maybe, andmaybe your health is faltering,
and I've been there, done that,and you're not in a good spot
and we've all been there, mostof us have been there.
So I don't want to diminishthat and if that's happening to
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you some serious issues I reallyor in any case, I encourage you
to see professional counseling.
I don't get professionalcounseling here.
I'm giving you my opinion andmy experience and my
observations.
That's what I'm giving you myopinion and my experience and my
observations.
That's what I'm giving youtoday.
So it's up to you to takecontrol of your life, take your
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life back, because I sold mineto the devil and, figuratively
speaking, or literally, I don'tknow, you never know and I got
my life back.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm proud of that, because ittook a lot of effort to wean
yourself off of negativity andvampires.
(21:30):
It really is.
It's very challenging and ifyou have a big support system,
it's even that more challenging.
So you got to listen to yourheart, listen to and watch the
reality, what's happening,because you know what.
Anybody can talk and say a biggame, but it's what they do.
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Watch what people do.
Does it match?
Is it in alignment with whatthey say?
And if it isn't, and it's up toyou make a decision what you
want to do.
So I don't have any more time inmy life for nonsense and people
that are trying to hurt me orat least don't wish me well.
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See, there's differentcategories of bad folks in your
life the ones that just don'twant you to succeed because
they're jealous.
They may not try to stop you,but they're not happy and they
won't clap for you and they wantyou to be as miserable as they
are.
Then there's the other peoplethat are on the deepest level of
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hell, a demon, basically, thatactually tries to stop you by
lying about you, gossiping aboutyou.
Definitely know those devilsand they know, I know, and I may
just call a couple of them outone day.
We'll see how that works out.
I should just let it go.
(22:52):
See, stirring the pot?
Stirring the pot?
Just let it go.
Let it go, elsa, let it go.
So anyway.
So check yourself and say am Iin the right frame of mind, am I
in the right zone to movetoward a positive outcome,
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meaning ie to get your goals toachieve them?
And it'd be a piece of whereyou're at now, not just in the
future.
We don't know how long we'regoing to live.
I'm not trying to be negative,we're just going to die.
We were born, we live, we die.
So don't see it if this isnatural progression.
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No one's an immortal here.
As far as I know, I haven't metone.
Maybe I did, maybe they're outthere, I don't know.
But but just food for thought.
My friends and I do want tothank you for taking the time to
listen to my podcast andsupporting me.
Thank you, whatever continenton this thing called Earth,
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planet called Earth.
Wherever you are, I appreciateyou and I know we all want
essentially the same things, andI thank you for spending the
time with me and I encourage youto buy my book Slaying your
Dragons Living the Life youAlways Wanted.
The e-book is fairlyinexpensive on Amazon I think
(24:31):
I'm still on Barnes Noble too,where you can get it
electronically, and then withpaper bound is the next level of
inexpensiveness.
Either one of those is fine,but e-books I'm trying to get
the digital sales up.
Okay, no pressure, but anywayit helps support the channel
(24:51):
even more, actually, and sothank you to listeners that
listen to Apple, iheartradio,spotify the big three, no
particular order there and otherwonderful platforms out there.
I appreciate you andlivingyoursuccesscom, my website
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, but Amazon, go live a life youalways wanted and I appreciate
you on that and tell peopleabout this podcast, appreciate
it, and we're going to, as wealways do.
You know different topics ofwhat success is.
(25:37):
You know we do talk about.
You know investing, saving anda lot about relationships, a lot
about what your motivation is.
We do talk about investing,saving and a lot about
relationships, a lot about whatyour motivation is and things
you can do to move forward.
So, at any rate, I appreciateall of you and check my podcast
(25:59):
out, hit those notifications andsign up.
That said, I wish you all well.
My friends, this is MichaelCaine, living your success 24-7.
Adios amigos.
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